Funeral Parlour: Becker Family Funerals – 02 6557 8557
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: Old Bar Surf Club is organising a surf row/paddle out at Old Bar beach at 7:30am on Friday morning in his memory. All community members are welcome to join in or come along.
IAN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Sad news for Old Bar locals- Ian ‘Youngy’ Young passed away on the weekend. His funeral is on Friday at 10am at Pampoolah crematorium (the family has requested a loud, Youngy shirt dress code????) and the Old Bar Surf Club is organising a surf row/paddle out at Old Bar beach at 7:30am on Friday morning in his memory. All community members are welcome to join in or come along.
James Cecil BURGESS
| 23/10/2019
James Cecil BURGESS
AKA Jim BURGESS
Late of Dubbo, NSW
NSW Redfern or Penrith Police Academy Class #046
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 8471
Rank: Commenced Training 31 May 1956?
Probationary Constable – appointed 9 July 1956 ( aged 28 years, 8 months, 28 days )
Senior Constable – appointed 9 July 1967
appears in the 1979 Stud Book as a SenCon. Doesn’t appear in the 1984 edition
Final Rank ?
Stations: ?, Orange, ?
Service: From31 May 1956?to? ? ? = 23+ years Service
Awards: No Find on Australian Honours
Born: Tuesday 11 October 1927
Died on: Saturday 5 October 2019 ( 6 days short of his 92nd birthday )
Age: 91 yrs, 11 mths, 24 days
Cause: Heart attack
Event location: Parkes, NSW
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Tuesday 15 October 2019 @ 2pm
Funeral location: Western Districts Memorial Park Crematorium, Boothenba Rd, Dubbo, NSW
Much loved father of Lyn, Vicki, Adam, Karen and Brett.
Loved grandfather and great grandfather.
Privately Cremated
Published in St George & Sutherland on Sept. 25, 2019
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995), Wednesday 29 May 1985, page 10
Policeman remanded on charge
SYDNEY: A NSW police superintendent appeared in a Sydney court yesterday charged with conspiracy to act corruptly.
Superintendent Ronald Arthur Ralph, 55, of the anti-theft squad, appeared in Newtown Local Court and was remanded on unconditional bail to appear in Castlereagh Street Local Court on June 12.
The police internal security unit charged him with conspiring with others between November 1, 1982, and April 30, 1984, to have money corruptly given to him in his official capacity and that he accepted the money as an inducement to act corruptly.
The assistant commissioner for internal affairs, Mr Bob Shepherd, said in a statement that the unit had been granted a warrant in Castlereagh Street Court yesterday morning for the arrest of Superintendent Ralph and another person.
The warrants had been sought after advice from the Crown Prosecutor, Mr Barry Newport.
Police were yesterday looking for the other person.
SYDNEY: A former police inspector was jailed for 14 years yesterday after receiving $80,000 for protecting two heroin dealers.
Mr Ronald Arthur Ralph, 58, was sentenced to 14 years for conspiracy along with one of the drug dealers he protected, Mr Morres George, 49.
In passing sentence, Judge Wall said ‘ he had never seen a worse case of conspiracy.
He said it was more serious than the corruption cases involving the former NSW Chief Magistrate, Mr Murray Farquhar, and former NSW Minister for Corrective Services, Mr Rex Jackson, who were both sentenced to jail terms. ( Mr Farquhar was released in January, 1986, after serving 10 months of a four-year sentence. Mr Jackson is still in jail after being sentenced in September, 1987, to seven years’ jail. )
A District Court jury found Mr Ralph and Mr George guilty on December 20.
Judge Wall said Mr George had operated a heroin racket with another man and had conspired with Mr Ralph to receive police protection.
Mr Ralph received a 5½ year non parole period, while Mr George‘s non parole period was increased to 9½ years due to a sentence he is serving for his role in the Jackson early-release conspiracy.
Mr Ralph was a detective inspector with the Internal Affairs Branch when he agreed to protect the racket, and later was promoted to detective chief inspector-in-charge of the Organised Crime Bureau at CIB headquarters.
Mr Ralph collapsed into his chair, silently weeping, when the judge read out the sentence, while his wife stifled her gasps and sobs.
During sentencing, Judge Wall said the crimes had been committed for no other reason than “plain greed” and the desire for “filthy lucre”.
The essence of the conspiracy was that a police officer had acted corruptly to operate a protection racket for two major heroin dealers.
“It is difficult to imagine conspiracies more repellent or nauseous than these,” Judge Wall said.
The judge said special provision would be made for Mr Ralph during his jail term because of his former position as a policeman.
