RAAF officers and other ranks paying their final respects alongside the graves of 409400 Warrant ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Cairns
Accession Number 087520
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Cairns, Cairns Cemetery
Date made 8 March 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

RAAF officers and other ranks paying their final respects alongside the graves of 409400 Warrant Officer Berrol Samuel Frieze and 404543 Flight Lieutenant John William Newell. Both servicemen were killed in an accident as passengers in the crash of Lockheed Hudson aircraft A16-118 off of Cairns Queensland on 5 March, 1945. The Jewish burial service was read by NX77338 Captain Lynn Harvey Joseph, Medical Officer, Headquarters 1 Corps