Sir,

My sincerest regards to your efforts to bringing this information to the public domain. I strongly believe that this will prove quite useful to not only to the families, but also to future researchers in the years to come.

Bravo Zulu on a job well done!

All the very best from Canada!

Chris

Hi,

Great site, thanks. My father was a member of SOE but also had some involvement with 'Z' force and was demobbed from Australia in 1946.

 My father spoke little of the war and sadly died in 1982 without sharing any of his experiences with either my mother or I.

 If any of the special people involved with the special forces in the Far East have any memory of him ny mother and I would truly be indepted to hear from them.

regards,

 Donald Millar

The fathers of two friends were in Z Force and both only knew about their involvement in the last couple of years and both wouldn't talk about it. For one of them the reason was that his two mates got killed ,I think when he was with them.

Bloody amazing.  Craig, Lionel has passed to you my enquiry re my father Wallace Beale, RAAF "Messman", whom I am reliably and 'unofficially/officially" informed was SOA/IASD/SRD from the beginning of his service and accepted as a volunteer for "service in the RAAF in the duties of Messman" as such..............

Lionel has passed me some detail. Unfortunately I don't @ this stage "drop and drag" computer-wise, so will not have that detail opened till I nail somebody's arse that does, such as my IT bloke.

He has said you will be digging, for which I thank you, and look forward - albeit with some trepidation as to the comprehensiveness and accuracy of my personal researches - to whatever you may come up with.

Regards,

David Beale

Nice website Craig.  Thanks for your help so far; no doubt I'll have a few more queries for you over the next year or so.

Fred Judge

After finding my grandfathers name on a nominal roll it said that at  'Posting of Discharge' he was in the 'Z spec unit'. I am only assuming that he may have been a part of the 'Z special unit', which until today i knew very little about. He never spoke of his experience and no one in my family knows anything about his time in the army. He enlisted in 1943 and discharged in 1946 with the rank of driver. Im very much hoping that i can find out more now that i have got this far. Thank you for making such a website available.

Hi My name is Elizabeth Irvine.  My father Harold Moses Goodin QX 48687 was a member of Z force Commando Unit ‘House on the Hill”

Dad passed away on May 11 2009 at 97 yrs of age and he hadn’t missed an ANZAC Day March from the first one until 2007. In 2008/9 his grandson Harrison Irvine, an Army cadet from ACU 136, marched in his place with great respect and honour.His grandfather watched him on TV from his bedside. Unfortunately they do not allow this any more .

 Dad's  name does not appear on the Roll of Honour and my son and I would really like that to be so. How do we go about this ?   

We look forward to hearing from you . Elizabeth Irvine

My father did not speak much of his WW2 service.

As a tall 17yo he had a white feather held up to him as he walked down the street in Sydney one day.

He lied about age and enlisted as a 17yo in the 9th field Engineers He found the early service boring and wanted 'action' so joined Special Forces and was assigned to M Special Unit and trained as a signaler. I have recently accessed his war record and see that he spent 3 years in New Guinea and Bougainville.

When I read of the purpose of M Special Unit, his cryptic summation of his contribution to the war became clearer. "Never fired a shot" he said.

Thank you for the website

Mark Martin

Thankyou for your site my father Jeffery Watts was in the Z force so I love finding out anything to do with his life as he died when I was 18 months old.  I would love to one day go to Borneo one of the places he saw active service.

This is a fantastic site :)

Kind Regards

Bev Pearse