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HMAS SYDNEY [II] SPECIAL: KORMORAN'S CAPTAIN, the late Theodor Detmers - WAN Ltd.
6885. Seen here in his rose garden in Hamburg in later age, Captain Theodor Detmers died in 1976, aged 74. He had spent more than five years as a PoW in Australia after the battle with HMAS SYDNEY [II], the most senior German officer at the camps where he was held, but - as recorded above - one who also engaged in an escape in early 1945. As we have recorded several times here on the Photostream, Detmers had come to Australia as a Lieutenant on the cruiser KOLN in May 1933, and had been among the German officers entertained on the RAN's flagship HMAS CANBERRA [I] during that visit. Among a number of images of the KOLN we had one of her saluting HMAS CANBERRA [I] in Sydney Harbour, at Entry 1586, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4545294358/in/photolis...
Aside from the discovery of the SYDNEY [II] and KORMORAN wrecks, in 2008 a rare piece of film footage emerged of Detmers, his officers and men, 62 in all, being rescued in a lifeboat by the ship Ocean Steamship Company's passenger-freighter [later WWII hospital ship] CENTAUR, and that film can now be seen here:
www.hmassydney.com/kormoranrescue.html
Credits: the key people involved in the concept and editorial production of 'No Survivors' for West Australian Newspapers Ltd were: Vicki Miller; Mike Whitington; Bruce Farrington; John and Mollie Ross; and Elizabeth Goodwin.` The booklet pages were first posted by Graham 'Sandy' McNab [RAN 1958-67] to the RAN Communications Branch Association [RANCBA] website in 2013, and they appear here with permission. Thanks are also due to Sandy McNab's daughter Karen Coates, who came across the booklet in the course of some family research, two members of the Coates family having served on HMAS SYDNEY [II] prior to the ships' loss. Related links:
www.rancba.org.au/HMAS_SYDNEY_Commemoration_Booklet.htm
HMAS SYDNEY [II] SPECIAL: KORMORAN'S CAPTAIN, the late Theodor Detmers - WAN Ltd.
6885. Seen here in his rose garden in Hamburg in later age, Captain Theodor Detmers died in 1976, aged 74. He had spent more than five years as a PoW in Australia after the battle with HMAS SYDNEY [II], the most senior German officer at the camps where he was held, but - as recorded above - one who also engaged in an escape in early 1945. As we have recorded several times here on the Photostream, Detmers had come to Australia as a Lieutenant on the cruiser KOLN in May 1933, and had been among the German officers entertained on the RAN's flagship HMAS CANBERRA [I] during that visit. Among a number of images of the KOLN we had one of her saluting HMAS CANBERRA [I] in Sydney Harbour, at Entry 1586, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4545294358/in/photolis...
Aside from the discovery of the SYDNEY [II] and KORMORAN wrecks, in 2008 a rare piece of film footage emerged of Detmers, his officers and men, 62 in all, being rescued in a lifeboat by the ship Ocean Steamship Company's passenger-freighter [later WWII hospital ship] CENTAUR, and that film can now be seen here:
www.hmassydney.com/kormoranrescue.html
Credits: the key people involved in the concept and editorial production of 'No Survivors' for West Australian Newspapers Ltd were: Vicki Miller; Mike Whitington; Bruce Farrington; John and Mollie Ross; and Elizabeth Goodwin.` The booklet pages were first posted by Graham 'Sandy' McNab [RAN 1958-67] to the RAN Communications Branch Association [RANCBA] website in 2013, and they appear here with permission. Thanks are also due to Sandy McNab's daughter Karen Coates, who came across the booklet in the course of some family research, two members of the Coates family having served on HMAS SYDNEY [II] prior to the ships' loss. Related links:
www.rancba.org.au/HMAS_SYDNEY_Commemoration_Booklet.htm