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Cruiser

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by Mike Carlton


  Kai-shek, Chiang

  Kaiserliche Marine

  Kalamata

  Kandahar

  Kashmir, HMS

  Kaso Strait, Battle of

  Kastellorizo

  Keitel, General Wilhelm

  Kelly, Henry ‘Ned’

  Kelly, HMS

  Kenna, Mrs Florence

  Kerwin, Thelma see Parkin, Thelma

  Khamsin

  Kimmel, Admiral Husband E.

  King Neptune’s Court

  King, Norm

  in Adelaide

  air raids on Alexandria

  Bowyer-Smyth

  diary entries

  Essex

  posted to Stuart

  Sunday services

  Kingcup, HMS

  Kingston

  Kingston Town Ladies Auxiliary

  Kinkon Maru

  Kipling, HMS

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kitcher, Able Seaman David

  Knight, Chief Petty Officer Harry

  Knights Hospitaller

  KNIL see Royal Netherlands East Indies Army

  Komet

  Konoye, Prince Fumimaro

  Korizis, Alexandros

  Kortenaer

  Kota Radja

  Kriegsmarine

  Kurita, Rear-Admiral Takeo

  Kurusu, Saburo

  Lacomblé, Eugène

  Ladybird, HMS

  Lamour, Dorothy

  Langford, Cliff

  Langley, USS

  Langsdorff, Hans

  Larmer, Bluey

  Lasslett, Fred

  Latham, Sir John

  Lavarack, Major-General John

  Lawrance, Charles (Jock) William

  in Athens

  background

  diary entries

  in Malta

  Perth hit by bomb

  Peter Murdoch

  posted to Vendetta

  Le Triomphant

  Leach, John

  League of Nations

  Leander

  LeMay, General Curtis ‘Old Iron Ass’

  Leningrad, Battle for

  Lewis, Ivy

  Lewis, Petty Officer Jack

  marries Joan Flynn

  Lewis, Joan

  Lewis, Tom

  Lexington

  Ley, Frank ‘Shorty’

  Leyte Gulf, Battle of

  Lightship Ambrose

  List, Field Marshal Wilhelm

  Little, US Navy Lieutenant-Commander Edward N.

  Littorio

  Lloyd, Major-General Charles Edward Maurice ‘Gaffer’

  Lloyd’s Shipping Register

  Lolita, HMAS

  Long Ho

  Longmore, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur

  Lonsdale, HMAS

  Lorraine

  Lowe, Ralph

  Luftwaffe

  in Athens

  bases

  Battle for Crete

  Battle of Kaso Strait

  bombing of Alexandria

  bombing of Belgrade

  bombing of Piraeus

  bombing of Pusser’s Duck

  evacuation from Sphakia

  evacuation of Greece

  Fliegerkorps X

  Fliegerkorps XI

  invasion of Russia

  in Iraqi colours

  Suda Bay

  Lupo

  Lyons, Joe

  MacArthur, Lieutenant-General Douglas

  Macdonald, Major-General Sir Hector Archibald

  Macquarie, HMAS

  Maebashi Maru

  MAGIC

  Maher, Danny

  Major, Pat

  Malaya

  Malloy, Mavis

  Malta

  Manning, David

  Manunda

  Marina, Princess

  Mariposa

  Marlborough, HMS

  Martin, David

  Martin, Commander William Harold ‘Pincher’

  Mary Rose

  Mary Rose (motor launch)

  Maslem, Stoker Claude

  Matapan

  Battle of Matapan

  survivors

  Mathieson, Reverend Keith

  Matsen, Ordinary Seaman Syd

  Matsuoka, Yosuke

  Mauretania

  May, Commander Cecil

  McAuliffe, Ordinary Seaman Frank

  McCredie, Stoker George

  McDonough, Flying Officer Allen ‘Jock’

  McGovern, Francis (Frank) Joseph

  firebombing of Tokyo

  Kawasaki Camp (Yokohama)

  later life

  liberation

  POW

  returns home

  McGovern, Engine Room Artificer IV Vincent Bernard

  McGrath, Frank

  McQuade, Petty Officer Stoker John ‘Macca’

