by Ann Howard
Gray, Ann
Grieve, Judy
Grose, Peter
Gross, Audrey
Hanford, Meryl
Hanson, Jenny
Healy, Anthony
Hellmund, Marie
Hishion, Barry
Hoad, Geoff
Hooper, Tom
Howe, Vola
Huntsman, Leonie
Joiner, Margaret
Johnstone, Meryl
Killeen, Shirley
Kingston, Bev
Knight, Ann
Knight, Fay
Pringle, Michael
Reedman, Les
Riseley, Kate
Roper, Lance
Ross, Alec
Smith, Pamela
Squires, John
Stewart, Jenny
Sulman, Fay
Sun, Stella
Suttor, Judy
Taylor, Margaret
Taylor, Bob
Taylor, John
Thomas, Elaine
Thornley, Cassie
Tranter, David
Thurgood, Judith
Valder, John
About the Author
Ann Howard, originally from London, gives a voice to people to claim their own place in history - she has researched and written on drovers, child migrants, pioneer women, the AWAS in World War II and now has found a new hidden history - invasion fears and Australian child evacuees in the 1940s.
Through extensive research and interviewing, she has brought to life a subject never written about before - a time when people were so terrified of the Japanese taking over Australia, that they sent their children away from the coast and from key war areas, for a few months or sometimes three years.
Ann Howard loves life. She is an enthusiastic traveller and adventurer. She has ridden elephants through the Sumatran jungle; climbed Anak Krakatau when part of it was erupting; made 14,000 feet free-fall from a plane and rock climbed in Tahiti. She brings this enthusiasm to her writing and studying. Ann enjoys her grandchildren, her partner’s musical gift, her dogs, garden and a good single malt; not necessarily in that order.
Ann lives in a heritage house she restored on Dangar Island in the Hawkesbury River, where the four-time, prize winning local histories she wrote are very popular. Ann’s next book will be You’ll be Sorry! about the AWAS in World War II.
Other books by Ann Howard:
The Bonsai Ballerina and other stories
A Ghost, a Murder & Other Dangar Tales
Ten Dry Pies & Other Dangar Tales
Rainbow on the River & Other Dangar Tales
Derrymacash to Dangar
Roads and Highways
Australia in WWI
Australia in WWII
Cattle Drovers
Coaches, Riverboats and Railways
Women in Australia
From Colonies to Commonwealth
A Century of ‘Life’ MML 1895-1995
You’ll Be Sorry!
Where Do We Go From Here?
After Barnardo
C’mon Over!
Index
A
Aboriginals 23, 28, 35, 104-5, 107, 183-6, 188-90
ACTU 67
Advisory War Council 30, 35, 74
America 18, 22, 24-5, 31, 39, 41-42, 55, 74, 84, 86, 89, 93, 95, 104, 114, 117, 156, 158, 164, 166, 174, 181-2, 184, 205
Armidale 1, 3, 15, 66, 77, 94-5, 120-1, 135-9, 175, 195
Arnhem Land 105, 184, 187
Atherton Tablelands 3, 109
AWAS 1, 46, 78, 201, 211
B
Bankstown 84-5
Battle of Midway 64, 90, 153
Battle of The Coral Sea 30, 90, 109, 114, 118
Bellemore, Mr 38
Blamey, Sir Thomas 24, 93
Blue Mountains 83, 96, 101, 128, 132, 153, 201
Botany Bay 73
Brazil 79
Brisbane 21-2, 37, 54-5, 76, 86, 93-4, 105, 108-10, 112-14, 117-18, 148, 156-7, 167, 181, 199
Brisbane Line 3, 37, 55, 76, 109, 113, 118, 167, 173
Britain 3, 6, 19-20, 24-5, 30, 40-41, 47, 55-6, 60-62, 72, 114, 166, 169, 204
British Admiralty 49
Bronte 31, 133
Broome 12, 35, 60, 77, 177
Burma 21, 28, 202
Bush Nursing Association 199
C
