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Updated 10th June 2011

 TURN TO PUSAN
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(From Australia turn to the North.)
IT IS HOPED THAT THIS WILL BE REPEATED EVERY YEAR, BY THE 22 UN Nations on 11/11

TO HONOUR OUR DEPARTED

Please advise us of any Korea Veteran who has passed on.
We can then inform the membership, via this web site.
If sufficient time is available - please also give details of  Veterans name,
time/place/date of funeral and contact details of N.O.K.

Allan Murray  - Publicity Officer
Email: kvaainc@bigpond.com
Telephone: 03 5962 6197 - Mobile: 0416 037 229

NEXT MEETING

To all members and those that would like to become a member.
The next general meeting & AGM will be held on
Wednesday 29th June 2011
Wednesday 27th July 2011
Wednesday 31st August 2011
 at
STELLA MARIS CENTRE.

LOCATION: Little Collins St, Melbourne, 3000 

(Spencer St end - Between Spencer and King St) Normal meeting times.

Committee Meeting 10.30am, followed immediately by Open Forum General Meeting.


LOOKING FOR MATES

Hello, 
Geoffrey John Strickland 28/11/1926 - 5/4/2011.
I am enquiring if anyone in your Korea Veterans Association served with Geoffrey John Strickland in the
808 Squadron aboard HMAS Sydney Aircraft Carrier stationed in the 1950-52 Korean War zone?
Geoff is my brother in law and he died recently. He was married to my sister who died some years prior.
I am anxious to receive any biographical information on Geoff, especially in regard to his service with the
Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the Korean War.
I would also love to hear from anyone who he sailed with him during the Korean conflict.
I know from online Australian Archives Records that he joined the Air Arm about 1948/9 and served in Korea.
I know from his Navy service card that he held a post with the Aust. Navy Fleet Air Arm's  808 Sea Fury Squadron out of Jervis Bay.
Did he fly the Sea Fury during the conflict and was it on the HMAS Sydney?
Geoff was also the a founding member of the Nowra Soaring Club near Jervis Bay, and later worked for the Australian Gliding Federation.
He is survived by two daughters and numerous grandchildren who would love to know about this part of Geoff's life, as would I also.

PAUL CURWOOD

Please email me if you can assist
EMail: ozibecozi@yahoo.com.au

Hoppers Crossing
Victoria. Australia