  McWilliam, Lieutenant David

  Mears, John

  Mediterranean Fleet

  2nd Destroyer Flotilla

  5th Destroyer Flotilla

  7th Cruiser Squadron

  10th Destroyer Flotilla

  14th Destroyer Flotilla

  Battle of Kaso Strait

  Force C

  Force D

  Force H

  Haifa

  invasion of Syria

  losses

  Syrian campaign

  TIGER convoy

  Mediterranean Sea

  Mee, Able Seaman Harry

  Melbourne

  Menzies, Robert

  Blamey

  Churchill

  Singapore

  thrown out of office

  visits Perth

  Wavell

  welcomes Perth

  world trip

  Midway, Battle of

  Mikuma

  Militors

  Miller, Commander Michelle

  Mills, Keith ‘Freddy’

  Mississippi

  Missouri, USS

  Mitchell, Andy

  Mitsui, Baron Takaharu

  Mogami

  Mohawk, HMS

  Moji Maru

  Molotov, Vyacheslav

  Monadnock, HMS

  Moresby, HMAS

  Morgan, Lieutenant-Commander Eric St John

  Morgan, Henry

  Morriss, George

  Morshead, Lieutenant-General Leslie

  Moses, Major Charles

  Mountbatten, Captain Lord Louis

  Muar, Battle at

  Munro, Lloyd ‘Darby’

  Murdoch, Peter

  Murphy, Spud

  Musashi

  Mussolini, Benito

  invasion of Greece

  meeting with Hitler

  Regia Aeronautica

  Nachi

  Nagano, Admiral Osami

  Nagasaki, atom bombing of

  Nagato

  Nagatomo, Lieutenant-Colonel Yoshitada

  Nagumo, Admiral

  Naiad

  Naka

  Nanking, Rape of

  Napier, HMAS

  The Narrows, Battle of

  National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  Natori

  Navplion

  navy

  bomber’s moon

  burial service

  ceremony of sunset

  chain of authority

  Channel Fever

  ‘chummy’ ships

  ‘comb the tracks’

  ‘enemy in sight’ signal

  firefighters

  gunners

  harbour routine

  hosepiping

  ‘make smoke’

  mess decks

  night action

  officers’ pay

  officers quarters

  paravanes

  radar

  sailors’ pay

  signalling

  stand to the dawn

  stokers

  T crossing

  watches

  Navy Office

  Nazi Party

  Neame, Philip

  N
eedham, Elsie

  Nelson, Bill

  Nelson, Jim

  air raids on Perth

  Battle of Kaso Strait

  Battle of Matapan

  Bevington

  bombardment of Wadi Damour

  bombing of Perth

  bombing of Piraeus

  burial service

  Crown and Anchor

  evacuation of Greece

  Haifa

  leave

  in Malta

  memoirs

  Menzies’ visit

  paint ship

  Perth

  Southampton

  Nelson, Lord

  Nelson, Peter

  New Mexico

  New York Times

  New York World’s Fair

  New Zealand Army 2nd Division

  Nichimei Maru

  Nile, Battle of the

  Nimitz, Admiral Chester W.

  Nizam, HMAS

  Nomura, Admiral Kichisaburo

  Normandie

  Normandy invasion

  Norris, Roy

  air raids on Alexandria

  in Alexandria

  in Athens

  Battle of Matapan

  bombing of Piraeus

  Bowyer-Smyth

  evacuation from Sphakia

  leave

  in Malta

  Mediterranean Fleet

  Menzies’ visit

  Nazareth

  Perth hit by bomb

  retires

  Nubian

  Oakley Jnr, Commander Benjamin

  Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)

  O’Brien, Able Seaman Ronald ‘Seamus’

  O’Connor, Sir Richard

  Okinawa, Battle for

  Oklahama

  Olna

  Orcades (troopship)

  Orion (German auxiliary cruiser)

  Orion, HMS

  Owen, Lieutenant-Commander Philipp ‘Polo’

  Paloma, HMQS

  Pampanito USS

  Pandeglang Hospital

  Parkin, Alma see Hatfield

  Parkin, Arthur James

  Parkin, John

  Parkin, Laetitia

  Parkin, Raymond Edward (Chief Petty Officer Ray)

  abandon ship

  in Alexandria

  Battle of the Java Sea

  Battle of Matapan

  Battle of the Sunda Strait

  bombing of Piraeus

  books

  Bowyer-Smyth

  death

  diary entries

  Dunlop

  HM Bark Endeavour

  Kipling, HMS

  later life

  in Malta

  mateship

  in Melbourne

  memento from Perth

  model of Perth

  painting

  POW

  returns home

  survivor

  typhoon

  Parkin, Thelma

  Parks, John ‘Jerry’

