by Mike Carlton
Richardson, Vic
Risley, Tom
Ritchie, Frank
River Plate, Battle of the
Rivett, Rohan
Roberts, Rowland (Rowley) George
memoirs
Perth
Rodgers, Don
Rommel’s Afrikakorps
Rooks, Captain Albert Harold
Rooks, Edith
Roope, Lieutenant-Commander Gerard
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, President Theodore
Roskill, Captain Stephen
Ross, George ‘Johnny’
Royal Airforce
Royal Australian Naval College (RANC)
Royal Australian Navy
in Far Eastern Fleet
Japan’s formal surrender
letters to families
Naval Board
naval Victoria Crosses
Perth survivors
posthumous Victoria Cross for Waller
PUNS
reserve
returning prisoners
vocabulary (jargon)
Z Special Unit
see also Scrap Iron Flotilla
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Marines
Royal Navy
America and West Indies Station
evacuation of Greece
Fleet Air Arm
Force Z
Grand Fleet
Kastellorizo
Malta base
Portsmouth
South American Cruiser Squadron
vocabulary (jargon)
Western Striking Force
see also Mediterranean Fleet
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
Royal Netherlands Navy
Royal Portsmouth Temperance Society
Royal Sovereign, HMS
Ryan, Rose
Ryujo
Ryujo Maru
Saipan, Battle of
Sakura Maru
San Giorgio
Sandover, Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond
Saratoga
Sawyers, Frank
Scharnhorst
Schilling, Major-General W.
Scorpion, HMS
Scott, Merv
Scrap Iron Flotilla
see also HMAS Stuart, HMAS Vampire, HMAS Vendetta, HMAS Voyager, HMAS Waterhen
Scullin, Prime Minister James
Sealion, USS
Senior, Fred
Shanghai Lil’s (Kingston)
Shedden, Frederick
Sheedy, Signalman Brian
Battle of Kaso Strait
Battle of Matapan
discharge
Haifa
Mediterranean Fleet
Menzies’ visit
Perth hit by bomb
White Ensign
withdrawal from Kalamata
Shigemitsu, Mamoru
Shikinami
Shokaku
Shropshire, HMAS
Sievey, Richard
Silva, Frank de
Simons, Bert
Singapore
Alexandra Military Hospital
Britain promises to defend
fall of
Force Z
Japanese bombing of
Menzies’ assessment of
United States Navy
Skeels, Ordinary Seaman Fred
Awa Maru
Battle of the Java Sea
Battle of the Sunda Strait
ex-prisoners
Fukuoka 22 Camp (Honshu)
Kortenaer
liberation
memoirs
Perth
POW
returns home
Slamat
Slim, Major-General William
Smith, Harry
Smith, Len
Smith, Noel
Smith, Steward Rob
Somedong Maru
Soryu
Southampton
Soviet Red Army
Soviet Union declares war on Japan
Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
Spaatz, General Carl
Spanish Civil War
Sparks, Ron
Speaker, HMS
Speer, Albert
Spender, Percy
Sphakia, evacuation from
Stalin, Joseph
Stalingrad, Battle for
Stark, Admiral Harold R.
Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Jonkheer Dr Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van
Stening, Surgeon Lieutenant Sam
Stewart, USS
Stimson, Henry
Stokan, Percy
Straker, Henry
Strasbourg
Stuart, HMAS
Student, Kurt
Stuka dive-bombers
Sugiyama, General Haijime
Summers, Commander Pete
Sunda Strait, Battle of
Sutton, Harry ‘Curly’
Suzuki, Baron Kantaro
Suzuki, Captain
Swinburne, Algernon
Sydney, HMAS
Tachira, SS
Takagi, Rear-Admiral Takeo
Talbot-Smith, Lieutenant Gerard, RN
Tanaka, Captain
Tangney, Dorothy
Taranto, Battle of
Taylor, Mike
Tenedos
Tennant, Captain William
Tennessee
Terauchi, Field Marshal Count Hisaichi
Terror, HMS
Themistocles
Thew, Lieutenant-Commander Norman
Thicknesse, Viv
Thode, Lieutenant John
Thomas, Petty Officer Alf
Thomas, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge, KCMG
Tibbets, Colonel Paul W.
