Association seeks to boost membership

The Naval Warfare Officers’ Association is the new name for the Anti-Submarine Officers’ Association.

The association was formed in 1946 by permanent and Reserves officers who had carried out their anti-submarine warfare training at the former Anti-Submarine School at HMAS Rushcutter.

Over the last few years the association management has been concerned that membership has become tenuous as founding members have died, even though they have been replaced by serving and more recently retired PN and Reserves ASW Officers.

Also with anti-submarine warfare now embedded in Principal Warfare Officers training, the old concept of the anti-submarine specialist in his own right has ceased to exist.

To ensure that the association continues, management thought it appropriate to change the name to better reflect the connection between the modern day PWOs and the surviving veteran members.

The association marches together each Anzac Day, followed by the AGM held aboard MV Radar on Sydney Harbour.

An annual luncheon with a guest speaker is held each November at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.

Membership is $15 a year and application forms are available from the Honorary Secretary CMDR Tighe on telephone 02 9948 3479, fax 9948 5100 or email: tighe@bigpond.net.au.

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