Cairns 37, 45, 49, 94, 105, 107-8, 205
Calwell, Arthur 199, 205
Canberra 23, 38, 50, 113, 182-3
HMAS Canberra 85-6
Ceylon 49
Chemical Warfare Board 29
Cherry blossom 17-18
Chifley, Ben 30
Children’s Welfare Department 81
China 18, 20, 21, 28, 49, 104, 150
Chinese 3, 18, 21, 28, 37, 42, 73-4, 128, 187
Churchill, Winston 49, 56, 81
cigarette cards 52
Coffs Harbour 77
Commodore Perry 18
Communist Party 41
conscientious objectors 41
conscription 55, 92
Country Women’s Association 106
Crick, Stanley, the Lord Mayor of Sydney 50
Croker Island 184-6
Curtin, Sir John 25-6, 30, 32, 4-5, 55-6, 74-6, 104
D
Darwin 12, 23, 25, 28, 34, 45, 58, 77, 106-7, 113, 117, 126, 133, 184-7, 197, 201
Defence Regulations 61, 170
Department of Information 33, 35
Derby 35
divorce 203-4
E
Education Department 23, 38
Elizabeth, Princess 33
Elizabeth, Queen 81
Evacuation Register 52
F
Fadden, Arthur 30
Forde, Frank 30, 46
France 20, 61, 72, 114, 169
Ile de France 56
French 73, 99, 158
G
Geneva Convention 29
Geraldton 3, 58-60, 77, 92, 162-4
Geraldton Express 205
Germans 19, 62, 79
Germany 6, 12, 19-20, 40, 55-6, 62-3, 172, 204
Glebe 131
Goulburn 31, 75, 97, 181
Goulburn Evening Post 97
Great Kanto Earthquake 20
Grose, Peter 36, 64-5, 106
H
Half-castes 183-6
Hammond Island 37
Heffron, Mr 37, 47
Heifetz, Jascha 20
Hideki, General Tojo 24, 33, 114-15
Hitler 2, 25, 62, 114
Hobart 3, 77, 169-70
Horn Island 37, 104
I
Imperial Japanese Navy/Army 3, 19, 21, 43, 62, 146, 207
Interior, Minister/Department 23, 38, 186, 188-9
J
Jakarta 28
Japan/Japanese 2-3, 5, 8, 12-13, 15, 26, 28, 29-35, 39-43, 5-46, 49, 54, 56, 58, 62, 64, 64, 73-79, 86, 89-90, 94, 96, 101, 103-109, 114-118, 122, 124, 126, 132-4, 136, 139, 143, 146-8, 151, 153, 157, 159-60, 162-3, 166-7, 169, 174-5, 177-8, 184, 187, 197-9, 202, 203-4, 207, 211
Japanese submarines 12, 26, 32, 35, 54, 78, 83-4, 86, 98, 112, 134, 146-7, 151, 153, 154, 175, 193
K
kamikaze pilots 39
Katherine 34, 36, 104
Killara 39, 40, 46
L
Layton, Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey 49
League of Nations 21
London 20, 22, 26, 35, 61-2, 72, 76, 81, 95, 114-15, 153, 177, 203, 211
Lord Haw 41
Lyons, Prime Minister 41
M
Malaya 25, 49, 62, 76, 136, 138, 165, 169
Manly 8, 31, 53, 65, 78, 82, 97, 153177, 182
McKell, Hon WJ 50, 56
Mediterranean 49
Menzies, Robert 6, 30, 32, 55-6, 72, 76, 86, 109, 199.209
Middle East 56, 86, 115, 158, 173, 201
Mihalopoulos, Bill 19
Military Exemptions Court 41
Millions Club 74
Mosman Day Nursery Sc
hool 125
Muirhead-Gould, Rear-Admiral G C 114
Mulgoa 188
Murdoch, Keith 32
Murrumburrah 51
N
Nagano, Admiral 25
Nanking 3, 21
National Emergency Services 37, 47, 52, 96
Navy 17, 19, 22-5, 35, 72-3, 85-6, 104, 106, 115-18, 146, 204
New Britain 25
New Guinea 26, 28-9, 43, 45, 89, 94, 97, 101, 106, 115, 154, 156
New York 54
New Zealand 26, 64, 73
Newcastle 3, 9, 15, 69, 76-7, 95, 108, 126, 140, 143-5, 147, 177-8
Newtown 38
North Queensland 37, 82, 93, 110, 113, 115
Northern Territory 103, 105, 166-7, 187
O
Oberon 5-8
Official Secrets Act 29
Operation FS 25
Operation Pied Piper 61
Otford 185-6
P
Packer, Clyde 32
Packer, Frank 32
Packer, Kerry 182, 207
Parer, Damien 42
Pearl Harbour 3, 12, 22, 25, 34, 63, 84, 89, 109, 204
