One of the RAN's top brass, Commodore Darron Kavanagh, spoke of HMAS Cootamundra at the Anzac Day service.

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Updated April 26 2019 - 4:20pm, first published April 25 2019 - 5:30pm
CONNECTION: Commodore Darron Kavanagh ties tally bands onto Navy caps, watched by Cootamundra RSL sub-branch secretary Jacqui Vincent and president Garry James.
CONNECTION: Commodore Darron Kavanagh ties tally bands onto Navy caps, watched by Cootamundra RSL sub-branch secretary Jacqui Vincent and president Garry James.

The role of HMAS Cootamundra during World War II was remembered at the Anzac Day commemoration service at Albert Park yesterday by one of the most senior ranking officers in the Australian Navy, Commodore Darron Kavanagh.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.

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