Vale- Peter Foran aka “Yakka” Station Year Season Casey 1982 Winter Macquarie Is 1984 Winter I found out this afternoon that Peter Foran, C82 and M84, passed away peacefully on Bruny Island last week. Peter’s funeral will be held on 20 September at Turnbul Funeral Chapel, Letitia Street, North Hobart at 3pm. Email received from […]
Vale- Harrison George “Harry” Eastoe Station Year Season Mawson 1970 Winter I like to regretfully advise that my father, and member of your organisation ‘Harrison George Eastoe’ (Mawson 1970) has passed away on Sunday 15th October in Mackay. For anybody interested in attending, a funeral service will be held on Friday 27th October at ‘Newhaven […]
Vale- Neville Collins Station Year Season Mawson 1957 Winter Mawson 1960 Winter Wilkes 1962 Winter Amery Ice Shelf 1968 Winter Neville Collins, ANARE Club Member #6 (M57; M60; W62; Amery Ice Shelf 68) of Jacobs Well, Queensland, died at Labrador, Gold Coast, Queensland, on the evening of 2 November 2017. Neville was the well known […]
Vale- Bob Tingey Station Year Season Prince Charles Mountains 1969-70 Summer Prince Charles Mountains 1970-71 Summer Prince Charles Mountains 1971-72 Summer Prince Charles Mountains 1972-73 Summer Enderby Land 1976-77 Summer Bunger Hills 1985-86 Summer Bob Tingey died on 17 November after a 30 year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Bob first went to Antarctica in 1970 […]
Vale- Rick Schmitter Station Year Season Job Davis 1964 Winter Cook Macquarie Island 1966 Winter Cook Mawson 1978 Winter Cook Casey 1980 Winter Cook One week ago I visited Rick at his home in Rye- Victoria, he had been suffering from a cancer that had wracked his body for quite some time, last night the […]
Vale- Robert Nicholson Station Year Season Davis 1971 Winter Robert passed away 16 February 2017. He was a club member of ANARE, attended all dinners. I have his jacket. Thank you. Email received from his daughter, Karen Nicholson 19/02/17
Vale- Brian Brawley Station Year Season Davis 1982 Winter It is with great sadness to inform you that Brian Brawley from South Australia passed away the evening of 12th March 2017, at home. Liz and family would appreciate if you both can pass on the sad news to Anare Club family, and importantly the team […]
Vale- Michael Charles Taylor Station Year Season Macquarie Island 1952 Winter Macquarie Island 1954 Winter Macquarie Island 1960 Winter Just to let you know that Michael Charles Taylor died in his sleep in Darwin aged 92 on the 6th Jan 2017 Email received from Paul Taylor 18/04/17 Correction to previous listing – was referring to […]
Vale- David Weight Station Year Season Macquarie Island 1980 Winter I would like to inform the club that David Weight (Macca ’80 ) has passed away. He was a unique guy with an incredible sense of humour and loved life. He was always telling great stories about the Territory and Darwin. I know all the […]
Vale- Peter Neville “Benno” Bennett Station Year Season Casey 1972 Winter An obituary for Peter (1938-2017) was published in the June/July 2017 edition of Aurora. In relating his life and its sad conclusion, we touched on some salient points. A decent, patriotic Australian who served his country well, with service as a regular in the […]
