Vale Index

The recent history of Papua New Guinea is intimately bound up with the people who made PNG their home and, in many cases, their life's work.
It is therefore fitting, but also with deep regret, that we record the passing of members and friends.

For ease of reference, the list of obituaries is split into a number of alphabetical pages. Click on one of the buttons below for the required page.

BACK, John Brian Douglas (17 June 1999)
BACKHOUSE, Joseph William (13 December 2004)
BACKHOUSE, Thomas (12 May 1985)
BAGLEY, Emese (11 March 2003)
BAILEY, George (21 April 1983)
BAILEY, Peter (18 January 1998)
BAILEY, P.F. (Bill) (10 November 1995)
BAILEY, William Reuben (8 October 1991)
BAINBRIGGE, Ken (Birdie) (31 January 2000)
BAINES, Charles (11 July 1986)
BAKER, Arthur Edward (16 Dec 2012)
BAKER, George, CBE (August 1996)
BAKER, Graeme (21 February 2004)
BAKER, Jean (8 November 1992)
BAKER, John Curtis (Jack) (29 Dec 2012)
BAKER, Kevin (September 1998)
BALDWIN, Hector Edward (November 1990)
BALDWIN, John (11 November 1987)
BALDWIN, Kenneth Hector (21 November 1996)
BALDWIN, Marcia (8 May 1991)
BALDWIN (née Grahamslaw), Mary (13 August 1997)
BALENZUELA, Robert (25 June 2001)
BALFOUR-OLGIVY, 'Bunny' (July[?] 1981)
BALFOUR-OGILVY, Winifred (23 September 1997)
BANKS, David (7 May 2005)
BAMFORD, Raymond Hugh (10 October 2007)
BAMFORD, Geoffrey Newton (17 June 2014)
BANNISTER, Tim (16 December 2000)
BARMES, David Edward (13 January 2001)
BARNES, Don (1 March 2013)
BARNES, Neville Ernest (19 March 2011)
BARNARD, Bertram (1 November 1986)
BARNES, Charles Edward (Ceb) (November 1998)
BARNES, Don  (11 March 2013)
BARNES, Ina Beatrice (5 May 1993)
BARRAND, Jeanette Rosslyn (Rossi) , née Thomas (4 May 2011)
BARRETT, Phylis (November 1989)
BARTLETT, Enid Ann Edgeworth (née Saunders) (1 February 2015)
BARTLETT, Ralph (8 October 1988)
BARTLETT, Yvonne Gabrielle (2 March 1995)
BARWICK, Roy Frederick (26 October 1984)
BASSETT, Thomas Joseph (24 April 1988)
BATES, Charles David ("Harry") Dowson (26 July 2009)
BATES, Roma Isabelle (30 August 2010)
BATES, William (Bill) James (13 January 2005)
BATT, Bertram Clifford (10 August 1998)
BAYLEY, Hazel (21 December 1985)
BEADLE, Doreen (6 April 2015)
BEADEL, Doug (9 July 1997)
BEADEL, Yvonne Dorothy (14 September 1995)
BEARD, Enid Vivienne (28 September 1996)
BEASLEY (Snr), AO, Kim Edward (12 October 2007)
BEATON, William Watson (30 May 2008)
BECKE, Robert (Bob) Ian (22 June 2015)
BECKETT, Leah Victoria (Gran) (15 July 1992)
BECKETT, Leslie Thomas William (26 November 2007)
BEIER, Malcolm Arthur (Mal) (November 1996)
BEIER, Ulli (3 April 2011)
BELFIELD, Michael (Mick) (24 January 2006)
BELL, Alexander (29 September 1987)
BELL, Betty (Eve) (23 September 2000)
BELL, Sir Brian (25 July 2010)
BELL, Chere Nay Campbell (16 October 1990)
