SYDNEY INSTITUTE

Sl Library Training Day Venue - Petersham West St Library

Thursday 6 December 2012

9:00-9:20 Registration

9:30- 9:40 Welcome and Introduction to country

9:40- 10:10 Overview of RDA {Resource Description & Access)

10.10-10:40 Debate: Is Dewey Dead?

10:40- 11:00 Morning tea

11:05- 11.25 Tours of Petersham West St Campus- 6 groups

{including History questions to answer for a prize)

11:30- 12:30 Work Health & Safety Overview

12.30-1.00 Open Forum- Q&A on changes in TAFE NSW & Sl

Panelists :Julie Frail, Assistant Director, Petersham College; Beatriz Aroche & ShirleyAnn Summers, Library Managers, Ultimo & StGeorge Colleges

1:00- 1:45 Lunch

1300 360 601 www.sit.nsw.edu.au librar

Richard Hayes, Assistant Director, Petersham College

Glynis Burnett, Teacher, Library & Information Studies, Ultimo College

Facilitated by Denis Vukovic

Led by Petersham Library staff -Emmanuel, Kimberley, Ellen, Darryl, Jane & Sunita

Felicia Harris, Manager, Work Health & Safety

Facilitated by Jacqui Thorburn, R/Manager, Knowledge Systems

1:45-2:30

2:30-3:00

3.00-3:20

3:20-4:20

4:20-4:30

4:30-5:00

www.sit.nsw.edu.au

Showcases

• Design Centre En more- Group Study room

• Material ConneXion materials Library- Elisabeth Thomas

• Petersham College -Information Desk

• Engaging with the Library's Community- Sun ita Kullar

• Randwick College- PCs 6-9

• Promote with QR codes- Maya & Adriana

• BODs streamlined- Lea & Adriana

• StGeorge College- PCs 2-5

• eReserve in Campus guides- Ying Song

• eBooks in Equella- Rachel Chen

• Sutherland College- PCs 12-13

• PDF eBooks in Subject Guides - Sue Gock

• Ultimo College- PCs 16-17

• Guide on the side - Simon Gray

Resilience & optimism in times of change

Afternoon tea

Promoting your Library Ideas Forum

• Successes in promoting your Library in 2012, including the Year of Reading

• Panel - Linda Briggs, Kimberley Jessel, Judy Dunne & Helen Manu, Lyn Brooks, Barbara

Rendall & Odette Karas

Lucky door prizes draw & Closing remarks

Networking

~ T f•.i= c NS\fl;·_' Sydney Institute I I Ultimo College Library I L . . _____ _j

Julie Robinson, Senior

Counsellor & Marg McHarg,

Counsellor, Petersham

College

Discussion facilitated By Janet Bailey

Linda Briggs

optional

Ambition In Action

Petersham West St History Walk

Memorial Plaque

Leading Aircraftman Charles Broughton Boydell, of the Royal Australian Air Force, pilot, aged 24 from Mosman, NSW and Flight Lieutenant David George Rochford, RAF Volunteer Reserve, trainee observer, aged 25 of Oxford, England were killed in the crash of a de Havilland Mosquito at Petershan1.

On Wednesday 2 May 1945, at approximately 11.30am, the engine of a Mosquito Mark VI fighter/bomber of the Royal Air Force 618 Squadron backfired and then caught fire. Shortly afterwards the aircraft exploded in the skies over Petersham. Witnesses stated that the two-man crew attempted to steer the blazing aircraft away from houses before they were forced to abandon it. Neither man's parachute opened at a sufficient height for them to survive.

The body of Flight Lieutenant Rochford fell into the playground of Petersham Public School. Children, who were at their lessons at the time, were evacuated and told to go home. The Principal, Mr Allman, covered the body with the parachute. Leading Aircraftman Boydell's body was recovered from the top of a shed over 100 metres away in the Petersham Railway goods yard.

Blazing sections of the wooden aircraft were scattered across Petersham, and as far away as Catherine St, Leichhardt. Houses were set alight in Trafalgar St, The Avenue, Searl St and Railway St, Petersham. Fortunately no one on the ground was killed, although several residents were taken to hospital with burns and shock.

A Court of Inquiry was convened, but could not determine the cause of the crash. This was in part because the actual landing position could not be determined.

In 1966 a memorial garden in the grounds of Petersham Girls High School was dedicated to the two flyers. A plaque, trees and a flagpole were placed in their memory. Since 1989 the garden has been maintained by TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute. Memorial services are held at the garden to mark the anniversary of the crash, and to honour the memory of the two men. The Boydell Room in Block A is named in memory of LAC Charles Boydell.

Old Library (prior to 2009)

Petersham West St Library (of TAFE NSW) did not start providing a Library service, in the 2 classroom sized part of Building, until 1995, although the Campus had been offering courses since 1991. This was because of disagreement over the siting of the Library, which had been on the third floor of Building A when the site was a High School. Air-conditioning was installed in the Library in 2004, which improved the building's temperature variation greatly & gas heaters were removed.

New Section of Library

The 'new' boy's wing of Petersham School (now the Library in Bid E) was opened by the Minister for Education in 1903. It was the first school to introduce the new Geometry and one of the first to introduce Nature Study and Science teaching, the school provided a high standard of education, particularly Commercial education, drawing boys from a very wide area.

The larger Library, including the double glass doors, was re­furbished in early 2009, opening in May 2009. Prior to becoming part of the Library, this area was the Customer Services Centre & lunchroom for the College.

Gardens

Our gardens both at Crystal Stand West St have won several Marrickville Council garden awards.

Canteen Quadrangle

The Infants Department (which was in Bid D) was upgraded to the present building in 1911. Petersham Public School continued on this site until December 1964.

In January 1965 the primary pupils transferred to Lewisham Public School & Petersham Public School became Petersham Girls High School. The 3 storey Bid A & Bid B (canteen) were built in the mid-1960s.

Petersham Girls High School at West & Gordon Sts was closed & handed over to TAFE in December 1989 & became Petersham West St Campus of TAFE NSW in January 1990.

Block C was built in 1897 as an extension to the Girls School. The girls and boys schools were segregated within the primary school and each also had separate playgrounds.

Block C Play Sessions: students observe & report on a child (they usually have a focus child for a semester) as part of their assessment. Children come from the community.

Architecture of Building E

The design of Building E is Gothic Revival Style. In the mid-19th Century this style came into widespread use for secular as well as ecclesiastical buildings. The link between religion and education was a strong one, partly due to the fact that Gothic became the accepted style for buildings associated with ethical values, such as educational establishments.

G.A. Mansfield was the architect who designed Petersham Public School. He was one of NSW's most eminent architects, designing over 90 public schools during his 13 years as Architect to the Council of Education.

Media Studies

Petersham Public School opened in Gordon St on 9th December 1878. The oldest building was built in 1878 (It is now the wing of Bid E closest to Trafalgar St). This area was the original Girls School Wing of Petersham Public School. In 1896 an Evening School operated from this building. It has now been refurbished for the News Media Section with specialised Radio Broadcasting rooms.

Return to library through old Sem"inar Room (Media Studies room) door by 11:25am.

•• I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

STATE PROJECTS Heritage Group August !996

3.6 LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE PLAN The following plan of the buildings and landscaping denotes levels of significance based on the above terminology.

l­w llJ

of. 1-\[1

Fig. 3-1 Petersham T AFE - Levels of Significance Plan.

PETERSHAM TAFE WEST- CONSERVATION PLAN 8/8/96

LAND R.EG<.>MED f'.:::>R SC-HOOl.. £1\.S€ li?'f'J

z ()

c rL c \J

49

'",

!.

.· m: Dawn Emerson [mailto:demerson@tpg.com.au] nt: Saturday, 30 April 2005 7:47 AM :Roberts, Peter bject: Plane Crash on Petersham Public School

a result the Petersham Tafe have decided to put on a special ceremony next Monday at 3pm in their unds, which is where the plane crashed followed by a commemorative ceremony at 6pm at the History ction, Petersham Town Hall. Cliff and I have been invited to both events. A copy of this was requested by Australian War Memorial Military Section, also Marrickville Council History Section, and the Leichhardt

ibrary which is currently holding an exhibition on the Beale Piano factory which made 200 Mosquito Bomber selages during the war, due to their expertise in laminating plywood.

Regards, Dawn Emerson .

