Barry ANTILL
Barry ANTILL
AKA ?
Late of Goonellabah, NSW
NSW Redfern or Penrith Police Academy Class # ? ? ?
NSW Police Cadet # 1168
New South Wales Police Force
[alert_yellow]Regd. # 8798[/alert_yellow]
Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced Friday 18 February 1955
( Friday is an unusual date to start & may be incorrect )
Probationary Constable – appointed 17 July 1957
Detective Constable 1st Class – appointed 17 July 1963
Detective Senior Constable – appointed 1 July 1968
Detective Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 5 August 1973
Detective Superintendent – appointed 30 March 1988
Detective Chief Superintendent – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank = Detective Chief Superintendent
Stations: ?, Western District ( Cst 1/c ), Lithgow ( 1962 – 1970’s Det Cst ), Northern Rivers Police Command ( Oct 1993 – Retirement )
Service: From 18 February 1955 to 6 October 1993 = 38+ years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 4 November 1992 ( C/Supt )
Police Overseas Service Medal – Clasp CYPRUS – granted 8 July 1992 ( SenCon )
Born: Sunday 17 July 1938
Died on: Saturday 11 May 2019
Age: 80
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Thursday 23 May 2019 @ 11am
Funeral location: Parkview Funeral Home, 43 Holland St, Goonellabah, NSW
In lieu of flowers donations to St Vincent’s Hospital Renal Dialysis Unit would be appreciated and may be left at the service.
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: Parkview Funerals, Lismore 1800 809336
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
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May they forever Rest In Peace
It is with regret that we advise of the passing of Barry Antill, a NSW member of the 2nd Contingent to Cyprus (1965-66).
Barry passed away on 11 May 2019, aged 80 years.
His funeral will be held at 11am on Tuesday, 23 May 2019 at the Richmond Chapel, Parkview Funeral Home, 43 Holland Street, Goonellabah (near Lismore) NSW.
On behalf of the UNOPAA National Executive, our National Committee, our NSW Branch and all members of UNOPAA, I would like to acknowledge Barry’s service, particularly to overseas peacekeeping, and to express our sympathy to his family, his contingent colleagues and his friends.
P McD
Peter McDonald
National Secretary/Treasurer
United Nations & Overseas Policing Association of Australia (UNOPAA)
In loving memory of …. Barry Antill …. Sadly, Barry passed away on Saturday 11th May 2019, aged 80 years.
He is survived by his daughter Toni-lea and grand-daughters Tashara-lea and Morgan-lea.
In lieu of flowers donations to St Vincent’s Hospital Renal Dialysis Unit would be appreciated and may be left at the service.
Parkview Funeral Home – Lismore
43 Holland Street,
Goonellabah NSW 2480
Another lost link
IT’S evident from the number of social media posts that there are many in our community who well remember – some for better reasons than others – one time local cop Barry Antill.
Barry, who died last week on the North Coast in his 80th year, was a member of a team of detectives stationed in Lithgow in the 1960s and 70s.
It was a less uptight time with a better class of crooks, no “Ice Age”, and when the cops interacted both officially and socially with the general community where they worked and resided.
Most became household names.
Barry ended his police career as Detective Superintendent in charge of the Northern Rivers Command and set up home at Goonelebah.
He is survived by one daughter.
Families’ pride in drivers who prevented disaster
While the so-called “Lithgow Plot” to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, revealed by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, may have been a national secret, among the Rowleys it was the stuff of family legend.
Mr Rowley and train driver Robert Arthur Walkington, who also played a part in preventing a catastrophic derailment near Lithgow in 1970, were later awarded Imperial Service Medals, issued from St James’s Palace.
Both men have since died but their families yesterday recalled how their heroic actions, revealed this week, prevented the derailment of the Royal Train carrying the Queen and Prince Philip to Orange on April 29.
Had they failed to see the log and continued travelling at full speed the train would have almost certainly derailed, according to experts consulted at the time.Mr Rowley’s daughter Trish Bellini said yesterday: “He was certainly up there in the front of the train. He told us he was driving the Queen, he had his Queen on board and he spotted the log.
“He said she never flew out of her bunk. It was very secret. He said to me ‘I drove very, very slowly’. He was a beautiful man. He was a very humble man.”
Mr Rowley, who died in 1990, started work on the railways as an 11-year-old. His job was to wake up workers for their early shifts.
His granddaughter Kara Pryor has proudly kept the medal and her grandfather’s Royal Train boarding pass at her Sydney home.
Mr Walkington was also one of the top train drivers in the state and assigned to the royal visit.
His brother Norman was unsure yesterday whether he was in the Royal Train or the sweeper train which travelled ahead.
“There was a great deal of hush, hush about it. I think he drove the train that was supposed to clear the track, they awarded him the Imperial Service Medal for his actions,” Mr Walkington said.
“It wasn’t until the 1980s that I knew anything about it. Special forces came to see him and frightened the living daylights out of Mavis, my sister-in-law. He never really spoke to me or the family about it.”
Paperwork relating to the investigation has been stored in archives and RailCorp was unable to provide any information about the drivers yesterday due to “process and procedures”.
“It worried me a lot that sort of thing could happen in a sleepy little town,” former Chief Superintendent Barry Antill, who investigated the case, said yesterday.
Assassination attempt: claim corroborated
A retired senior detective, Detective Superintendent Cliff McHardy, 81, has claimed that unidentified conspirators put a wooden log on a railway track to try to derail the official train transporting the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh from Sydney across Australia’s Great Dividing Range of mountains. Since the original story, two other officers have come forward to corroborate this. They are former Chief Superintendent Barry Antill, 70, and former Detective Senior Sergeant Doug Bentley, 69.
