DAVIS ROBERT MAURICE : Service Number - R42005, joined 29/06/1956, was an A/CNS in 1969.

Can't find Ockenfels at all, the entry in the RSL News must be wrong as the above entry was the only one on NAA for PN of R42005.

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Ray Lawrence (Boris)
R95904
Ex-POETC3
18th JRTE Rhodes
Dec 1966 - Dec 1986
Leeuwin, Diamantina, Cerberusx4, Harmanx4, Waterhen, Barricade, Lae, Tarangau, Melbourne, Buccaneer, Coonawarrax3, Stuart, Swan, Adroit, Perth, Vampire.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Norm,


Ockenfels Frederick Raymond John

Born in Brisbane, Australia on 13 December 1922
Passed away in Deception Bay Nursing Home on 21 December 2013
Late of 25 Galway Street Greenslopes
Aged 91 years

He was an ex-RAAFie and served in WW11, his O/N was 44523. I would say they stuffed up his O/N.

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).

That's where I knew the name from....he was in the same nursing home as my Brother is. Told you bc would work it out!!!!

Thanks everyone, hope I haven't made a fool of myself, just trying to help.

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Norm Noack
R43049
Ex-WOETW4
18th MOBI Intake
Jan 65 to Jan 86
HMAS Nirimba (4yrs), HMAS Hobart (5yrs), RANTAU (2yrs), HMAS Stalwart (2yrs), HMAS Perth (2yrs), HMAS Stirling (2yrs), Navy Office (3yrs), HMAS Stirling (1yr). Civilian Engineering and construction (24yrs), Pensioner since 2010.

Not a problem Norm. Just goes to show the care our members show in tracking down information about one of our own who may have crossed the bar. Well done, guys!

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

In last Saturday's Telegraph a matelot under the RAN logo, a mister William (Bill) John Blackman of Canberra crossed the Bar at age 89 years.Would anyone know if he was Bill Blackman,the Chief Stoker?

Thanks.

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Peter Ferris
R65102
Ex-WOMTP5
Direct Entry
Mar 1966 to July 1987
Cerberus X 3,Waterhen x 4,Supply, Gull,Ibis, Paluma, Lonsdale, Flinders x 2,Curlew, Snipe, Carpentaria, Nirimba, Adelaide, FHQ (DEE)

Had a look in NAA service records and I would say so, he paid off in May 1969 as a CERA, joined in 1946.

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Ray Lawrence (Boris)
R95904
Ex-POETC3
18th JRTE Rhodes
Dec 1966 - Dec 1986
Leeuwin, Diamantina, Cerberusx4, Harmanx4, Waterhen, Barricade, Lae, Tarangau, Melbourne, Buccaneer, Coonawarrax3, Stuart, Swan, Adroit, Perth, Vampire.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Whilst more recent changes to rank structures confused the issues, correct me if I'm wrong, but there was a distinct difference between a Chief Stoker and a Chief Engine Room Artificer...

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

Hmmmm..... do some work on the dates supplied and they don't work out either!!

Blackman William, from what I can work out was a direct entry ERA(IV).

DOB 20/01/1925, joined 07/01/1946.

Rick, I Have a four page copy of his service record from NAA, is it okay to email it to you?

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Ray Lawrence (Boris)
R95904
Ex-POETC3
18th JRTE Rhodes
Dec 1966 - Dec 1986
Leeuwin, Diamantina, Cerberusx4, Harmanx4, Waterhen, Barricade, Lae, Tarangau, Melbourne, Buccaneer, Coonawarrax3, Stuart, Swan, Adroit, Perth, Vampire.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson