Upon speaking to Bills brother this afternoon, I believe there will be a Police Honour Guard from a local area command, hence medals will be on the agenda.
Wake location: TBA
Funeral Parlour: TBA
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: ?
NABIL ‘BILL’ ELIAS FROM CABRAMATTA POLICE STATION. BANKSTOWN AIRPORT, NSW. ? APRIL 1980
BILLY is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
Billy, Midnight Elias was a bloody good bloke who was loud, full of laughter and fun to work with in the old Cabramatta / Fairfield days.
May you forever Rest In Peace my friend.
You and your family have my deepest respect and apology for being unable to attend your funeral on Wednesday.
Your mate
‘ Charlie ‘ / ‘Cal ‘
Greg Callander
FLIGHT OVER WESTERN SUBURBS OF SYDNEY WITH Constable’s Greg Callander, Bill Elias & Phil Charlier. ALL POLICE FROM CABRAMATTA POLICE STATION. BANKSTOWN AIRPORT, NSW. APRIL 1980
FLIGHT OVER WESTERN SUBURBS OF SYDNEY WITH CONSTABLE NABIL ‘BILL’ ELIAS, PHIL CHARLIER AND GREG CALLANDER. BILL ELIAS RUNNING THROUGH THE ‘CHECK LIST’ PRIOR TO OUR FLIGHT.
FLIGHT OVER WESTERN SUBURBS OF SYDNEY WITH CONSTABLE NABIL ‘BILL’ ELIAS, PHIL CHARLIER AND GREG CALLANDER. BANKSTOWN AIRPORT APRIL 1980
Cst 1/c Greg Callander & Constable Nabil Elias at a crime scene in Cabramatta where a couple were menaced by shotgun toting bandits. Around 1980.
Salute’
They gave Bill the keys to a City Bus, Sydney CBD. 2016
Cal & 11.45pm ( Nabil Elias – just isn’t quite dark enough to be midnight ) with the old F100 which we did a lot of shifts in at Cabramatta LAC – NSW Police Force & Fairfield LAC – NSW Police Force back in the 1970’s.
And they even let him at the controls of a train.
Stephen Gordon NIXON
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Stephen Gordon NIXON
AKA Watergate, Nixo, Nicko
Late of Casino, NSW
NSW Goulburn Police Academy Class # 227
New South Wales Police Force
Uniform # 3998
ProCst # 98464
Regd. # 23842
Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Wednesday 1 April 1987 ( aged 22 years, 2 months, 2 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed 26 June 1987 ( aged 22 years, 5 months, 23 days )
Constable – appointed 26 June 1988
Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ?
Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?
Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?
Final Rank = Leading Senior Constable
Stations: ?, Casino Traffic & Highway Patrol Command – Death
Service: From 1 April 1987 to24 November 2019 = 32 years, 7 months, 23 days Service
Awards: No Find on Australian Honours
Born: Sunday 3 January 1965
Died on: Sunday 24 November 2019 pre 7.30pm
Age: 54 yrs 10 mths 21 days
Cause: Suicide – PTSD
Event location: ?
Event date: Sunday 24 November 2019
Funeral date: TBA
Funeral location: TBA
Funeral Parlour: TBA
Buried at: Cremated – Ashes buried
Ashes: Partly spread between his mum ( Peggy ) and dads ( Gordon ) graves – Section D, Row H, Plot 45 – Casino Cemetery, West St, Casino, NSW
Memorial located at: Garden area of Casino HWP Office, NSW
Memorial outside of Casino HWP Office, NSW
STEVEN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * BUT SHOULD BE
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Back Row, l to r: Con 1/c Roy Dykes, Sgt Garnet Brickell, Cadets Bill Morey, Noel Carroll, Darrell Griffiths, Alf Peate, Gary Jennings, Sgt Jack Hyslop, Con 1/c Brian Andrews Front row: Cadets John Albury, Jim Dennis, Barry Filewood, George Radzievic, Graham Wheatley, Geoff Chester.
1995 with Alf & I ( Susie Thompson ) at an Award Ceremony after winning the 1994 Australian Heads of Government National Violence Prevention Award for NSWPS. ( I’m hunting where I have higher resolution ). Front L to R Assist Comm Alf Peate, Sue Thompson, Luke Preston Rear: Bron Steele, Chief Supt (?) Lola Scott.
ALF is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Janne McMahon: I found this photo going through my old files. It was taken at my Passing Out Parade on 23/6/1969. It shows Adrian Allingham (R.I.P.), Dennis Gilligan, Aldo Lorenzutta (RIP) and Bruce Smith. They all won portable Olivetti typewriters as part of the Transfield trophy for topping the Detectives Course in 1968 & 1969. The little bloke without the hat was from Transfield. Bruce Smith presented his typewriter to the Detective Training Unit in 2010. Their names appear at the top of the honour board.
ADRIAN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Geoff WolseyAdrian Allingham topped my Detectives Course in 1968.
It was the second course held after the old designation exams.
I think John Bourke topped the first one.
Worked with both Aldo ( R.I.P. ) and Bruce Smith.
Played a fair bit of soccer with the Police team with Aldo. He was a good player.
( 2017 )
Shaune EdwardsThroughout my Detectives’ Course we heard of the virtues of Adrian Allingham‘s proficiency in evidence-giving before a jury.
His skills were regularly referred to, and for good reason.
Not sure if that art is still part of being an investigator these days….
( 2017 )
Bob McdWe were always advised to go and watch Adrian and Hanoi give evidence if we got a chance. I missed Adrian but saw Hanoi three times in the one trial at hospital road. He owned the witness box and the jury loved him.
( 2017 )
For three months I was fortunate enough to have Adrian Allingham as a lecturer on my Detectives’ Course in 1979.
He was a brilliant communicator, knowledgeable lecturer and very experienced detective with a great sense of humour.
His prowess as a witness in court was legendary which did not surprise anyone who heard him give such authoritative and interesting lectures on a range of serious crime matters.
I now live in Melbourne and I have only just caught up with the news of Adrian’s passing.
A fine, unforgettable police officer but, more importantly, a really good bloke.
Martin Connolly
Former Detective Senior Constable attached to Wagga Wagga and Tumut Police Stations, NSW.
21 October 2019.
Strathfield Massacre: How Wade Frankum killed seven and injured six before turning gun on himself on August 17, 1991
Ian Walker, DailyTelegraph
IT’S Saturday, August 17, 1991 and a sunny afternoon in Strathfield..
The regular Sydney suburb is brimming with visitors just arrived off the country trains, shoppers and local schoolchildren enjoying their weekend.
The popular Coffee Pot cafe in the plaza is doing a roaring trade. Among the customers is 15-year-old McDonald College student Roberta Armstrong, who is there with a friend.
Sitting next to them in the cafe is a man wearing jeans, a denim jacket, grey beanie – and a stony-faced look. He continually turns round to look at the two young girls, but they dismiss his strange behaviour.
The man is Wade Frankum, a 33-year-old taxi driver from North Strathfield, who is about to drain his fourth coffee before committing mass murder.
At 3.35pm, without warning, he suddenly stands up with one knee on the booth, smiles, and plunges a 20-inch bowie knife four times into Roberta’s back. She screams once and collapses and dies at the table. Her friend runs shrieking to the counter to hide.
Thus began one of the most violent episodes in Sydney’s history, which ends with eight people dead, including Frankum, and a further six injured.
The killings
Leaving the knife in Roberta’s back, Frankum pulls out his rifle hidden in a postpak cylinder and shoots it into the air before setting it on the cafe’s customers.
Joyce Nixon, 61, is shot twice and her daughter Patricia Rowe, 36, is shot in the back, both killed as they desperately put a table between the gunman and Rowe’s children Kevin, 15, and Nathan, 9, who survive.
Cafe owner George Mavris, 51, emerges from the kitchen after hears the commotion and is shot dead.
Sitting on the opposite side of the cafe are Carol Dickinson, 47, her daughter Belinda, 20 and 17-year-old friend Rachelle Milburn.
Rachelle starts moving towards Frankum and is shot in the head.
Sacrificing her own life to save her daughter’s, Carol pushes Belinda behind a pot plant, enabling her to scurry away. As she screams for her daughter’s life, Carol is shot in the chest and killed.
People flee, others freeze. Frankum moves towards Franklins supermarket, swinging his gun around firing from the waist and shoulder.
He shoots Helen Xu in the arm, before hitting another woman in the leg and then killing 53-year-old Robertson Kan Hock Voon as he stands in a chemist.
The killer takes the escalator to the upper level carpark and shoots young couple, Beulah Patrick and Brett Lenane, who survive after crawling away in a pool of their own blood.
Next in his sights are George Sidawy, a cleaner who is shot in the leg, hand, stomach and arm but survive.
Ahead of Frankum is Gregory Read, who having warned people in the carpark about the approaching gunman, is shot in both feet as he dives behind a car.
Bullets keep flying. A number hit a vehicle driven by Margaret Lampe. Luckily, all of them miss her.
Frankum, now on the roof, tries to shoot his way into the adjoining social security department building to gain the high ground as police begin to close in.
When his bullets fail to break the aluminium locks, he puts his gun over the rooftop wall and fires at Strathfield Railway Station and taxi rank. Two passers-by, Yong Wu and Zhao Ou, are wounded before seeking refuge in the station’s tunnel.
Unaware of the unfolding horror, Catherine Noyes drives up to the rooftop where Frankum screams at her to stop. He puts his gun to her cheek through the passenger window and says: “Drive me to Enfield”.
She has gone no further than down a level with the killer when the sound of sirens fill the carpark.
“I’m really sorry, stop,” Frankum says before getting out of the car.
As she drives away, Mrs Noyes sees Frankum kneel and put the rifle to his chin. She looks away and hears him fire the final shot.
Whatever demon had been impelling Frankum deserted him
– Coroner Kevin Waller
In 10 minutes, Frankum has killed seven people, injured six and 50 bullet casings litter the path of his shooting spree.
Coroner Kevin Waller wrote in his report that at this time ‘whatever demon had been impelling Frankum deserted him’.
The gunman
FRANKUM was a sexual deviant who loved violence.
The examination of the 171cm, 90kg killer’s personality and life following the day he snapped painted a bleak picture, but not one that would entirely explain his horrific actions.
Coroner Kevin Waller and forensic psychiatrist Dr Rod Milton both find that Frankum’s killing spree was impossible to predict.
He had no criminal record, showed no signs of violence, visited prostitutes regularly and police found pornography and violent movies, magazines and books, including American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis, in his apartment.
That particular novel, which describes in graphic detail a serial killer’s murders of innocent victims, was said to be “well-thumbed”.
Frankum was raised with a strict upbringing, low on affection and approval.
He went to Newington College and Homebush Boys High School and afterwards had a number of “dead-end jobs” before spending the last year of his life as a taxi driver.
Frankum’s father died of emphysema five years before the massacre and in April, 1990 his grief-stricken mother gassed herself in her car inside her garage at North Strathfield.
He spent much of his $30,000 inheritance visiting prostitutes a few times a week.
Frankum saw them for “sexual relief” which Coroner Waller said was “bizarre in the extreme”. It also left him broke.
A prostitute he visited regularly told police sexual release was the major thing in his life and “if that was going to cease, that could have been catastrophic for him.”
With both his parents dead he moved into their unit with his younger sister, Gaynor, and her boyfriend, Darin Chalk.
Neighbours at the time described him as a loner who was friendly, quiet, did not stand out and who only left home to drive his cab.
In September 1990, Frankum obtained a shooter’s licence and in December began seeing a psychologist for depression. He stopped visiting him in February.
On January 16, 1991 he purchased the 7.62mm SKS self-loading assault rifle, 100 rounds of ammunition and three magazines from Smith’s Sports Store in the city.
It’s a f***ed up world out there and there’s some weird f***ers out there
He told Chalk it was for protection because “it’s a f***ed up world out there and there’s some weird f***ers out there”.
Frankum bought the bowie knife and a set of handcuffs in April and tried to have the knife professionally sharpened to a razor’s edge at a Mister Minit operator in July.
“It is clear that by this time he had killing on his mind,” Coroner Waller wrote.
The day before the massacre Frankum had his head shaved and he was thought to be sharpening the bowie knife on an oil stone behind a locked door when his sister arrived home.
Dr Milton found that he was ‘without severe mental disorder or previous evidence of severe aggression’.
He proposed anger, guilt, conflict and having no money as motivating forces behind Frankum’s rampage.
He was angry because he was a failure and emasculated by his parents, he felt guilt over his mother’s suicide, he had conflict with his sister over his grandmother’s estate and his money had run out so he could no longer alleviate his loneliness with prostitutes.
Dr Milton said those factors alone were not sufficient to explain his actions and that a society which increasingly glorified violence may have pushed him over the edge.
He concluded that his exposure to violent material combined with his vulnerable personality due to tragedies leading up the shooting went a long way to explaining his actions.
The survivor
GREGORY Read was standing in a hardware store within eyeshot of The Coffee Pot waiting to pay for a broom and a toilet seat.
Minutes later he was gunned down but not before he had helped save the lives of many.
“He had a 20-inch bowie knife so it was very large, very demonstrative,” Mr Read said.
“He turned around after he had a coffee and when this girl had her back turned to him he drove the bowie knife straight between her shoulder blades downwards.
“He then pulled the rifle out of the pack and started shooting and I went down on one knee and looked out the door and he had fired about six shots.
“I saw him run alongside and I noticed when people laid down on the ground he wasn’t shooting them so I said ‘this is what I’ve got to do’ and I went ahead.”
I went out of the glass doors to the carpark and there were couples standing. I said ‘quick there’s a killer behind me, lay down on the ground and he won’t shoot you
– Gregory Read
Read, a Vietnam veteran who weighed 140kg at the time, felt his body fill with adrenalin as he ran up the stairs three-at-a-time to the carpark to warn people to lie down.
“I put my head over the balcony and he fired two shots at me and I had two bullets go very close to my face,” Mr Read said.
“I went out of the glass doors to the carpark and there were couples standing. I said ‘quick there’s a killer behind me, lay down on the ground and he won’t shoot you’.”
Read managed to get 10 people on the ground before Frankum spotted him.
“He could see what I was doing,” Mr Read said.
“I was out in the open and I was telling this lady ‘lay down in your car, there’s a killer behind me’ and she said ‘it’s too late, he’s right behind you’.
Frankum standing 20 feet away had his rifle pointed at Read.
“You can hear your heartbeat and adrenalin is going through your system because you are physically doing things you possibly couldn’t do before,” Mr Read said.
“I looked up and saw the barrel and I thought ‘I’m gone’. I dived to the side of my car and he fired when I was jumping through the air and that was how I got shot in the feet.”
Frankum continued his shooting spree on the rooftop before he returned to the upper level of the carpark.
“After he had wounded and killed all these people he said ‘I’m sorry’ to a woman in a car and leant the rifle down and blew his brains out.”
A year later Read was awarded the Star of Courage for conspicuous courage in the circumstances of great peril.
The investigator
RETIRED NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney remembers the Strathfield Massacre as the most horrifying event he witnessed in his 42 years of policing.
Filling in as Acting South West Region Commander, he was met at the entrance to the plaza by Detective Chief Inspector Adrian Allingham.
“I distinctly remember him saying there had been a number of murders and that the offender appears to have taken his own life on the roof of the shopping centre,” Mr Moroney said.
“I had seen deceased bodies, I had seen deceased murdered bodies, but not withstanding his words to me I couldn’t have comprehended what I was about to see.”
As frantic friends and relatives gathered behind police tape, Moroney went in to view the trail of death left by Frankum.
“I remember walking in and the deceased were either still lying in The Coffee Pot and variously around the place,” Mr Moroney said.
“I stood there and it was almost as if time had frozen over and I couldn’t comprehend the nature of the carnage.
“I had seen murdered bodies but I had never seen that many in one place at one time and all of sudden the enormity of what had occurred started to ring home to me.”
The memories of what he saw that day he said out of respect for the victim’s families were too gruesome to reveal the full details of.
“We came to The Coffee Pot and my vivid memory today is of the three women — there was a mother and daughter and a niece who had been sitting directly behind Frankum,” Mr Moroney said.
“He had been drinking coffee for a number of hours, then in a split moment of time what went through his mind only he and God know and then he turned and he stabbed the first victim and I vividly recall her.”
Moroney was then faced with the delicate job of telling the families about the fate which had befallen their loved ones.
“The owner that was killed he was close by and I remember when we were outside of the Strathfield plaza the family of that good man,” Mr Moroney said.
“I remember the family pleading to let them in so they could find their father or brother and the difficult task police had of preserving the crime scene and trying to provide reassurance to family members at the same time.
“It was one of those indelible experiences which cannot and will not be forgotten.”
The fallout
BEFORE the Strathfield Massacre gun-control was seen as a political death wish.
At the time there was no limit on the number of guns you could own and semi-automatic rifles could be bought without registration.
Rebecca Peters, who led the charge to strengthen gun laws as co-ordinator of the National Coalition for Gun Control (NCGC), said that changed after Strathfield.
“Anyone without a serious criminal record, anyone who hadn’t already been convicted of homicide could buy a gun,” Ms Peters said.
“It was an open invitation not only for people who wanted to have an efficient manner of killing people but all sorts of gun traffickers and it seemed completely mad.”
Seeing loopholes in state laws, Peters began campaigning for change.
“Then there was this shocking thing that happened in a public place,” Ms Peters said.
A huge public demonstration in support of stronger gun laws followed.
The NSW Government put restrictions on semi-automatic weapons which helped kick start the move for gun law reform.
A massacre in Terrigal happened in 1992 continuing the momentum for change.
The Australasian Police Ministers Council met and stressed gun laws needed to be uniform across Australia to combat gun trafficking.
“The priorities being uniform gun laws across the states and a ban on semi-automatic weapons and registration of all guns,” Ms Peters said.
“One of our demands was also proof of reason. The Strathfield shooter had claimed recreational hunting as his reason despite the fact that everyone who knew him said he had never been hunting in his life.”
Ms Peters said it was important to remember Strathfield, not just Port Arthur, Australia’s worst mass killing, led to Australia’s world-leading gun law changes.
“I feel the people who died at the Strathfield Massacre they also didn’t die in vain, that tragedy contributed to something,” Ms Peters said.
“A lot of people think they changed instantly after Port Arthur. Unfortunately in topics to do with health and safety they sometimes advance one tragedy at a time.”
Det Sgt Bob McNamara ( father of Bradley McNamara ( RIP ), offender Darcy Dugan, Fred ‘the Spy’ Smith and Adrian Allingham – handcuffed to Dugan.
Crime reporter Basil Sweeney farewelled
Published: September 07, 2009
Veteran newspaper journalist Basil Sweeney was farewelled at a packed Our Lady Star of the Sea church at Watsons Bay, remembered by colleagues and policemen he had encountered in his years as a police reporter.
Sweeney, who died on August 28 at the age of 84, served on the Daily Mirror and Truth and Sportsman from 1944 until 1957, when he joined the staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Brisbane Times reported.
