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HMAS CERBERUS MUSEUM COLLECTION 146 - QUICKMATCH and Jenny's Side Party.
2303. Officers of HMAS QUICKMATCH pose with Mrs Ng Muk Kah and her famous 'Jenny's Side Party ' at some undated time, perhaps in the late 1950s.
Few Navy men need to be told her story, except perhaps Mrs Ng's real name, but we had a brief account of the Jenny's Side Party early in the photostream, at pic NO> 71. It is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3817330394/
This is a younger photo of Mrs Ng than that shown in pic NO. 71 in the link above, with the officers of HMAS VAMPRE [II]. Born in 1917, according to her Certificates of Service, on a Sampan at Causeway Bay, Mrs Ng, 'Jenny' was the legendary leader of a group of volunteer women workers who painted and cleaned Navy ships, tender buoys and assisted officers and crews in innumerable small ways at the port.
Awarded the British Empire Medal in 1980, she crossed the bar peacefully on February 18, 2009 - a passing marked by Navy men all around the world as they learned of it.
Photo: From the archives of the HMAS CERBERUS Museum, Flinders Naval Establishment, Victoria. Archive image NO. 1019. It has been made available through the generous support and assistance of the Curator, Warrant Officer Martin Grogan, RANR.
HMAS CERBERUS MUSEUM COLLECTION 146 - QUICKMATCH and Jenny's Side Party.
2303. Officers of HMAS QUICKMATCH pose with Mrs Ng Muk Kah and her famous 'Jenny's Side Party ' at some undated time, perhaps in the late 1950s.
Few Navy men need to be told her story, except perhaps Mrs Ng's real name, but we had a brief account of the Jenny's Side Party early in the photostream, at pic NO> 71. It is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3817330394/
This is a younger photo of Mrs Ng than that shown in pic NO. 71 in the link above, with the officers of HMAS VAMPRE [II]. Born in 1917, according to her Certificates of Service, on a Sampan at Causeway Bay, Mrs Ng, 'Jenny' was the legendary leader of a group of volunteer women workers who painted and cleaned Navy ships, tender buoys and assisted officers and crews in innumerable small ways at the port.
Awarded the British Empire Medal in 1980, she crossed the bar peacefully on February 18, 2009 - a passing marked by Navy men all around the world as they learned of it.
Photo: From the archives of the HMAS CERBERUS Museum, Flinders Naval Establishment, Victoria. Archive image NO. 1019. It has been made available through the generous support and assistance of the Curator, Warrant Officer Martin Grogan, RANR.