Trembath Golf Clubs

These five irons (2, 3, 4, 6, 7) are all that remain of a set of three woods and seven irons imported into New Guinea. In 1942 and 1943 there was heavy fighting in New Guinea as Australian and American armed forces fought to halt the Japanese advance. With the order in August 1942 to scorch the Bulolo Valley to hinder the Japanese, Bill Trembath buried his golf clubs under his house at Bulolo. After the Japanese retreat, the surviving clubs were retrieved by Padre Graydon and returned to Trembath in Australia who used them until 2000.