Michael William DONNELLY
Michael William DONNELLY
AKA MICHAEL DONNELLY, MICK DONNELLY, Mike DONNELLY
* Nickname: ?
Late of Goulburn, NSW
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NSW Goulburn Police Academy – Class # 127
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 2873
Regd. # 14631
Rank: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 17 May 1971 ( aged 26 years, 5 months, 10 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 28 June 1971 ( aged 26 years, 6 months, 21 days )
Constable – appointed 28 June 1972
Constable 1st Class – appointed 28 June 1976
Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( No )
Senior Constable – appointed 28 June 1980
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? ( N/A )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 1 April 1987
Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed ? ? ?
Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank: = Sergeant
Stations: ?, Parramatta ( 18 Division ), Gundagai, Goulburn, Crookwell, Goulburn ( again ) – ( HWP & GDs ) Retirement
Service ( From Training Date ) period: From 17 May 1971 to 13 September 1995 = 24 years, 3 months, 27 days Service
Time employed ( Paid ) with NSW Police: From: 17 May 1971 to 13 September 1995 = 24 years, 3 months, 27 days Service
Time in Retirement from Police: 31 years, 1 months, 16 days
Age at Retirement / Leaving: = 50 years, 9 months, 6 days
Awards: * Queens Commendation for Brave Conduct – granted 17 December 1976 ( Cst )( Rescue of a man from burning car )
National Medal – granted 8 June 1988 ( Sgt )
Born: Thursday 7 December 1944 in Brisbane, Qld
Died on: Thursday 29 October 2026 in Goulburn, NSW
Age: 81 years, 10 months, 22 days
Organ Donor: No – Age restrictive
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
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Funeral date: Tuesday 10 November 2026 @ 1pm
Funeral location: Lady Fatima Church, 97 Lagoon St, North Goulburn, NSW
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Wake location: Goulburn Soldiers Club, Goulburn, NSW
Wake date: Tuesday 10 November 2026 @ 2.30pm
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: Cremated
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Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( November 2026 )
MICHAEL is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Saturday 27 December 1975, page 3
Driver saved from fire.
A man whose car overturned and burst into flames while being chased by police near Gundagai early yesterday morning was rescued when the two policemen broke a rear window in the car and pulled him out.
The man, with three others arrested earlier in Yass, has since been charged with a number of offences, including allegedly stealing a car at Leeton, NSW, abandoning it in Adelaide breaking and entering in Adelaide, breaking and entering in Emdale, NSW, and stealing a car in Yass.
A Gundagai police spokesman said last night that the four men, three from the Leeton area and one from Newcastle, had apparently had a fight in Yass early yesterday morning.
A Yass man had reported his vehicle stolen shortly after midnight, and soon afterward a policeman on patrol in Yass had seen the car and given chase, but had lost sight of it.
Three men were arrested soon after in Yass. All police stations in the area were notified to look out for the fourth man and the car.
According to the Gundagai police spokesman, a patrol near Gundagai had seen the car and had given chase, seeking to keep up with it until favourable opportunity to stop it.
” Before that happened, the fellow ran out of road going round a corner “, the spokesman said.
” The car rolled and burst into flames immediately.
” The two police, Constable Terry Manning ( # 13137 ) and Constable Michael Donnelly ( # 14631 ), were quite close behind. They got a bar out of the rear and smashed a rear window to drag him out “.
Sergeant ( Kenneth ) Graham Tarte ( # 7035 ), of Yass police, said the detectives were interviewing the men. He expected that there would be more charges.
He said the three men being held at Yass would appear before the court either today or on Monday.
The Gundagai police spokesman said the man being held there would appear in Gundagai Petty Sessions on Monday.
Cst 1/c Michael William DONNELLY # 14631 with Governor General Paul Meernaa HASLUCK Goulburn Post 13 November 2026 Goulburn’s Mick Donnelly served the NSW Police with distinction and “commanded deep respect for knowledge, leadership, entertaining stories and wonderful sense of humour”.
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Cal
13 November 2026
