STATE FUNERAL PREPARING TO LEAVE ST PAULS CATHEDRAL. TWO FLAG DRAPED COFFINS ARE BEING CARRIED ...

Accession Number 002595
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Cranstone, Edward Lefevre (Ted)
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 15 August 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

STATE FUNERAL PREPARING TO LEAVE ST PAULS CATHEDRAL. TWO FLAG DRAPED COFFINS ARE BEING CARRIED FROM THE CATHEDRAL. THE FUNERAL WAS FOR EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN THE CRASH OF A RAAF LOCKHEED HUDSON AT CANBERRA. THE EIGHT PEOPLE CONCERNED WERE BRIGADIER G.A. STREET (MINISTER FOR THE ARMY), GENERAL SIR BRUDENELL WHITE (CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF), LIEUTENANT COLONEL F. THORNTHWAITE (ARMY LIAISON OFFICER), MR J.V. FAIRBAIRN (MINISTER FOR AIR), SIR HENRY GULLETT (VICE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL), MR R.E. ELFORD (SECRETARY TO AIR MINISTER), FLIGHT LIEUTENANT R.E. HITCHCOCK, RAAF (AIRCRAFT CAPTAIN), PILOT OFFICER R.F. WIESENER, RAAF (SECOND PILOT).TWO OTHER RAAF CREW MEMBERS KILLED IN THE CRASH WERE CORPORAL J.F. PALMER WHO WAS BURIED AFTER A SEPARATE MELBOURNE CEREMONY AT ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL AND AIRCRAFTMAN C.J. CROSDALE WHO WAS BURIED AT CESSNOCK. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE)