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Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Parramatta (left) conducts officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres with amphibious assault ship USS America, guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and guided-missile destroyer USS Barry in the South China Sea. Photo by USS America crew member.

HMAS Parramatta completes Asian/South China Sea tour

02/05/2020 Brian Hartigan 764 Views 0 Comments

HMAS Parramatta has returned to Australia after completing a three-month deployment of South and South East Asia and the South China Sea.

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Five ADF members test positive for COVID-19 in Middle East – now home

01/05/202001/05/2020 Brian Hartigan 530 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Five ADF personnel have tested positive to COVID-19 in the Middle East and have since been flown home to Australia for treatment and/or case management.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Miller salutes Colonel Tom Moore on the occasion of his 100th birthday and his promotion. Photo by Corporal Robert Weideman, UK Ministry of Defence.

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British Army’s birthday wishes for Colonel Tom Moore

30/04/202030/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 601 Views 0 Comments

Birthday greetings flooded in for former captain Tom Moore today as he turned 100 years young – and was promoted to colonel.

Colonel Tom Moore talks to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Miller while holding The Yorkshire Regiment Medal, re-presented as a birthday gift from the British Army after he lost the original. Photo by Corporal Robert Weideman, UK Ministry of Defence.

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Former Captain Tom Moore promoted on his birthday

30/04/202005/05/2020 Brian Hartigan 1965 Views 0 Comments

World famous walkathon fundraiser and now former-captain Tom Moore has been promoted to the rank of colonel on his 100th Birthday.

USS Theodore Roosevelt 'clean-crew' sailors re-board the aircraft carrier after completing their COVID-19 isolation period in Guam. Photo by US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Jordan E Gilbert.

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USS Theodore Roosevelt prepares to return to sea

30/04/202030/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 372 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Hundreds of sailors began the transition from isolation on Guam to the USS Theodore Roosevelt yesterday as the ship prepares to return to sea.

HMAS Adelaide conducts a replenishment-at-sea fuel transfer with Royal Canadian Navy supply ship MV Asterix during the sea phase of Exercise RIMPAC 18. Photo by Able Seaman Ronnie Baltoft.

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RIMPAC 2020 will go ahead as ‘at-sea-only’ exercise

30/04/202030/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 1297 Views 0 Comments RIMPAC

The United States Navy will sponsor the 27th Rim of the Pacific exercise – RIMPAC 20 – from August 17 to 31 2020 despite the global COVID-19 crisis.

Captain Tom Moore and his singing partner – and favourite singer – Michael Ball show off their Number One charts award after their cover of You'll Never Walk Alone debuted at Number 1. Photo courtesy Official Charts web site.

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Captain Tom making and breaking records

28/04/202028/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 654 Views 0 Comments

Captain Tom Moore, 99 year old World War 2 veteran and walkathon legend, has officially set two very significant records before his 100th birthday.

Captain Arthur Harold Appleby and an extract from his service record.

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Another WWI Aussie’s remains formally identified

24/04/202024/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 718 Views 0 Comments

Army has identified a WWI remains as Captain Arthur Harold Appleby, providing his family with confirmation of his final resting place.

The Wellington Infantry Battalion preparing to board a troopship in October 1914. Few survived Gallipoli unscathed. By late September 1915 the battalion had experienced an attrition rate of more than 170 per cent. Alexander Turnbull Library, PA1-f-022-6-1

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NZ officially doubles Kiwi headcount for Gallipoli

24/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 748 Views 0 Comments

Two New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) historians have published an e-book confirming that the number of New Zealand soldiers who

HMNZS Otago, pictured with a Seasprite helicopter hovering overhead, is one of four Royal New Zealand Navy ships that will be visible in the Hauraki Gulf over the next few weeks as they carry out training essential to maritime operations. RNZN photo.

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Royal New Zealand Navy returning to routine training

24/04/202024/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 308 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

New Zealanders will see more activity by Royal New Zealand Navy ships and helicopters as the RNZN returns to routine training in the Hauraki Gulf next week.

Captain Tom finishes the 100 laps of his garden he initially set out to achieve, but vowed to walk on as long as people kept donating. Photo by by Emma Sohl – Capture The Light Photography.

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‘Bowie’ tribute to Captain Tom as he passes $50million

23/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 788 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

A Scottish pantomime singer has recorded a tribute to Captain Tom Moore – the 99-year-old British walk-a-thon fundraiser.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules flew to Fiji yesterday, delivering supplies including tarpaulins, tools, generators and personal hygiene kits. NZDF photo.

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NZDF continues to fly cyclone aid in Pacific

23/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 284 Views 0 Comments

New Zealand Defence Force is continuing to take aid to Pacific countries to help relief efforts following Tropical Cyclone Harold.

Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules aircraft are transporting vital emergency supplies to Fiji and Vanuatu following Tropical Cyclone Harold. NZDF photo.

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NZ Hercules distributes aid and repatriates Kiwis after Pacific cyclone

18/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 424 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules are busy around the South Pacific in the wake of Cyclone Harold – distributing aid and repariating Kiwis.

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment form an honour guard for Captain Tom Moore as he races towards what was supposed to be the finish line in an epic fundraising effort. Photo by Frances Haycock, UK MoD.

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Captain Tom Moore races past charity goals

17/04/202017/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 1055 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

WWII vet Captain Tom Moore, walking to raise funds for the British National Health Service, is more than 17,000,000% past his initial fundraising goal.

A member of the New Zealand Defence Force at the militarised border between North and South Korea. NZDF photo.

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NZDF postpones o/s troop rotations – deployed pers left in place

16/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 715 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

The New Zealand Defence Force has postponed routine rotations of personnel on international missions because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill transit the Philippine Sea in February. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sean Lynch.

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Sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt dies of COVID-19

14/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 632 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

A sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt died of ‘COVID-related complications’ on Sunday in the intensive-care unit of US Naval Hospital Guam on 13 Feb.

New Zealand Defence Force personnel onboard a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules on their way home after more than five months deployment in Iraq followed by two weeks in isolation to meet COVID-19 requirements. The Hercules dropped members off in Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and at RNZAF Base Ohakea in Manawatū before returning to RNZAF Base Auckland later today. NZDF photo.

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NZDF Taji crew home after COVID-19 isolation

11/04/2020 Brian Hartigan 421 Views 0 Comments COVID-19, Taji

A group of NZDF personnel who returned recently from Iraq have finished their two-week COVID-19 isolation and are now on their way home to their families.