BAIRNSDALE WAR CEMETERY
Victoria
Australia
GPS Coordinates Latitude: -37.84783 Longitude: 147.6105
Location Information
Bairnsdale War Cemetery is situated within the Public Cemetery on the south-west corner of the Cemetery Extension.
Historical Information
It contains the graves of 38 Australian airmen, who died through illness or flying accidents while training. The War Cemetery is enclosed by a fence screened by various kinds of shrubs and has a stone-paved entrance with iron gates. The Cross of Sacrifice stands at the far end, opposite the entrance, and the Graves are set in level mown grass.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Bairnsdale War Cemetery is situated within the Public Cemetery on the south-west corner of the Cemetery Extension.
Historical Information
It contains the graves of 38 Australian airmen, who died through illness or flying accidents while training. The War Cemetery is enclosed by a fence screened by various kinds of shrubs and has a stone-paved entrance with iron gates. The Cross of Sacrifice stands at the far end, opposite the entrance, and the Graves are set in level mown grass.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Group portrait of RAAF No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School (1 EFTS) (Tiger Moths DH82), No. 14 Course, Leading Aircraftmen, Parafield, SA, June 1941.
Identified in the centre row, 6th from the left is 416241 Sergeant Reuben Henry Bates-Brownsword (Royal Australian Air Force) who was accidentally killed in a training flight accident at Bairnsdale, Victoria, 1 February 1943, aged 20. Plot A. A. 13. Son of Harold and Doris Bates-BrownsworD, of Blackwood, South Australia.
422346 Sergeant
John James Denmeade
Royal Australian Air Force
21st May 1943, aged 30.
Plot A. B. 9.
Son of Owen Hugh and Elizabeth Denmeade; husband of Stella Louise Denmeade, of Kingsford, New South Wales.
Studio portrait of 422346 Sergeant (Sgt) John James Denmeade, General Reconnaissance School. Sgt Denmeade was killed while on a training flight in Avro Anson W2253, which crashed in foul weather near the town of Won Wron, Victoria on 21 May 1943.
John James Denmeade
Royal Australian Air Force
21st May 1943, aged 30.
Plot A. B. 9.
Son of Owen Hugh and Elizabeth Denmeade; husband of Stella Louise Denmeade, of Kingsford, New South Wales.
Studio portrait of 422346 Sergeant (Sgt) John James Denmeade, General Reconnaissance School. Sgt Denmeade was killed while on a training flight in Avro Anson W2253, which crashed in foul weather near the town of Won Wron, Victoria on 21 May 1943.
Outdoor group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No 27, B Squadron, Flight 13.
Identified in the back row, eighth from the left is 417410 Pilot Officer Kevin Pierre Murphy, (Royal Australian Air Force) who died in an accident at Gypsy Point, Victoria on 4th October 1943, aged 21. Plot A. B. 11. Son of Clarence Alfred Thomas Murphy and Elizabeth Grace Murphy, of Wirrabara, South Australia.
Group portrait of members of “Y” Flight, No. 15 Course, Advanced Training Squad, No. 4 Service Flying Training School (SFTS), RAAF. This was one of several courses held at Geraldton, WA between September 1941 and January 1942. The aircraft in the background is an Avro Anson.
Identified in the back row, second from the left is 406955 Sergeant Leslie James Reid, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was accidentally on 28th January 1943, aged 21. Plot A. A. 9. Son of William and Margaret Llamia Reid, of South Fremantle, Western Australia.
Group portrait of RAAF recruits at No 1 Initial Training School.
Identified in the front row, last on the right is 412041 Sergeant Thomas Henry Straker (Royal Australian Air Force) who was accidentally killed on 1st February 1943, aged 28. Plot A. A. 10. Son of Arthur Henry and Elizabeth Ann Straker; husband of Kathleen Hilda Straker, of Cardiff, New South Wales.
Group portrait of members of Course 17A of 5 Initial Training School (5ITS) photographed on their first day of training.
Identified in the centre row, sixth from the left is 415208 Frank Watson Wildy (Royal Australian Air Force) whose death resulted from an accident on 17th November 1942 in Bairnsdale, Victoria. He was 28 and buried in plot A. A. 5. Son of Clifford W. Wildy and Minnie Wildy; husband of Vera Doreen Wildy, of Cottesloe, Western Australia.