BELL, Derek Turnbull (1 June 2009)
BELL, Jean (16 April 1992)
BELL, John W (30 June 1982)
BELL, Leslie William Gordon (Les), OBE (11 December 2000)
BELL (neé Tolhurst), Patricia (October 1982)
BELL, Robert Stanley (4 November 2008)
BELLAIRS, William (Bill) (21 October 2013)
BENNETT, Judy (December 2003)
BENSON, Geoffrey (1978)
BENSTED, Florenz Allan (15 March 1987)
BENTLEY, Geoffrey (27 April 1998)
BENTINCK-PITT, Jean (5 November 1996)
BENTICK-PITT, Reginald (Reg) (1  May 1988)
BENTON, Colin Robert (24 October 2015)
BERA, Leo (15 April 2014)
BERESFORD, Charles Ernest (6 June 1991)
BERNARD, Albert H (7 May 1989)
BEST (neé Nancy Savage), Ann (30 December 1989)
BEST, John George (20 June 1995)
BEST, Peter Villiers (2 May 2006)
BIDDLE, John (15 March 1998)
BIDDULPH, John, OBE (January 1998)
BIDDULPH, Mary Anne (Harper) (30 April 2010)
BILTRIS, John Mansell (20 March 2008)
BIRCH, Hugh Milton (Smoky), DFC (3 January 1996)
BIRD, Jessie (22 May 1982)
BIRD, Nancy Veitch (19 October 1993)
BIRD, Theresa (11 September 1997)
BIRKIN, John (19 December 1999)
BIRRELL, Jim (28 November 2015)
BISHOP, Olive (25 December 1990)
BISSET, Stan, MC, OAM, MID (5 October 2010)
BITMEAD, Ann Veronica (12 April 2000)
BITMEAD, Harry (1 February 1987)
BLACK, Guy Bryden, MC (25 December 1998)
BLACK, John (6 April 1988)
BLACK, Robert (May 1988)
BLACKLEY, Marie (1 May 1995)
BLAIKIE (neé Hall), Margaret Irene (27 December 1991)
BLAIKIE, Robert William (14 September 2012)
BLAKE, Charles, MM (16 May 1988)
BLAKE, Marjorie Hawnt Ross (18 April 2004)
BLANCH, Charles Eric (12 July 1994)
BLANDEN, Madge (26 July 2010)
BLENKIN, John (13 December 2009)
BLIAUX, Leslie Philip, MBE (12 May 1992)
BLISS, Olga Eileen (19 May 1999)
BLOGG, Barry (14 April 1996)
BLOINK, Vincent de Paul, MBE (30 January 1988)
BLOOD, Neptune (Nep) (1978)
BLOOD, Olga Christina (10 November 1999)
BLOOMFIELD, David (29 November 2008)
BLUMBERG, Alexis (11 December 1982)
BLUMBERG, Lucy (15 April 1983)
BOND, Barry Harcourt (3 May 2001)
BONIWELL, Bruce Allison (10 July 1996)
BONNELL, Susanne (Susy) (23 December 2007)
BONNETT, Kenneth Malcolm (20 June 2009)
BONNICK, Roger Hugh (22 December 2014)
BOOIJ, Jan (Snr) (3 August 2014)
BOOKER, Edward H (Ted) (31 March 1986)
BOOTH, Harvey Oswald (23 July 2007)
BOOTH, Valmai (13 January 2001)
BORN, Patricia (7 September 1993)
BOSGARD, Donald Gordon (27 June 1990)
BOSGARD, H (1979/80)
BOSGARD, Peter (10 October 1983)
BOSTOCK, Keith Anthony (Tony) (15 February 1995)
BOTTRIELL, George William (20 June 2010)
BOURNE, Neville (12 May 2004)
BOWDEN, John (27 October 2009)
BOWLER, David (1 April 1990)
BOWMAN, Clive (December 1981)
BOWMAN, Gordon “Leo” (10 November 2013)
BRADLEY, Bob (Barramundi Bob) (August 2000)
BRADY, Elizabeth (Bess) (1 May 1987)
BRADY, Leslie John (18 February 2000)