According to Bonnie Malkin and Andrew Pierce in the London Daily Telegraph of 27 January, this incident lacked the precision and detailed planning of some other better known assassination attempts on world leaders. As for the train, after it struck the log it was merely forced to slow and came safely to a halt at a level crossing.
The report says “the so-called Republican plot” was revealed when retired Detective Superintendent Cliff McHardy, 81, decided to break his silence in an interview in his local newspaper to try to clear-up one of the great unsolved mysteries of his long police career. He said that on 29 April 1970, The Queen and the Duke were travelling by train to Orange in New South Wales.
When the train entered a winding cutting near Lithgow, two hours to the west of Sydney, it struck a large log wedged across the rails. From his investigations she concluded this was an act of deliberate sabotage to force the train off the tracks. Fortunately the train driver was moving unusually slowly.
“If the train had reached its normal speed it would have plunged off the tracks and into an embankment,” Mr. McHardy said. The log became stuck underneath the front wheels for 200 metres before the train, largely undamaged, came to a halt at a level crossing.
…tracked checked one hour earlier….
A security “sweeper” train had checked the line an hour before and had found nothing. He concluded that the assassins had knowledge of the official train’s schedule.
He told The Daily Telegraph: “The log had been moved onto the line in darkness, by one or two people who had prior knowledge of the area,” he said. “Vandals couldn’t have been involved because there’s no pub nearby, so you couldn’t put it down to hoodlum behaviour. It was pre-planned.”
Mr McHardy and two detectives interviewed witnesses including railway employees and local people but no arrests were made. The Lithgow Mercury says Australian Irish Republican Army sympathisers were among those questioned. Mr McHardy said the incident was covered-up by the government which issued a suppression order.
“They said keep it out of the press because The Queen is still out here and if it had broken the next morning there would have been all sorts of trouble and we can do without that in a small country town,” said Mr McHardy.
He said that he had decided to speak out now in the hope that “it would prompt the people responsible to come forward and own up”.
The rest of the trip unfolded without incident and hundreds of well-wishers turned out in Orange to greet the young Queen and Duke. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace declined to comment but said the archives for the trip showed no records of the train hitting a log.
LITHGOW: ATTEMPT TO DERAIL THE QUEEN’S TRAIN
On the night of 29 April 1970, an event occurred on the rail corridor through Lithgow that had the potential to change the course of world history (reports Orange‟s Central Western Daily,22January 2009).
“It was an incident on such a scale of international significance that an ironcast wall of secrecy was thrown up by Federal and State authorities when they responded to a curious media who had been hearing whispers‟something was amiss,”writes Len Ashworth, editor of the Lithgow Mercury, a sister paper to the Orange paper.
When Det Sgt Cliff McHardy received a phone call that night the implications were immediate; someone had made a serious attempt to derail the Royal Train that was conveying Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to Orange. Long retired after 11 years in charge of Lithgow detectives, McHardy –who left the Force with the rank of detective superintendent – has now recounted his memories of the frantic investigations and bemoaned the fact that the culprit was “one that got away‟.
On the night of the drama the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were travelling on what was known as the Commissioner’s Train. The security largely consisted of uniformed police who were ordered to man every railway station along the route and railway personnel on duty at every level crossing. On board were members of the Royal entourage and federal and special branch police. The schedule was for the train to spend the night under tighter security in a siding at Orange, ready for a two-and-a-half hour visit next day. The train almost did not make it. As it passed at speed through a winding cutting at Bowenfels the locomotive struck a large log that had been placed across the tracks.
The train continued under brakes for about 200 metres with the log wedged under the front wheels before finally coming to a halt at the level crossing near Bowenfels station.
When Det Sgt McHardy and Detectives Barry Antill and Doug Bentley arrived they found the hardwood log had not splintered under the heavy impact and had deep indentations from the locomotive wheels. But the locomotive had remained on track and largely unscathed.
The attempt to derail the train was no spur-of-the-moment example of vandalism taken to the extreme. Whoever was responsible had surveyed the area as marks indicated where the log had previously been resting at the top of the embankment in an area not often frequented by the public. It had been rolled from there onto the tracks and manoeuvred into place, possibly by more than one person.
The offenders had also been aware of the time schedule for not only the Royal Train but a security “sweeper‟ locomotive that had gone through a short time earlier to guard against just such an incident. The obstruction was placed on the tracks sometime between the passing of the sweep and the arrival in the cutting of the train carrying the British Monarch and her husband to Orange.
There were numerous suspects and theories but the perpetrators of the attempt to derail the Queen’s train were never found.
While the hunt for the culprit was underway Government officials were as much concerned about the embarrassment to Australia if the story leaked as they were with the incident itself.
Government gags were placed on the release of any information to the public. “I was constantly reassuring my superiors that the local media would cooperate if we asked them to,”McHardy said. “I told them that the editor of the Lithgow Mercury, Bede Leighton, was man of total integrity who would abide by his word when told anything in confidence. “They were used to dealing with the Sydney media and remained sceptical. ”But the official suppression order worked and there was never a mention of the incident, even though most Lithgow railwaymen knew of the incident. They obeyed from their department to say nothing.
Pause tomorrow to honour Diggers
By Kimberley Smith news@northernstar.com.au
AT 11am tomorrow we pause to remember the sacrifice of the men and women who served our country in wars and conflicts during the past 100 years.
In the lead-up to November 11 every year, local RSL sub-branches sell red poppies, pens and badges to help the organisations which undertake welfare work.
NSW State President of the Returned Services League Don Rowe said the RSL had worked hard for the welfare of the veteran community and every dollar raised by poppy sales would go to that cause.
