Australian WWII - Far North Queensland Metal detecting and recovery

**AT P Sweep** · 10-21-2021, 01:58 AM

Can anyone advise as to what this is ~

Found this week ~

WWII camp stamped RGS (Manufacturer ) 1918 ~ Research says they made a Huge variety of Military kit ~ but what is this ~

Australian WWII - Far North Queensland Metal detecting and recovery

The top section screw off the lower section.

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**VERSUCH** · 10-21-2021, 03:56 AM

I see H.G.R , this link may help. An Oil filter perhaps ?

H.G.&R. Ld. - Hepburn, Gale & Ross Limited. - Other Equipment - The Great War (1914-1918) Forum

Cheers Mike

**AT P Sweep** · 10-21-2021, 05:30 AM

Yes My typo mistake HGR ~

Seesm they made a LOT of WWI kit ~

**AT P Sweep** · 11-28-2021, 04:25 AM

I owe a HUGE thanks to friend Rod after he sent me a ink related to my extended great Uncle who wo went MIA in September 1945 ~ AFTER VJ day in the Milne Bay area ~ as pilot of a C47 Cargo plane along with 17 others on board ~

I had not seen this feature ~ Never Knew details of these separate reports on the incident. I do have his entire service records.

Lt Eric Beer was an extended member of my Mum's family ! He joined the RAAF in 1939 and had an extensive record and flying hours ~ He was well qualified in many many planes ~

Mentioned in Dispatches and survived a sea crash landing along with his crew for 48 Hours before being rescued ~ and served with the RAAAF 30th Sqd. which was heavily involved with the Battle of the Bismarck sea, combined with USAF the RAAF 30 Sdq. inflicted HEAVY casualties on the Japanese fleet ~

The rather pathetic part of this battle was that the US and Australian crews were ordered back out to sea to strafe surviving Japanese soldiers in Life boats ~

Command deemed these survivors to be a high risk ~ and their survival could well inflict of even more casualties on Australian and American troops in land combat.

This radically effected many of the crews !

( But as one report told years alter a former pilot told how he was in a Pub in Melbourne post war and he got talking to a couple of Diggers and when they heard or realized he was a member of the 30 Sqd. Beaufighters ~ on of them HUGGED him ~ which was unheard of by War veterans back then ~

And the former Digger said ~ "THANK YOU Mate ~ If you had NOT done what you Blokes did ~ we would likely not even be here today~"

Which of course went a LONG way to the former pilot's relief from that burden!)

Allied Air Dominance in the Pacific: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea March 2 - 3 1943 - YouTube

But Flight Lieutenant. Eric Beer~ transferred to C47 air freights 33 Sqd.

A fabulous if not Melancholy report/ read ~ This tragedy was one if not the last WWII period Air crash of 33 Sqd. which has not been fully resolved.

( A good read detailing the efforts to confirm the located wreck!)

PNGAA Library

BEER Eric Clarence 253615 | Aviation Heritage Museum'

He is remembered on the Wall of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra

War Graves

The Office of Australian War Graves has the location and other information about war graves and memorials. Search the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for details about First and Second World War graves.

Roll of Honour name projection
Eric Clarence Beer's name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on:
Fri 14 January 2022 at 10:09pm

Brief Summery ~

AN AUSTRALIAN payroll plane that went missing at the end of World War II with 19 people on board might have been found in just 20 metres of water in Papua New Guinea.
Divers in Milne Bay have reported seeing the remains of a twin-engined plane in the exact same spot pinpointed by documents that were recently uncovered by an aviation historian in Canberra.

Now a diving boat skipper, who has found other plane wrecks in PNG waters, is planning an expedition to find the missing plane.

Historian Bob Piper said the RAAF Douglas C-47 took off from Gurney airstrip at Milne Bay just before 10am on September 11, 1945, with pilot Flight Lieutenant Eric Beer at the controls. It was bound for an airfield near Lae on the north coast.

On board were three crew and 16 passengers including Lieutenant Noel Williams, a former Commonwealth Bank employee carrying a payroll of more than £2000, the equivalent of $500,000 in today's money.

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**AT P Sweep** · 11-30-2021, 03:49 AM

Been a tad slow of late ~ between extremes of heat and now the Wet season in tropical FNQ has started early ~

But we ~ mate and I headed out to a new area for permission on burnt off farm land

Started slow but turned out we found yet another Military dump ~ we were not even sure if it was Military dump until items such as webbing and period Beer bottle started to appear ~

Two Hunts ~ on what we called the Mango Tree dump as there is a huge Mango tree smack in the middle of the dump ~

Sadly the ID tag was a blank!

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Appears to be a Trench art gone wrong ~

Mrs suggested a trinket box lack Facia ~

Australian Parachute Battalion boarding a an RAAF C-47 for a practice jump, Mereeba, September 1944.

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**AT P Sweep** · 11-30-2021, 05:26 AM

I ecenlty WON a Coiltek MD Coil but ti was not the right one for my Detector and after offering a smashing hot deal no one wanted it so i approached a trader and hewas glad to do a deal ~

So he ordered the correct Coiltek for my detector ~ and I also ordered a new Harness as I was in credit on the deal ~

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First run yesterday and I deliberately worked two Old hammered local sites and immediately I noticed far more targets and more obvious were very deep signals ~

So be interesting to to see what it delivers over Old ground ~

**AT P Sweep** · 12-20-2021, 02:04 AM

I FINALLY finished my Twenty Five Pounder Armour Piercing round,

They were originally Black but no way ~ am I spending yonks cleaning the round and paint it black ~

We are palming on a hunt as there is not way they would fire off two an call it day !

Another 'next' project~ 25 Pdr. HE ( boat Tail)

The "talk " on the base says 1941 25 Pdr. ID 228

A VERY rare find "in the field" ~ we speculated as to why this would be found as I did ~ 100% intact. if it was dud there is NO WAY even the hardest but the crazy would Attempt to defuze a High Explosive shell~ NO WAY ~ Death wish stiff!

So a closer examination suggests that either the fuse was not secured/ screwed down or the threads on the fuzer or the HE shell case were not best quality and the Fuze has exploded setting of the TNT and ejecting the fuze. before crashing to ground ~ but even then the case is in amazingly good condition ~

A Not so good ending ~ the Jack Knife ~but did not expect the best result after al the Knife has been sitting ina steel mug alongside the bottle for < 70 Years>