  Parramatta

  Parry, Major-General Michael Gambier

  Partington, Leslie

  Partington, Perce

  Patching, Petty Officer Julius

  Patterson, Pat

  Paul Jones, USS

  Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on

  Peary, USS

  Pegasus, HMS

  Penguin, HMAS

  Percival, Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest

  Perth, HMAS

  abandon ship

  air raids on, in Mediterranean

  air raids on, in Pacific

  aircraft on

  Ajax

  in Alexandria

  armament

  in Athens

  attached to Royal Navy

  Battle of the Java Sea

  Battle of Kaso Strait

  Battle of Matapan

  Battle of the Sunda Strait

  in the Bermuda Triangle

  bombardment of Wadi Damour

  bombing of Piraeus

  camouflage

  campaign in Greece

  in the Caribbean

  choir

  Combined Striking Force

  commands

  see also Bowyer-Smyth, Captain Sir Philip; Farncomb, Harold Bruce; Waller, ‘Hard Over’ Hector Macdonald Laws

  convoy and patrol

  cost

  drills

  engines

  escorts troops across Indian Ocean

  Essex

  evacuation from Sphakia

  evacuation of Greece

  exercises

  fire on board

  first boarding by

  as flagship

  goes down

  Haifa

  in Halifax, Nova Scotia

  hit by bomb

  hit by shell

  hit by torpedos

  in Jamaica

  joins ABDA

  Kastellorizo

  leaves for home

  loss of Sydney

  losses

  Malta

  in Mediterranean Fleet

  memorials to

  naming ceremony

  in New York

  radar

  Rakuyo Maru

  refit

  repairs

  saluting guns

  seaworthiness

  Southampton

  strike by crew

  in Suda

  Sunda Strait

  in Surabaya

  survivors

  survivors as prisoners see Japanese prisoners of war

  survivors, RAN search for

  survivors transported home

  in Sydney

  in Tahiti

  Tanjung Priok

  trials

  as troop transport

  turning circle

  withdrawal from Kalamata

  wreck

  Perth (II), HMAS

  Perth (III), HMAS

  Petacci, Clara

  Pettit, Bonnie

  Phaeton, HMS (renamed HMAS Sydney) see also Sydney, HMAS

  Phelps, USS

  Philippines

  American camp for returning prisoners

  Japanese invasion of

  Phillips, Admiral Sir Tom

  Phoebe, HMS

  Pike, Colin

  Pinguin

  Pirie, HMAS

  Pistole, Frank ‘Goldie’

  Plunket-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly

  Pola

  Poorten, Lieutenant-General Hein Ter

  Pope, USS

  Post, Laurens van der

  Potsdam Declaration

  Pound, Sir Dudley

  Power, Lieutenant Terry

  Pridham-Wippell, Henry

  Prince of Wales, HMS

  Prinz Eugen

  Protector, HMCS

  Purtell, Frank

  Queen Elizabeth, HMS

  Queen Mary

  Queenfish

  Quinn, John

  RAAF

  lost in Rakuyo Maru

  Squadrons

  Rabaul, Lark Force on

  Raeder, Generaladmiral Erich

  RAF see Royal Airforce

  Rahn, Rudolph

  Rakuyo Maru

  Ralston, Jack ‘Bluey’

  Ramillies

  RAN see Royal Australian Navy

  Ranger, Able Seaman Bill

  Rangitane

  Rankin, Lieutenant-Commander Robert

  Rashin Maru

  Redlead (cat)

  Reece, Petty Officer Stoker Bill

  Regia Aeronautica

  Regia Marina

  Regio Esercito

  Reich, Commander Eli

  Reid, Charles

  Battle of Matapan

  Bowyer-Smyth

  cap

  commands Perth

  Crown and Anchor

  later life

  Perth survivors

  Renown

  Repulse

  Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen’s Imperial League of Australia

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bsp; Reynaud, Paul

  Rhoades, Lieutenant-Commander Rodney ‘Dusty’, RAN

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Riccardi, Admiral Arturo

  Richards, Captain Rowley

 

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