! 2/05/2005

COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY

at Petersham Town Hall 6.00pm on Monday, 2 May 2005

to honour the memory of

. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT

DAVID GEORGE ROCHFORD &

LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN CHARLES BROUGHTON BOYDELL

·. n the 60th Anniversary of the crash of the ""'~"""'ito aircraft on 2 May 1945 at Petersham,

and to acknowledge

THE DONATION OF THE FLORENCE BELL COLLECTION

TO THE HISTORY/ARCI:iiVE CENTRE

PROGRAM

Welcome

Acknowledgment o~Events of 2 May 1945 and the Donation of material by Florence Bell to the History/Archive Centre

Film segment from Cinesound

A Personal Recollection of 2 May 1945 and her Donated Collection

Acceptance of the historical collection donated by Florence Bell

Invitation for guests to share their own recollections and experiences

Vote of thanks

Chrys Meader, Marrickville Historian

The Mayor of Marrickville, Councillor Morris Hanna OAM

(by kind permission of the Australian Film Commission)

Florence Bell

The Mayor of Marrickvi/le, Councillor Morris Hanna OAM

Chrys Meader, Marrickville Historian

Vicki Munro, Director of Community Services

Light refreshments to be served

- - - ---- - - -A BRIEF HISTORY

On Wednesday 2 May 1945 at approximately 11.30am a Mosquito aircraft of the Royal Air Force 618 Squadron exploded in the skies over Petersham. Flight Lieutenant David George Rochford, RAF Volunteer Reserve, and Leading Aircraftman Charles Broughton Boydell, Royal Australian Air Force, were killed in the crash. Both of the men were agi:'KI 25 years.

Witnesses stated that the two man crew attempted to steer the blaZitlg aircraft away from houses before they were forced to abandon it. Neither man's parachute opened at a sufficient height for them to survive.

The body of Flight Lieutenant Rochford fell into the playground of Petersham Public School, which is now the site of the Sydney Institute of T AFE. Children were at their lessons and were evacuated and told to go home. The Principal; Mr Allman, covered the body with the parachute.

Leading Aircraftman Boydell's body was recovered from the top of a shed over 100 metres away in the Petersham Railway goods yard.

Blazing sections of the wooden aircraft were scattered across P~tersham and as far as Catherine Street, Leichhardt. Houses were set alight ifl Trafalgar Street, The Avenue, Searl Street and Railway Street, Petersham. Fortunately no-one on the ground was killed, although several residents were taken to hospital with bums and shock.

A Court of Inquiry was convened on 4 May 1945. It was hampered by the fact that many pieces of the wreckage were recovered by civilians and kept as souvenirs. The Jack of all of the wreckage meant that the actual landing position could not be accurately mapped. The Court of Inquiry could not determine the cause of the crash.

In 1966 a memorial garden was dedicated to Flight Lieutenant Rochford and Leading Aircraftman Boydell in the grounds of what was then Petersham Girls High School. A plaque, trees and a flagpole were placed there in their memory. In 1989 the site came under the control ofTAFE.

In 1995 the NSW Branch and Petersham Sub Branch of the RSL and TAFE held a service to mark the 50th anniversary of the crash under the Australia Remembers program. Florence Bell, with the assistance of other people and the TAFE, became involved in subsequent services.

On this the 60th anniversary of the tragedy, it is fitting that a commemorative ceremony be held in Petersham Town Hall to honour the memory of Flight lieutenant David George Rochford and Leading Aircraftman Charles Broughton Boydell.

It is also fitting on this day to acknowledge the donation of Florence Bell to the History/Archive Centre. Florence was a fifth class student in Miss

-

I Mosquito Plane Crash on Petersham Public School, 2nd May, 1945 by Dawn Emerson

Dawn Emerson, B.A., Litt. B., AALIA, D.Ua, J.P. is President of the Sutherland Shire Historical Society, and was formerly a Councillor, Sutherland Shire for over twelve years and Deputy Mayor for two of those years. She is a librarian by profession and has served in the fields of school, public, tertiary, and banking librarianship, including working for AusAid establishing a library for the Dept. of Communications in Pretoria, South Africa.

Sixty years ago I was an eye witness to this tragedy, and in attendance at Petersham Public School at the time. I had never met another person who remembered it, or even knew anything about it, and I started to believe that I had experienced a nightmare that remained surprisingly vivid. One Sunday, on the ABC's "Australia All Over" Ian McNamara mentioned the plane crash at Petersham, but gave very few details and I rang in to tell of my memories of that day. I was fobbed offby the telephoniste, and told that they would ring me back some other day to talk about it. Of course they never did, and one wonders at the accessibility to actually speak on such programmes, and why an eyewitness was excluded. Perhaps they didn't believe that there was anyone left who remembered it! Then recently I was talking to a tennis player we had just met, Ron Lewis ofMenai, and asked him in which area he had grown up as a child. When he said Petersham, my next question was: "And do you remember the plane crash on the school?" I nearly fell over when he said he did, and that he was there on that day! At last someone else had verified that it DID happen! I then researched the incident and obtained newspaper clippings on the disaster, as well as looked at Peter Dunn's website, and spoke to Chrys Meader, Historian at Marrickville Council, who alerted me to information she had received from Lu Bell. I now realise that there are many people alive today who remember that tragic day, and were there, as I was.

Wednesday, 2"d May, 1945. Petersham Public School *1 On this day I was a pupil in 2"d class on the top floor of the Infants Department, at Petersham Public School, and seven years of age. I had only enrolled two days previously, my parents living formerly with my maternal grandmother at Fivedock. As I had been there a very short time, I did not even know where my paternal grandmother's home was, in Brighton Street, where my parents, my sister and myself were living at this stage. Mr. Ron Lewis, now ofMenai, was a pupil in 5th class, which was on the ground floor of the Primary School. He had been attending the school since he was 6, and remembers the location of the buildings, whereas I have only a slight recollection. The school was a typical war-time school in Sydney with white paper strips taped criss-cross over the windows, and trenches with high muddy banks down at the far end of the playground. Ron remembers that all the teachers were elderly, as most of the young men and women were no doubt in the Armed Forces. He also noted, as did I, that all the teachers were well dressed, the men always wore ties, whilst many of the children

1. Another plane, a Royal Navy Firefly Fighter, crashed into Lewisham Bospital some eight months later on 31st January, 1946. This is a totally different incident which can be confused with the Petersham crash. Mrs. Val Carter of Bangor, has memories of this crash. There also was the crash of a Grumman Avenger that crashed into a house in Railway St., Petersham, mentioned by Bruce Weekley, but details of this crash may have been suppressed from publication during the security­conscious war years and its date is unknown.

who attended the school wore no shoes. Ron recalls that Mr. Allmon (Allman?) was the Principal, and that he lived somewhere in the Hurlstone Park/Ashfield area. Ron's father, Peter Bernard Lewis was the Overseer at the Petersham Council, and the Council depot was just across the road from the school.

The RAF plane and its crew. The de Havilland Mosquito was one of the great aircraft of World War II, and the Mozzie, as it was affectionately known, fulfilled many vital roles as reconnaissance, pathfinder and intercept attack fighter, as well as bomber. Twelve fighter bomber FB VIs were assembled and flight tested from Mascot. These aircraft were to be used for training and general squadron flying, but the B's were preserved for special missions. This particular aircraft had been assembled on 1 ih March, and tested on 28th April, but had not as yet been delivered officially to the 618 squadron. Development problems in its construction, relating to timber availability and glue reaction to tropical humidity had had to be overcome. The Mosquito was of a laminated wood construction, and over 200 were built at the Beale piano factory at Annandale. It had twin 1400 to 1600 hp Rolls Royce Merlins which gave the plane exceptional performance and speed. The British Mosquito Squadron 618 was very hush hush, and when there seemed little left to do in the European theatre of war, the squadron was transferred by ship to Australia as it was hoped that their expertise and training could be exploited in the Pacific. 2 .. The Mosquito FB VI HR576 plane, PR.XVI NS735 of618 Squadron RAP (UK), was flying overhead at about 1 ,000 feet during a test flight at the time, on approach to Mascot Airport. . Two men, the pilot and an observer, were in the plane, and they attempted to steer the aircraft away from houses before it exploded. The pilot was Flight Lieutenant David George Rochford,l06025 618 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 25 of Oxford, England;*3; the observer was LAC Charles Broughton Boydell, aged 24 from Mosman, NSW who was supposed to be off duty that morning, so it is not known how he came to be on the flight. *4

