Cruiser (100 page)

letters to families

Naval Board

naval Victoria Crosses

Perth
survivors

posthumous Victoria Cross for Waller

PUNS

reserve

returning prisoners

vocabulary (jargon)

Z Special Unit

see also
Scrap Iron Flotilla

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Marines

Royal Navy

America and West Indies Station

evacuation of Greece

Fleet Air Arm

Force Z

Grand Fleet

Kastellorizo

Malta base

Portsmouth

South American Cruiser Squadron

vocabulary (jargon)

Western Striking Force

see also
Mediterranean Fleet

Royal Netherlands Air Force

Royal Netherlands East Indies Army

Royal Netherlands Navy

Royal Portsmouth Temperance Society

Royal Sovereign
, HMS

Ryan, Rose

Ryujo

Ryujo Maru

 

Saipan, Battle of

Sakura Maru

San Giorgio

Sandover, Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond

Saratoga

Sawyers, Frank

Scharnhorst

Schilling, Major-General W.

Scorpion
, HMS

Scott, Merv

Scrap Iron Flotilla

see also
HMAS
Stuart
, HMAS
Vampire
, HMAS
Vendetta
, HMAS
Voyager
, HMAS
Waterhen

Scullin, Prime Minister James

Sealion
, USS

Senior, Fred

Shanghai Lil's (Kingston)

Shedden, Frederick

Sheedy, Signalman Brian

Battle of Kaso Strait

Battle of Matapan

discharge

Haifa

Mediterranean Fleet

Menzies' visit

Perth
hit by bomb

White Ensign

withdrawal from Kalamata

Shigemitsu, Mamoru

Shikinami

Shokaku

Shropshire
, HMAS

Sievey, Richard

Silva, Frank de

Simons, Bert

Singapore

Alexandra Military Hospital

Britain promises to defend

fall of

Force Z

Japanese bombing of

Menzies' assessment of

United States Navy

Skeels, Ordinary Seaman Fred

Awa Maru

Battle of the Java Sea

Battle of the Sunda Strait

ex-prisoners

Fukuoka 22 Camp (Honshu)

Kortenaer

liberation

memoirs

Perth

POW

returns home

Slamat

Slim, Major-General William

Smith, Harry

Smith, Len

Smith, Noel

Smith, Steward Rob

Somedong Maru

Soryu

Southampton

Soviet Red Army

Soviet Union declares war on Japan

Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

Spaatz, General Carl

Spanish Civil War

Sparks, Ron

Speaker
, HMS

Speer, Albert

Spender, Percy

Sphakia, evacuation from

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad, Battle for

Stark, Admiral Harold R.

Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Jonkheer Dr Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van

Stening, Surgeon Lieutenant Sam

Stewart
, USS

Stimson, Henry

Stokan, Percy

Straker, Henry

Strasbourg

Stuart
, HMAS

Student, Kurt

Stuka dive-bombers

Sugiyama, General Haijime

Summers, Commander Pete

Sunda Strait, Battle of

Sutton, Harry ‘Curly'

Suzuki, Baron Kantaro

Suzuki, Captain

Swinburne, Algernon

Sydney
, HMAS

 

Tachira
, SS

Takagi, Rear-Admiral Takeo

Talbot-Smith, Lieutenant Gerard, RN

Tanaka, Captain

Tangney, Dorothy

Taranto, Battle of

Taylor, Mike

Tenedos

Tennant, Captain William

Tennessee

Terauchi, Field Marshal Count Hisaichi

Terror
, HMS

Themistocles

Thew, Lieutenant-Commander Norman

Thicknesse, Viv

Thode, Lieutenant John

Thomas, Petty Officer Alf

Thomas, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge, KCMG

Tibbets, Colonel Paul W.

Tingira
, HMAS

Tirpitz

Togo, Shigenori

Tojo, General Hideki

Tojuku Maru

Tokyo, firebombing of

Tokyo Rose

Tooronga

Toovey, Ordinary Seaman Ernie

Torrens-Spence, Lieutenant Michael, RN

Tottenham, Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Loftus, KCB RN

Trafalgar, Battle of

Tranby-White, Paymaster Midshipman Frank

Treloar, Colin ‘Ike'

Trento

Trieste

Triumph
, HMS

Truman, Harry S.

Tsushima, Battle of

Turnbull brothers

Turner, Roy

Tymms, Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Eric

Tyrrell, Petty Officer Edward ‘Jan'

 

Ulster Prince

ULTRA

Umezu, Yoshijiro

United Australia Party

United States Air Force

United States Army

131st Field Artillery

148th Field Hospital

atom bomb

liberate the camps

United States Navy

Asiatic Fleet

friendly fire

Great White Fleet

Iwo Jima

Japan's formal surrender

Pacific Fleet

Pacific Ocean Areas

Patrol Wing

South China Sea

War Plan

 

Valiant

Vampire
, HMAS

Varley, Brigadier Arthur

Vendetta
, HMAS

Vichy French

French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

in Hanoi

Victoria
, HMCS

Victoria, Queen

Victory
HMS

Victory in Europe (VE) Day

Vietnam War

Viney, Chief Petty Officer Don

Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio Veneto

von Weichs zu Glon, Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr

Voyager
, HMAS

Vyner Brooke

 

Walker, Lieutenant Gordon

Wallace, Ken (Tag)

Waller, ‘Hard Over' Hector Macdonald Laws

abandon ship

ABDA

Battle of the Java Sea

Battle of the Sunda Strait

career

cat

Combined Striking Force

commands 10th Destroyer Flotilla

commands HMAS
Stuart

commands HMS
Brazen

commands
Perth

commands Scrap Iron Flotilla

Cunningham

goes down with
Perth

John Collins

memorials to

Mention in Despatches

Militaire Willemsorde

Naval Historical Society

Owen

Pincher

posthumous Victoria Cross

promoted to Captain

Reid

Rooks

sewing machines

Tjilatjap

Tobruk

Walrus

Waller
, HMAS

Waller, John

Waller, Michael

Waller, Nancy (née Bowes)

Waller, William Frederick

War Cabinet

War Sirdar

Warrego

Warspite

Waterhen
, HMAS

Wavell, General Sir Archibald

ABDA

Blamey

campaign in Greece

Churchill

Creforce

Menzies

Singapore

withdrawal from Crete

Webster, Gordon

Weichs zu Glon, Maximilian Maria

Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral

Reichsfreiherr von

West Virginia
, USS

White, Sub-Lieutenant Norman ‘Knocker'

Whiting, Alice Irene (née Walsh)

Whiting, Brendan

Whiting, John

Whiting, Reg

death

diaries

leave

letters

on
Perth

Whitton, Bert

Wilhelm II, Kaiser

Wilhelmina, Queen

Wilkinson, Mirla

Williams, Lieutenant-Colonel John

Willis, Yeoman of Signals Jack

Willox, Linda

Wilmot, Chester

Wilson, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry ‘Jumbo' Maitland

Winant, John G.

Winslow, Walter

Witte de With

Wolverine
, HMS

Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Women's Royal Australian Naval Service

Wootton, Norman

Wryneck
, HMS

 

Yamada, Lieutenant

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku

Yamashita, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki

Yamato

Yarra
, HMAS

York, Duke and Duchess of

York
, HMS

Yorktown

 

Zara

Zhukov, General Georgy

Zuikaku