Birthday rewards for top personnel
A wide variety of Navy personnel have been rewarded for their hard work in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Here’s the list in more detail.

ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE : HMAS Kanimbla’s Commanding Officer CMDR George McGuire addresses the crew at a clear lower deck during Operation Sumatra Assist. CMDR McGuire was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross in the Queen’s Birthday honours.

HEAR THIS: Deputy Chief of Navy RADM Max Hancock was awarded a Medal in the Military Division.

Volume 49, No. 11, June 29, 2006

MEMBER (AM) IN THE MILITARY DIVISION
CDRE Stephen Richard Gilmore
For exceptional service to the ADF, particularly in very complex and dynamic maritime environments and as the Commander of coalition maritime forces in the Northern Persian Gulf from April to August 2005.
RADM Ron Maxwell Hancock
For exceptional service to the RAN as Director-General Coastwatch and Deputy Chief of Navy.
MEDAL (OAM) IN THE MILITARY DIVISION
LCDR Keith Neville Jonas
For meritorious service as the Staff Officer Minor Project Development at Maritime Headquarters.
LCDR James Michael McConnell
For meritorious service in the RAN in the field of communications and as WO of the Navy.
LCDR Kenneth Douglas Norton
For meritorious service in the field of Anti-Submarine Warfare in the RAN in a distinguished career spanning 37 years.
CPO Paul Gerald Corcoran
For meritorious service to the RAN in the field of Marine Engineering as the CPO Artificer in HMAS Westralia.
CPO John Bernard Ryan
For meritorious service to the RAN in the field of Naval Engineering.
CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS (CSC)
CMDR Michael Eric Dunne
For outstanding achievement and exceptional leadership as the Marine Engineering Officer in HMAS Manoora.
CMDR Andrew Stanley Keough
For outstanding achievement and exceptional leadership as the CO, HMAS Sheean.
CMDR George Arthur McGuire
For outstanding achievement in the performance of duty as the CO, of HMAS Kanimbla during Op Sumatra Assist.
CAPT Tony Neville Aldred
For outstanding achievement in the performance of duty as CO, HMAS Creswell, and concurrently as Training Authority-Initial Training, Leadership and Management.
CAPT Simon Paul O’Brien
For outstanding achievement in the performance of duty as the Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer of HMAS Anzac during operations, exercises and deployments in 2003 to 2005.
CAPT Stephen Peter Woodall
For outstanding achievement in the performance of duty as the CO, of HMAS Kanimbla during Op Sumatra Assist.
CONSPICUOUS SERVICE MEDAL (CSM)
CMDR Shane Raymond Moore
For outstanding service in the performance of duty as Director of the RAN Historical Collection and the establishment of the RAN Heritage Centre.
CMDR Tom Mueller
For outstanding service in the performance of duty as the Deputy Director Surface Combatants in the Capability Development Group from August 2003 to December 2005.
CPO Geordie Robert Bunting
For outstanding service in the performance of duty while employed in HMAS Sheean as the Deputy Marine Engineering Officer.
CPO Debbie Ann Butterworth
For outstanding service as the Stores Accounting Officer and Supply Department Regulator in HMAS Newcastle in support of operational capability.
COMMENDATION FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
CAPT Stuart Campbell Mayer
For distinguished performance of duty as the Commander, Coalition Task Group 58.1 during conduct of maritime security operations in the Northern Persian Gulf.
MERITORIOUS UNIT CITATION
Australian Defence Force
Australian Medical Detachment – Balad
For meritorious service and outstanding professional competency in the provision of health care in support of the United States Air Force Theatre Hospital, Balad, Iraq, during Op Catalyst between May 2005 and September 2005.