Explosion Mrs. Ada Boes said she was reading in the garden at the time, when she heard a plane which sounded most unusual. She saw smoke billowing out of the rear of the plane, followed by flames and with a loud explosion the plane blew up. *5 .. The two crew members tried to eject from the aircraft, but they were not high enough to give enough time during descent for their parachutes to open. The engine of the plane faltered and then back-fired, and exploded in mid air, killing the pilot and the observer, scattering blazing wreckage from the wooden aircraft over the school ground, and the houses nearby, damaging 18 properties and setting four houses on fire; some wreckage landing in the railway goods yard, and some in Petersham Park. Mrs. I Clifton ofYagoona, said she was 19 at the time and lived two doors away from the Petersham Primary School, and was in her backyard. As she looked up pieces of flaming debris were falling. The engine of the aircraft appeared to be falling straight

2.Carpenter, E: Not so secret squadron, Wartime, 2005 3Remembered with honour in Sydney War Cemetery~ Memorial Avenue, Rookwood: Plot 2W.B.14: Flight Lieutenant David George Rochford, 106025, 618 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died Wednesday, 2nd May, 1945. [His daughter, Wendy Harvey, was only six weeks old when her father was killed in this tragic accident.] 4. Boydell had enlisted in the 1 Aust Armoured Div Transport Coy on 81

h August, 1941 and re-enlisted in the 1 Transport & Movement Office of the RAAF on 1Oth April, 1944. By this time these transfers were fairly common, as the Airforce was taking on logistical recruits to support the army actions in the Islands, Borneo etc, although we do not know the circumstances in Boydell's case. 5. Campus: Institute Issues, April1998 N.B. The date of the crash is wrong in this article, as the year is given as 1947. It was 1945.

I I

into the back of the house, and she ran screaming into the house. However it passed over her house and landed on the roof of the house opposite.* 6

Petersham Infants' School We were having spelling, and my teacher, Miss Didrickson, was struggling to make her voice heard over the noise of an aeroplane which was circling overhead. Suddenly the plane exploded. To we children on the top floor,in 2nd class, the noise of the explosion was cataclysmic, the loudest noise I had ever heard. (I suffered a trauma for many years, and could not bear to hear even a petrol whipper-snipper operating close by as it reminded me of the incident, making me feel panic-stricken.) Black smoke, burning smells, noise, screaming of the children and yelling of the teacher trying to make herselfheard were all part of the confusion in my memory. Brian Nelson and John Shaw were in kindergarten at the time. John remembers that his mate Brian said:"Yippee, --here come the Japs!" Fortunately the school had conducted regular drill over the past two days, which I had attended of going down the stairs in an orderly manner, and our teacher demanded we fall into line and evacuate the classroom down the stairs as we had been taught, which we did. Pilot in parachute lands in tree .. Meanwhile Ron Lewis, LuBell, and their 5A Class classmates on the ground floor facing Gordon Street, say that following a mighty explosion a boot came through the window and landed in the classroom. Mrs. I. Clifton said that she remembered that the top of the pilot's flying boot was shredded.*7. Ray Littley, next door in 6th class records: "We ... were about to have a dictation test when there was a terrific crashing sound outside and over the roof, followed by a 'white out' through one side of the tree. Then I saw that .... the pilot, had crashed through the tree branches with a shredded parachute and struck the ground with such force that he left an imprint in the bitumen." The dead pilot, suspended from his quarter-opened parachute, and still held fast in the cockpit and main fuselage, had crashed into the fig tree outside their classroom windows, which were very large, with the parachute dangling. John Kavanagh, now retired and living in Queensland was also in 6th class. Some pupils rushed to the windows, to gaze at this shocking spectacle, whilst some ran outside to view it. The 5A pupils were told to wait in the classroom whilst Mrs. Webb went to investigate what was happening. She came back and told them to go home immediately. Joy Smith, nee Anderson, now of Panania, was in Miss Knight's 5B classroom and Miss Knight told them not to tum around as she had obviously seen the pilot fall through the tree behind their classroom. *8 Ron Lewis said they went out the side gate and he did not see any of the burning plane or anything else. He said the pilot had been cut down when he came out, and was no longer in the tree. The primary children filed out of the classrooms past the parachute-covered body and were dismissed home. The children were told that they need not come back to school that day as they had the day off. Mr Allman later said that whilst some of the children were upset, they had "behaved grandly". Ray Littley says that being a young boy, he hopped on his bike and inspected the suburb, looking for souvenirs. Wistfully he records, that next day the police took a cannon from one enterprising lad, although it was unknown how he managed to remove it or carry it, unless he had a billy-cart to help! Playground Scene of Horror We ran pell-mell down the stairs, and spilled out on to the playground with all the other Infant's children. Here horror met our eyes: burning

6. Eyewitness to Mosquito Tragedy:Reveille, July/Aug., 1997. 7. Eyewitness to Mosquito Tragedy: Reveille, July/Aug., 1997. 8. "Petersham Air Crash Remembered": Western Suburbs Courier, Monday, April29, 1996 Story: Louise Goldsbury; Pictures: Kevin Ruming.

pieces of plane, smoking heaps of rags (the pilot had been cut down and placed in the playground. I knew instinctively that the heap was a person, so it must have been before the Headmaster, Mr. Allman, covered the pilot with his parachute.) Cannons and other equipment from the plane had fallen into the playground, and were almost buried in the asphalt, due to their heaviness as well as the heat from the explosion. Our teacher then instructed us to "Go home!" .. .. .I didn't even know where my home was, and no one could help me, as I was a new pupil and the other boys and girls did not know me, and were too busy going off to their own homes. Rather than make a bad decision and get lost, I decided to stay where I was, in case I suddenly remembered which way I should go. A little Infants' girl ran up to me in tears and said she had to go to the toilet and could I come with her as I was an older 2nd class pupil, and she was too scared to go by herself, with all the smoke and confusion. I thought I had better help this small girl, but as soon as she was comfortable again, she threw me a: "Thanks!" and ran off also.

Alone I was now alone in the midst of this devastation. Every time a teacher went past they yelled at me: "GO HOME!" I thought this was very unhelpful, and as no one would point out to me where my home was. I set out tentatively for the gate that I thought I had come in, earlier that morning with my mother. I went down the few steps and stepped out on to the street facing Trafalgar Street, looking down towards Petersham station.

Plane Explosion Sets Homes on Fire Here confusion was even worse, with burning houses in the distance, and the sounds of ambulances and fire engines shrieking and screaming in and around the surrounding streets. We know now a total of 18 properties were damaged. The following facts which describe the scene more fully were gleaned from the SMH, Thursday, May 3, 1945 p.3. A wing, the engine and part of the fuselage had crashed at the intersection of The Avenue and Searle Street, Petersham, setting fire to a pair of semi-detached houses, one occupied by Mr. and Mrs. H. Cornish. A baby's cot was on the verandah and became enveloped in flames, but the mother, Mrs. G. Jones had just taken the 13 months old baby inside before the plane crashed. The other house was occupied by Mrs. A Green and her four year old daughter, and they ran out the rear door and smashed down a fence to escape the inferno. The other wing of the plane, a piece of the fuselage and a piece of the engine crashed a quarter of a mile away between two houses in Railway Street, crashing through the roof of one house, occupied by Mr. T. Lowe, setting it on fire.*9 The side wall and roof of the two-storied house next door of Mrs. G. Peters, collapsed, burying the furniture in the two bedrooms in bricks and mortar. Part of the windscreen of the plane fell through the roof of the tobacconist's, Mr. F.J. White, in Palace Street, where his mother, Mrs. Amy White, 65, had just left the room, and it tore a hole in her bed. Blazing debris also fell on the homes of Mr. T. Bicknell, and Mrs. A. McMahon, at 100 Palace Street, where the nose section, part of the cockpit and part of the engine of the aircraft had hit the side of the house, lodging between it and~No.98,setting both on fire. Miss Crowe's home in Hunter Street was set alight, and severely damaged by fire. Firemen from city and suburban stations, directed by the Chief Officer Mr.

9.Mrs. Lowe, 20 at the time, was on holidays and her mother had decided to go shopping. Mrs. Lowe was forced to move out of the home for 12 months whilst the house was being repaired. Her parents slept in the garage and her two brothers slept in a neighbour's garage. Mrs. Lowe said her mother and father had to take an umbrella to bed if it were raining!* Natalie Davison: "An Act of Bravery: Tributes flow for heroic airmen", The Glebe & Inner Western Weekly, Wednesday, May 7, 1997.

