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NAVAL COLLEGE.Brisbane Candidates. Four Selected. jMELBOURNE. December » Among the candidates chosen for entry i to the Australian naval college a*I cadet midshipmen were four Br1»-i bane youths, and Edmund John MeLrer, of Cunnamulla.) Another successful candidate was : Rory Ward Burnett, second son of the i i late Captain Joaeph Burnet*, who was | In command of H.M.A.S. Sydney when 1 was lost in the Pacific. Richard i Burnett. Captain Burnet.‘s eldest son.* is also at the naval college. It is the j firs', time in the history of the R A N that two son* of a man who has been on active service have been at the college at the same time.
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Cairns Post

Cairns, Queensland, AU

Tue, Dec 29, 1942

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