People’s Army, The 77
Perry, Commodore 18
Perry, Grace 181
Perth 18, 58, 162-5
Peter Grose 36, 64-5, 106
Presbyterian Ladies College 95, 97, 137
Port Hedland 35
Port Kembla 3, 7, 64, 69, 77, 78, 83, 146-8
Port Moresby 25, 26, 45
Port Phillip Bay 199
propaganda 30, 33, 34, 39, 41-2, 167
Proserpine 29
Q
Queensland 29, 37, 54, 75, 82, 93, 97, 103-6, 108, 110, 114-16, 138-40, 153, 187
R
RAAF 13, 34, 75, 92, 116, 118, 156, 160, 163, 198, 206
Rabaul 26
Red Cross 106, 112, 156, 182
Rickard, Sir Arthur 74
John Ricard 173
Roosevelt, Franklin 25, 30, 49, 72
Royal Far West Children’s Home 97
Russians 73, 76
Russo, Peter 18-19
Russo-Japanese War 19
S
Schools 15, 37-8, 62, 72, 89, 90-97, 108, 117, 170, 175-6
Shore School 45, 54, 98-100
Scots College 91, 96, 98
shelters 8, 47, 77, 82, 91, 98, 118, 126, 169
Singapore 3, 25, 49, 58, 62, 70, 73, 75-6, 82, 109, 138, 164, 166, 204
Solomon Islands 25
South Australia 64, 157, 183, 188
Spying 75, 79, 169
Stow, Randolph 163
Sugiyama, Staff General 25
suicide 178
T
Tahmoor 125
Tanaka Memorial 20
Taree 77
Tasmania 37, 77, 168-70
Teacher’s Federation, The 36-7, 188
Thursday Island 94, 104, 107
Tojo 24, 33, 114-15
Tokyo 20, 22-25
Tokyo Rose 41
Toowoomba 40, 75, 93, 112, 116-17, 176
Torres Strait 37, 74, 103-4, 117
Townsville 30, 35, 37, 93-4, 113, 115-16, 138, 156-7
Trocadero 39
Tully 85, 108
Umina 68
U
United Services Organisation 39
United States 20, 22, 24-5, 118
V
Victoria 56, 79, 81, 84, 92, 96, 99, 100-1, 153, 155, 156, 173, 196-99
Voluntary Evacuation Committee 95
W
War Council 30, 35-6, 47, 74-5
Weimar Republic 20
West Australia 58, 74, 77
Wollongong 37, 97, 146-8, 159, 172, 185-6
Women’s Land Army 46, 68
Wyndham 35, 77, 167
Y
Yamashita, Lt General 76
Young, James R 18
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
Adelaide News
Albury Banner
Australian Women’s Weekly
Brisbane Worker
Cairns Post Advertiser
Daily Telegraph
Das Reich
Geraldton Express
Goulburn Evening Post
Japan Times
Manchester Guardian
Melbourne Argus
Mercury
Molong Express
Morning Bulletin,
Murrumburrah Signal
North China Standard
Riverina Advertiser
Smith’s Weekly
Standard
Sunday Times
Sydney Morning Herald
The Advertiser, Adelaide
The Age
The Argus
The Land
Time Magazine
Western Mail
Wollongong Argus
BOOKS
A Boy and the War, Stan Gratte, Australia
A Very Rude Awakening, Peter Grosse, Australia, 2007
Australia under Attack, Douglas Lockwood, 2003
How We Lived Then, Norman Longmate, UK 2002
Staring at the Stars, Grace Perry, Out of Print
The Merry-go-Round in the Sea, Randolph Stowe,
Penguin 1963
When the Children Came Home, Julie Summers,
UK 2012
ACTS & REPORTS
Civil Defence Regulations
Immigration Restriction Act, 1901
London Naval Treaty, 1930
National Security Act, 1939
Pearce Report, The
Sensi Sosho
Washington Naval Agreement, 1922
White Australia Policy, 1897
FILMS
The Divided Heart, 1954
The Overlanders, 1946
SHIPS
Cambridge
Larrpan
Neptune
Pinquin
Shintoka Maru
HMAS Canberra
HMAS Kangaroo.
HMAS Kuttabul
HMAS Sydney
HMT Dunera
HSK Kormoran
MV Koolama
MV Reynella
RMS Aquitania
RMS Empress of Bermuda
RMS Queen Mary
SS Isle de France
SS Ormiston
SS Zealandia
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