Tingira, HMAS
Tirpitz
Togo, Shigenori
Tojo, General Hideki
Tojuku Maru
Tokyo, firebombing of
Tokyo Rose
Tooronga
Toovey, Ordinary Seaman Ernie
Torrens-Spence, Lieutenant Michael, RN
Tottenham, Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Loftus, KCB RN
Trafalgar, Battle of
Tranby-White, Paymaster Midshipman Frank
Treloar, Colin ‘Ike’
Trento
Trieste
Triumph, HMS
Truman, Harry S.
Tsushima, Battle of
Turnbull brothers
Turner, Roy
Tymms, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Eric
Tyrrell, Petty Officer Edward ‘Jan’
Ulster Prince
ULTRA
Umezu, Yoshijiro
United Australia Party
United States Air Force
United States Army
131st Field Artillery
148th Field Hospital
atom bomb
liberate the camps
United States Navy
Asiatic Fleet
friendly fire
Great White Fleet
Iwo Jima
Japan’s formal surrender
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean Areas
Patrol Wing
South China Sea
War Plan
Valiant
Vampire, HMAS
Varley, Brigadier Arthur
Vendetta, HMAS
Vichy French
French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir
in Hanoi
Victoria, HMCS
Victoria, Queen
Victory HMS
Victory in Europe (VE) Day
Vietnam War
Viney, Chief Petty Officer Don
Vittorio Alfieri
Vittorio Veneto
von Weichs zu Glon, Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr
Voyager, HMAS
Vyner Brooke
Walker, Lieutenant Gordon
Wal
lace, Ken (Tag)
Waller, ‘Hard Over’ Hector Macdonald Laws
abandon ship
ABDA
Battle of the Java Sea
Battle of the Sunda Strait
career
cat
Combined Striking Force
commands 10th Destroyer Flotilla
commands HMAS Stuart
commands HMS Brazen
commands Perth
commands Scrap Iron Flotilla
Cunningham
goes down with Perth
John Collins
memorials to
Mention in Despatches
Militaire Willemsorde
Naval Historical Society
Owen
Pincher
posthumous Victoria Cross
promoted to Captain
Reid
Rooks
sewing machines
Tjilatjap
Tobruk
Walrus
Waller, HMAS
Waller, John
Waller, Michael
Waller, Nancy (née Bowes)
Waller, William Frederick
War Cabinet
War Sirdar
Warrego
Warspite
Waterhen, HMAS
Wavell, General Sir Archibald
ABDA
Blamey
campaign in Greece
Churchill
Creforce
Menzies
Singapore
withdrawal from Crete
Webster, Gordon
Weichs zu Glon, Maximilian Maria
Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral
Reichsfreiherr von
West Virginia, USS
White, Sub-Lieutenant Norman ‘Knocker’
Whiting, Alice Irene (née Walsh)
Whiting, Brendan
Whiting, John
Whiting, Reg
death
diaries
leave
letters
on Perth
Whitton, Bert
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Wilhelmina, Queen
Wilkinson, Mirla
Williams, Lieutenant-Colonel John
Willis, Yeoman of Signals Jack
Willox, Linda
Wilmot, Chester
Wilson, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry ‘Jumbo’ Maitland
Winant, John G.
Winslow, Walter
Witte de With
Wolverine, HMS
Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service
Wootton, Norman
Wryneck, HMS
Yamada, Lieutenant
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku
Yamashita, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki
Yamato
Yarra, HMAS
York, Duke and Duchess of
York, HMS
Yorktown
Zara
Zhukov, General Georgy
Zuikaku