“I urge all Australians to wear a poppy with pride and respect for those who answered the call of their country,” he said.
Mr Rowe said the death of the first Australian in combat in Afghanistan last month was a special reason to pause on Sunday.
Today and tomorrow, volunteers will be at shopping centres and businesses in the hope of selling $2 poppies to Australians who would like to make a small, yet significant, contribution.
The Far North Coast Legacy Club makes its contribution by supporting widows and dependants of deceased ex-servicemen who live on the Far North Coast, helping them with health and welfare issues.
Tomorrow ceremonies will be held in most towns on the Northern Rivers for communities to come together and remember.
Police Officers attached to Lithgow Police Station celebrating 100 years of Policing in New South Wales.
Back row ( L-R): Cst 1/c Rex REES, Cst John GALLAGHER, SenCon Ray BARTHOLOMEW, Cst 1/c Gordon WEAVER, Cst Pat SMITH, SenCon Jim WIGG, SenCon Ron FIRTH, SenCon Pat HICKSON, Cst Leo LOWE, Cst 1/c Allan PATTIGREW, Cst Doug BENTLEY, Cst Bob DUNN, Det Cst Barry ANTILL # 8798, Cst 1/c Alf SUMMERS, Cst Les BURTON, Cst 1/c Ernie KELLY
Front Row (L-R): Sgt Eric DOOLAN, Sgt Allan WOODS, Sgt Bob MacDONALD, Insp Reg CROWHURST, Sgt 1/c Wally JOB, Sgt Fred WELSH, Sgt 2/c John PARKINSON, Det Sgt Bill HERON
Motor Cyclists: Cst Mick BLACKBURN, Cst 1/c John GEORGE, SenCon George GREAVES
John Michael BRADSTREET
John Michael BRADSTREET
AKA ?
Late of ?
NSW Penrith Police Academy Class # ? ? ?
NSW Police Cadet # 0391
New South Wales Police Force
[alert_yellow]Regd. # 4812[/alert_yellow]
Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced Monday 1 March 1943
Joined the R.A.A.F. on 25 March 1944
Probationary Constable – appointed 19 November 1945
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 17 January 1966
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 3 April 1969
Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 1 March 1974
Inspector 2nd Class – appointed 13 April 1976
Inspector 1st Class – appointed 16 November 1977
Senior Inspector – appointed 16 November 1977
Superintendent – appointed 14 November 1979
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?, Manly ( Constable 1952 ),
Service: From 1 March 1943 to ? ? ? = ? years Service
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World War II
Australian Imperial Force: Royal Australian Air Force
Regiment: ?
Enlisted: 25 March 1944
Service # 444687
Rank: Aircraftman 2
Embarkation: ?
Next of kin: Frederick BRADSTREET
Religion: ?
Single / Married: ?
Returned to Australia: ?
Date of Discharge: 14 July 1944
Posting at Discharge: 6 Initial Training School
WWII Honours & Gallantry: No
POW: No
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Awards: No find on It’s An Honour
Born: Tuesday 30 June 1925 in Paterson, NSW
Died on: Tuesday 14 March 1989
Age: 63
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Friday 17 March 1989
Funeral location: ?
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: Frenchs Forest Bushland Cemetery, Hakea Ave, Davidson, NSW
Section: RC Lawn, Row: J, Plot: 83
GPS Longitude: 151.199686 Latitude: -33.741006
Memorial located at: ?
[alert_yellow] JOHN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow] *NEED MORE INFO
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David Valentine PAUL
David Valentine PAUL DFC
AKA BOYDEE
Late of Vaucluse
NSW Penrith Police Academy Class # “possibly” Class 2 of 1946
David was of Aboriginal decent and one of the earliest to have joined the NSWPF
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 1241
Regd. # 4931
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 7 January 1946
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 20 February 1967
Does NOT appear in the 1979 Stud Book
Final Rank = Detective Sergeant 1st Class
Stations: ?, Clarence St Police Stn ( 1948 ), NSW Police Air Wing – Pilot of aircraft NEMESIS ( 1949 ), Bondi Detectives ( 10 Division 1960’s – Det Sgt 2/C ), Central Detectives ( 1 Division about 1973 – Det Sgt 1/C ),
Service: From ? ? pre Jan 1946? to ? ? ? = ? years Service
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World War II
Australian Imperial Force
Regiment: 454 Squadron RAAF
Enlisted: 4 January 1941
Service # 0210106 403215 ?
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Training: Empire Air Training Scheme ( EATS ) Trained in Rhodesia
Embarkation: ?
Next of kin: ?
Religion: ?
Single / Married: ?
Returned to Australia: ?
Military Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross ( Imperial ) DFC – granted 28 March 1944
Formal portrait of RAN and RAAF officers at the RAN/RAAF Australian Joint Anti-Submarine School (AJASS) at HMAS Albatross at Nowra NSW. The only identified officer is O210106 Flight Lieutenant David Valentine Paul DFC RAAF at front row far left. Flt Lt Paul enlisted on 4 January 1941 and trained as a pilot with the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) in Rhodesia. He was posted to 454 Squadron RAAF. Flying a Baltimore aircraft from a base in North Africa he was shot down on 4 December 1943 during a sortie over the Mediterranean. Rescued from the sea he became a prisoner of war (POW) of the Germans, finally being released in 1945 at Stalag IVb POW camp in 1945 at Muhlberg, Germany. He joined the NSW Police Force after the war and remained in the RAAF Reserve rising to the rank of Squadron Leader.
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Awards: No NSWPF Awards found
Born: Thursday 10 June 1920
Died on: ? ? pre 14 May 1973?