He said the crimes had been committed between November 10, 1982, and April 14,1984.
A third member of the conspiracy, known as “John Smith“, had given evidence for the Crown after being granted immunity.
The conspiracy began in November, 1982, when Mr George and Mr Smith established a heroin partnership and soon met Mr Ralph to arrange police protection.
Mr Ralph then began to receive payments of up to $ 1000 weekly from each man, sometimes $5000, to protect the two from prosecution.
The scheme ended with the arrest of Mr Smith by the Australian Federal Police and the evidence he later gave against his former colleagues.
Mr Smith said Mr Ralph had received at least $80,000 in payments.
SYDNEY: Former chief inspector of police, Mr Ronald Arthur Ralph, was refused bail yesterday pending an appeal against his conviction on three charges of conspiring to bribe a public officer.
Mr Ralph, 58, was sentenced on December 29 to 14 years’ jail with a non-parole period of 5½ years after being found guilty of charges related to receiving $80,000 for protecting two heroin dealers.
When charged, Mr Ralph was a detective chief inspector in charge of the organised crime bureau at CIB headquarters.
Mr Ralph‘s counsel, Mr Michael Adams, told Justice Yeldham in the Sydney Supreme Court yesterday that his client would appeal on 23 grounds.
These included the form of the indictment, the conduct of the trial by Judge Wall in the District Court and the judge’s directions to the jury.
Mr Adams said the main witness against Mr Ralph had been a police informer whose evidence was corroborated by a police superintendent.
The superintendent had been put forward by the Crown as “a man of unquestionable probity” but had since been charged with an offence.
Mr Adams said Mr Ralph‘s appeal could not be heard until at least June. Until then he was being kept in strict security which was a hardship for him and his family.
Justice Yeldham said the special or exceptional circumstances necessary for the granting of bail had not been shown. He rejected the bail application.
As he was being led from the court Mr Ralph told the judge, “I would just like to say I am an innocent man being persecuted”.
SYDNEY: A former chief inspector of police in charge of the Organised Crime Bureau, jailed for 14 years after allegedly receiving $80,000 for protecting drug dealers, was acquitted yesterday by the Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney.
Mr Ronald Arthur Ralph, 58, had appealed against his conviction and sentence on three charges of conspiring to have him act corruptly in the discharge of his duties.
Judge Wall, in the District Court, had fixed a non-parole period of 5½ years.
A verdict of acquittal was also entered yesterday against one of Mr Ralph‘s alleged co-conspirators, Mr Morres George, 49, who had also been sentenced to 14 years’ jail. Mr George‘s non-parole period was fixed at 9½ years because he was already serving a sentence for his part in the Rex Jackson early release conspiracy.
The Crown had alleged that between November, 1982, and April, 1984, Mr Ralph had been paid amounts of between $1000 and $5000 a week to protect Mr George and a man known as John Smith from prosecution on drug charges.
The three judges unanimously ruled that the convictions of Mr Ralph and Mr George were unsafe and unsatisfactory.
SYDNEY, Monday. — A young woman killed by a thief during a $50,000 gem robbery was an innocent victim, police said today.
“She lay down on the floor and he just went bang”. Detective Sergeant R. Ralph said. “It was a cold-blooded callous thing to do”.
Miss Narelle Grogan, 23, was killed. The murder occurred at the Burraneer home of Sydney opal dealer Mr Jack Anderson last night.
Mr Anderson runs shops at Sydney’s international airport, the Opera House and several interstate airports.
“This will show you I mean business”, the killer said as he fired a bullet into Miss Grogan’s back.
The gunman rejected opals valued at S250 each.
Police believe the killer, a man aged between 35 and 38, knew exactly what he wanted and was prepared to do anything to get more valuable opals in a safe.
He took Australian opals, in diamond settings, valued about $50,000. They could be intended for the overseas market.
Mr Anderson’s address in Lugarno avenue, Burraneer, is common knowledge among opal dealers.
The killer, with a stocking over his head, grabbed Mr Anderson when he went to put out rubbish bins shortly after 10pm.
Service: From? ? pre June 1959to26 October 1989 = 30 years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 15 September 1980 ( Det Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 15 May 1986 ( Det Sgt 1/c )
Born: Friday 16 August 1935
Died on: Monday 9 September 2019
Age: 84 yrs 24 days
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: Wednesday 18 September 2019 @ 1.30pm
Funeral location: West Chapel, Pinegrove Memorial Park, Kington St, Minchinbury, NSW
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: White Lady Funerals – Camden 02 4655 8265
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: ?
Bankstown Detectives: Back Row ( L – R ) Det SenCon E. HAWRYSIUK, P.C.Cst 1/c I.B. KEENAN, P.C. SenCon STANIOCH, Det SenCon M.A. DONOVAN, P.C. Cst 1/c M. P. McGANN, Det SenCon U. BRAMANN, Det SenCon G.C. PRENTICE, Cst 1/c R.N. RYAN. Second Row ( L- R ) P.W Det SenCon M.A. WESTAWAY, Det SenCon Trevor Lyle BEAUMONT # 14058, P.C. Cst G. Md. ABEL, P.C. Cst 1/c J. KHALIFEH, P.C. Cst A.J. BICKHOFF, Det SenCon A.A. TOWNSEND, P.C. SenCst K.J. PLATT, P.C. Cst 1/c TUNNICLIFFE, P/W Cst 1/c G. M. LAPHAM. Front Row ( L – R ) Det Sgt 3/c A.R. LYTHALL, Det Sgt 3/c W. J. HADLEY, Det Sgt 3/c R.F. WEBSTER, Det Sgt 2/c R.N. MURRAY, Det Sgt 1/c R.D. MILLINGTON, Det Sgt 3/c R.E. LYNCH, Det Sgt 3/c J.D.G. BARTLETT, Det Sgt 3/c M. COUGHLIN.
ALLAN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Family and friends of Allan are kindly invited to attend a Celebration of his Life to be held in the West Chapel of Pinegrove Crematorium, Kington St, Minchinbury on Wednesday, 18t h September, 2019 Commencing at 1.30pm.
Peter Smith: The best boss anyone could ask for. Very loyal to those who worked under him. He did not tolerate the lazy ones. Very knowledgeable. Loved to play practical jokes just as much as I liked to get back at him. We did some good jobs together. The only real complaint I have was that he always avoided buying me a beer at Christmas.
Nothing further is known about this man at the time of publication, other than what is already posted above.
regards
Cal
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Hugh Gunn HARGREAVE
| 23/10/2019
Hugh Gunn HARGREAVE
AKA Hughie
Late of Thurgoona, NSW
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # 127
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 14697
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 28 June 1971
Constable 1st Class – appointed 11 July 1976 ( 2 week less Seniority )
“It is with immense sadness that I tell you our beloved husband, father and grandfather Hugh Hargreave went to heaven earlier today. He was loved by all who knew him and we will miss him forever.”
They say things come in threes. I’m not sure who ‘they’ are, but I hope they’re right! Yesterday we lost a dear dear family friend Hugh Hargreave. One of Steve’s best mates, a 2nd Dad to Jayden and one of the kindest, loving, most sincere and authentic people we have ever known. We are all better people for having known him. Our loss, is Heaven’s gain.
This is our third close death in 5 months. It feels like death is surrounding us atm. But, If there is one thing I have learned these past months , it is that death isn’t the end – but really just a doorway.
Earth isn’t our ‘forever home ‘ And Hugh was so looking forward to finally ‘really’ going home to be with Jesus and those he loved, including our Cody. (which he bragged about seeing him before Steve did❤️)
We often say Rest In Peace and for Hugh he carried that peace right to the very end of his life here on earth because he knew this wasn’t the end and he knew where he was going !
Hugh Hargreave R.I.P – Raised in Power!
REMEMBERING A WORKMATE AND FRIEND HUGHIE HARGREAVE
Deb, David, Mark, Nathan, Sam and Thomas. Most of the police names mentioned below met Hugh back in the early 1970s at Cabramatta. Cabramatta at that time was a small police station being about 3mtr by 3mtr square. A new station was built which was about 3 – 4 times the size of the original Call Box. They later moved into the house, on the same block of land, which was originally a police residence.
Being a small police patrol, the police there became very close and a close personal bond was formed. This bond has continued from the 1970s until the present time. We all went along our individual career paths, but, most of us continued to keep in touch with each other. In July 2017, Hugh, Deb and a few of the original guys from Cabramatta flew to Alice Springs to see another one of it’s crew, Bill Espie, inducted into the Hartley Street School Museum, such is the closeness of those original Cabramatta guys.
Deb, David, Mark, Nathan, Sam and Thomas, your husband/dad was a great person to work and socialise with. He was a dedicated police officer, who carried out his duties in an honourable, professional manner. It was a privilege to not only know Hughie, it was an honour to be able to call him a good mate
The following retired police officers who worked and knew Hugh would like to be remembered by the Hargreave family.