BRAMELL, Patricia Hazel (10 February 1991)
BRAMMELL, Jack Bertram Charlton (15 October 2004)
BRASH, Elton Thomas, OBE (10 September 1998)
BRAZENOR, Ian (17 April 2009)
BRAZIER, Aileen Lucy (28 July 1992)
BRAZIER, Bruce Warwick (26 April 2006)
BREARLEY, Bruce (21 September 1998)
BREMEN, Earnest (Ernie) J
(November[?] 1981)
BREMEN, Eileen Florence (4 August 1997)
BRENNAN, R (1979/80)
BRERETON, Albert Campbell (August 1994)
BRIANCOURT, Pat (13 May 2011)
BRIDGLAND (neé Percival), Daphney Levina (6 July 1995)
BRIEN, Timothy N (6 February 2014)
BRIGGS, Donald Harrison (13 December 2002)
BRIGGS, Margaret Jacquelyn (29 November 2014)
BRIGGS, Thomas Joseph Logan (17 December 1991)
BRIGHTWELL, Merton W (18 March 2003)
BRINKLEY, Alfred (May 1987)
BRITTAIN, William Samuel (29 March 1995)
BROAD, Guy (15 September 1984)
BROAD, Johanna (18 September 1997)
BRODBY, Herbert (Bert) Walter (20 January 2001)
BROMAN, Anne-Marie (13 May 1994)
BROMAN, Peter A (23 March 2003)
BROOKS, John (28 March 1999)
BROOMHEAD, Jeffery Ernest (Jeff) (15 October 2003)
BROWN, Kathleen Mabel (27 May 2006)
BROWN, Kenneth Arthur (25 April 2010)
BROWN, Rodger (Rev.) (14 August 2003)
BROWNE, Robert (Bob) Cecil (20 June 2015)
BRUCE, Elaine (29 July 2006)
BRYANT, Jeanie (4 February 1994)
BUCHANAN, Edward (Ted) (10 January 1994)
BUCHANAN, Ranald Denis (6 June 1983)
BUCHANAN, Sir Ranald (Dennis) (29 August 2001)
CECILIA (BUCHANAN), Sister Mary, OLSH (17 August 1995)
BUCH, Bill (11 December 2010)
BUCKETT, Joseph (Joe) Maurice (28 April 2008)
BUCKLEY, Donald James (26 July 2015)
BUICK, W George (6 December 1990)
BULMER, Ralph Neville (July 1988)
BULL, Barbara Anne (14 July 2001)
BULL, Jean K (28 February 2003)
BUNTING, Bob, DFC, DFC (US) (9 February 1999)
BUNTING, Gwendolyn Ethel (2 April 2008)
BURCHETT, Edgar (Ted) (16 April 1996)
BURCHETT, Iris Elizabeth (30 March 1992)
BURCHILL, Dora Elizabeth (Sr) (3 December 2003)
BURGERS, Johannes Petrus Coenradus (9 June 1991)
BURGESS, Henry Bernard (mid 2009)
BURGESS, Robert Gordon (17 May 2013)
BURKE, C (1979/80)
BURKE, James Peter (19 May 1987)
BURKE, Mary (18 February 1987)
BURKE, Matilda (10 June 1986)
BURKE, Nancy (13 September 1988)
BURLEY, Len (25 June 1989)
BURNELL, John Roy Hartley (17 November 2015)
BURNET, Ian D (26 February 2003)
BURNS, Barbara June (29 November 2012)
BURNS, Francis Michael (Mick) (15 June 1991)
BURNS, Jack Lusby (20 July 2010)
BURNS, Lexie (25 March 2007)
BURNS, William Michael (20 December 1988)
BURT, Nellie Louisa (13 June 1998)
BURT, Rachel (19 February 1990)
BURTON, Stanley Lionel (20 October 2015)
BURTON-BRADLEY, Sir Burton Gyrth (31 January 1994)
BUTLER, Debra Ann (September 1996)
BUTLER, Leonard Francis (1 January 1983)
BUXTON, Keith Thomas (28 September 2003)
BYRNE, Leo James (2 November 1997)
BYRNE, Peter N (21 June 2002)
BYRON, M (Peg) (1979/80)