Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( June 2026 )
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Daniel John BOURKE AKA Daniel BOURKE, Dan BOURKE, Danny BOURKE, Bourky, Boone
Daniel John BOURKE AKA Daniel BOURKE, Dan BOURKE, Danny BOURKE, Bourky, Boone
Daniel John BOURKE AKA Daniel BOURKE, Dan BOURKE, Danny BOURKE, Bourky, Boone
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), Sunday 2 August 1981, page 15
ROSEHILL
Bourke’s Law rules the opposition
SYDNEY: Bourke’s Law may have a hole in the neck, but he showed it did not affect his racing ability when he won the Kentucky Fried Chicken Stakes over 1400 m at Rosehill yesterday..
Part-owned by Taree detectives Dan Bourke and Peter Thomas, the impressive three-year-old gelding is named after the television series, Bourke’s Law.
Bourke’s Law, who has won $18,740 in stakes, was bought at the Scone Yearling Sales early last year for $800.
“This was because all other prospective buyers shunned him because of his gaping hole in the near side of his neck”, Thomas said.
‘The large indention, the size of a fist, is the result of an injection mishap when he was a weanling.
Bourke’s Law, the 5-4 favourite, trained by Max Lees at Broadmeadow and ridden by John Wade, came away over the final stages to win by 5½ lengths from Kaidaham, 5-1, with Star Power, 4-1, a long neck away third.
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Awards: National Medal – granted 15 April 1981 ( Sgt 3/c )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 28 May 1992 ( Sgt )
2nd Clasp to National Medal – granted 4 September 2001 ( Supt. )
Ronald Charles SHAW AKA Ron SHAW, Shawy
Born: Friday 28 December 1945 in Manly, NSW
Died on: Thursday 4 June 2026
Age: 80 years, 5 months, 7 days
Organ Donor: No – Age restrictive
Cause: Cancer ( type =? )
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Wednesday 24 June 2026 @ 11am
Funeral location: South Chapel, Woronora Cemetery, Linden St, Sutherland, NSW
LIVE STREAM? TBA
Wake location: Woolooware Golf Club, Harnleigh Ave, Woolooware, NSW
Wake date: Wednesday 24 June 2026 @ 1pm
Funeral Parlour: ? TBA
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ?Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Ron Shaw.
Ron served as the Pension Officer for the Cronulla RSL Sub Branch for more than 15 years, assisting numerous veterans with their applications and claims to the DVA.
In recognition of his exceptional volunteer service, Ron was honoured as a Life Member of RSL NSW in 2022.
In 2023, Ron delivered a remarkable ANZAC Address during our Dawn Service in Cronulla, dedicating his words to honour our local heroes.
He was a leader, a friend, and someone you could always count on. Ron’s departure has created a significant void in our hearts.
Police Training Centre – Redfern Class 103 Attested on Monday, 10 May 1965 John Walker – top row – 2nd from right. Photo from John Walker – 2020 ‘possibly’ Kenneth Owen EARL # 11490 – Back row – 9th from right
NSW Fraud Squad – c1979 ( L – R ) Rear:
Det SenCon W. SCHINNERL, Det SenCon R.G. LENTON, Det Cst 1/c A.M. CALLADINE, Det SenCon R.A. BAKER, Det Cst 1/c B.W. TAYLOR, Det Cst 1/c A.R. EDMONDS, Det SenCon R. MARTIN, Det SenCon R.A. NICHOLSON
Middle:
Det SenCon G.H. WHEELER, Det SenCon M.C. NEWTON, Det SenCon J.E. CAHILL, Det SenCon P.L. ROOTS, Det Sgt 3/c W.R. DONALDSON, Det Cst 1/c R.G. BURGESS, Det SenCon G. SHELLEY, Det SenCon P.J. KEATING, Det SenCon R.C. SHAW
Front:
Det Sgt 3/c P.E. CARTER, Det SenCon S.J. DENNETT, Det Sgt 1/c B.A.W. DURHAM, Det Insp. R.J. HOLLES, Det Sgt 2/c Ronald Mark ARMSTRONG # 8052, Det Sgt 3/c L.J. QUEENAN, Det Sgt 3/c J.R. LOWE, Det Cst 1/c M.B. MATTHEWS
Fraud Squad, CIB, circa 1979. – from Colin Dyson – 15 Oct 2021
( As best that I can remember )
Back row:
Rome Martin, Col Dyson, Bob Baker, Allen Turton, Andy Wallace, George McTaggart, Athol Edmunds, Doug Smith, Byron Shelley, Gary Phillips, Mark Hitchman, Bruce Taylor, Mick Newton, Bruce Lyons, Bruce Coates, Ron Shaw, Percy Carter, Graham Wheeler, John Cahill. Graeme Morgan.