Age: 52
Cause: Heart attack
Event location: Richmond Air Base, Richmond, NSW
Event date: ? ? pre 14 May 1973
Funeral date: ? ? ?
Funeral location: ?
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ? – usual searches fail to locate a grave or mention of death
Memorial located at: ?
DAVID is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
Grave location: TBA
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Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 – 1973), Thursday 9 September 1943 (No.200), page 2054
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has approved of the following changes being made:—
CITIZEN AIR FORCE.
General Duties Branch.
The following non-commissioned officers (Pilots) are appointed to commissions on probation with the rank of ( Sergeants ) with effect from the dates indicated: –
No. 403215 David Valentine Paul (17th April, 1943)
Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 – 1946), Friday 7 April 1944, page 1
More RAAF Decorations CANBERRA,
Thursday. –
The Air Minister, Mr. Drakeford, has announced that six officers of the RAAF serving overseas have been awarded the DFC.
They are:
Flight-Lieutenant Murray Charlton, of Killara, NSW;
Flight-Lieutenant David William Lewis, of Gundi, NSW;
Flying-Officer Ronald Albert Hoskings, of Dromana Victoria;
Flying-Officer Thomas Alexander Bunn, of Blackburn, Victoria;
Pilot-Officer David Valentine Paul, of Willoughby, NSW and
Warrant-Officer Keith George Campbell, of Willoughby, NSW.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 – 1973),
Thursday 13 April 1944 (No.71), page 803
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL HAS RECEIVED ADVICE THAT HIS MAJESTY THE KING HAS APPROVED OF THE FOLLOWING AWARDS- 28th March, 1944:—
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE.
For skill, courage and devotion to duty in flying operations against the enemy:
Distinguished Flying Cross.
(with effect from 4th June, 1943).
Pilot Officer David Valentine Paul, No. 403215.
…
Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 – 1954), Thursday 6 June 1946, page 1
TOWN TALK
Did you see see pleasant looking copper at Pitt and Market Streets yesterday sporting the D.F.C.?
He was Constable David Paul ;
flew Baltimores in 454 Squadron ; was taken prisoner east of Athens, and spent 17 months in the bag.
Joined police force this year. Likes it
* the only link is the name. Not confirmed as the same person.
Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 – 1954), Sunday 11 May 1947, page 8
This Week’s Case-book
THE DOOR WAS MADE READY FOR A RAID HUSBAND,
suspicious of his wife, loosened screws in a bolt on the front door of his flat to gain easy entry for a raid he planned to catch her with the co-respondent.
The husband, pastry cook Reginald John Ginns, of Kirribilli, was 21 when he married Doreen Frances Ginns, formerly Angove, in February, 1940, she being 22.
Ginns said he became suspicious of his wife and engaged an inquiry agent.
On the night of December 1, 1946, a man was seen to enter the flat at 7.30. The lights went off at 8.30 and were put on again at 9.25 when tea was made, according to sounds from the flat.
On December 7, the raiders forced the door. Ginns said he switched on the light and found his wife and a man on the floor of the lounge room.
A lumber jacket belonging to the man yielded the name of David Valentine Paul, of Crow’s Nest, he added.
Ginns was given a decree nisi on the ground of his wife’s adultery with Paul; he also obtained custody of the only child of the marriage, a boy of six.
National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW : 1889 – 1954), Thursday 21 October 1948, page 5
STUNT PRECEDED CRASH
TENTERFIELD PLANT FATALITY TENTERFIELD,
Wednesday.
The Tenterfield Coroner found today that Richard Colin Perram and Eileen Emily Wratten had died from burns accidentally suffered when the aeroplane in which they were flying, crashed last Sunday.
Frank Lawrence Cornford said that he was at Tenterfield aerodrome and heard Mrs. Wratten say to Perram prior to taking off ” I want you to do some loops and turns.”
When the plane took the air the pilot started to loop the loop and do steep turns and rolls. The plane then started to Shoot up the ‘drome, he said. ”
The plane was flying excessively low and when about 150 feet up the plane made a stall turn. It then went into a spin and crashed to the ground.
Within a matter of seconds it burst into flames.”
Cornford said that with others he rushed to the plane, but by the time he got there it was impossible because of the heat and flames to get near enough to be of any assistance.
Constable David Paul, of Clarence Street Police Station, Sydney, said he saw the plane in the air over the aerodrome. It was stunting at a height of about 500 feet and stall turning. In a final dive the plane passed over the head of a person on the aerodrome at about 25 feet, pulled up to a height of about 150 feet and attempted another stall turn. At the top of the turn the aircraft stalled completely and crashed.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (National : 1901 – 1973), Thursday 16 December 1948 (No.165), page 4223
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has approved of the following changes being made:—
RESERVE.
General Duties Branch.
Bruce Errol John REID
Bruce Errol John REID
AKA ?
Late of ?
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # 95
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 10696
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 13 May 1963
Constable – appointed 13 May 1964
Constable 1st Class – appointed 27 August 1968
Senior Constable – appointed 27 August 1972
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 December 1979
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 28 February 1986 ( Seniority date = 6 Jan. 1986 )
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?, North East District, Petersham – Traffic ( 1964 ), Moree ( SenCon – 1972 ), Collarenebri ( SenCon – 1973 ), Blacktown – 27 Division ( SenCon – 1976 ),
Service: From ? ? pre May 1963? to ? ? ? = ? years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 11 December 1989 ( Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 15 December 1989 ( Sgt )
Born: 10 December 1937
Died on: Saturday 16 March 2019
Age: 81
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Sunday 24 March 2019 @ noon
Funeral location: Grenfell Cemetery, Henry Lawson Hwy, Grenfell, NSW
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: Penrose Funerals, Young 63825998
Buried at: Buried
Memorial located at: ?
