Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Growing Up
Chapter 2: Port Moresby Before Pearl Harbour
Chapter 3: Port Moresby After Pearl Harbour
Chapter 4: Allied Air Force HQ and RAAF Command, Brisbane
Chapter 5: Japan Surrenders and We Are Demobilised
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: References
Appendix 2: Milestones
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1822
1840
1841
1850
1853
1855
1857
1859
1863
1873
1879
1887
1894
1901
1903
1904
1908
1910
1914
1918
1916
1917
1919
1920
1921
1928
1932
1933
1934
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940–1944
1940
1941
Dec 1941–Jan 1942
1942
1943
1944
1944–1945
1945
1946
Appendix 3: Papers Published in Tropical Weather Research Bulletins
Appendix 4: Radiosonde Observations 1941–46
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1859
Jan: Meteorological observations began at newly-erected observatory on Observatory Hill, Sydney.1863
Ellery appointed Government Astronomer of Victoria.1873
Government Observatory established in Perth.1879
H. C. Russell appointed Government Astronomer of NSW.1887
Clement Wragge appointed Government Astronomer of Queensland.1894
Australian Lawrence Hargraves designs, builds and flies man-carrying box-kite in NSW.1901
1 Jan: Australia becomes Commonwealth.1903
17 Dec: First heavier-than-air flight by Wright brothers at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, USA.1904
Japanese military forces occupy Korea, infiltrate China.1908
Bureau of Meteorology established; takes over responsibility for meteorology in Australia from Colonial Services.1910
18 Mar: American magician and escapologist. Harry Houdini makes first powered flight in Australia in imported Voisin biplane at Diggers Rest, Victoria.7 Oct: Australian John Duigan designs, builds and flies his own powered aircraft at Mia Mia, Victoria.
1914
14 Feb: No 1 Squadron AFC (Australian Flying Corps) formed at Point Cook.1 Aug: Outbreak of World War I.
14 Aug: Members of AFC join AIF in expeditionary force to Rabaul in German New Guinea with AFC BE 2a aircraft, which however did not fly.
6th and 7th Division AIF depart for service in Middle East and Europe.
1918
AFC in combat operations in Middle East and Europe.1916
17 Oct: W. J. Gibbs born Bondi, NSW1917
4 Oct: William Taylor Gibbs, 3rd Battalion AIF, father of W. J. Gibbs, killed in action. Battle of Passchendale, Ypres, Belgium.11 Nov: Armistice ending war with Germany.
People in Bright Sparcs - Ellery, Robert Lewis John; Russell, Henry Chamberlain; Wragge, Clement Lindley
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