Author: Frank Rands

Here is an image taken very recently and yes there are some communicators starring!. Can you identify them? Sitting on

Here is an image taken in 1986.  A communicator is quite prominent in the image.  Who is the Reviewing Officer

On the top, we have a PO Sparkers badge and a POs rank badge that would be worn on No1

Q1183 (later HMNZS Mako) on the left and Q03 Shenandoah on the right. Somewhere in the Hauraki Gulf circa 1943.

Here is an image of a class of Communicators from January 1966.  JRRO was the rank of Junior Recruit Radio

We all remember these words ‘Seapower’ but did you know where they originated.  Image number 3 makes interesting reading.

Here is an image from the Otago Daily Times of HMNZS ENDEAVOUR proceeding on Oceangraphic Studies in the Southern waters.

This occurred over the Christmas Retard in Dec 1961.  Do you remember the incident?

I am not sure of the year this occurred maybe someone out there can assist.  Marlene went on to marry

AHURIRI, Rawiri George (David). Warrant Officer Yeoman of Signals Rawiri George Ahuriri 722258 RNZNAVY. The family of Rawiri George Ahuriri