Richard Kandelmann.. as British soldier, after his internment

Posted on July 13, 2011 by bcstroud

I am including a few pics of granddad as a British soldier, and as a business man.

His family moved to the US first and after he married my grandmother in England they followed. My mother and father(son) moved to the US in 1962.

They became US citizens in 1969. We all settled in Tennessee..and Kansas.

I have been researching for over 15 years.. My grandfather never talked about his experience.

I happened upon this diary in his dresser drawer after he passed away, over 17 years ago!

A very quiet man. But, I think history is worth talking about and hope you all enjoy the posts! And maybe, posting will help others find a bit of their history.

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My grandfather, Richard Kandelmann on board the Dunera

Posted on July 13, 2011 by bcstroud

I thought I would share the details of my grandfather’s experience on the Dunera. He was also interred at the Hay Camp in Australia.

I have his diary, which gives many details of his experience. Newspaper clippings, and watercolors.

His name was Richard Allen Kandelmann, an Austrian Jew, who escaped Hitler during WWII.  I am posting an excerpt from his diary along with various watercolors, etc! I dearly hope I do not overdo the posts.

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Internee G Scola (E 25164)

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Richard Beith

As a postal historian I have obtained a 1943 envelope sent by G Scola (E 25164) from Tatura camp to a solicitor in London. Was he a Dunera internee?

If so, with an Italian name and located at Tatura, could he also have been a survivor of the sinking of the Arandora Star?

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November 1963 to Greece.

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Shakespeare

? was on the same Nov 1964 cruise as Liz Page and Jane Long. Genoa to Venice v?a lots of Greece. Great memories still but all my photos have gone missing in one house move or another. ? wonder if we were realy drunk from drinking “Pico” b?tter lemons and if we realy were too noisy playing silly card games in the cafeteria? And did the record “Surfer Joe” on the juke box actually break from being played too much? ? have been back to all the places we visited then but none of them have the same fun feeling as they did on that cru?se, pity. Itea, Delphi, Heraklion, Pireaus, Athens, Rhodes. When we heard of the Kennedy shooting we were dancing on deck to “Twist and Shout” if I remember correctly. Greetings to all others on the same trip!

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“M.S. Dunera” lapel badge

Posted on February 22, 2011 by steve mitchell

My parents recently discovered an M.S. Dunera lapel badge amongst their collection. The badge has the ship’s name in gold on a dark blue ring on the outer of the badge.

In the centre of the badge on a gold background is a red and white crossed ensign (an X shaped cross as opposed to a + shaped cross). The badge was made by Fattorini and Sons of Birmingham and am pleased to say they are still going strong (see http://www.fattorini.co.uk/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messers_Fattorini_and_Sons)

I will take a picture of the badge and post that in the next day or two in case others have similar memorabilia or know more about the origins of the badge.

Steve

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USS New York (LPD-21)

Posted on February 14, 2011 by camberwellse5

There is something majestic about ships

They have brought us safely on cruises

The Bahamas, the Caribbean and Alaska were trips

We made that were unforgettable

My great-aunt Hannah boarded the ‘Lusitania’ at New York’s Pier 55

During the first World War in May nineteen-fifteen

She was amongst the nineteen-hundred and ninety-eight who did not survive

When it was torpedoed off the south coast of Ireland

On a school-journey to Rome, Genoa and Tangiers

In nineteen sixty-four I was a passenger on the ‘Dunera’

The postcard that I sent home after all those years

Has survived since my mother gave it to me as a keepsake

In the Korean War my husband served on the ‘USS Enoree’ (AO-69)

As helmsman, he steered the ship under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay

Sailed north of the Arctic Circle and in the Pacific crossed the international date-line

He was honorably discharged from the Navy in August nineteen fifty-four

Built in Louisiana, the six hundred and eighty-four foot ‘USS New York’ (LPD-21)

With twenty-four tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center

Commemorating the sixty nationalities lost on September Eleventh Two Thousand and One

Will overcome every danger on the horizon with this motto: “NEVER FORGET”!

Copyright: Pauline L. Stillman.

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Bill Gates Comments

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Mike

How true is this?

This should be posted in all schools and work places

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel–good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

  • Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
  • Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self–esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
  • Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice–president with a car phone until you earn both.
  • Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
  • Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
  • Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
  • Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
  • Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
  • Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
  • Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
  • Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

If you agree, pass it on.

If you can read this – Thank a teacher!

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Association of the Dunera Boys

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Mike

Hi Mike,

Following is the latest Dunera News from the Association of "Dunera Boys" and it has heaps of photos from the 70th Anniversary celebrations at Hay – including a re–enactment of the boys arriving in their four 12 carriage steam trains, direct from the ship. The weekend was great – apart from torrential rain (which some are calling "drought breaking" but I’m calling another sign of the "weather extremes" which characterise climate change!). There were nine old Dunera Boys actually there – the remaining 132 people were children, wives 7a
widows, and grandchildren. If any of your Dunera Association people are interested, they can join (it needs paying members to keep it going in perpetuity!) – the form or the link is in the Newsletter and/or the ATT attached to this email. Download the Details here – 978 Kb PDF download

Many thanks for the latest cat pics – I especially liked the last one – basking with the glass of red and bottle! I’ve passed it on to an old friend who is a "catophile", has his own vineyard and makes his own (pretty good!) wines.

Kind regards

Anna

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Facebook!!

Posted on February 6, 2011 by sue smith

Have posted site on my Facebook already, you never know hey!

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1962 Trip to the Baltic with Hampshire schools

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Chris Cates

I was on the 1962 to the Baltic. All the schools involved came from Hampshire. I have seen on the old Dunera web site that several people mentioned that there was a documentary made of the trip.

I have been trying for years to find this film and have finally tracked it down. It was made by the old Southern Television and was shown on Christmas day 1962 at 6:30 in the evening. After a lot of searching I have found a copy which is available from the Wessex Film and Sound Archive based at the Hampshire County Council Offices in Winchester. It cost me just £16 which was well worth the expense for the memories that it brought back.

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