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Another request for information please!

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on May 17, 2015 by Mike FindingSeptember 21, 2017
John (Sandy) Catanach

Ms E Quinton has a question – can anyone help please? (email address supplied) Are you able to confirm for me that the Dunera was in dry dock in Glasgow around late 1944-45. My father was an officer on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Troop Ship Details, War Time Travel | Tagged Dunera was in dry dock, in Glasgow around 1944 to 1945 | Leave a reply

Ramsey Heritage Centre

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on April 10, 2015 by Mike FindingSeptember 21, 2017
Ramsey Heritage Centre

Posted on behalf of John Cannan at the Ramsey Heritage Centre Many thanks for the information John Mike Thank you for your reply on the website. I am particularly interested in the “special” internees who were interned for as period … Continue reading →

Posted in War Time Travel | Tagged Ramsey Heritage Centre, Werner Gerlach, Werner Kittel, Wolfgang Kittel | Leave a reply

Australian Military Forces Forms Dunera Voyage: 12/06/1941

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on February 15, 2013 by Mike FindingFebruary 15, 2013

There are several mentions of the boys, Chris and Oswald Wolkenstein, in Alan Gill’s book “Interrupted Journeys”. Particularly interesting is the exact date they were released from Tatura Camp 2 to go to Xavier College in Melbourne – January 12th, … Continue reading →

Posted in War Time Travel | Tagged Dunera Prisoner of War, The Dunera Internees | Leave a reply

German Jewish industrialist Ottmar E. Strauss

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on November 22, 2012 by Mike FindingNovember 21, 2012

Hello, I’ve written a small book about the German Jewish industrialist Ottmar E. Strauss, for our local museum in Königswinter, Germany. For an example look at http://www.brueckenhof.de/strauss.pdf please. His brother, Nathan Strauss, emigrated to Great Britain. He was transported with … Continue reading →

Posted in War Time Travel | Tagged German Jewish industrialist, Ottmar E. Strauss | 6 Replies

Searching for a Dunera boy…

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on September 4, 2012 by JudithSeptember 4, 2012

I have just learned that a relative of mine was one of the Dunera Boys. Our family lost track of this man and his parents in the mid-1930s, but I now know, from the Australian and UK Archives, that he … Continue reading →

Posted in "Dunera Boys", Facebook Posting, War Time Travel | Tagged interned at Hay and Tatura, joined the British Army, Searching for a Dunera boy | 3 Replies

Chris Wolkenstein (1922-2011) Dunera Internee from Innsbruck, Diary of 17 year old, from his diary

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on September 3, 2012 by Anne WolkensteinSeptember 3, 2012

My father, Christopher Wolkenstein, kept an amazing daily diary of his experiences, and the 1940-1943 volume is filled with interesting writings, pictures, diagrams, newspaper clippings, etc. As his hand-writing is a little challenging, I have typed out some of his … Continue reading →

Posted in War Time Travel | Tagged Diary of 17 year old, Dunera Internee from Innsbruck | 4 Replies

Dunera from Durban to Batavia in January 1942

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on August 8, 2012 by Mike FindingAugust 8, 2012

Thank you to Mr Mundy for the following email. Anyone else know anything about this time in the Dunera lifetime? Let us know! Just to mention that I sailed on the Dunera from Durban to Batavia in January 1942 (the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dunera Singapore, War Time Travel | Tagged Dunera from Durban to Batavia 1942 | Leave a reply

…any record of DUNERA’s movements immediately prior to July 1940?

MS Dunera Troop Ship To School Ship Posted on June 16, 2012 by Mike FindingJune 4, 2012

Michael Ayres 28th May 09 Is there any record of DUNERA’s movements immediately prior to July 1940, when she sailed to Australia? I am British but was born in Marseille in July 1939. My parents are long dead, but I … Continue reading →

Posted in War Time Travel | Tagged Somerset Maugham and Dunera? | Leave a reply

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