Completed in June 1921 as motor merchant Somersetshire for Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool. 1927 converted to a troopship with accommodation for 1300 troops. In October 1927 the ship sailed to China and from January to May 1928 she transported troops to Karachi and was laid up in Dartmouth thereafter. During another voyage to China in 1931, influenza broke out which affected 300 person but fortunately there were no deaths. In September 1939, the Somersetshire was requisitioned and converted into HM Hospital Ship No.25 with 507 beds, 118 medical staff and 171 crew members.

A piece of Australia's military history is facing a watery demise at the bottom of Darwin Harbour after it sank last week.

The HDML 1321 was a boat used by Australia's elite Z Special Unit[1] during World War II.

The Z Special Unit was an elite commando force established by the Australian Army during World War Two and is seen as the foundation of the modern SAS.

Soldiers relied on specially designed vessels like the HDML 1321 to allow them to undertake covert operations in the Pacific.

In 1945, eight commandos used the vessel to go behind enemy lines in Papua New Guinea as part of Operation Copper [2] [3].

I love a challenge, but this was a little easy. You are spot on with your location [Nicks location ! -markh]. The buildings have infact been demolished.
To the left of the picture once stood a temperance hotel called Trevors Hotel which was demolished in the early 1960s. The following picture shows the same door decoration.

"A 13-year project to document and commemorate every member of the SAS killed in the Second World War has for the first time confirmed identities of 13 lost members of the secretive, elite unit.

The 800-page roll of honour for the SAS and its forerunner, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), contains the stories of 374 men who died during the conflict, some of whose stories were on the verge of being lost.

The three-volume memorial published for this month?s 75th anniversary of the SAS's founding has been complied from an exhaustive trawl of service records, operational reports, medal citations, diaries and letters from next of kin."

His brother Bernard George, also died on service.

While most people in their 90s are slowing down, Ernie Andrus embarked on a journey that most people wouldn?t contemplate undertaking even in the prime of their life. Andrus ran over 4,000km from the US Pacific coast to the Atlantic Ocean.

Andrus was a medic on a similar ship during the war in Normandy, France, and he saw with his own eyes how vital the LST 325 [1] was during war time.

His plan is now to help to restore a World War II ship in Indiana[The LST 325] and return it to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in 2019.

Commando Printing Services Proprietary Limited was incorporated on 29 August 1972 (Tuesday)and as of 12 July 2016 (Tuesday) is a Registered Australian Private Company.
This Australian Private Company have been operating for 16039 days.

Seventy-one years after the end of World War 2, members of Z Special Unit will be remembered with the dedication of a commemorative plaque at the Australian War Memorial.
Twenty-three ZSU veterans will be in Canberra on Monday for this event, along with 20 widows and a large number of family members.

The commemorative plaque is the idea of Australian National University anthropologist Christine Helliwell who has conducted extensive field work in Borneo.

The inaugural Commando Games are to be held later this year near Spean Bridge and Achnacarry, where commandos were trained during World War Two.

Veterans' charity Commando Spirit said the event would be based on challenges set for Royal Marines, but would be family friendly.

It described the games' setting in Lochaber as "Commando country".

The challenges will include an endurance course, featuring mud runs, tunnels and crawls.

The course will be built to the design of an original commando endurance course used for training Allied troops and resistance fighters during WW2.