PORT PIRIE GENERAL CEMETERY
South Australia
Australia
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: -33.18543, Longitude: 137.9942
Location Information
Port Pirie lies about 269 kilometres north-west of Adelaide, on the Gulf of St Vincent, and is the largest port on that gulf. The cemetery is along Moppett Road.
Historical Information
The No2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School of the RAAF was based at Port Pirie during WW2. Most of the RAAF casualties buried here died in air training accidents.
Located within Port Pirie General Cemetery in Moppett Road, the war cemetery contains 22 graves of soldiers and airmen of the Australian Forces.
Total Burials: 29.
World War One Casualties: Australia 3.
World War Two Casualties: Australia 26.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Port Pirie lies about 269 kilometres north-west of Adelaide, on the Gulf of St Vincent, and is the largest port on that gulf. The cemetery is along Moppett Road.
Historical Information
The No2 Bombing and Air Gunnery School of the RAAF was based at Port Pirie during WW2. Most of the RAAF casualties buried here died in air training accidents.
Located within Port Pirie General Cemetery in Moppett Road, the war cemetery contains 22 graves of soldiers and airmen of the Australian Forces.
Total Burials: 29.
World War One Casualties: Australia 3.
World War Two Casualties: Australia 26.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
432548 Leading Aircraftman
John Douglas Gardiner
Royal Australian Air Force
27th August 1943, aged 21.
Plot C. D. 8.
Son of Albert Gordon and Dorothy Evelyn Gardiner, of Baradine, New South Wales.
Informal portrait of 432548 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) John Douglas Gardiner, 2 Bomb and Gunnery School, Port Pirie, SA. LAC Gardiner was from Baradine in NSW and worked as a civil servant prior to enlisting on 2 Jan 1943. He died during a training exercise 10 miles west of Port Pirie on 27 August 1943 when two Fairey Battle aircraft collided in mid-air. LAC Gardiner was one of four crew members on board aircraft K9380. The other aircraft, L5654, was carrying a crew of two. All six men were killed.
John Douglas Gardiner
Royal Australian Air Force
27th August 1943, aged 21.
Plot C. D. 8.
Son of Albert Gordon and Dorothy Evelyn Gardiner, of Baradine, New South Wales.
Informal portrait of 432548 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) John Douglas Gardiner, 2 Bomb and Gunnery School, Port Pirie, SA. LAC Gardiner was from Baradine in NSW and worked as a civil servant prior to enlisting on 2 Jan 1943. He died during a training exercise 10 miles west of Port Pirie on 27 August 1943 when two Fairey Battle aircraft collided in mid-air. LAC Gardiner was one of four crew members on board aircraft K9380. The other aircraft, L5654, was carrying a crew of two. All six men were killed.