Steve Packer, Peter Croucher, Ross Bates, Danny Forster, Norm Tattersall, Phil Eddes, Sue Bytheway, Mick Mott, Ken Zegiel, Greg Callander, retired Police Commissioner Ken Moroney.
Yesterday I received a telephone call from a work mate (Peter Croucher) whom I last worked with 37 years ago. It was like we had seen each other yesterday.
I was privileged to have worked at Cabramatta when there were only 8 police. Two were aboriginal.
No one thought of anything other than respect for each other. It was an extremely busy and happy station.
I remember my first two weeks being like a baptism with fire. I attended and investigated 3 separate deaths and a fire that went to a hearing at the Coroners Court. At the end of the two weeks the boss came up to me and shook my hand and welcomed me to the station.
It was a privileged to work at this station for 7 years with an amazing group of police and two amazing commanders. They earn your respect and were the most supportive bosses I ever worked for. Trust is earned and does not come with the rank.
Peter has been researching and has now had a memorial approved for Bill Espie, who was the first aboriginal police officer to reach commissioned rank in NSW. This will be a proud moment when it is unveiled in Alice Springs where Bill was born. I am looking forward to catching up with some of the guys from the station.
It is the dedicated guys I have worked with over many years that makes my time in service such a great experience for which I am thankful. These guys at Cabramatta were amazing. We had each other’s back and were busy all the time. What an amazing time.
Thanks guys.
Graham MarandaGreat post Mr Hargreave !!! I came across Mr Espie in 1990 when we ventured out from the Eastern Suburbs and charged some crooks at his station (Cabramatta). What a gentleman !!!
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION (L-R) NORM TATTERSALL, PHIL EDDES, LEN ZIEGER, STEVE HEMMINGS, HUGH HARGRAVES, SUE BYTHEWAY, BILL ESPIE (KNEELING), PETER CROUCHER. 6 NOVEMBER 2004
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION. STEVE PACKER, DANNY FORSTER, HUGH HARGREAVES, NORM TATTERSALL, BILL ESPIE, PHIL EDDES, ?, PETER CROUCHER, KEN ZIEGER, R. ? 6 NOVEMBER 2004
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION. STEVE PACKER, HUGH HARGREAVES, DANNY FORSTER, ?, PHIL EDDES, TED COMAN?, PETER CROUCHER, KEN ZIEGER, BILL ESPIE, R.? 6 NOVEMBER 2004
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION. STEVE PACKER, HUGH HARGREAVES, NORM TATTERSALL, BILL ESPIE, PHIL EDDES, ?, PETER CROUCHER, KEN ZIEGER, R. ? 6 NOVEMBER 2004
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION. PHIL EDDES, BILL ESPIE, STEVE PACKER, HUGH HARGREAVES, ?, PETER CROUCHER, NORM TATTERSALL, KEN ZIEGER, R. ? 6 NOVEMBER 2004
RETURN TO CABRAMATTA POLICE REUNION. HUGH HARGREAVES, PETER CROUCHER, KEN ZIEGER, ?, BILL ESPIE, R. ? 6 NOVEMBER 2004
Hugh Gunn HARGREAVE & wife, Debra HARGREAVE
June 1, 2018 ·
Debra Hargreave June 2, 2018 · With Hugh Hargreave at Fairmont Empress.
June 12, 2019 · Hugh Hargreave with all 5 of his sons and his nephews at his brother Malcolm’s funeral
Hugh Hargreave July 6, 2019 at 5:30 PM · My family from Wodonga came to visit and sang and prayed for me. Very moving. They are beautiful friends.
(L-R) David Hargreave, Sam Hargreave, Tom Hargreave, Hugh Hargreave, Nathan Hargreave & Mark Hargreave 1 Sept 2019
Hugh Gunn HARGREAVE Probationary Constable – appointed 28 June 1971
Hugh Hargreave was awarded the National Police Service Medal, the Commissioners Olympic Citation and the Retired Pin today in a ceremony at home. So lovely to see the respect people have for him, and how happy he was this afternoon. Thanks to all for their involvement to make this possible.
Tom Hargreave, Hugh Hargreave, Debra Hargreave & Sam Hargreave.
Hugh Gunn HARGREAVE wearing his Medal
David Ivan HUNT
| 23/10/2019
David Ivan HUNT
AKA Fathead
Late of Manly
NSW Goulburn Police Academy Class # 205
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 21619
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 26 October 1984
SINGAPORE, July 17.- In the first District Court today Detective Walter Cecil Byrne, of the Sydney C.I.B., applied for the extradition to N.S.W. of a man who he said was wanted for trial there on a conspiracy charge.
