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Papua New Guinea Association of Australia
Vale
The list includes all the Vale Articles that have appeared in the PNGAA journals over the years. It will be continually updated as new journals are published. This Vale material relates to PNGAA members as well as other PNG associated persons.
This “on-line” Vale resource is more comprehensive than the printed material as it can be updated with new and more accurate information as it comes to hand. If you have any Vale related information that you wish to add/amend to this listing, please contact the editor.
Eileen Patricia ATHERTON
9 January 1992, aged 75 Eileen was the widow of Carson Atherton, who was a Works Supervisor with the PNG Public Works Department and...
Carson (Kit) ATHERTON
25 September 1989 Kit first went to PNG as a member of the 2/6 Commando Company after training at Foster. He fought in the Owen Stanley...
Hazel Elena ASTLEY
25 June 1998, aged 72 Hazel Astley, who died in Perth after a long illness, worked for many years in Papua New Guinea and was a director...
Alan Asmussen
5 July 2022 Alan Asmussen was born in Brisbane in 1938. He went to (then) TPNG in 1960 as a Cadet Patrol Officer and was initially posted...
Evelyn Jean ASHWORTH
March 2014 Reported by Jan Kleinig, no further details available.
Jeremy Claude ASHTON
24 November 2022 Jeremy Ashton, born in July 1930, was educated at Winchester School and graduated MA at Trinity College Cambridge in...
Desmond Norman ASHTON
16 February 1995, aged 78 Des was born in October 1916, at Auckland, New Zealand, he was educated at Whangarei High School. He went to...
Jeanne ASHTON
29 May 1988 Died after a long illness. Survived by husband Des, former District Commissioner, and two daughters. No further information...
John Gerrard ASHCROFT-SMITH
8 January 2001, aged 77 ‘Smithy’, as he was always known during his 18 years in Port Moresby, was born in Adelaide. He grew up in...
Brian ASH
late 1998, aged approximately 66 Brian lived in Auckland, New Zealand. He worked in Rabaul, Wewak, Madang and Port Moresby between 1956...
Michael John Ingham ARTHUR
15 October 2009, aged 70 Michael was born in Haberfield, Sydney, in 1939. He spent some time in new Zealand working on the Milford Track...
Dr John ARMSTRONG
10 February 2005, aged 80 Born in Leura, John achieved his medical degree from Sydney University in 1947 and then worked in hospitals and...
William ARMSTRONG
March 1996 Bill had been trained in the army as a medical orderly. He was in ANGAU and later became a Medical Assistant. In late 1949 and...
H ARMSTRONG
January 1982 No details available.
Leo ARKFELD
21 August 1999, aged 87 Bishop Arkfeld, the son of an American farmer, was ordained in 1943 and travelled to Australia on the Monterey ...
June ANTILL
28 June 2004, aged 88 June was born at Guyra NSW in 1916, later moving with her family to Sydney. She went to Rabaul in 1947 to marry...
Harold Egan (Dan) ANTILL
18 July 1997, aged 83 Dan was born in Orange NSW, the son of a stock and station agent. He was a splendid athlete, excelling in several...
Colin (Tony) Lancelot ANTHONY
11 December 1984 A pre-war New Guinea officer, Tony was Chief Draftsman in Lands in Rabaul. Post-war he returned to Lands in Moresby,...
Geoffrey ANGELL
October 1982 Formerly Agricultural extension Officer in the Highlands and well known as OIC, Marketing, in Port Moresby.
Roy John ANDREWS
28 April 2021 Roy, born 1 January 1937, was one of twenty-six Cadet Patrol Officers in the February 1960 intake who, after undertaking...
Russell Harrison ANDREWS
1 January 1997, aged 74 Mr Andrews was employed in Posts and Telegraphs. He retired in 1971. No further details available.
Andersson, Lars OAM
17 January 2024 Lars Andersson, who with his wife Ann, worked in PNG for two stints during the early 1960s and the 1980s, has passed...
Ian Stuart ANDERSON
10 April 2013, aged 83 He was born in Melbourne. Between 1947 and 1965 he served in various police forces: South Australia Police Force,...
Alan William ANDERSON
4 February 2012, aged 92 Born at Haberfield in Sydney on 30 April 1919, he attended Scots College 1929-1936. At 20 he enlisted in the AIF...
