6 MONAB
HMS NABSTOCK
(Mobile Naval Air Base)

WARWICK FARM 23.05.45 01.06.45 Race Course Temp Huts Hume Hwy. SYDNEY

Commanding Officers

WARWICK FARM Capt McCLINTOCH H.V.P 23.05.45 01.06.45

NB Unit was named HMS Nabstock

Photo:- Joan Weedale

This HMS Nabstock pennant belonged to Victor Daniel Townsend

I was contacted by Joan Tweedale in November 2024 to say that she had the above HMS Nabstock pennant which had belonged to her father Victor Daniel Townsend, who had arrived in Australia on board the MV Stirling Castle with the British Pacific Fleet and served at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough in Queensland. I promised to find a suitable home for the pennant to be displayed. I contacted David Geck at the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum to see if they would be interested in having the pennant. One of their members picked up the pennant on 17 December 2024 and it is now on display in the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum. See the photo below.

Photo:- David Geck

HMS Nabstock pennant originally belonging to Victor Townsend
 is now on display at the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

HMS Nabstock Maryborough 1945.
They look like Royal Navy Corsairs lined up.

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Royal Navy trucks at HMS Nabstock

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Royal Navy personnel HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield.
The name H. Woods is mentioned in a caption on the photo.

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

HMS Nabstock personnel at Maryborough Airfield

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

The caption on the photo reads "B24 Jim Bigelow"

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

The bandage on the fellow (Battersby) at
the right was due to a prop swing accident

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

F4 Wildcat and personnel at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield (Battersby)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

HMS Nabstock personnel (P. Groom)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Royal Navy Corsairs at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Royal Navy personnel at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield (Battersby)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Sea Otter of 1701 Squadron Royal Navy on HMS Bequm (Peter Groom)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

1701 Squadron staff at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield (P. Groom centre)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Bill Battersby at the front of the photo

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Bill Battersby at front right

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

S. Ryan, Groom and SMO on JN106 Sea Otter at Maryborough Airfield

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Personnel in a jeep at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield (Battersby)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

HMS Nabstock, 6 MONAB at Maryborough Airfield, photo
taken by P. Groom in April 1945 during arrival in a Walrus

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Bill Battersby hung over the windscreen of the
jeep at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Men from HMS Nabstock at the Central Hotel in
 Maryborough with the Publicans (N. Howard)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

HMS Nabstock personnel at Maryborough Airfield (Groom)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Sub Lt Groom of 1701 Squadron - Sea Otter A.S.R. JN106 (Groom)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

VJ Day Parade of HMS Nabstock personnel in Maryborough (Battersby)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Royal Navy personnel at HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield (H. Woods)

Photo:- S. Ryan Collection

Personnel of HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield in 1945

The Maleny Sub Branch of the RSL have a hall which came from the RAAF Station at Maryborough after WWII. The RSSAILA Maleny purchased the building (No 77), the old wooden Gymnasium/Picture Theatre, from Maryborough Airfield in 1946 for a cost of 2000 Pounds. At the end of the war the British Royal Navy had established HMS Nabstock at Maryborough Airfield and would have been using that building.

Maleny RSL Hall on the right in 1954

Photo:- via David Geck

WAAAF Radar personnel outside the Picture Theatre which is now the Maleny RSL Hall

Photo:- David Geck

Maleny RSL Hall

Photo:- David Geck

Inside the Maleny RSL Hall

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in Australia during WW2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Dennis Whiley for his assistance with the above information.

I'd like to thank Roly Rowsell, an Ex Aircraft Mechanic in the RN FAA and the RAN FAA, and member of the Maleny Sub Branch of the RSL for his assistance with this home page.

I would like to thank Joan Tweedale for sending me the above HMS Nabstock pennant which belonged to her father Victor Daniel Townsend.

I would also like to thank David Geck and Bob Weight from the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum for their assistance with this web page.

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This page first produced 7 January 2001

This page last updated 20 December 2024