Aussie tunes in Tokyo Bay

Aussie tunes in Tokyo Bay

Among her father’s World War II mementos treasured by Tewantin Noosa RSL sub branch committee member Robin Stopford is a Nambour Chronicle news cutting of his eyewitness account of the surrender ceremony at Tokyo Bay on 2 September,1945. Ted Stopford was a signaller on the HMAS Shropshire and he told the paper 80 years ago how “the band played good old Aussie tunes as we steamed into the bay. “The great host of ships already anchored made a stir…