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Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm - An Australian Tragedy -
Cameron Hazlehurst
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Aeroplane crash at Canberra on 13 August 1940
Those who died:
- Geoffrey Austin Street, Minister for the Army and Minister for Repatriation
- James Valentine Fairbairn, Minister for Air and Civil Aviation
- Sir Henry Somer Gullett, Vice-president of the Executive Council,
- General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, Chief of General Staff
- Lieutenant Colonel Francis Thornthwaite, Staff Officer to General White
- Richard Edwin Elford, Private Secretary to Mr Fairbairn
and the RAAF crew:
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Edward Hitchcock
- Pilot Officer Richard Frederick Wiesener
- Corporal John Frederick Palmer
- Aircraftman Charles Joseph Crosdale (198 pp)
Memorial Cairn.
Air Disaster Memorial and the Great War: [1]
On a hill near the NSW city of Queanbeyan, and not far from Canberra Airport, is a memorial dedicated to the memory of several distinguished Australians killed when an aeroplane carrying three Federal Ministers bound for a cabinet meeting – Sir Henry Gullet, James Fairburn and Geoffrey Street – crashed on approach to Canberra on 13 August 1940.
It was a time of new national crisis, and the disaster was a body-blow to the war effort. Australia could ill afford to lose such experienced and capable men. . . more . . . image
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