Departed Shipmates

bobcat · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:51 pm

Ex-POWTR Dave Hockham passed away on 1 January 2006 in Canberra.
His funeral will be held on Friday 6th January 2006 Norwood Park Crematorium at 1100. Ex service members attending please wear Medals. No flowers by Request. Donations to Cancer Research in lieu.

Better known to me as "Shockam' Hockham" ...

Rest your oars Dave.

Bobcat :cat:

Chippy Ned · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:56 pm

I received the following e-mail from Bill Krause this morning.

Alan Humble Ex Petty Officer HMAS Hobart D39 - Ist deployment 1967 passed away 1700 4/1/06 at Geelong Public Hospital. He was a good shipmate and a brave man. Alan was also on board HMAS Melbourne when it collided with HMAS Voyager. He assisted in the treatment and care of the survivors.

I served with Alan in 1969/70 at Creswell. I remember him as really fun loving bloke who was a mad Collingwood supporter. We shared many cheers and beers back then and I was really saddened to hear of his passing.

Rest in peace old buddy.

tafmo · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:36 pm

Didn't know Alan, but being a Collingwood supporter he must have been a great bloke. And it's always a shame to hear of the passing of a fellow sailor. Rest in peace Alan.

tafmo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:05 pm

Received this e-mail today from Peter Maher........

The HMAS BRISBANE Association wishes to advise of the passing of a shipmate.

R93522 CPOETS Philip (Phil) Wayne Jeckeln Age 59

Phil served on BRISBANE on the 1977 Jubilee Trip to the UK and again in 1979.

He had Vietnam Service on HMAS SYDNEY and HMAS VENDETTA in 1965 and HMAS HOBART in 1968

Passed away 21st December,2005, in Brisbane, much too young and as a result of Asbestosis

Blue skies and gentle breezes, wherever you may roam. Rest In Peace.

Peter Maher
National Secretary
HMAS BRISBANE Association

I knew Phil and his wife Jayme quite well. Phil and I were on some Tartar courses together in Mare Island, Vallejo in 1979. After they extended our time (unaccompanied) to 47 weeks, convinced Phil (after a long drinking session in the Chief's Mess) that we should call the Embassy and withdraw as volunteers for the last course unless they decided to change it to an accompanied posting (Accompanied???? In California!!!!!!! I must have been the one who was pissed #-o

). There were no spare Tartar Chief's around, so they begrudgingly agreed.

We had an interesting year. A couple of the funnier highlights:

I got stopped at the gate by the Marine guard and his trusted pistol whilst trying to outrun the base cops to Vallejo and freedom (of course I was pissed - I had to drive, there was no way I could walk), and Phil drove by waving and chortling, only to get home, open his electric garage door, drive in and drive out (forgot about the brake). I got let off by the cop, partied on in town and got laid, so I had the last laugh.

At a local restaurant, run by an ex-bordello owner from Sonora and Solano counties, she (Juanita, a huge woman with enormous boobs and wearing a loose dress) walked up behind me after a little playful dialog, and dropped a boob on each shoulder and asked what I thought of them. Just about broke my collar bone. Jayme was a little straight-laced and looked horrified. Juanita caught her look, and sidled around the other side of the table and hovered around Phil for a while. Then she pulled a tape measure out of her dress pocket, stuffed it up Phil's crutch and said,"It's alright fella, I still measure my men by the inch, not the pound!" Poor Jayme just about fainted. We had a great night..........the parting gesture was serving dinner mints out of a douche bowl.......class act.

Phil was a great guy who loved an ale or ten, and a good laugh. He was definitely taken far too young, and by a nasty disease.

Fair winds and smooth seas old friend, wishing you perfect missile shoots in the next life.

Honest Tad · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:20 am

Sad to hear about Phil. taken so young. I was in the same PO's mess on Melbourne around 1972. I think he used to live at East Lakes in Sydney at the time. Remember driving him home one time.

RIP Phil

Chippy Ned · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:15 am

I agree Bob, Phil was a great guy. I served with him on the Brisbane and I remember a "session" with him in one of the messes in Pearl Harbour when he spent about 3 hours trying to explain the Tartar system to me without the least bit of sussess.

We had lots of laughs and he was a great bloke to run ashore with. I am Phil's age and it is certainly too young to be taken from this world.