Beare, attended all the burning houses and contained the fires, restricting further damage. Body of Observer and Debris Falls in Railway Yard and homes near the station Leading Aircraftman, Charles Broughton Boydell 444885 Royal Australian Air Force, aged 24, had freed himself from the aircraft, but plunged in flames to his death, falling on to the roof of a shed in the goods yard, across the road near Petersham station, which was about 100 yards away from where the pilot's body fell at the school.*tO A petrol tank and plane pieces were distributed along the rails, causing a cessation of train traffic for some time. A blazing petrol tank fell on to the roof of a house near the railway station, and burning petrol trickled down to the ground floor enveloping a bedroom in flames where a railway signalman, Mr. William Wilson, 40, home from night shift, was in bed; the fire badly burning his face, arms and body. A relative, Mrs. Amy Herbert came to his aid, and both were taken by Western Suburbs ambulance to Lewisham Hospital. A two-story house on the comer of Gordon and Trafalgar Street was set ablaze when a petrol tank from the plane fell on the roof. The fire brigade raced to the scene and firemen saved the house from destruction. Wreckage strewn across Petersham At Petersham Park children playing on the grass had a narrow escape as four machine-guns crashed to the ground. Children of St. Fiacre's School in Catherine St., (pronounced locally "Cather-rine" St, with the emphasis on the last syllable!) Leichhardt had just vacated the yard and returned to their lessons when smouldering wreckage fell into the yard. Mrs. Elsa Carmichael says her husband lived in Elswick St., Petersham in those days and a pair of flying goggles landed on their roofl Other streets where wreckage fell were: Ley Street, Leichhardt and Wardell Street, Petersham, and the roof of the Imperial Hotel at the comer of Norton Street and Parramatta Road. Over 50 firemen helped fight the fires.

Reunion Hopefully I peered up Trafalgar Street, just in case my mother was coming to find me. I wasn't game to cross the busy intersection by myself; I had faith that eventually my mother would come, so I waited. Again teachers ran past yelling at me to: "Go HOME!", but gave me no further information to assist in this task. Suddenly in the distance I see my mother, wearing clothes she would never have been seen dead in, and which she only used when washing, running madly down the street with soap suds up her arms and with my little sister in the stroller. Then, and only then, did I

10. LAC Boydell, son of William Guy Boydell and Roi St. George Boydell of Mosman is remembered with honour: Grave Reference Panel No. 2W.B.8 in the Sydney War Cemetery, Memorial Avenue, Rookwood, NSW. A funeral service for both men was held in the Kinsela Chapel, Taylor Square, on Friday, May 4th, 1945, conducted by Padre Johnson of the R.A.A.F., and the Rector from St. Clements, Mosman, Rev. R.L. Hewitt. The two hearses moved off down Oxford Street abreast. Over each casket was draped the Union Jack and on top of each hearse were masses of flowers, and as the cars moved down the street, every man in the street stopped and raised his hat. On reaching Rookwood War Memorial Cemetery, the procession slowed and a guard of honour of about 100 Service personnel comprised ofR.A.F., R.A.A.F., and W.A.A.A.F. lined the route then marcheii each side of the hearses around the memorial on which the flag was flying at half-mast. The two graves are situated on top of a small hill along with hundreds of white crosses marking the resting place of other servicemen who had given their lives for their country. A formation of 8 R.A.A.F. planes flew overhead as a last tribute. The Last Post was sounded by the bugler standing between the two graves and the flag was raised to the top of the flagpole. A poem is appended, which was included in the funeral service, written by Mrs. Kitty Robins ofF orest Drive, Keston Park, Kent, "One Woman's Son". Mrs. Roi Boydell met Mrs. Robins while in London, in 1952. (Chrys Meader, Historian, Marrickville Council supplied this information.)

I I I

burst into tears .... ofrelief. My mother nearly strangled me, hugging me to death, until I finally had to beg her to stop. Then she burst into tears, and my little sister who was less than a year old, decided she had better join in and make it a family affair. We all traipsed horne, back through the subway to Palace Street, and then the back lane into 55 Brighton Street, with me recounting what had happened. Mum told me that she had been hanging the clothes on the line, and saw the plane explode and scooped up my sister into the stroller and ran out the back gate. When we got horne we met a furious and indignant grandmother in the laundry, berating my mother for being so thoughtless as to leave the taps running, flooding the whole backyard, which was now a quagmire. Again my mother and we two children burst into tears, and Grandma was mollified when we told her what had happened.

What caused the Crash? Officers of the RAAF collected the parts, and took them to No.2 Central Recovery room at the Richmond RAAF base, but they were not laid out in any logical sequence as they arrived, to be later examined by experts. Unfortunately the Court oflnquiry convened on the 4th of May, 1945 was hampered by the fact that many pieces of the wreckage were recovered by civilians and souvenired, so their actual landing position could not be mapped accurately, including the vital wing fragments. Two more Mosquitoes were lost in the ensuing months. The first crew crash landed at Dubbo and escaped. The second crew of two, were killed near Violet Town, northern Victoria and again a subsequent court of enquiry could not ascertain the cause for the crash ofthe Mosquito.*llRAAF Association State Treasurer, Bewick Hack stated that the cause of the crash remained a mystery. *12. It is suspected that a violent pull out from a swooping power dive, with its associated high 'g' forces may have led to the structural failure of the aircraft, as it flew south west toward Petersham railway station. Either the steel tube mounting frames holding the two engines broke away from the timber superstructure or the upper sheets of the wings delaminated, effectively pulling the plane apart. The fuel tanks were positioned between the engine nacelles or cowlings, and the fuselage, and they too were split open, causing the aircraft to burst into flames. The 618 Squadron were not involved in any further military action. A further four aircraft crashed and six crew were lost to accidents in Australia both before and even after final disbandment of 618 Squadron on 14th July, 1945. *13. Sadly the surviving Mosquitoes were unwanted by either the RAF or the RAAF, due to their chequered history and the ending of hostilities, so they were broken up and sold locally for parts and scrap. The shell with engines cost £35 and without,-- a beggarly £15. *14 Compensation Another Court of Inquiry was held a week later on the 9th May, 1945 to address the issue of compensation. As the day before had been Tuesday, 8th May, 1945, VE Day, possibly full significance was not given to the situation, but some 30 instances of damage were recorded, and 18 properties received compensation: some as little as £1/19/8d, (c.$100) others up to £685/14/lOd (c. $34,275 in today's value). *15

11.Carpenter,E: Not so Secret Squadron, Wartime, 2005. 12.MurrayNicholls: "Recalling a Wartime Air Crash", Memorial Service, 2nd May, 1996 .. Glebe & Inner City News, Wednesday, May 8,1966. 13. Carpenter, E.: Not so secret squadron, Wartime, 2005 14. Vincent, David: Mosquito Monograph, quoted by E. Carpenter in Wartime, 2005. 15. Carpenter, E: Not So Secret Squadron, Wartime, 2005.

Peter Bernard Lewis Ron's father, Peter Bernard Lewis received a letter on the 16th May, 1945 from Petersham Council Town Clerk, W. Hastie, thanking him for his services during this plane crash crisis. The letter is appended for perusal. Mr. Peter Lewis was in charge of the National Emergency Service rescue in demolition squads at the time. It notes that unfortunately two airmen lost their lives in the incident and damage was sustained to several properties, and the Petersham Council was grateful for his assistance. Mr. Lewis had risen from a ganger on 2nd January, 1930 and eventually became Overseer of Works on 31st July, 1931. He did an engineering course as the Council did not have an engineer at the time. He received commendation by the Mayor J.F. Laxton, and Town Clerk, W. Hastie for his services, and Ron is justly proud of him. *16

Closure after Sixty Years I stayed on at Petersham Public School for another month or so, before going to live at Wedderburn where I continued my education by correspondence lessons, as the nearest school was at Campbelltown, seven miles away. Ron Lewis finished the year there at Petersham, and began employment, as many young people did in those days. Ron remembers that later that year, they planted two silky oak ( Grevillea Robusta) trees, in the school grounds in memory of the pilot and observer who had lost their lives on that fateful day. On Wednesday, 5th January, 2005 Ron and I drove to Petersham School to see if we could remember any other details. Unfortunately the school, now a T AFE, was locked and we could not gain entry to the schoolyard or the playground, or any ofthe buildings. Whereas Ron could point out the building I had been in, and the area he had been in, and the gate he left by and the gate I left by, we could not jog our memories any further. Ron could not identify which were the two silky oak trees were planted, (we were unaware then ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ had been taken out, and another planted a few yards further along from the Primary section.