The service was conducted by Bishop Anthony Fisher, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney – a poignant tribute. At the outset of his career, when Sweeney thought of joining the priesthood, the then Bishop Gilroy said he would be of more use to society as a journalist.
Mourners included his widow, Margaret, son Matthew and daughter Danielle, retired assistant commissioner Norm Maroney and detective chief inspectors Adrian Allingham and Karl Arkins.
Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954),
Friday 10 February 1950, page 8
BOY INJURED
Adrian Allingham, 12, of Yallambi, suffered a probable fracture of the right collarbone and right wrist as a result of a fall from a bicycle on the Guyra road on Tuesday afternoon.
He was treated by the Armidale District Ambulance and conveyed to a doctor’s surgery.
Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954),
Wednesday 5 November 1952, page 6
Junior Farmers In Radio Talks
Two Armidale Junior Farmers, Adrian Allingham and Rosemary Lucas will go to Tamworth next Thursday for radio talks on matters of interest to members of the Junior Farmer Movement.
They will take part in a State wide hook-up to be heard at 6.30 pm. that day.
Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954),
Friday 29 June 1951, page 12
Junior Farmer Trophies Presented
At the presentation of trophies to Junior Farmers in the Council Chambers, last night, poultry judge Mr. Weston said he felt there was very little he could tell the competitors in this section. They had all gained excellent results and had shown complete understanding of what is required in poultry keeping.
In his report, Mr. Weston said:— ……..
”Adrian Allingham‘s housing is perhaps the only fault I could find with his whole setup. It is not quite big enough for white leghorns in any quantity, ( 18 points ).
Hatching And Rearing
“In the housing and rearing section I awarded 30 points to Dawn Jaeger, Adrian Allingham and John Vickery. ……….
“Scores in the other sections were:— Feeding and management, Dawn Jaeger 48 points Graham Whitton 48 points. John Vickery 48 points, Adrian Allingham and Wendy MacGuire, 45 points. Possible, 54 points.
“General quality of stock: Adrian Allingham and John Vickery 24 points, …..
“General knowledge: Adrian Allingham 32 points, all other competitors each 30 points. Possible, 36 points.
“Records: Adrian Allingham 22. points, other competitors 20 points.
Point Score
“Adrian Allingham171 points, Dawn Jaeger 169 points. Graham Whitton 163 points, Wendy McGuire 154 points and John Vickery 150 points.”
Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954),
Wednesday 8 March 1950, page 4
“The Junior Farmer display is one of the best we have had shown for many years,” said the judged Mr. J. T. Rowlings, of Dangarsleigh.
“The junior farmer has come back into his own,” Mr. Rowlings continued.
“It should be remembered that they are our showmen of the future.”
VEGETABLES
Collection of vegetables: ….. Adrian Allingham 2; 3 lb. potatoes, white, other than Factor, Adrian Allingham 2; 3 lb. potatoes, any other variety, Adrian Allingham 2; 4 table tomatoes, …….
Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954),
Monday 13 August 1951, page 6
SKILL, CONFIDENCE AND TEAM WORK IN HIGH SCHOOL PLAYS
The confident ease of the players, the effective use of very few props, and the teamwork of all concerned were features of Armidale High School’s annual play night.
Nearly 60 boys and girls took part in five plays presented to an appreciative Town Hall audience of more than 400.
The plays were the best of those presented at the recent annual playday at the school.
2C players opened the evening with “The Crimson Coconut,” the story of a bomb which didn’t fizz, as revealed by happenings in a Soho restaurant.
Notable in this was the amusement it afforded the younger members of the audience, and the happy casting of Adrian Allingham as the head waiter. Other, players were ……..
