| Accession Number | MSS1183 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Manuscript |
| Measurement | 4 wallets: 10 cm. |
| Object type | Memoir |
| Maker |
Nave, Theodore Eric (Eric) |
| Place made | Australia |
| Date made | 1917-1949 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM315 422/008/178 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Nave, Theodore Eric (Captain, b.1899 - d.1993)
Description
Collection relating to the First World War and Second World War service of Captain Theodore Eric Nave, Royal Australian Navy. Collection consists of two draft versions of Nave's memoir "An Australian's Unique Naval Career", covering 29 years of his naval life from 1917 through to 1945.
Nave served in the RAN from 1917 to 1949. Towards the end of the First World War, Nave studied Japanese and qualified an interpreter and was seconded to the Intelligence Section. During the Second World War he set up a small RAN cryptographic unit, then joined the Central Bureau in Brisbane. He was highly regarded for his ability as a codebreaker and played an important part in predicting the Japanese invasion of Milne Bay.
Nave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 and joined the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation from which he retired in 1959.
See also "A Man of Intelligence: The life of Captain Eric Nave Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary" by Ian Pfennigwerth, held in the Memorial's collection as 940.5486 94092 P43.