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10/12/1937 – 16/03/2019
Loved husband of June.
Much loved and missed by Brian & Jenny, Robert & Tess, Tom & Ariann, Amy, Steven, Lizzy, Ella and Tony.
Aged 81yrs
Rest in Peace ‘Pop’
Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend a funeral service to celebrate Bruce’s life which will commence at 12noon on Sunday 24 March 2019 at the Grenfell Cemetery.
Published in Grenfell Record from Mar. 20 to Mar. 22, 2019
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 27 April 1973 (No.53), page 1432
APPOINTMENTS
Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the following appointment:
Senior Constable Bruce Errol John Reid to act as Assistant District Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the District of The Barwon, at Collarenebri during the absence on leave of Sergeant 3rd Class John Oliveira as from 18th March, 1973, to 24th March, 1973, inclusive.
R. W. ASKIN, Premier.
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 17 November 1972 (No.122), page 4537
APPOINTMENTS
Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice
Registrar General’s Department
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the following appointment:
Senior Constable Bruce Errol John Reid to act as Assistant District Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Moree, at Moree, during the absence on leave of Sergeant 3rd Class John Oliveira as from 29th October. 1972. to 25th November, 1972, inclusive.
R. W. ASKIN, Premier.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220148813
Herbert Snell He was one of the first group to go to Vietnam as a training officer. I recall he was a member of the Blue Mountains Vietnam Vets group that used to meet at Springwood. He had a few friends from that group would call and see him at Penrith I was the charge room supervisor and he was working in the cell complex I am also a ex RAN so we had a few discussions about service life. Hope that helps you
Robert GILMORE
Robert GILMORE
AKA ?
Late of ?
NSW Redfern / Penrith Police Academy Class # ? ? ?
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 5310
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 29 July 1946
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 1 January 1968
Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 28 October 1976 ( Seniority date = 19 Sept 1976 )
Senior Inspector – appointed 1 May 1981
Final Rank = Senior Inspector
Stations: ?, Rose Bay ( Sgt 3/c – 2/c, 1967 ), Sutherland – ( 24 Division – Insp. & OIC – LATE 1970’s ), Redfern – Retirement
Service: From ? ? pre July 1946? to 25 March 1982 = 35 years Service
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Royal Australian Air Force
Regiment: ?
Enlisted: 21 December 1942, Waverley, Sydney
Service # 74410
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Embarkation: ?
Next of kin: Marion GILMORE
Religion: ?
Single / Married: ?
Returned to Australia: ?
Date of Discharge: 8 January 1946
Posting at Discharge: 5 Aircraft Depot
WW11 Honours & Gallantry: None for display
Prisoner of War: No
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Awards: No find on It’s An Honour
Born: 22 November 1924, Waverley, NSW
Died on: Saturday 9 March 2019
Age: 94
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Thursday 14 March 2019 @ 11.30am
Funeral location: West Chapel, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium, 12 Military Rd, Matraville, NSW
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
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Leslie George Thomas HUNTER
Leslie George Thomas HUNTER
AKA JIM
Late of ?
W.A. Police Academy Class # ? ? ?
Western Australia Police Force
Police Regd. # 5337
Rank: ?
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?
Service: From ? ? ? to ? ? ? = ? years Service
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World War II
Royal Australian Air Force
Regiment: ?
Enlisted: 27 October 1944
Place of Enlistment: Perth, West Northam
Service # 85461
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Embarkation: ?
Next of kin: Leslie HUNTER
Religion: ?
Single / Married: ?
Posting at Discharge: Station HQ Pearce
Date of Discharge: 8 September 1947
Returned to Australia: ?
Ware Honours: None
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Police Awards: No find on It’s An Honour
Born: 5 September 1926, Northam, W.A.
Died on: Sunday 10 March 2019
Age: 92
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ?
Funeral location: ?
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
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Roderick Lance POWER
Roderick Lance POWER
AKA ROCKET
Late of ?
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # 81A
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 9477
Rank: Commenced Training on Monday 2 November 1959 ( aged 21 years, 10 months, 19 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Monday 7 December 1959 ( aged 21 years, 11 months, 23 days )
Constable 1st Class – appointed2 November 1965
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 20 March 1975
Senior Sergeant – appointed 8 December 1984 ( Hornsby )
Final Rank = Senior Sergeant
Stations: ?, Goulburn ( 1968 ), Crookwell, Hornsby ( 1976 ), Gosford ( 30 Division – mid 1980’s ), Exhibits Officer – Gosford,
Service: From 2 November 1959 to ? ? ? = ? years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 15 September 1980 ( Sgt 3/c )
1st Clasp to National medal – granted 10 September 1986 ( Sgt 1/c )
Police Overseas Service Medal – Clasp CYPRUS – granted 8 July 1992 ( SenCon? )
Born: Tuesday 14 December 1937
Died on: Friday 15 February 2019
Age: 81 years, 2 months, 1 day
Cause: Cancer – Prostate
Event location: North Gosford Private Hospital
Event date: Friday 15 February 2019
Funeral date: ? ? ?TBA
Funeral location: ?TBA
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
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CLASS 081
4 row ( l to r ):
L. C. Bennett; D. W. Stolle # 9460; M. W. Kirk # 9512; R. C. Landers; B. Symons; A. Southall # 9527; John C. Dunbar # 9482; Peter J. Martin # 9528; B. K. Leaney # 9533; D. W. McLaughlin; J. R. Dorsett # 9498; P. W. Medway # 9444; J. McGregor # 9518; F. J. Ryder # 9506; Ray. N. Morris # 9517; P. R. Clemson # 9523; J. O. Parry; P. J. Woodward # 9478; D. C. Newton # 9480; Rod. L. Power # 9477; A. W. McDonald # 9510; B. A. Kearns; P. R. Leembruggen # 9530; R. G. Dunn.
