HMAS CANBERRA


This site is dedicated to all the Royal Australian Navy personnel who have served in HMAS CANBERRA

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HMAS CANBERRA (1) from the 9th 0f July 1928 until she was sunk off Savo Island on the 9th of August 1942.

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HMAS CANBERRA (2) from the 21st of March 1981 until the Decommissioning on the 12th of November 2005.

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HMAS CANBERRA (3) commissioning at Fleet Base East in Sydney, Australia in 2014.

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Vale

In memory to our HMAS Canberra shipmates who are sadly missed by friends and family.

 

2010

 

ex CPOCD Gary Williamson- HMAS Canberra Commissioning Crew

Garry Williamson has been tragically killed in a Motor Vehicle Accident in LAOS on Wednesday 10 November 2010...More

 

Vale ex-LSRP AC Bevan "Squiz" Taylor - HMAS Canberra 1987-1988

Bevan passed away after a long illness in Queensland on the 11 July 2010, Bevan served in HMAS Canberra 1987-89 and was a proud TOPJACK...more

 

Vale RADM Nigel Coates AM, RAN

Nigel passed away on the 02 June 2010 after a short but aggressive illness. The Royal Australian Navy prematurely lost an outstanding individual and consummate professional, who committed his entire working life to serving his country with great skill, dignity and honour...more

 

Vale ex-POCSS Phillip "Skimmo" Skimmings

Phillip "Skimmo" Skimmings passed away in Queensland on 01 February 2010, Skimmo served in HMAS Canberra on 2 occasions as a LSROEW from 5/4/88 to 12/8/90 and a PORSEW from 20/12/93 to 5/12 94...More


Past Years
 
Gunther Glaessner - 2001...More
Dean Parks

Tim Douglas - 1985

Andy Siggs
Trevor Smith
Robert Reeves
Mark Buckley
Keith Crampton
Jack Lord
 

The Ode

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

 
 

 

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