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Schools Education Publishing, Australian Publishers Association
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Ms Beverly Lawrence
Mr Adrian Allingham
Ms Danika Kalan and the Peakhurst Nightowls Quilt Group
Service: From? ? pre Aug 1950?to? September 1986 – Optional Retirement = 36+ years Service
Awards: National Medal – granted 8 June 1988 ( former Inspector )
Born: Monday 4 March 1929
Died on: Thursday 26 February 2009
Age: 79
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event date: ?
Funeral date: ? ? ?
Funeral location: ?
Wake location: ?
Funeral Parlour: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial located at: ?
RICHARD is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
Funeral location: TBA
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
May they forever Rest In Peace
Nothing further, at this time, can be found via Google on this man, his life, career or death.
Further information is sought.
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Robert Edgar LAYTON
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Robert Edgar LAYTON
AKA Bob
Late of Warilla
Father of Robert Samuel LAYTON ( civilian – died Nov 2018 ) & Husband to Marian ( civilian )( R.I.P. 2020? )
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # 095
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 10692
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 13 May 1963 ( aged 25 years, 11 months, 16 days )
Constable 1st Class – appointed 13 May 1968
Senior Constable – appointed 13 May 1972
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 17 August 1979
Final Rank = Sergeant ( 2nd Class ? )
Stations: ?, South Coast, Pt Kembla, Warilla ( Sgt ),
Service: From? ? pre May 1963?to? ? ? = ? years Service
Awards: *National Medal – granted 17 March 1989 ( Sgt ) or – granted 20 January 1981 ( Det Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted17 March 1989
* most probably the 17 March 1989 refers to ‘our’ Robert Edgar LAYTON. There was no other R.E. Layton in NSWPF
Born: Thursday 27 May 1937
Died on: Sunday 12 May 2019 at 3am in hospital ( 2 weeks prior to his 83rd b/day )
Age: 81 years, 11 months, 15 days
Cause: Fall – striking his head – leading to his death ( suspected blood clot )
Event location: Home
Event date: Saturday 11 May 2019 during the morning
Funeral date: Friday 17 May 2019 @ noon
Funeral location: Parsons Funeral Home, 10 Woolworths Ave, Warilla ( same location as his son’s funeral )
*Family would like Medals to be worn
Wake location: ?TBA
Funeral Parlour: Parsons, Warilla
Buried at: Cremated
Memorial located at: ?
THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2012 THE INAUGURAL RETIRED POLICE PIN CEREMONY AT OAK FLATS ( WARILLA ) ( LAKE ILLAWARRA ) POLICE STATION. RETIRED POLICE RECEIVING THEIR PINS AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR THE COMMITMENT TO POLICING SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY OF NSW.
Retired Sgt Robert Edgar LAYTON ( Bob LAYTON ) # 10692 & Supt. Wayne Starling. Thursday 6 September 2012
BOB is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
Funeral location:
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
Marian LAYTON, thanks all members/workmates that attended Bob LAYTON’s Funeral on 17 May 201 and wishes you all, the very best.
Bob was a Sergeant at the old ( now decommissioned ) Warilla Police Station, 15 Lake Entrance Rd, Warilla, for many years.
His wife, Marian, was also a long time Cleaner at the Police Station and VKG2 ( Warilla ).
May Bob, and his son, Bob, forever Rest In Peace.
Funeral details to be announced.
Please revisit this page in order to find out about the funeral details.
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1968 – 1969
Parliament of NSW
Report of the Police Department
p23
BRIEF FACTS OF ACTS OF BRAVERY BY POLICE
The facts, briefly, associated with acts of bravery performed by Police during the year 1967 are as set out hereunder.
8. On 27th March, 1967, Senior-Constable Ronald John Foster and Constable Robert Edgar Layton rescued three youths from a cliff face at Macquarie Pass and recovered the body of a fourth who had suffered fatal injuries in a fall from the cliff.
Weapons Instructors Course 1/1989 ( January 1989 ) NSW Police Academy, Goulburn Back Row ( L-R ) Phil CHARLIER, Jim FRIDAY, David WRIGHT, Gavin NICHOLSON, