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Served with Graham early in my career and I would class him as one of the nicest and most professional Chippies I met. A couple of intakes ahead of me and he was a real role model. Very, very sad to be taken as such an early age. There come a time when life stops giving and starts taking Unfortunate...

Sad to hear of Bob's passing. I shared many a run ashore and beer with Bob over the years.

A fair wind and a following seas Bob.

Cheers,
Stretch

Tafmo,

We can only hope my friend.

Alas we, the ex-Naval community, seem to be in an extremely high-risk category far exceeding the general population when it comes to the dreaded C!

So true SeeJay. And it pains me to see that in almost every case it is the dreaded C that is plucking our shipmates from us at a way to early age.

Another sailor has lost his battle with cancer. Warren Edgar (Wazza) Close, ex-POCK, passed away about 12:15 Monday 1st September, 2008, peacefully at the Mater Private Hospital in South Brisbane. Warren has been a life-long friend and we had known each other since we were about 13-14. He joined pus...

Terrible news. Most has been said here - he was a great shipmate and friend. I first encountered Possum on the rugby field at Nirimba and with him bearing down on me I all but gave him the ball! Along with Seejay I have many, many fond memories of Possum from when we did the Advanced Welding course ...

Rick,

Way too young to be taken from our midst.

Vale Alan Beaumont.

A Fair Wind And A Following Sea

CJ, Sad to hear that Jim has passed away. I worked with him in my early days and that time stuck in my mind as he was a gentleman to work with. For those who might be interested - Jim joined pussers on the 28 July 1958 and paid off on 14 August 1984. Sail on Jim. A smooth sea and a following wind. S...

Bugis Street, The rest of the fleet only went there for the free entertainment - to watch the Greenies and Beenies (see - one letter different!) have jig-a-jig. But then they couldn't even do that right - the submariners had to show them what to do. And, Bilko, Chippies are an inquisitive lot. Knowl...

TAFMO,

GET YOU HAND(S) OUT OF YOU POCKETS - YOU WILL GO BLIND!!!