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WAGGA WAGGA WAR CEMETERY

New South Wales

Australia


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: -35.13699, Longitude: 147.3884

WAGGA WAGGA WAR CEMETERY

​Location Information

Wagga Wagga is an important city on the Murrumbidgee River, 306 miles south-west of Sydney.

The War Cemetery is situated within the General Cemetery on Kooringal Road, 2.5 miles south-east of the Post Office.


Historical Information

WAGGA WAGGA WAR CEMETERY occupies a plot in the general cemetery and contains 82 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War.

Identified Casualties: Australia 82.



Pictures used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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NX141715 Corporal
William Barclay Cousins
1st Training Bn. 
Royal Australian Engineers
21st May 1945, aged 24.
Plot B. C. 8.

Son of William Melbourne Cousins and Mabel Annie Cousins, of Mary Vale.

Portrait of NX141715 Corporal (Cpl) William Barclay Cousins, 1 Training Battalion, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). Cpl Cousins of Maryvale, NSW, enlisted on 6 January 1943 was killed accidentally on 21 May 1945 at the RAE Kapooka Army Camp, aged 24 years


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WX25792 Sergeant
Ronald Irwin Linthorne
1st Training Bn. 
Royal Australian Engineers
21st May 1945, aged 25.
Plot B. C. 3.


Son of Irwin Montague Linthorne and Elizabeth Linthorne; husband of Pauline Patterson Linthorne, of Ashburton, Victoria.

Studio portrait of WX25792 Sergeant (Sgt) Ronald Irwin Linthorne, 1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion, of Claremont, WA. Sgt Linthorne was a carpenter prior to enlistment in July 1942. On 21 May 1945 Sgt Linthorne and 25 other engineers were killed by an explosion during a training exercise at Kapooka, NSW.
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