3rd row ( l to r ):
E. H. Williamson # 9507; Syd. K. Isedale # 9490; T. G. Purcell # 9468; Allen J. Murphy # 9509; A. P. Lynch # 9500; R. W. Stone # 9488; M. C. Adams; H. J. P. Munro # 9484; J. E. Hawley # 9522; S. C. Heckenberg # 9487; H. T. Auliff # 9464; Barry A. Melouney # 9492; M. R. Turk # 9526; Anthony C. Frost # 9516; C. A. Hermanson # 9525; Edward ( Ted ) F. Doherty # 9446; W. McCormick # 9529; Ken. J. Williams # 9461; M. C. Moy # 9449; K. G. McNeill # 9455; A. D. Morris # 9469; R. L. Scarf # 9457; J.R. Press # 9462; R. J. Mahoney # 9514.
2nd row ( l to r ):
J. J. McNamara # 9465; T. J. Webber # 9504; B. A. Bennett # 9453; J. F. Bostock # 9535; R. N. Thornett; W. A. Allan; K. J. Hall; Mick R. Hay # 9452; Ken. Waters # 9494 or 9505; Keith Waters # 9494 or 9505; G. N. Crouch # 9532; R. C. Rogerson # 9536; D. S. McAfee # 9459; G. A. Wilson # 9470; B. Garland # 9511; J. Peterlin # 9503; Thom. C. Coleman # 9496; R. J. Canning # 9473; Victor A. Schweikert # 9458; R. Pearson; B. Kerrison # 9485; J. G. Kinnane; L. R. Kriss # 9483.
Front row – seated- ( l to r ):
Sergeant 3/c. Ben Hall; C. C. Greenham; G. R. Gibb # 9445; R. C. Jenner # 9486; J. C. McGingley; Darcy W. Cluff # 9463; R. J. Graham # 9467; David E. Nelson # 9481; F. B. McGoldrick; Ernest G. Mercer # 9515; E. W. Kelly; J. Kelly # 9531; Sergeant 1/c. Sligar # 8146; Sergeant 1/c. Barber # 4474; Sergeant 3/c. Porch; Miss. Sylvia W. Paull # P/W 0038; Mrs. Eileen. M. McLean # P/W 0037; Miss. June W. Fielding # P/W 0039; S. Favot # 9493; J. P. Boon # 9519; L. E. Ervine # 9497; R. T. Milligan # 9479; Denis W. Wardrobe # 9456; D. C. Rugers; H. V. Clarke.
Australian police leave Cyprus ending ‘rite of passage’ after 53 years
Nicosia: With its flag lowered one final time, Australia has ended 53 years of helping to keep the peace on ethnically divided Cyprus by pulling out its last three police officers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force.
Some 1600 Australian police officers have served in Cyprus since 1964 following the outbreak of violence between the island’s Greek and Turkish communities.
Three Australians were killed in the line of duty in what was their country’s first policing contribution to a peacekeeping mission.
A flag-lowering ceremony at the Cypriot capital’s defunct airport, which serves as the UN force’s headquarters, brought together many officers who served in Cyprus over the decades, including one who was in the first 40-strong contingent, 79-year-old Ian Hardy.
“Cyprus has been a rite of passage for Australian police,” retired police superintendent Phil Spence said, adding that all officers who went on to lead other peacekeeping missions elsewhere in the world were veterans of Cyprus.
Australia’s federal police commissioner, Andrew Colvin, said that what served Australians well over decades of service was a “steely determination” and a practicality underneath Australians’ famed laid-back style.
It was the excellent rapport with ordinary Cypriots that saw Australian police through the toughest times, said Allan Mitchell, 70, who served on Cyprus during the northern summer of 1974, when Turkey invaded and split the island along ethnic lines following a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Australia was also the first peacekeeping contributor to deploy a female officer to Cyprus, in 1988. Its last contingent commander is also a woman – Inspector Bronwyn Carter.
Colvin said Australia is willing to share its federal policing experience if talks now underway succeed in reunifying Cyprus as a federation.
A 2015 rethink of Australia’s overseas peacekeeping commitments called for the redeployment of personnel on missions closer to home and to help combat the threat of terrorism.
Some 69 police officers from countries including Ireland, India and Italy augment 835 troops wearing the UN’s blue beret in Cyprus.
First published on 15 February 2019.
Updated 21 August 2025 with Class photo.
Colin Murray PURDON
Colin Murray PURDON
AKA ?
Late of Bray Park, Qld
NSW Redfern Penrith Police Academy Class # 138
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 16240
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 25 February 1974
Constable – appointed 25 February 1975
Senior Constable – appointed 25 February 1983
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?, Ingleburn, Campbelltown, Bowral ( 1983/4 ), Police Air Wing – Resigned
Service: From 14 January 1974 to ? ? ? = ? years Service
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NASHOS
Service name: RAAF
Service number: A117462
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Date of birth: 04/05/1947
Place of birth: Cessnock, NSW
Date of intake: ?
NS Training: ?
Follow Up Training: ?
Basic Training: ?
Next of Kin: ?
Mustering: Airfield Defence Guard ( Grade 2 )
Unit names:
No. 2 Squadron Start: 28/2/1968 – 26/2/1966
No. 2 Squadron Start 19/11/1970 – 20/5/1971
Medals: ?