Memorial Services: 1945 Mr. Allman, the Headmaster must have been replaced by a Miss Knight, as Principal, as another eyewitness, Mr. Bill Fitch, records that Miss Knight, and some of the students planted, in memory of the airmen, some silky oak trees which have now perished. LAC Boydell' s sister, Justine Tweed, attended this 1945 ceremony at the school. *17 LuBell says that the site where one of the bodies landed is marked by a round concrete block enclosing a four point red star upon a four point black star. Nearby an attractive garden plot contains a flagpole, and there are two small metal plaques, formed from part of the wreckage, erected by Petersham Public School recording the deaths of the airmen, and only a few metres from where Flt-Lt Rochford's body was found.

In 1966 a Memorial Garden Dedication Ceremony was held by the Petersham RSL, with Rev. Champion rendering a prayer of dedication, and the Petersham Girls' high school Choir singing one of the dedication hymns.

In 1990 the families of the two airmen came and a memorial ceremony was held at the school.

16. Petersham Council amalgamated with Marrickville Municipal Council on 1/111949 and the inaugural Mayor was also a J.F. Laxton, who was the son of Mayor J.F. Laxton, of the former Petersham Council. 17. Campus: Institute Issues, April1998.

In 1995 remembrance and wreath laying ceremony was conducted by the NSW Branch and the Petersham Branch of the RSL, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the deaths ofthe two airmen, with Mr. Rusty Priest, NSW President of the RSL, Squadron Leader Clive Coombes, RAF, from the British High Commission, Canberra and the Hon. Gary Punch MP, Minister for Defence, Science & Personnel. It was only after this event that Anna Newton, the niece of David Rochford read reports on it in the Sydney press. She then contacted one of the organisers Florence Bell, who then began organising the memorial service for the following year. *18 In 1995 /96 the Department ofPublic Works restored the heritage buildings, and the West Street campus was landscaped. *19.

1997 another Remembrance and Wreath laying Ceremony was held at the site. More than 150 residents, 200 former students and relatives of the dead men gathered to remember the event. Memories of the crash came flooding back for many, as low­flyingjets repeatedly drowned out the words of prayer and sorrow from many resident and former pupils who came to pay their respects to the two men. *20 Rochford's daughter, Wendy Harvey and her mother Margaret Skinner travelled from Oxford England to celebrate the lives of David Rochford and Charles Boydell. On March 2nd

1998 Mr. David Harvey, grandson of the late Lt. Rochford visited the memorial. His mother, Wendy Harvey had been only a few weeks old when her father died.

1998 David Rochford's sister, Maud Pain and Charles Boydell's sister, Justine Tweed, from Bendigo attended the 1998 service. Mrs. Tweed said that her elder brother as a young man was determined to serve his country, joining up as soon as the war was declared. All he wanted to do was see action. He was an outstanding young man with a quiet sense of humour. *21 For the ceremony Petersham Primary sang their school song, and the airmen's families planted new trees, and received from the SIT Property Manager, Mr. Graham Bellenger, plaques on pieces of the former silky oak trees.*22

2005 Despite it being the Sixtieth Anniversary, I have been informed that there is no Memorial Service being planned for this year. My husband Cliff took a photo of Ron and myself outside the school, just for the record. It was a hot summer's day, about 33C and even the traffic seemed sleepy and unhurried as we stood outside the school. What a contrast to that cool chaotic May day almost sixty years ago. May Day indeed.

18. Recalling a wartime air crash" by Murray Nicholls. Glebe & Inner City News. Wednesday, May 8, 1996. 19. Campus: Institute Issues, April, 1998 20. Natalie Davidson: "An Act of Bravery: Tributes flow for heroic airmen": The Glebe & Inner Weekly, Wednesday, May 7,1997. 21. Phillippa Walsh: "The Day the War hit Petersham", Daily Telegraph, Saturday, May 3, 1997: 17. 22. "West Street Remembers" Campus: Institute Issues, April, 1998. ·

References: Conversation with Chris Meader, Historian, Marrickville Municipal Council, Box 14, Petersham P.O., 2049, NSW., Australia and documents supplied by her regarding eyewitness accounts given by ex-pupils of the school, and residents of Petersham ..

Penglase, Joanna & Homer, David: When the War came to Australia: p188 Interview with Ken Haylings by David Homer. First Pub. London, Allen & Unwin, 1992. Marrickville, Southwood Press. Personal Communication: W. Hastie, Town Clerk, Petersham Council to Mr. P.B. Lewis, Overseer ofWorks, dated 16th May, 1945. Personal Communication: Mayor J.F. Laxton (Snr) & W. Hastie, Town Clerk to Mr. P.B. Lewis, Overseer ofWorks dated 16/10/48. Public Records Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey www.pro.gov.uk Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, May 3, 1945: p3 Website: home.st.net.au/~dunn .nsw20.htm Personal Accounts: Mrs. Y. Cob by, now of Gosford; Mr. Bill Fitch 6th class pupil; Mr. V. Rochfort who was working at A W A, Ashfield on that date and recorded by his son; Mr. Bruce Weekley who was at Ashfield Primary School; Mr. Peter McMahon, playing as a child at 100 Palace St., Petersham; Mr. Peter Devers, Towoomba, who was in the Science Room as a student, on the second floor at Christian Brothers School, Lewisham, and saw it from the window.

The following poem was written by Mrs. Kitty Robins of Forest Drive, Keston Park, Kent. She wrote: "I am sure I have voiced the feelings of all the hundreds of bereaved mothers in the world today. Perhaps if they could see in print what they feel in their hearts it might bring a tiny shred of comfort to them". It was printed in the Funeral Service held in 1945 for the two airmen: Flight Lieutenant David Rochford, and LAC Charles Boydell. Mrs. Roi Boydell, mother of LAC Charles Boydell, met Mrs. Robins on a trip to London, in 1952.

ONE WOMAN'S SON Oh, Son! That you should die in vain, And leave behind such anguished pain, The agony that never again Shall I see you-My Son!

Oh, Fate! That you could so define So cruel a blow as this of thine, To bereave me of my boy so fine, As you-My Son!

Twixt pain and joy were you born to me, I thought-for all eternity; But now my pain no one must see But you-My Son!

You lie in Australian fields to rest, God in His wisdom should know best; But would to God you had died at my breast, An innocent babe-My Son!

My love remains in constancy, Death cannot dim your memory, You'll comfort me in my Gethsemane, Won't you-- My Son?

THE DAILY MIRROR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, IHS.

GOING ON OKINAWA eary Campaign Forecast

FOR. I

NS •varld Cable•) I ,_,..,_.-The Battle of 1

second month,/ southward miles I • I

between 40,000

1

.

Japanese to be

ll'llfllilialrn McGaffin, eorrespondent on

at the present quite possible

mtllnu1e for several a I Ill Jl>llchlng l 1111111<.1 airfield,:

>IX mil•' of lllf' city of Davno.' Ult souU1. thr America"·'· hold I

thr Oigos arra h•" "'-"'n twhtf'nrd J

a :w\·en~ndlt aflvn.nrr niH! th£' •l!!a•u;IJ:UirP ol Maln~aR. PLAN E BREAKs

!~ TH£ FUSELAGE of a plane , 'l &Dioit:h <li•intevateJ in midair

! ... ;~~::.!;·:!:~~:~~~:~«!~;:~~ l.uaon~ ~rnund forrr .. au· i"'n­and rru .. htn,; t"nrm} -.trott~­

lloml>f'n Y""l<-rday dropfH"d ef rxpiOHh·r in sUJlpnrt, dr­

-c.,•-··•··- ammunition dumpo!ll and rhf'my trooJl"'l.

At~ul!,t·r JwU\',\ humber .-.tr1k1· wa.._ ,l.t~ntk> n~:uu .. t l'nnnooa. Many lire:-.

