John's name has appeared in the Last Post section of the Queensland RSL News.

I have no details other than he was a member of the Hervey Bar sub-section.

Vale John. We went head to head on a few occasions but I have always remembered you as a fair man. Rest your oars, your journey is done.

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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!

'Simmo' was a member of the 16th MOBI Intake of January 1964... VALE John, taken far too soon...

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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

I remember John when we joined but have had no contact with him since Nirimba, as is sadly often the case.

He is the third member of my intake to cross the bar.

Taken far too young.

Rest your oars John. Fair winds and smooth seas.

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

i am fairly sure that I was at FMP(W) with him.

A nice guy but like a lot of other guys at the timed I can think of quite a few that you could scrub to within an inch of their lives and dress them in a new suit and within five minutes looked like thay had slept in it for weeks.

Geoff Stirling, a birdy, was another that I can think of.

Rest on your oars Simmo your hard work is done.

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Peter Sneddon
R95971
Ex CPOMTH4
18th JR Intake
23rd MOBI Intake
Jan 67 to July 91
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Sydney, Perth, FMP-W, Stuart, Penguin/Ships Divers course, Stuart, Lonsdale, Melbourne, Kuttabul, Cerberus, Stuart, Swan, Nirimba/ Q course, Cerberus, CPSO-M

You're spot on Piquet, hence his Simmo's other nick-name... (PP)

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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

I served with Simmo,Jonno,PP on Stalwart 1983 we were down the dungeon we had quite a few coldies during the time we spent on her I have some great memories of that period
Rest your oars mate

Viv

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Viv MacLeod
R65148
Morran(March 66)
ME(D)-DENS-WOMTH4
1966 to 1986
Cerberus,Duchess,Waterhen,Hawk,Nirimba, Melbourne,Torrens,Perth, Leeuwin,Stalwart,Stirling,Kutabul

I shared a house with him after joining Yarra when it was in CoDock for 1/2 life refit in late '77. There was a Mech there too, whose name escapes me.
He was Chief Chippy, and my mate Mark Biro was his PO Chippy.

Farewell Simmo...

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Steve Johns
R110510
Ex POETS
31st MOBI Intake
July 71 to July 81
Nirimba, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, Parramatta, WRE, Yarra, Stalwart, Derwent.
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