Chalmers Memorial
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Australian Territories Minister. Mr. Paul Haslnck, accompanied by Mrs. Hasluck, Mr. J. Howse, MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to Minister), Colonel Devonshire and Mr. Walker (both representing the 27th Battalion Association), the late Colonel F. R. Chalmers’ daughter, Mrs. Ramage, attended the unveiling of the Chalmers' Memorial on Nauru in November. Photograph shows the memorial just after it was unveiled. Colonel Chalmers was Administrator of Nauru when the Japs invaded in 1942. With Dr. B. H. Quin, F. F. Harmer, W. Shugg, and W. H. Doyle (whom the memorial also commemorates) he voluntarily remained there to care for the natives.
He and his companions were murdered by the Japs.