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Police Awards: National Medal – granted 27 November 1990 ( SenCon )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 8 November 1995 ( SenCon )
Born: Sunday 4 May 1947
Died on: Monday 4 February 2019
Age: 71 yrs 9 mths
Cause: Brain Tumour
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Monday 11 February 2019 @ 10am
Funeral location: Chapel of Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery, Graham Rd, Bridgeman Downs, Qld
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: Traditional Funerals, Redcliffe, Qld
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
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PURDON, Colin Murray
Late of Bray Park formerly NSW
4.5.1947 – 4.2.2019
Gone to be with Lord
Loving Husband of 41 years. Loving Father, Grandfather and Brother.
Family and Friends are invited to attend a Funeral Service for Colin to be held in Pinnaroo Cemetery Chapel, 285 Graham Road, Bridgeman Downs on Monday 11th February 2019 commencing at 10am.
TRADITIONAL FUNERALS
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Carey Thomas JOHNSON
Carey Thomas JOHNSON
Late of Lemon Tree Passage – formerly of Newcastle, NSW
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class 125
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 14375
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 27 November 1970 ( Aged 24 years, 1 month, 5 days )
Constable 1st Class – appointed 27 November 1975
Detective
Sergeant – appointed 2 May 1986
Senior Sergeant – appointed 21 June 1989
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?, Manly DLEB, Chatswood ( early 1970’s ), Broken Hill ( 1975 ), Wallsend ( 1985 – 88 )
Service: From ? ? pre November 1970? to ? ? 1991 = 21 years Service
Police Awards: National Medal – granted 2 November 1988
Born: Tuesday 22 October 1946
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Service name: Army – 1RAR
Service number: 215887
Service: Vietnam from 29 December 1965 – 4 June 1966 – 1RAR. Then 6RAR & was WIA ( Wounded In Action ) at the Battle of Long Tan. Returned to Australia 5 November 1966. He did a 2nd Tour with 8RAR from 17 November 1969 until 16 July 1970.
Rank: Private
Date of birth: ?
Place of birth: ?
Date of intake: ?
NS Training: ?
Follow Up Training: ?
Basic Training: ?
Next of Kin: ?
Medals: ?
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Died on: Monday 27 August 2018
Age: 71 years, 11 months, 5 days
Cause: “possibly” Dementia ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Tuesday 4 September 2018 @ noon
Funeral location: Pettigrew Funerals, The Chapel, 3 Harris St, Wallsend, NSW
Wake location: will be held after the service at the
Memories Function Centre.
4 Charles Street, part of the same complex
Funeral Parlour: Pettigrew Family Funerals – 49511166
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: ?
October 7, 2016 ·
Back Row left to right Ron James – Joe Richards – Buster McLennan ( from Wilcannia. Was in Police in mid 70’s & was stationed in 10 Division (Rose Bay). Didn’t like the city, so Resigned and moved back to family property at Wilcannia. ) – Peter Cinitis – Don Forsyth – Dave Stuart / Stewart – Carey Johnson – Peter Whitfield @ Soapy – Ian McKenzie Bottom left to right Gordon Fraser (HWP ) – Dennis Burrows – Bob Barton?(not police) – ? Nowlan (not police ) – Geoff Mobbs – Charlie Fisher – Wayne Ison ( Wilcannia & Ivanhoe, Forster ) .Taken at Turf Oval, Broken Hill around 1975 – 76
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JOHNSON, CAREY THOMAS
Late of Lemon Tree Passage formerly of Newcastle
Passed peacefully 27th August 2018
Aged 71 years
Dearly loved husband of Jill, father and grandfather of Leisa McMahon, Steven Johnson, Jason Turner, Adrian Turner and their families.
Family and friends of CAREY are invited to attend a Celebration of his Life to be held in The Chapel, Harris St, Wallsend, this TUESDAY 04/09/18 service commencing at 12noon. In lieu of flowers Donations to Calvary Mater Oncology Unit may be made at the service.
Forever In Our Hearts
Published in The Newcastle Herald on Sept. 1, 2018
Carey Johnson has passed away, RIP
Published Tue 28 Aug 2018
It is with regret that I inform you that 215887 Carey Thomas JOHNSON passed away Monday 27th August 2018.
Carey served with 1RAR in Vietnam 29.12.65 til 4.6.66, he was then posted to 6RAR and was WIA at the Battle of Long Tan. Returned to Australia 5.11.66.
He did at second tour with 8RAR 17.11.69 til 16.7.70
Funeral arrangements are unknown at this time.
Russell Durrant
Honorary Secretary
Nelson Bay RSL
sbsecretary@nelsonbayrsl.com.au
http://www.1rar.asn.au/news/12725/
Pte Carey Thomas Johnson
Carey came to 6 RAR after having served 5 months with 1 RAR. He served with 5 Pl B Coy and was wounded while returning to Long Tan on 18 Aug 1966
Passed away 27/08/18
Tuesday 4th September 2018, 1200hrs.
Pettigrew Family Funerals, 12 Harris St Wallsend NSW 2287.
Followed by a Private Cremation
A wake will be held after the service at the
Memories Function Centre.
4 Charles Street, part of the same complex.
LEST WE FORGET
A Warrior’s Farewell
Go now and travel beyond the void
Seek the green column and when you meet
See once more those smiling faces
Hear again laughter and sounds of marching feet
No more the visions of the bloody past
Gone are the nightmares and lingering pain
Soon you will be home at long, long last
United with fallen comrades once again
And when the final roll is called
Another page of history complete
You will rest with brave spirits such as they
In a camp where you will find restful sleep
Go swiftly now and seek your past
Your duty done for all to tell
With pride of who and what you were
And now we bid you a fond farewell
George Mansford – December 2007
Homeward Bound
I saw the shooting star burning so bright
Falling, falling, fading and soon from sight
So distant and yet so near
In its wake, a soldier’s journey so very clear
Duty, sharing, caring, courage and sometimes fear
No longer a mortal in life’s short race
A contented spirit bound for home somewhere in distant space
This fiery trail I saw tonight marks a warrior’s farewell
Leaving behind another legacy of proud deeds to tell
George Mansford © April 2012
The Soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
Step forward now, Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?’
