MILDURA (NICHOLS POINT) CEMETERY
Victoria
Australia
GPS Coordinates Latitude: -34.19474 Longitude: 142.21725
Location Information
Mildura (Nichols Point) Cemetery is located within the public cemetery on Karadoc Avenue.
Historical Information
The cemetery contains the graves of 72 airmen and soldiers of the Australian Forces. The majority of the graves are airmen killed in aircraft training accidents. During the war at the RAAF Station at Mildura, the No2 Operational Training Unit for fighters introduced a most effective form of gunnery known as "shadow" shooting.
World War One Identified Casualties: Australia 8 .
World War Two Identified Casualties: Australia 64.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Mildura (Nichols Point) Cemetery is located within the public cemetery on Karadoc Avenue.
Historical Information
The cemetery contains the graves of 72 airmen and soldiers of the Australian Forces. The majority of the graves are airmen killed in aircraft training accidents. During the war at the RAAF Station at Mildura, the No2 Operational Training Unit for fighters introduced a most effective form of gunnery known as "shadow" shooting.
World War One Identified Casualties: Australia 8 .
World War Two Identified Casualties: Australia 64.
Picture below kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
Group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No 21, C Squadron, Flight 10, at Victor Harbor, South Australia.
Identified in the back row, ninth from the left and buried in this cemetery is 409818 Flying Officer Thomas James Russell Crow, (Royal Australian Air Force) who died at Mildura on 26th November 1943, aged 21. Plot C. B. 1. Son of James and Agnes Hamilton Crow, of Canterbury.
Group portrait of 30 Course, 4 Initial Training School, Royal Australian Air Force, B Squadron, 13 Flight, held between July and September 1942 at Victor Harbor in SA.
Identified in the 3rd row, first on the left and buried in this cemetery is 417811 Pilot Officer Joseph George Crowe, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was killed accidentally on 26th July 1943, at Golgol Course, N. S. W. aged 20. Plot C. A. 7. Son of Henry George and Isabel Grace Crowe, of Franklin, South Australia.
Outdoor group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No 24, C Squadron, Flight 12.
Identified in the back row, fifth from the left and buried in this cemetery is 417167 Sergeant Frank Howard Ellis, Royal Australian Air Force) who died in an accident at Yarram, Victoria on 13th April 1943, aged 23. Plot C. A. 2. Son of Sydney Bruce and Minna Helena Ellis, husband of Doreen May Ellis, of Port Noarlunga.
Group portrait of pilots of No. 78 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF who figured in biggest RAAF-Japanese air battle since Milne Bay when they shot down eight certain, one probable and two damaged Japanese aircraft over Biak.
Identified in the front row, second on the left and buried in this cemetery is 418828 Pilot Officer John Geoffrey Norman Gadsen, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was later killed in a flying accident with No. 2 OTU on 25th October 1944, aged 20. Plot C. B. 16. Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Gadsden, of Toorak.
Identified in the back row, fifth from the left and buried in this cemetery is 423858 Edward John O'Connell, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was later killed in a flying accident at No. 2 OTU on 25th October 1944, aged 20. Plot C. B. 14. Son of Walter Dennis and Sybil Isobel O'Connell, of Cowra, New South Wales.
Identified in the back row, fifth from the left and buried in this cemetery is 423858 Edward John O'Connell, (Royal Australian Air Force) who was later killed in a flying accident at No. 2 OTU on 25th October 1944, aged 20. Plot C. B. 14. Son of Walter Dennis and Sybil Isobel O'Connell, of Cowra, New South Wales.
419092 Sergeant
William John King
Royal Australian Air Force
3rd December 1943, aged 20.
Plot C. B. 2.
Son of William John and Alice May King, of Brunswick.
Studio portrait of 419092 Sergeant (Sgt) William John King, RAAF, of Coburg, Vic. Sgt King enlisted on 14 July 1942, and was posted to 2 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Mildura. He was accidentally killed on 3 December 1943, aged 20 years.
William John King
Royal Australian Air Force
3rd December 1943, aged 20.
Plot C. B. 2.
Son of William John and Alice May King, of Brunswick.
Studio portrait of 419092 Sergeant (Sgt) William John King, RAAF, of Coburg, Vic. Sgt King enlisted on 14 July 1942, and was posted to 2 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Mildura. He was accidentally killed on 3 December 1943, aged 20 years.
Group portrait of Empire Air Training Scheme trainees of Flight 38, Course 45, B Squadron, at No 4 Initial Training School RAAF.
Identified in the front row, fifth from the left and buried in this cemetery is 442507 Flight Sergeant Malcolm John Russell, Royal Australian Air Force who died in an aircraft accident at Mildura, Victoria on 7th August 1945, aged 22. Plot C. C. 7.
Son of Horace Wakefield Livingston Russell and Ivy Elsie Russell, of Barmera, South Australia.
Son of Horace Wakefield Livingston Russell and Ivy Elsie Russell, of Barmera, South Australia.
Outdoor group portrait of No 4 Initial Training School, RAAF, Course No 23, B Squadron, Flight 15.
Identified in the back row, third from the right and buried in this cemetery is 410263 Gerald Norman Sayce, (Royal Australian Air Force) who died in an accident at Mildura, Victoria on 4th January 1944, aged 21. Plot C. B. 4. Son of Marcus William and Elsie Maud Sayce, of Hawthorn.
413063 Flight Sergeant
Kenneth George Wolkenhaar
Royal Australian Air Force
21st December 1943, aged 23.
Plot C. B. 3.
Son of Theodore William George and Elizabeth Wolkenhaar; husband of Doris Adelaide Wolkenhaar, of Lockhart, New South Wales.
Studio portrait of 413063 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Kenneth George Wolkenhaar, of Lockhart, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting on 15 August 1941, he completed his initial training and progressed to the Advanced Training Course for pilots at No. 7 Service Flying Training School (7SFTS), RAAF Station Deniliquin, Australia. On 21 December 1943, while attached to the No 2 Operational Training Unit, Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Wolkenhaar was accidentally killed near Lake Victoria, NSW, Australia. He is buried in the Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Flt Sgt Wolkenhaar was 23 years of age.
Kenneth George Wolkenhaar
Royal Australian Air Force
21st December 1943, aged 23.
Plot C. B. 3.
Son of Theodore William George and Elizabeth Wolkenhaar; husband of Doris Adelaide Wolkenhaar, of Lockhart, New South Wales.
Studio portrait of 413063 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Kenneth George Wolkenhaar, of Lockhart, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting on 15 August 1941, he completed his initial training and progressed to the Advanced Training Course for pilots at No. 7 Service Flying Training School (7SFTS), RAAF Station Deniliquin, Australia. On 21 December 1943, while attached to the No 2 Operational Training Unit, Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Wolkenhaar was accidentally killed near Lake Victoria, NSW, Australia. He is buried in the Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Flt Sgt Wolkenhaar was 23 years of age.