:.tattt-d and t.nr~rtJ; wt•re cibscur-11 bloukrl ot smokr whld1 r"""

1-'hippln~ In th• China Sr~t nlt.Jt~·krd ami R 5000-ton

1'.:\:- ~ll1lk r1utl\ bomhnrdraWnl of Bnu­

, llUI-l\IJit•. Nr·w In-lund nrnJ Wr>wak •ft..~ t•nrrh·d out

"STRINGENT FIREARMS

PENAL TIES"

uP-TW Q D EA Di·"l'm "ot Talking" LAY DYING

Two Air Force officers were k~ll~~, several ...... BLOOD houses were damaged and two CIVIlians were I~ injured today when a R.A.F. plane on a test AND RAIN flight fell to pieces in the air over Lewishom

When police round MarKarrl and scattered its twin engines, wings and fuse-

1 nolmes dyln~ In a pool of blood

I loge over 0 wide area between Petersham and. in a Woolloomooloo street with the rain beatlnr do~n upon htr,

; lewishom. · her last word~ to them wert, I scENE..'i of horror were •h·.,rribed by sections crashed to the ground I' "I'm not talkinK!" said S~:t. 1 ' "'''"'"I wltnes.,es who sn w the A long trail or flaming ·petrol Caldwell at the Coroner's Court phuH' break up, alter rolling and rock- Fp!ralled behind one part of the, today. lng m difficulties. machine. i A TRAIL of blood k·d from Lht

Pall!r~ wreckage. •orne naming, The oo.s1 of the .,.~ond oftlc.r In 1 comer of the street to the body. nnd bumlne petrol feU on to '""•eral the plane who..- rank was stnlor I The City Coroner <Mr. Cooksonl houses. damaging them all. At lealrt. t<1 that ol the pilot fell between was lnqulrmg Into the death of Mar·

;\J 0 r r slrinj:'rnt p~naltle~ . thn·r hou~ were damaged by falllng railway lrackA on th'r line .. .,.t of gnret Holmrs or Tibbl'ts t31l). whO "ollld h. Pro.,·d·d b• sp·~ial 1 piN'OS of thc plane. and three others Petersham •tatlon ,.,.,.e to thr was found shot In thr l'arly hours of

' ' ' ' ' b\' lire oldlnJ. II lint strUck- a small sir- i SFI'dbruary II. In MrEihone St.. E~ I' 1:' i •I a I i 0 n to dral with ·Pupils at Ute Petel'!\ham Pub· nal box. : Y ney, out• !dr• n:1 :tllrl!rrl sl\' "'011 pf'r<oon• found IJ[IIa wfully In llr !'ractke &·hool had left the In each case the ail man was killed , shop. · po•<'~•ion of lirrarm•. ll the parwle ground, In front oC the biJ!tanUy. • Two WOm!'n rhnrgrd \\ !th her mur• poli~r ••nn>id~rrd it nN"essary. bul!dmg, only a few minutes 1M!- One tnglne fell on the road at the J der, Iri' Eileen Mary Furlong •381, lhr .\rtin~·Prrmif"r tlllr. Bad- for~ til~ body of the pilot, who WM corner of Searl Street and The Avenue I or llfrEihone St. Ea't Sydnrv and d I I . entani(IM In an open parachute, Petersham, nearly half a mile awav: i Millicent Tangga t40•. of Wilron St.

r f') 1 111 d lh~ Stair l,abor ·crashed o nto thr bitumen. with tlle and the second rrnshed anoUter ha\r Woolloomooloo wrre present In court,

l':arty l'oUI'U' loda)·. rockp!t and loadt'd mnch!neguns. mile away In Ra1!w"'· AtrePt. both dre,;.,ed Ill dr•ep moumln~. In 'f'O du tilL' " •t~·clal "''"'''"" of Par- ·n~e body and wreckage wrre partly ahav;·. Peter- I Ute custody of pollee women.

lliH!wnt would lw rallt·d. hr .'ill!d burled beneath a large tree. portion I F.rnest Holm~s. of Kent St c1t, ~tr Ho<l<i<'!l) Nli<l lht· Poll"" Com- of whkh was torn dov;·n. ' A.C.W.'s Description I •nld Ulat Margaret Holm•s had uv.d

fiii<'I ·nr • Mr 'lrKu)' 1 considered Tabll to h""pltal from one of the . , :at his home !ntt>rm!ttenUv tor two thHr ,..,., "" "'"! at pro,-ent for a bumln~r hou~o, •rrr Mn. Amy AtC W Beryl M. Robin.,, of Sta- yrars a, hl' wn·s wlfr. · ~I"'' tal "''""''"' hut tllt• po...Ution was llrrb<rt 1601. and WilHam Wlbon Uon Rd., Petersham, who l.s attached • She had bl'en addicted to drink l~·m•· t!ti!W·I\ ""ldwd 1U1, who •rrr In one of the ho...,. toba bR.A.A.:F'. station In a Sydney, The da\' JM,fore •h~ died she !til

- CaUl"' !Rrrwo·ll•·tl Mr A Landa oppo!dtr tM IO<'hool. in Gonton 8t1 llll .. ur · said: , home Sll\'lno:: rh• was going to look tar ·ll,nd1•. ~>h<> 101:: ,lwrth J~ave 00 8 1 P•t<>f'!lham. They w•rr bumra I

1could """ the plft.llf' was In, a R'lrl who owed her some money

w~trt.l tour ·

1

. aboat thr f-.,r and hands. ~be. Th~ engine WllS going on and j Shto had been !rlendly with Irb The rear part of . the up~r and and •uddenly the right wing came Furlong and TanJ(tra

B I D F 0 R lower flOOf'• of Ml'!l. Herbert'a home oft. It Wa.. Ule tll'llt part of the' A wltn""" Vera M~y Barlwf'<' said

' wu prnctlcaUy d.,..troyffi by fire. and machln., to break away and It took 1 the dead woman uked T&llJIKa. U1 I Uleir furniture was burned to a wltll It part of the f'U8elai"e. 'pay a debt, thrrn~ntn 11 her Tang~(& I charred ma.56. Otller serious tire "Parts of tbe dla.lnterrated plant ll111d replied: "If I don't get You tl"'t •

H IT L E R I damaged was donr to the houoe next ....,..., alla'ht and 1 saw a body fall Sarlwee said •hf' saw Tangga ..;leis door. . • . aat. This body ha4 110 p&r'achate. \ 8"111111. and told her to put It awav

I F\remf'n, undn Ch1et Officer Beare, In tht .,......, of the ncond m 1 "Mill\' went homr 1\nd Manam prevenwd the Hpread of tl"' flam~ to ...,ld • .., a parachute had ·~~ lrft trn minute< iater I h rd

:_ lhr rem~lnd~r ~ r• ·~~ tt~~tal bat It In '"' way aapporlNI t~~fa.ll~_ I <crr&ms and !Ill e~plo<!on: Marf':!'rt~ ' r In ten .,,..,. M "'" ..;;u•m ~: "I lq part ., the planr In whkh the I callf'd nut. 'M!lh· 'ho• mr'," WI ne.s of Hitler • a tcr treatment. r_ son sa . p1ret ,... trapPf'd." ~ld.

wa.• slr.plng after night duty when The R. • "I , 11 ., M!ll)' r 1 h d which the battle for. tllr hou~ ""-' •haken by a territle and N C OAA.F. Quickly sem nt'lk~r• ' bv th~ llvht otunt~;J" 'l t e ~Ill an I

lrnp .. t·t 1 jurnp<'d from the bed and · · -• to cordon otT th06<' arras ni 11 d Rh h d • .r~ amp , means thot the Red da.•h•d trom th<' room. n1~ 'place "p1~"': /~{ bod!"' and parts or the Shr ";et,;rn"ect :tJo~t at!!~ ln1 "f h1al(~ "n.' wt•ll alight ond I mu.<t have n • · 11 d Ell ld m nu "" a r

bf'~ burrn .._. 1. l~ft my bed •• ·M•n wiUl llx<·d bayonets wert' n " 11 sn · 'If YOU don't ~0 . 1818. when hi• ll-boM .,.. ... ctr- ~r. WI......, said tha~ h~ · oaw a placed In flO&Itlon. but th~ cro1rd """ ~ aw.ay f[';;{'~ .. h:;~r. Milly, I won't be

I ltrt>)'l'd. I woman ,..ho .,..raplrtl thr t<lp lloor 110 dense t.l. each wtd~ly-.,.parated : re;ponMF r. onrlwl'f' lidded. · f th rt'sld d h baiiJ SflOt Ulat there wa" ""uvenirlng by " r Munro tfor Furlontl •he

