Category Activities of the Chalkies

This page shows various single items that are of interest but could not be displayed elsewhere on the website. Learner’s Permit and provisional licence issued in the 1970’s  A newspaper item spread over two images of a football match involving…

This page consists of two articles extracted from other publications. The first is an extract from the `G Time (a newsletter of the tour guides of the Melbourne Cricket Grounds written by an ex-chalkie Sgt. Geoff Piper. The second is…

by Ian Ogston The Chalkies Group came together officially on the 25th October, 2003. On this occasion, a group of ten Queensland Chalkies met for the first time at the Long Tan Room at the Kedron-Wavell RSL. The purpose of…

Former chalkie Doc Neeson who was at Goldie River from roughly August 1968 until November 1969 was awarded an Order of Australia Medal on Australia Day, 2013 His citation reads as follows: Mr Bernard Patrick (Doc) NEESON, Sydney NSW 2000…

TO: Ian, Terry, the Organising Team, and all the Attendees at the Great ‘CHALKIE REUNION’ at the Kedron-Wavell RSL in Chermside on the 6th October 2012 FROM: Roger Jones, formerly ADAE PNG Command, Murray Barracks, Port Moresby, 1967-69 While I…

by Frank Cordingley I have great pleasure in writing this article to launch the new ‘Chalkies’ website At our annual get together in October 2011, discussion centred around how we could make the existence of our group visible to…

In many ways this has been a successful year for our informal group. New contacts have been made and this has added to the richness of our understanding of the PNG experience. As well, we have set off on another…

Most of you will know by now that three of our number, Terry Edwinsmith, Norm Hunter and Kev Horton visited PNG in August. All went well and all three arrived home after a very special experience. We will hear more…

Chalkies reunited John Morris and I (Ian Ogston) were posted to the PNG Training Depot at Goldie River in 1970-71. At the time we were the only unmarried Chalkies at Goldie and as a consequence, spent a very large amount…

Chalkies again turned up in numbers to support the PNG Ex-Servicemen’s Association (PIB/NGIB/HQ/PIR) at the Brisbane ANZAC Day march. The following are a number of photos of the marchers provided by Richard Boddington and Kev Horton of the parade.

Earlier this year, Terry (pictured) submitted an article to this blog site and it was printed along with a wide range of other pieces about PNG. What was interesting were the comments that came back to the site. One in…

We assembled again at Ocean View for our annual get together. As well as the social part of the night, it was the occasion of the launch of our visual record of our service in PNG. (More on that later.)…