Robin ANDERSON
8 March 2002, aged 51 Perhaps the first post-Independence visitor to PNG to merit inclusion in our Vale pages. She didn’t go there until...
Bill ANDERSON
22 February 1997 Bill spent many years at Bulolo and passed away peacefully at Townsville. He is survived by his wife Nell and son...
Mrs A. ANDERSON
18 May 1993, aged 94 Mrs Anderson’s late husband worked in the Government Printing Office in Port Moresby pre-war and retired in 1941...
Mrs A ANDERSON
1 November 1980 No details available.
Francis William George ANDERSEN
8 August 1998, aged 83 George Andersen was born in Samarai in 1914. He was the son of Captain Christian Andersen, a well known skipper of...
Henry Robert Jack AMESBURY
May 2013, aged 90 Jack Amesbury was an inspiring, innovative man who made a significant contribution educating and shaping the lives of...
Vic AMBROSE
29 August 2005, aged 86 years Born in Tasmania, Vic was a Lancaster Pathfinder captain with the RAAF during WWII. After the war he became...
Bishop Sir George AMBO, OBE, KBE
6 July 2008, aged 85 Bishop George became the first Papuan bishop and the first native bishop of the South Pacific. The consecration...
Frank Robert ALSOP
22 June 1997, aged 76 Frank Alsop retired in September 1974 as a Chief Finance Officer with Posts and Telegraphs. No further details...
Maxwell Brian ALLWOOD
8 November 2012, aged 77 Recruited as a Patrol Officer, Max arrived at Jackson’s Strip in Port Moresby on a Douglas DC4, on 8 January...
Gwen ALLMAN (née Evans)
26 September 1998, aged 8 Gwen was one of the schoolchildren in Rabaul in the early 20s, along with her brothers Hal and George. Their...
Rose ALLEN
16 August 2008, aged 91 Rose spent many years in PNG with her kiap husband Bill. She passed away following a stroke in late July. Rose...
George Barry ALLEN
about Sept 1998, aged 79 George was born in New Zealand and joined the Royal Papuan Constabulary and New Guinea Police Force in October...
Mabel E ALLEN
14 September 1978 No details published.
Deidre Lillian ALLEN (née Wright)
19 July 2004 Born in Sydney, Deidre applied for entry to ASOPA as a cadet education officer as soon as she completed the Leaving...
ALLAN, Valerie (née Grant)
8 May 2020 age 83 Valerie was born in Adelaide on 28 January 1937 to Methodist Missionary parents, Dawn and Ralph Grant. She spent her...
Heather E M ALCORN-FROST
late February 1999, aged 79 Heather Alcorn-Frost lived in PNG from 1955 to 1983. She was involved in Maternal and Child Health clinics...
Noela B ALCORN
June 2001, aged 66 Noela was the wife of Neil McKay Alcorn (deceased). She was in PNG from 1961 to 1974 at Rabaul, Kandrian, Talasea,...
Ronald Bruce ALBERT
25 April 1991, aged 62 Ron Albert was a quiet achiever and he was never one to boast of his personal achievements, but there were many in...
Eve AKERMAN
11 December 2003, aged 83 Eve went with her husband John, an Australian Government doctor, to Rabaul in 1947. Her second son, Kim, was...
Thomas George AITCHISON
29 July 1999, aged 88 Tom Aitchison (sometimes known as ‘Tommy’) grew up in Victoria, and graduated from Melbourne University with a...
Sylvia AITCHESON
November [?] 1983 Popular wife of the Association’s long time Honorary Auditor, T.G. (Tommy) Aitcheson.
AISBETT, Margaret
19 July 2020 No further details available
Richard (Len) AISBETT
25 February 2007, aged 76 Born in Scarsdale, Victoria, Len worked for the Commonwealth Bank in Ballarat and Melbourne before applying for...
Joan AINSWORTH, née Decker
3 February 2012, aged 75 Mother, grand-mother, tennis-player, traveller, librarian, genealogist, Joan Ainsworth was the eldest of four...
ADAMSON, Charles (Charlie) William
22 May 2021 Charlie was the son of CTJ (Bill) Adamson, the name which Professor Michael Bird (my main source) states in his book ‘…...
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