' II ,.. .. IUa ptannlnr U..at breucht 1 " 1 1 f ~ ;";· ~~ tb'" ,.,..... I'Oidlerll and ci\1J!ans llllld that Furlonll' and Holmfl had

ahoat the> •••lr-,...k• ta<otko em- ~ r rom • a ony " 0 e _ __ _ _ __ · bef>n ven- frlendlv O\'l'r a num~r of 1''-YI'd wtth twll '*Y1141tatlaa: rlrfft of 1ix mrn, a• llamet~ rnnloped tru, · - · . vrars an·d tllAt it would h bet bJ v-.... a.. ......... t Btltloh .. d. I' bull<llnJ. Thr wnman .,..,.,.c~ •....-.. U.S. AIRCRAFT OUTPUT . lnnx""'!ble roc P'UrlonR' to baa;: takt!:

~t«tia~}~,n'!'~!:.,~ t~~i ~ n~~:!t bl'forr Utr machine dlo· ~~! !Y YEAR'S END ; an;~';dl~11tlle shooting. ,., !nt.f'llrnt'!d th~re wu a huge putl' or a II '"'"" World Cablu. 1 ~t ..__t · p ~

. !!moh. followed by a !ll'e'at round \\• ASHINOTON. Wl'dllMday _ Unl-/ ·-·~·• IU'APr told tM Court ' Ofllf'Tal Of~l,nlon !" IJ~?'~' I• Ural hall nf n•m• l~rl f!tat-. nlr• rnfl '" 1' ., . , ~at M~rvarrt ltolml'•, 'IPhtm ukt<l

aonv lNEW: trUHR:tJR; J?P=rYI:fEY MOIW'NG Hf.EiA!.D. THUR.SDA~ M,4Y 1. 11H 3

I ·SPEAKS TWO PlE WHEN PLANE

2.-Three Auatrii· American, ""d

fiberded by J"trol• •everal milt!• e1ul of

:1F. h 0 0 d BLOWS UP IN AIR .Igtnrer --1 To Gcrn1ans Wreckage Fires Houses I

A Royal Air F orc:e plane blew up in the air over Peterabam yesterday morninr, killini the pilot and the ob~rver, and ac:atterin1 blazing wreckage over a wide •rea.

i LONDON. MAy 2 IA.A.P.l.­i AdmirAl Oocnltll. O~rmt>.ny·~ nr.v,. :Fuhrer and ht.ad nf thf. armed : forre~. spuklnR otf'r Hamburl( ; Radio ye.!terda:v. ~aid that hr : ln~nded to tl~tht on "to san the Four housee were set on fire. In one of them a ;oerman ~plr from A"'nlhlln- bed in which a man was asleep caught alight. He tlon by l.he advanclni Bolahel'lat eseaped from the room badJy burned, with his pyjamas jen~~y~~ded, .. 1 t<hllll conUnuc charred. Several other persons, including two babiee, jthe strunll!' anln~ the British narrowly escaped death. !and t.hl! AmerlcRns .m lon~; a.< -· · ----·----------, The pilot. and the obscrYcr. both . they hinder mt In rarryinp; nut 300 H a ~;ted 25, wer~ members of the th~ ft~ht ftllftlnst Boll<hevtsm." : omes to R.A.F.

Dor.nttz R",... a rft.('hrt tllk And I!\Ml"CI. e Tht pilot'~ body (.-IJ on th,. pht\ _ an Clt'Mr n( thfo nar l<t the Oerrnon I B B It ' :.round ol " Khool .. here hundred> ol A""" trnm..tl~tel:l' dt~r Ram'>uro. e w I c.hildrtn "'" at. Umr lc.>wn..

: Radltl h~d announced Hltl.:r'a death I Tht dead oburvu "'"" found on th<. : m Berlin. I B s • t root or a rallway 6hecl about 200 y_r<J.;

: "Germon men ~nd •·omen And I Y OCJe Y I aw;Jito or th• planr leU o\'cr an area '""ld1~.,. of th~ r.erm&ll Welumacllt of two square mlleo. 1nur l"uhrtr. Atktlt Hitler ha.• tlll'n · The cra.;h occurred >hflrtly alter In ort1nn ot hi• T(l7nmllnd po•t. 0 nrl Con.~tructlon o! 300 homes I l.JO a.m.. wh<n ;t "'"" llYII16 at a ,. ho... lr. d!'epe.,t moumln& a:1d In thl! Sydney m~tropohtan height ol &bout I.OGO feet.

, t .. hfo ·d · Shornv i::x!lo~ rts1dFn~ or Petcr-ve~'<ft 10"· . .., · area. NewcastlP.. and tht. South sham had hl'ard ·til<' cngtn. !alter an1

He """'tnll!ed th• l.-rrtbl• dan~" Coast. diRtrlct. through r.o-opcra- back-tire. The:v then •aw · ·ar.k """~:c. 'n( ftoJsht"vfm" Jilt. an P.-rtV d~tr. And . . . tolJOWed bv namt~ pour Jrom lht :dt<llrotrd hi• •xistr.nu '" thl.• .;tr~g;:l• Uve bt11ld!J1'1; sncietle;~ has lrer.n on~mc A lew '"'condi. l•~ the pla~t

Mk• hi• ..... """ or Ringle c,ervtee !Ol approved by t.hr. '11-~mstcr for blew un. ' H i M M G A -n·m: ;a Ul":Cf" or rustlai:e and thr. Grnnan.•. H,. ~ctton In ftghtln~ I nu~ ng. r. C Irr. 1 cngmr crashed ~~ th• ln!J'r..,ctt~n oi

1 aratnot Bnl•h•vt.m ~:a• wagt'!d bt!yond. Thp home• will ho. dtotrtbut.d •·• 1 The Avenue llild searle Street Peter­; th•t. ,.,.. tr.urope and the entire clvt-~' follow.: 130 In !he Sydney metro ;JOlt-~ $ham. lliiP~ Wllrld. tan area, 7!1 In Newcutle. &n<l 75 trom l"lamu •nread trom lhem and :s<t ! "Th• l'uhrrr ho< >ppotnted me Ills I Bulll to Port Kembla. . ~~;;;. '::, 1~~ih ~~·:~-detach~ houm .

.rurr.CI'=P:OL ftnd. c·onM:!'rou~ of lhJ;o; res- U.r. McGlrr sud yP.'Iterui'.V that he Mrn H Comt.sh anitpt~ b~ 1 Mr. an1 : p:lfU.Ibihty, I am toltinr tn~r tM \e&ct~r-1 hrlri Ahn Rpprt)\'l'!ct nt tht: Allccatton cl i thex~. ~tr~. G Jone.:;, a~·tr~ ah;; rJ , .!hip ~r lhf" Gf'rman people tn tl\1~ 1 50 homn to tha R:ldt Munlnl~lll Gnun- 1 month.s old baby.

· :ra••e bnnr nf de.uny. 1•11 •nr1 ,\0 home. .to b• constructed bl I t;SC/ll'ES FROM HOUSE .. " tbP Nrwr!\Rtlf! Cit¥ cnunrll. . .

SAVE GERMANY Th d't ld l I • rh. habv• mi.~-•. "'' 'h' •eran-,. ~Amf': ron 1 ton.'i ~·ou "DP ,\' o dah and "·U e-rw("looed m 1"1 ~ h 1 .. M,. nr!tf ~~~k I~ t.n ~:~tvr lh' Gf"'r-

1thr. r.nn~trur:ttnn nf thn.w homt!l a.:- 10 lhp crash ()('CUrrect. but :;,~"!:,;;, .;on.,c~

"'"·" P"'lll• rmm •nnth!lallon by thr. 1-hr hom•• to bo hmll by the <"t>-uper~- had takrl' baby out ol It two-mtnutc.. · .. rl1'"~~""'"' Rol;.hl"''tl'lt P.nem.f. Th,. ll''" build In I .~oc:i~ues 1 pr,.\'lon..J~· r mrl:t'\r\' .;fr•uu;-le r.onunu,...s nnJv 't'll t11 .\fr. Mr.Gtrr '"'" lhat r.rnrttr.~ rl%f'd : r~~~ ftMlltl'- s"·r::H '!trou;::h th&­i thl'i ~1m Jnasmw:::h JLnri ~~~ lon~ ~ .v.-.~terrtA~· ~tth th,. Houun~t r:ommL~- : t.o nln ~~1i ~~1~h!a.ter · J.n!.i W€ ha~ l lhr ~lt•lnmenl. nl th" ••m '" hem. al<>n for lhr rnrutrurtton nl 80 home. ho • ~•r door o! lh .. 111nrtcr•d hy Uu Brtttsh knd Amert· I :"' .Mu .unaoh donn a· fence to •aru .,~ Jh'll havr 10 "<>ntmue tn' thrnurh th~ Commb•lnn tt. Abbot.· 1 e.;c~P<!-