Front:
John Lowe ( the Doctor ), Geoff Shelley, Rod Gibson, Allen Whittaker, Reg Hollis, Bruce Durham, Ron Armstrong, Laurie Queenan.
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GEOFF is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Geoffrey Thomas POWELL AKA Geoff POWELL, Geoffrey POWELL, Powley, Jeff POWELL Nickname: Powley
Geoffrey Thomas POWELL AKA Geoff POWELL, Geoffrey POWELL, Powley, Jeff POWELL
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? is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Herbert Robert Richardson MORROW ( mentioned above ) was born in NSW in 1885 and was a Probationary Constable with the NSWPF, Regd. # ‘Q’ 8636, on Wednesday 10 April 1907 but the mentioned Sgt Herb MORROW is most likelyHerbert William MORROW, NSWPF # 1711, who was a Probationary Constable on 20 November 1923 and died on 26 February 1975.
Eric, being born in 1932 would make the mentioned encounter in 1945.
Middle Row: Det SenCon R. MAHONEY # 12585, Det SenCon D.J. MAGICK # 13807, Plain Cloths SenCon J.G. FOWLER # 13730, Det SenCon C.G. HALLORAN # 14237, Det SenCon J. HOLMES # 13410, Plain Cloths Cst 1/c E.R. GRIMMOND # 15322, Plain Cloths Cst 1/c P. NUNAN # 15214, Det SenCon R.L. McDONALD # 13488
Back Row: Plain Cloths Cst 1/c M. FERGUSON # 15274, Det SenCon A.F. TAYLOR, Det Sgt 3/c C.J. CAMPBELL # 9711, Det SenCon R. JACKSON # 11042, Det SenCon M.H. TUTT # 13007, Det SenCon C. CAMERON, Det SenCon J.E. QUINN # 12748, Det Sgt 3/c L. TOWNSEND # 9234
Eric Stewart STRONG APM Presentation – 1988
Dulcie STRONG & Eric STRONG APM
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Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 17 May 1971 ( aged 19 years, 11 months, 1 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Monday 28 June 1971 ( aged 20 years, 0 months, 12 days )
Constable – appointed 28 June 1972
Constable 1st Class – appointed 28 June 1976
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( Yes )
Senior Constable – appointed 28 June 1980
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 10 April 1987
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Detective Sergeant ?/class
After leaving the employ of NSWPF, Mal began his work as a Psychologist.
Stations: ?, 21 Division, ?, Drug Squad, ?, Penrith ( 23 Division )( Dets ), Health Services Command – Retirement
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 17 May 1971 to 1 July 1998 = 27 years, 1months, 14days Service
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 117 May 1971 to 1 July 1998 = 27 years, 1 months, 14 days Service
Time in Retirement from Police: 27 years, 10 months, 17 days
Age at Retirement / Leaving: = 47 years, 0 months, 15 days
Awards: National Medal – granted 8 June 1988 ( Det Sgt )
Malcolm Keith Trevor HECKENBERG AKA Malcolm HECKENBERG, Mal HECKENBERG
Born: Saturday 16 June 1951 in Fairfield, NSW
Died on: Saturday 16 May 2026
Age: 74 years, 11 months, 0 days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: ‘Possible’ Heart attack
Event location: Home
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ? TBA
Funeral location: ?
LIVE STREAM? TBA
Wake location: ?
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: ? TBA
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ?Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
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SYDNEY: A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced in Parramatta District Court yesterday to three years’ jail for supplying heroin to fellow prisoners.
Mr Archibald Beattie McCafferty, 34, pleaded guilty to supplying the drug at Parramatta Jail.
Earlier, yesterday, Mr McCafferty and another prisoner had appeared in Parramatta Magistrate’s Court charged with having murdered a prison inmate last September.
In the District Court, Detective-Senior Constable Malcolm Heckenberg, of the drug squad, said prison officers had searched Mr McCafferty’s cell on November 13.
Mr McCafferty had been seated on his bed, with a large number of small, tinfoil wrappers in front of him. When the officers entered, he had grabbed the wrappers and thrown them into a dustbin.
Senior Constable Heckenberg said 110 foil-wrapped packages containing altogether 3.67 grams of heroin had been found. The average heroin content was 21 per cent.
Mr McCafferty, who, the court was told, had a 20-year criminal history and was sentenced to life imprisonment in February, 1974, on three counts of murder, declined to say anything to Judge Loveday about the heroin charge.
In the Magistrate’s Court, Mr McCafferty and Mr Kevin John Michael Gallacher, 28, entered no pleas to a charge of having murdered Mr Edward James Lloyd at Parramatta Jail on September 18.