The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
‘No, Lord, I guess I ain’t.
Because those of us who carry guns,
Can’t always be a saint.
I’ve had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I’ve been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny,
That wasn’t mine to keep…
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.
And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear..
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I’ve wept unmanly tears.
I know I don’t deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears
If you’ve a place for me here, Lord,
It needn’t be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don’t, I’ll understand.
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgement of his God.
‘Step forward now, you Soldier,
You’ve borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven’s streets,
You’ve done your time in Hell.’
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George Pearce POCOCK
George Pearce POCOCK
Late of 85 Concord Rd, Concord
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # ‘Q‘ 7808
For the purposes of this website ‘Q‘ represents those Police joining between 1862 ( commencement of NSWPF ) – 23 February 1915 ( Commencement of NSWPF current numbering system )
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed Wednesday 13 November 1901 ( aged 22 years, 8 months, 17 days )
Constable 1st Class – Ashfield Electoral Registrar from 15 February 1920
Constable 1st Class – Petersham Electoral Registrar from 1 July 1921
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 1 April 1929
Sergeant 2nd Class – death
Final Rank = Sergeant 2nd Class
Stations: ?, Lock Up Keeper – Ashfield for 10 years ( 1901? – 1911? ), Burwood ( 1911? – 1922 / where he was promoted to Sgt ), Concord – O.I.C. ( 1922 – 1929 / Sgt – death )
Service: From Wednesday 13 November 1901 to 8 December 1929 = 28 years, 0 months, 25 days Service
Awards: ?
Born: Thursday 27 February 1879, Sydney, NSW
Died on: Sunday 8 December 1929
Age: 50 years, 9 months, 11 days
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Monday 9 December 1929 @ 2.30pm from home
Funeral location: Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW
Funeral Parlour: Motor Funerals Ltd
Buried at: Rookwood Cemetery, Church of England
Zone C, Section 09, Grave 3281
Memorial located at: ?
In ? Memory of
my dear husband
and our father
George Pearce
POCOCK
Died 8th Dec 1929
aged 50 years
also
Florence May
POCOCK
Died 1st April 1962
aged 81 years.
LOWER:
? William Teasdale
POCOCK
? ? Middle ?
? 1942 aged 45 years
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Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954),
Monday 9 December 1929, page 9
FUNERALS.
POCOCK.— The Relatives and Friends of the late GEORGE PEARCE POCOCK ( late Sergeant of Police, Concord Station ) are invited to attend his Funeral; to leave his late residence, 85 Concord road Concord, THIS AFTERNOON, at 2.30, for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, Section, by road, per motor service.
MOTOR FUNERALS. LTD.
( The All-Motor Service ),
Phone, M6277. 30 City-road, city.
POCOCK.— The Relatives and Friends of Mrs FLORENCE MAY POCOCK, Mr. and Mrs. E ( Edward ). POCOCK, ENID, GLORIA, and WILLIAM ( Teasdale) POCOCK are Invited to attend the Funeral of her late dearly loved HUSBAND and their FATHER, George Pearce Pocock; to leave his late residence, 85 Concord road, Concord, THIS AFTERNOON, at 2.30, for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, by road, per motor service.
MOTOR FUNERALS. LIMITED.
POCOCK.— The Relatives and Friends of Mr and Mrs. E. CHILDS are Invited to attend the Funeral of their late dearly-loved FATHER, George Pearce Pocock; to leave his late residence, 85 Concord -road, Concord. THIS AFTERNOON, at 2.30 for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, by road, per motor service.
MOTOR FUNERALS, LIMITED.
POCOCK.- The Relatives and Friend» of Mrs. SARAH POCOCK and FAMILY are Invited to attend the Funeral of her late dearly-loved SON and their BROTHER, George Pearce Pocock; to leave his late residence. 85 Concord-road, Concord. THIS AFTERNOON, at 2.30, for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, by road, per motor service.
MOTOR FUNERALS. LIMITED,
POCOCK.- P.A.F.S. OF AUSTRALIA, North Strathfield branch, No. 182.-The Officers and Members of the above Lodge are respectfully requested to attend the Funeral of the late Brother, GEORGE PEARCE POCOCK; to leave his late residence, 85 Concord-road, Concord, THIS AFTERNOON, at 2.30, for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, by road, per Motor Service.
H. F. WELLING. W.M..
D. A. REYNOLDS, Secretary,
SERGEANT G. P. POCOCK.
Police-sergeant George Pearce Pocock, officer-ln-charge of the Concord police, died on Sunday.
Sergeant Pocock, who was 50 years of age, entered the police force in 1901. He was lock-up-keeper at Ashfield for ten years, and was then appointed sergeant at Burwood. Since 1922 he had been stationed at Concord. He was regarded as a particularly able officer.
Mrs. Pocock, two sons, and three daughters survive.
The funeral took place at the Rookwood cemetery on Monday.
SW. Paybook photograph of NX3224 Lance Bombardier Edward Alfred Pocock, 2/3rd Field Regiment, …
George Pearce POCOCK
Florence Buried at: Rookwood Cemetery, Zone C, Section 09, Grave 3281 but is recorded on the same gravestone as George & William.
No details found for William Teasdale Pocock on the cemetery records