Missing Pieces: - Royal Australian Navy

298 Missing Pieces
44 NAA A2585/1, Item 1939/1941 — Naval Board Minutes, minutes of meeting 22 January 1939.
Director of Signal Communications Commander Jack Newman represented the RAN at a
conference on the organisation of wireless intelligence in the Far East held in Singapore in
March 1939.
45 NAA A816, Item 43/302/18 — Establishment of cryptographic organisation in Australia, CNS
minute of 28 November 1939.
46 NAA MP1185/2, Item 1937/3/415, folio 2 and NAA A816/1, Item 43/302/18—Establishment
of cryptographic organisation in Australia, PM letter no. 86 of 1 April 1940.
47 NAA MP 1185/8, Item 1997/5/343 — Strategic DF, contains recommendations that the erection
and commissioning of stations in Australia be hastened. [COIC Far East letter 1075/040E/7
of 17 May 1940.]
48 Alastair Cooper, ‘Raiders and the Defence of Trade: The Royal Australian Navy in 1941’,
paper presented at AWM Conference Remembering 1941, June 2001.
49 George Odgers, The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History, Child & Kent, Sydney, 1982,
p. 77.
50 NAA MP1185/8, Item 1933/2/115 — War Orders for HMA Squadron — RACAS comments.
51 Frances McGuire, The Royal Australian Navy: Its origin, Development and Organisation, Oxford
University Press, Melbourne, 1948, pp. 80—82.
52 Commonwealth of Australia, The Navy List, October 1939, pp. 78-79.
53 James Goldrick, ‘Australian naval policy 1939—45’, in David Stevens (ed), The Royal Australian
Navy in World War II, Allen & Unwin, Sydney,1995, p. 7.
Operations against italy, Vichy France & germany, 1939-1942
54 Hermon G Gill, Royal Australian Navy 1939—1942, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1985,
pp. 418—419.
55 NAA MP 729/6, Item 15/401/342 — Central War Room and Joint Planning, DC Agenda 67/1940 of
30 July 1940.
56 NAA MP 729/6, Item 15/401/342 — Central War Room and Joint Planning, DC agenda 67/1940 of
30 July 1940.
57 NAA MP 729/6, Item 15/401/342 — Central War Room and Joint Planning, DC Agenda 67/1940 of
30 July 1940.
58 NAA A816/1, Item 43/302/18 — Establishment of cryptographic organisation in Australia.
The Defence Committee formally approved the ‘Special Intelligence Organisation’ on 29
November 1941.
59 Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, pp. 172-176.
60 There are surprisingly few records of this action in Australian archives, hence the author’s
reliance on Gill. The material used in the official account of the action appears to have been
destroyed, but would have been available to Lieutenant Commander Gill in NID and in his
later role as official historian.
61 Romolo had also been under covert surveillance by the cruiser HMAS Perth.
62 Gill, RAN, 1939—1942, p. 121.
63 Burrell, Mermaids Do Exist, p. 81.