' Ml•ntf n•tr"'l"•..! •;atnsr them "" mJII lord Tht ntm~• of thr &uecelt.!oful' lht other houst wa; occu111ea t>y '~nd 'hill h•vt tn C<Hllln~ to light I t.endrren would bt J.IUlOWltftd soon 1 ~In A, (irtcn and her dau;;luer, •;;<o ·~alnJL lhem The Brlt.toh ant! the Th• litat• Hou>lni comm~&lOill L:'~r ~~h:y_r>capecl In the same "a' . ..\mrrtt:an."' \\ill thrn cnnttnu .. th,. Will tO-dlv "'lil holt1 1\ h~tUot tnr :\nothcl 1 h ot'f Gter"n colla~ed from ~hoc.,_

. n,, lonl-. In• th~lr l>t<l!liM hut '"! 100 h'onlr.' '" h• m•dr available In the' l lh • t "( :tn~ ot tnt plane." IW« ru1thtr IJ1f' ~oopreao: o! Bobhevt!im Ul S,vdney meLrnpolJtFln ,~.. ~ ~f'~~~d \~t ~~:rtand JJ<tlt ol th~~ cngme. P.;uro~J# I Mr. MrGirr .'Slid lha.t tl '-OUI<I llt l\'.~11 two qh r~ C'( a nnle :l'-'8V 1;.(-

Th• n~lltln;r •chttvemrnt.• nl lhr lhr {oltrlll !MilOt lor hom>s In thr h\O· A b ouse. U1 Raii\\AV ~tr<d f'innu.n orop}.- lh fht' .,IU anri lhl' 111'\' mt'lropnllll\n 'rf!a .\;O("f' Nl'l\~fm- 'thro~~~:n~ Plf'(E or ,,rrtk:::..;f" crR~h~rj ·'J.rrerlnJ nf lh' hnmtl~tnd ar,. unHJ11• l:.t>r .R~llnu 101 hnme., hart 'llrrad~ 1 MJ T~ ~~r root oJ unt lX:CUplrd b'o lr'l !,Ja:tory nurtnrr thl\ tam" nl tht I takr.n place at Nen·c:aJtlr and Poat T'l d ve. and ~eo~ ftrr to tl1P. hou~.o:: nlt~hr ol r.ur Jll!oplr I •h•ll rndeavom Kemhla 1 t"d "; < \\;oil ana roof or th~ t\\o-1\.o.· tar "" 1 ... In mv pnwrr r.n u«"'lllt ' '" 01 c lOll.Sr of Mr~ (J Ptter~ nt.,t

1 '>•.rable c'>lldlllon• 'tnr our bra\'r men I TO MF.F.T IIRGENT NEF.O I ~nor .oii&IJ'R<l anti '"• lunuture m 'lu.lri~tn onn ,.omen I M• MrOirr add•d I hal veatord•' 1 ~'j b<'dt'Pom;, ""' lluneu Wider bncK.>

1 f'nr •II ll11~ I nrorrt Vt111r Mrlp hr lucl tnformrd thfl pn•.,ldt'UI uf tJ)t. an~n~l~rt;u nnnt mr ~nu1 ron/ldfi'ON'. fnr you' A:u~orJat1on n( C'A1-oprrauvr Bmhhni, _ wa~ 1

11 lr( r~m .. -.-un lht tir:,t uoor

1 l)ll h 111 ~J~tn m v path Malntaln nrdf'l SOl 1r11r~ M 1 Oeoi'Qt Wrn. M LA lnw .. \\' (" 01 ~ r and Mr::. J Bro\\ n-

1rnd dwlplln• m IO'"n ond rnuntrv an~ '""I an 'allocollon would bt nlldt 10, ~n 1 ~t·~e >aby of I 1 mouth.> hact mtv t\ervon~ tulnl I11A dutv at h~ .. Jhr ~Mtf'tt"" fnt· :'\00 h"mrtt tn ht bUilt l a 1,." a. fll1 C\Ul £ll !L-. tnt Ul the room pn~l - 1 hrnuq:h t hf' snr1f'tltA tor ll"'tr\~f' 1>t1 ~fill' . l '

1 tflllltltf'.) PIt\ tou.o,Jy

Tl '' onlv 1 hur. th"' "'"" A.!HIIl hf' \\ hn had an ur&~ru n!~ri few " homr. t'fll \~d JU.;1~ ~al..ru babv hum lll". '"'~ rn mlti«ILI' lhl" NUftfl'rma:· whit 11 I ""d who rnulrt ronlt\rm "'\th thr, Y.hc 11 \\a f:' <'Ul!!ilrir ~hr IHIU_.e •h( rnrnlnr Pl'rl<lli "'Ill brtna lt• eat·ll ··need• qual!ftr.Atlom · latd down .t til< I ·lru~k ~~,f''h'r ot .. th• blaztn;: pl•ll" t)'lr 'If u ... and puvr.nr r.rl111nsr fl P1rmt~rs' enntl'rtnr.- iow 1111 · owe. satd Mn Brown-.,,, t1'1 "'hal '' 1n nur poV'~~>r Onr1 • dl 1'ht: tarttmJ "lllrh 'frnulrt rlt·!ermmr -' rt ,10, t.,na}t:l! ~~~ •tV'r \0 mu~h ot ttUI· ltll urqent llf"fld nf "n •pphr.•nt \\OUlo • br.dt~a,J.l~~ch£ ot brtt;k!, lc:JI tnto UP# lrrlnil' 'nd "'lf'llnrr. '' ht tlut he "''" h\'ll\1 tn t\Vf'rrto••dr<i dllcl Ill P\\ lf"t tn Mr R S1Pod

A b"nll th~"n playerl lh# , .. ,,.. Ottl· lflh~tnttan· nr unhvgl~nlt tnemt ... t'::. or ~ma.~Ilu~nltu&e and other a.rUelr~ \\etC "'"" n.-uonaJ anthem11. "TlftuUt\land~fiHrrt v.llh An f.\'toUon nrdrr by thr p;.e t!hrr Alit,>;" ~nr1 thi! "Hnr"l Wrs!!el'' Cnurl Othf"r Jactor1 to br ~.;on..,ldt:rrd l t'el~tf or t~t r llld.."cncn o1 the pl.tn~ ,,nR 1N,111 anthrnu Afll"r ll lhrt"!· \lf'lf' \'hether tht prtnU.SP1. h-.d betn, Ul.k. nrct· ;;: &!..'i ntora than ..1.11 llH ll 'lll!llJit ~II' ON" Dotmta'a Orl1,., ot tht I tnnc1,.mnt.d h\' \ota1 KUthrtt'1ti~~ or 1 1n l-ttU :hrnus:h lht::. roof of a ho11.~f'

'n1 v tn 1/t~ Wrh!U'Iarht wa~ read an:J,,\hrthtr a tanulv ,,,.,c-, lt\tna tn 1oom"'J by 'U_~ce ;tn.~l PttrJ",lli:lnt Otcu~'l"ti 1 tunrrat march waA pb\'flrl ,T 111 hnl\rdmt·hnuP.e. nr "'"' r\1\'\dra! rtam i 1 •l WhtlC" tt'bau·om'-1

- hetau•e It could nnt obtam 1crommo- 1 h lllJ t"' '<droo"' ol Mr Whitt,

I lllfiiCII'l.INP: Ut.:MANJliW d&llon. : ~~~ tr. Mr' .~my Wh1tt, h.i. :;It~

R() IT'I'Ji' I'll• Orritr nl "" Da.Y oraltrt, "Com· I oJ il~;:;\; 11 11110

1 rtl<•m The plc<t lJ .J , •r1t: "'' Puhrtr hu lAIIru H, t • \o ~ Ill hrr lx-d

1•11 l>lllliUI In hi~ f!rJI ld•a nt ••••· HOY ACQlJIT'I'ED llOD\' IN rLAYGROV~J.) Ill. '"" nl"nnll nf to:lllnnr from 'J'r)- j -- - ------- ·rn. nll .. t'~ '· .•