Mr Power, SM, remanded them to the Glebe City Coroner’s Court on February 19.
Mr Lloyd was found stabbed to death inside his prison cell.
Mr Gallagher is serving a seven-year sentence for armed robbery.
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VARDS is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Christopher Geoffrey VARDY AKA Christopher VARDY, Chris VARDY Nickname: Egghead
Condolences to Lynn, family and friends.
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MORGAN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Our deepest condolences to his wife – Emma and their young sons, Darcy and Harvey.
Morgan was also a member of the R.F.S. & S.E.S.
Morgan SPRUCE AKA Sprucie, Morgan James Caris Vanyafailaore
Morgan SPRUCE AKA Sprucie, Morgan James Caris Vanyafailaore SPRUCE
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Updated 11 June 2026 with length of Service calculations.
Naomi Rose NICHOLS
08/06/2026
Naomi Rose NICHOLS
AKA Naomi NICHOLS, Na NICHOLS, Nammo, Nam
* Nickname: ?
Late of Toronto, NSW
Relations in ‘the job’?
“possible” relation in ‘the job‘: ?
New South Wales Police Force – General Support Officer ( G.S.O. )
Regd. # 8121353
Rank: Commenced Training at ? Police Station on Monday ? ? 1981 ( aged 20+/- years, ? months, ? days )
Clerical Officer Grade 3/4 – appointed 20 October 1986( aged ? years, ? months, ? days )
General Administrative Suppo0rt Officer – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = General Administrative Support Officer
Stations: ?, Belmont Police Station – Lake Macquarie Police District
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From ? ? 1981 to 17 May 2026= 45+/- years, ? months, ? days Service
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: ? ? 1981 to 17 May 2026 = 45+/- years, ? months, ? days Service
Time in Retirement from Police: 0 years, 0 months, 0 days
Age at Retirement / Leaving: = 65 years, ? months, ? days
Awards: No Find on the Australian Honours system
Naomi Rose NICHOLS AKA Naomi NICHOLS, Na NICHOLS
Born: ? ? ?
Died on: Sunday 17 May 2026 ( Twenty Days from Retirement )
Age: 65 years, ? months, ? days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ? TBA – Na requested no Official funeral
Funeral location: ? TBA
LIVE STREAM? TBA
Wake location: ?
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: ? TBA
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ?Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( May 2026 )
NAOMI IS ENTITLED TO BE mentioned on the Sydney Police Centre Memorial Wall, Surry Hills
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It was Naomi’s wish that when her time on earth was through, I would simply put a post on her Facebook that says “She’s dead”.
So I will honour her wishes but add some extra flourishes. I am also adding this to Instagram as many of her creative contacts reside here.
As many of you will know by now, Naomi passed away (she HATED me saying that – she would declare, “she died!”) unexpectedly over the weekend.
Naomi was an exceptional human.
She saw people, not as they came to her, but as she believed they could be. She saw the potential and the good in others (sometimes to her own detriment) but she refused to have her faith in humanity dented by a few duds. She was generous with her time and resources. Even when she had nothing herself, she ensured the needs of others were met. She was a stickler for doing things the proper way (which coincidentally was her way). She dotted i’s, crossed t’s – But she was also chaos personified! That was one of the many things we loved about her.
And loved she was! By many. Far and wide. Young and old.
And she loved every single one of us back in her own amazing way.
In true Naomi fashion, she doesn’t want the fuss of a funeral, but we will be working on a way to facilitate a farewell.
But possibly the best way to honour her is to live your life in the most Naomi way you can think of – Do the thing. Buy the thing. Eat the thing. Blast Faithless and dance your arse off.
Because as she would always remind us, “we are a long time dead.”
Vale Naomi Nichols
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PAUL is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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NSW Police Training Centre – Redfern – Class # 143 NSW Police Cadet # 2856 1972
Pennant Hills Police Rescue Squad – around 2000
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Memorial Service Funeral date: Saturday 16 May 2026 @ 11am
Funeral location: Tuncurry Boat Ramp, Point Road Reserve, Tuncurry, NSW
LIVE STREAM No Live Stream
Wake location: ?
Wake date: ???
Funeral Parlour: Allan Pearse funerals, ?
Buried at: ?
Grave Location: Section: Row: ?Plot: ?
Grave GPS: ?, ?
Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?
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Kev is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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My deepest condolences to his wife, Jan, friends and family.
Thanks for your friendship over the years mate.
