4th August 2025 Guest Speaker 

                  Noel Phelan

                    The Navy at Gallipoli

Noel Phelan's first career was as a science and mathematics teacher. He then
moved into IT with IBM as a systems engineer and spent 25 years in various
technical and management positions.

He has been a volunteer guide at the Maritime Museum for over 15 years. Noel
was the team leader of the speakers for many years.

Noel is a Past President of the Northbridge Rotary club. He spent many years as
sailing captain of his sailing club. He also spent several years with Marine Rescue and the Rural Fire Service. Noel is also a volunteer at the Naval Historical Society where he has developed three Navy harbour cruises. He has also organised a speaker’s program for the Navy Historical Society where the presentations are delivered by Zoom to the 500 members around Australia.

He fulfilled a boyhood dream to fly a WW II fighter by flying a SPITFIRE at The Imperial War Museum Duxford in the UK recently.