Geoffrey SINGLETON

AKA SINGO

Late of  ?

NSW Redfern Police Academy Class #  ???

New South Wales Police Force

[alert_yellow]Regd. #  14739[/alert_yellow]

Rank:  Probationary Constable – appointed 28 June 1971

Constable 1st Class – appointed 24 August 1976

Senior Constable – appointed 24 August 1980

Final Rank = Senior Constable

Stations:  ?, Singleton, Mounted Section with Police horse ‘Ras’, Pilliga, Coonamble – Retirement

Service:  From  ? ? pre June 1971?  to  11 July 1997 =  28 years Service

Awards:   National Medal – granted 8 June 1988

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 28 August 1997

Born:   20 May 1942

Died on:   Sunday  2 December 2018 @ 4am with his wife, Dot, by his side

Age:  76

Cause:   Cancer

Event location:  Coonamble Hospital

Event date:  Sunday  2 December 2018 @ 4am

Funeral date:   Friday  7 December 2018 @ 10am

Funeral location:   Graveside, Coonamble Cemetery, Back Gular Rd, Coonamble

Wake location:  ?

Funeral Parlour: Coonamble District Funeral Services – 6822 0000

Buried at:   Coonamble Cemetery

 Memorial located at:   ?

SINGO is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED

 

 

 Funeral location:  [codepeople-post-map]

 

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May they forever Rest In Peace

 

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Geoff Singleton

“Singo”

 Of Coonamble

Peacefully passed away at Coonamble Hospital

On 2.12.2018

Aged 76 Years

Family and friends of the Late Geoffrey “Singo” Singleton are warmly invited to attend his Graveside Funeral Service to be held at

Coonamble Cemetery

On Friday 7^th December 2018 commencing at 10:00am

In Lieu of flowers, donations would be gratefully accepted to go towards Coonamble Cancer Survival Fund and also Daffodil House at Bathurst

Please bring a whip to crack!

https://www.coonambledistrictfuneralservices.com.au/geoffrey-singosingleton/

 

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Geoff had been an inpatient at Coonamble Hospital, in the palliative care unit, after suffering a seizure during chemotherapy.

Singo was apparently a “tough old bastard” and it took “a lot to get the better of him” but he succumbed to his cancer – with his wife, Dot, by his side.

He was renowned amongst the policing troops as a “Champion bloke” and “bloody tough”

When he first turned up at Pilliga, one of the locals thought he was a drover and asked him where he had his herd.

Singo was a yarn teller and a bad singer.  He was a good poet and could roll a smoke one handed.

He was a good bushman.

Greg Martin A true blue country cop Rest In Peace Singo

 

Phillip Stephenson He was a legend in Coonamble.

 

Mal Unicomb RIP Singo. What a great character he was. A very dry wit and so many stories. Always amazed me how that tiny little bit of rolly cigarette stayed on his lip.

Michael McCulkin Thanks for the update John. RIP Singo, a legend in the true sense

 

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