Greg ‘Cal’ Callander
NSWPF # 17463
Kevin Albert BISHOP AKA Kevin BISHOP, Kev BISHOP, Bish – R.A.N. Service card P1 of 2
Kevin Albert BISHOP AKA Kevin BISHOP, Kev BISHOP, Bish – R.A.N. Service card P 2 of 2
Two ‘Old Salts’ catching up at Tuncurry on 30 March 2014. Col KELSON # 17357 & Kev BISHOP # 10871
Class 097 – 50 year reunion in 2013.
Part of Class 097 – Sworn 14 February 1964
Part of Class 097 – one of these blokes being Brian KERFOOT.
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Monday 9 May 1977, page 3
Pilot not hurt in crash
SYDNEY: A NSW pilot, Mr Trevor Whitmore, escaped when his light aircraft crashed into 20 metres of water at the Prospect Reservoir west of Sydney on Saturday.
Mr Whitmore, 21, was struggling to swim to shore when he was rescued by Constable Don Bentley, 26, and Constable Peter Ward, 48.
An ambulance took MR Whitmore to Blacktown District Hospital in a state of shock, but otherwise unhurt.
SYDNEY: A taxi driver who ditched a police-owned light aircraft into the Prospect Reservoir was charged yesterday with having falsely claimed the aircraft had engine failure.
Before Mr McKeowen, SM., at Blacktown Court was 21-year-old Mr Trevor James Whitmore, of Maraylya.
He was charged with having made a false representation by radio transmission to Mr Kevin Albert Bishop, a member of the police force, on May 7 at Prospect.
He appeared also on three other charges related to the same incident .
These were that on May 7 at Prospect he caused $8,000 damage to a 1976 Cessna, VH-UGH, the property of Garry Chapman and other members of the NSW Police Aero Club; that being the pilot in command of the Cessna, he did not immediately before flight check arid test all flight”controls and associated equipment in the aircraft; and that he operated the aircraft in a manner which was negligent.
No pleas were taken.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant Sam Findley, said 25 witnesses would be called.
Mr McKeowen set the charges down for hearing at Parramatta Court on September 27. He allowed Mr Whitmore continuing bail of $1,000.
SYDNEY: A 21-year-old man had crash-landed a light aircraft into Prospect Reservoir a short time after having learnt he had been adopted, Parramatta Court was told yesterday.
The pilot, who was on a restricted licence, had told police after the crash about his girlfriend and about how he had recently found out he had been adopted, Sergeant Trevor Cullen told the court.
He said he had told the man, Mr Trevor Whitmore, taxi driver of Maraylya, near Vineyard, that Department of Transport air-safety investigators had not been able to find anything mechanically wrong with the aircraft.
Mr Whitmore appeared before Mr R. Butler, SM, on four charges related to the crash at Prospect, an outer western suburb, on May 7.
One charge was of having a false representation by radio to Mr Kevin Albert Bishop, a member of the NSW Police Force, that the engine of his Cessna 150 had failed due to mechanical causes and that a forced landing would be imminent.
SYDNEY: A Sydney taxi-driver was committed yesterday to stand trial on a charge of maliciously causing $11,017 damage to a Cessna 150 aeroplane on May 7.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant P. Dunkley, said that Mr Trevor James Whitmore, 22, of Maraylya, had hired the aircraft which was owned by the NSW Police Aero Club.
In a police record of interview, Mr Whitmore allegedly said he had had a quarrel with his girlfriend and had tried to commit suicide by “diving” the aircraft into a reservoir.
According to the record of interview, he had said he could not swim.
Mr Charles Gould, the reservoir’s resident officer for the Water Board, said that when the aircraft came down there were about 500 picnickers in the area.
Mr Whitmore was allowed $1,000 bail and committed to the current sittings of Parramatta District Court.
SYDNEY: A taxi driver flew a hired light aircraft valued at $18,000 into Prospect Reservoir, west of Sydney, after his girlfriend found out he was not a Qantas pilot, Parramatta District Court was told yesterday.
Mr Trevor James Whitmore, 23, of Maraylya had spent most of his money trying to impress his girlfriend, 18, and trying to gain her favours, but she did not take the relationship seriously, Sergeant Peter John Cullen, of Blacktown, said.
In what Judge Herron called a “Walter Mitty sydrome”, Mr Whitmore had dressed as a pilot and even given a talk at a local flying school, Sergeant Cullen said.
Mr Whitmore also had obtained air tickets for his girlfriend and her family and charged them only a fraction of the real cost.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of having maliciously injured one Cessna aircraft at prospect in May last year.
Judge Herron put Mr Whitmore on a $600 good-behaviour bond for three years. He ordered that Mr Whitmore pay $6,000 at $80 a month, for damage to the aircraft.
He also was ordered to keep in contact with the probation and parole service.
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