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Coral/Balmoral Battles - 40th Anniversary Commemorations May 2008

   
         
   
Upturned Rifles - Vietnam War Memorial Canberra ACT Vietnam War Memorial dedication March past Canberra The Gunner Memorial Mt Pleasant Canberra    
   
Phil Perrin OC Det 131 Div Loc Bty at Coral) with Keith Ayliffe - at the Memorial Dinner Terry Erbs and Keith Payne VC at the PM’s Reception Keith Ayliffe with the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd    
         
ANZAC DAY Services - 25 April 2008    
         
   
Det 131 Div Loc Bty  Banner at the head of the Locators in Brisbane Association members after the Sydney ANZAC Day March Locators on the March – ANZAC Day Brisbane 2008    
         
   
Det 131 Div Loc Bty  passin the jeep carrying Peter Pioro in Brisbane Det 131 Div Loc Bty  at the ready before the ANZAC Day March in Brisbane Joe Losiak and Peter Pioro after ANZAC Day March in Brisbane    
   
Det 131 Div Loc Bty  after the Brisbane ANZAC Day March Dave Doyle laying a wreath at the Coffs Harbour Cenotaph, while local schoolchildren look on Dave Auld looks good in a Macarthursque pose in the back sat of his personal jeep.    
         
Association News    
       
  On 29 May 2008 Major General Warren Glenny AO RFD ED presented Allan Harrison with the Association standard to be paraded at the Reserve Forces Day Parade in Sydney on Sunday 6th July 2008.       
         
Locating Artillery Display - AA No. 3 MK 7 Radar    
         

   

The AA No.3 Mk7 Radar on display in the Locating and Anti-Aircraft hangar, at the

North Fort Museum

The AA No.3 Mk7 Radar on display in the Locating and Anti-Aircraft hangar, at the North Fort Museum

The interior of the AA No.3 Mk7 Radar in the Locating and Anti-Aircraft hangar, at the

North Fort Museum

   
         

Memories from the past

   
         

   

Blast from thePast

How many can you identify?

If you are in the photo email to allan@harrisonsolution.com.au

Bdr Keith Ayliffe examines shrapnel damage to a radar dish in the aftermath of the Battle for Fire Support Base "Coral" 1968

Back Row:    Dippel, Harvie, Sobolewski, Saada, B.W. Smith, Saprun, Noon; Front Row:   Thompson, Flannery, Cork, Mannah, Gillard, Ciric

   
         
 

     
 

Ares Radar Course 29January - 11 February 1984

     
         
Locators in Profile    
         
   
Newsletter - December 2005 Newsletter - March 2006 Newsletter  -September 2006    
Phils hobbies include Cycling, Woodworking and Golf.  His interests include implementing systems analysis awareness in the workplace Danny's interest include rugby, touch football reading and fishing.

 

Coffee in a Tel Aviv café, 1941 - L-to-R WOI Campbell Hartmann, Dr Phillip Joseph (Palestinian Government Official) and 19 year old Gunner Ron Hartmann    
         
     

Newsletter  -September 2006

Newsletter  -March 2008

 

   

Ron Hartmann now octogensrian relates his hair raising escape from a sinking hospital ship in Piraeus Harbour Greece in 1940

 Bdr Michael Marsh - Locator in Profile. (See Newsletters page)

 

 

 

   
         
Annual Gunner Dinner 2007    
   

L to R; Jeff Evans, Allan Harrison, John Posener, MAJ GEN Tim Ford; COL John Fairless; Vic Rae Joe Elkhursch

L to R; Jeff Evans, Allan Harrison, John Posener, MAJ GEN Tim Ford; COL John Fairless; Vic Rae Joe Elkhursch

Allan Harrison with Mrs Debbie Condon and John Posener chat with Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC, Governor of NSW and Patron of the RAA Association (NSW) Inc

   
         

Reserve Forces Day 2007

   
         

   

Ferret Scout cars - Sydney

Historic armoured vehicles

Light Horse - Sydney

         

 

     

 

After the march - Sydney

     
         

ANZAC Day 2007

   
         

   

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Newcastle & Hunter Region Reunion    
         

 

   

 

     
         
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