Rest easy old mate.

bobcat · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:26 am

Sussess Cupcake? Perhaps you are thinking of Sussex Inlet. The word you are looking for is success.

BTW, you have no worries about going yet as you are keeping yourself well and truly pickled by the red and as they say, only the good die young! So we all have to put up with you for a heckuvalotlonger yet ... #-o

Commiserations on the loss of yet another matelot. [-o<

Glad you are all remembering the good times. :thumbright:

Bobcat

tafmo · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:08 pm

Chippy Ned wrote:

.....he spent about 3 hours trying to explain the Tartar system to me without the least bit of sussess.

Of course not Ned #-o

. Apart from you being a Chippy and incapable of understanding such complex matters, I said Phil was a great guy - I didn't say he knew anything about the Tartar System. :finga:

He was, after all, general service and not a MOBI. :-k

bobcat · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:18 pm

UNCLASSIFIED
ROUTINE
FROM: CN AUSTRALIA
002 ALL SHIP 002 ALL SHORE 002 ALL OVERSEAS
AUSTCOM KUALA LUMPUR, WELLINGTON, HONIARA, SINGAPORE, AUSTCOM SUVA, AUSTEMB SEOUL (FOR DEFENCE ADVISER), AUSTEMB BERLIN, BEIJING, MANILA, PARIS EMB, TOKYO, ROME, BANGKOK, PHNOM PENH (FOR DEFENCE ATTACHE), AUSTCOM LONDON (FOR HADS), AUSTCOM PORT MORESBY (FOR HADS PNG), AUSTEMB JAKARTA (FOR NAVAL ATTACHE), AUSTCOM NUKU ALOFA, APIA, PORT VILA (FOR RAN ADVISER), AUSTEMB POHNPEI (FOR MSA/FMS/MSA RMI)

SUBJ: PASSING OF THE LATE RADM G.J.H. WOOLRYCH, AO, RAN (RTD)
1. IT IS WITH MUCH REGRET THAT I INFORM THE NAVY OF THE DEATH OF RADM GEOFFREY JOHN HUMPHREY WOOLRYCH, AO, RAN (RTD) ON MONDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2006.
2. RADM WOOLRYCH JOINED THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY IN 1944. HE TRAINED WITH THE RN FROM 1948-51 AND COMPLETED THE ANTI-SUBMARINE SPECIALIST COURSE IN THE UK IN 1955.
3. HE SERVED AS COMMANDING OFFICER OF HMA SHIPS DERWENT AND VAMPIRE. HIS FINAL TWO POSTINGS PRIOR TO RETIREMENT IN 1985 WERE AS DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF AND FLAG OFFICER COMMANDING AUSTRALIAN FLEET.
4. HIS FUNERAL WILL BE HELD IN BOWRAL NSW ON TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY. DETAILS OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ADVISED WHEN FINALISED.

BC · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:13 am

I received the following notifications this afternoon:

Vale CDRE Ian Burnside OBE RAN Retd

In case you do not have the news from other sources, Ian Burnside died early this afternoon after a long battle with prostate cancer. His funeral will be held in the Anzac Memorial Chapel at Duntroon at 1300 on Friday 17 March. Dr Tom Frame, the Anglican Bishop to the Forces will officiate at the service.

Yours Aye,

Mike Wright

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Shipmates,

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of yet another fellow Shipmate:

Ex POWTR William "Bill" Thomas GRUNDY R58760

Survived by wife Carolyn and Daughter Noel

11904 Triadelphia Road

ELLICOT CITY, MD, 21042, USA

Born: 20th August, 1944

Died: 17th Feb, 2006

HMAS VOYAGER Survivor and also was in Washington on September 11, 2001, when the Pentagon was attacked.

Left the RAN in 1970 and settled permanently in the United States.

Bill served 30 years with the World Bank (International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.) before retiring in 2002.

An Australian Rules Football great who played for Sydney Naval in the early 60's with many Legends of that Era.

He was a very proud Australian and just loved the time he served in the Royal Australian Navy.

Vietnam service in HMAS SYDNEY and HMAS DUCHESS.

I had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with Bill in the past few years.

A great mate.

Marty GROGAN

Senior Vice President

HMAS SYDNEY & V.L.S.V.A. (VIC)

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