Byrne identified George Stamford as Stanley Hammond, who last month failed to appear in a Sydney court to answer a charge of conspiracy.
The judge remarking that the case had reached “a serious stage,” withdrew bail and remanded Stamford in custody until July 22.
The accused, who answered to the name Stamford, allegedly arrived in Singapore from Australia last month as a stowaway aboard an Avro Anson plane.
He was charged as alias Stanley Hammond, with having conspired with John Maxwell Gray and Gordon Leonard between January, 1944, and June, 1945, in New South Wales, to cheat certain persons of money and valuable securities by offering them shares in John Gray and Company.
Police said in Quarter Sessions yesterday that a man charged with the theft of £230 had stolen the money to try to save the life of his three-years-old son.
Doctors had said the boy, a cancer sufferer for 12 months, had only two more months to live.
The father, Leslie Galvin, 34, textile worker, of Salisbury Road, Camperdown, admitted having stolen the money from his employers, Bradford Cotton Mills, of Camperdown.
Detective – Sergeant Walter Byrne, CIB., said he believed Galvin had used all the stolen money to pay his son’s medical expenses. The child had developed cancer a year ago. Since then he had had a serious operation and needed regular deep-ray treatment.
Mr. Jack Thorn (for Galvin) said Galvin had now started a job that paid him between £9 and £11 a week. He wanted a chance to pay back the money he had stolen.
Judge Holden released Galvin on a £50 bond to be of good behavior for three years. He ordered Galvin to repay the money to the Bradford Cotton Mills at £8 a month.
In a bare 14 months, if the truth was told, balding, thick-set Victor Claude Jupp, aged 39, gambled £4000 on trotting and dog races. Jupp is a married man with two small sons.
He lives in Campbell Street, Abbotsford. Since 1939 he was employed by Mort’s Dock, and Engineering Company at a weekly wage of £10/3/ as a paymaster of casual labor.
At the Quarter Sessions this week he pleaded guilty to having stolen £4000 from the company between November, 1948, and last January.
Detective – Sergeant Walter Byrne said Jupp confessed that he had consistently drawn from the cashier more money than was required to pay the casual laborers, and that he had gambled all the money he stole on the trots and the dogs. Jupp was not addicted to drink and had no previous convictions, the detective-sergeant added.
Solicitor Martin James Alexander Easton, who appeared in court on behalf of the company, said Jupp had signed a confession, in which he said he could make restitution of £1000 immediately. . But, Mr. Easton added, Jupp had said that the offer of restitution was not his wish – it was the wish of his mother and his wife, who would have to sell all their property to realise £1000.
The company, Mr. Easton said, would accept that offer of restitution.
Barrister Reynolds; for Jupp, said the prisoner felt it was unfair for his mother and his wife to bear so heavy a burden on his behalf.
Judge Holt remanded Jupp until Tuesday for sentence.
Detective – Sergeant Walter Cecil Bertie Byrne, 51, chief of the C.I.B. Company Squad, who died yesterday, will be buried with full police ceremonial tomorrow.
Sergeant Byrne died in a police car while on his way to his home in York Road, Five Dock.
The Officer in Charge of the C.I.B. had ordered a car for him when he said he felt ill.
Sergeant Byrne gave evidence at Quarter Sessions ( Darlinghurst ) yesterday morning.
In a tribute at Quarter Sessions later Judge Holden said he had known Sergeant Byrne for many years as a fair, truthful, and honest officer.
Detective – Sergeant Walter Byrne, chief of the Company Squad at the Criminal Investigation Branch, Sydney, died suddenly yesterday soon after giving evidence at the ( Darlinghurst ) Quarter Sessions.
He was 51.
He became ill after arriving at the C.I.B. from court, and died while being driven to Western Suburbs Hospital.
Detective-Sergeant Byrne had served 28 years in the police force in Sydney, and was an expert investigator in cases involving company law.
In the Will of WALTER CECIL BERTIE BYRNE late of Fivedock in the State of New South Wales.
Detective Sergeant of Police, deceased Application will be made after 14 days from the date of publication hereof that Probate of the last Will and Testament dated the 11th March 1947, of the above named deceased may be granted to Marjorie Elizabeth Byrne the Executrix named in the said Will and all notices may be served at the undermentioned address.
All creditors in the Estate of the deceased are hereby required to send in particulars of their claims to the undersigned JOHN W. BINNEY. Proctor for the Executrix. 79 Elizabeth Street Sydney.
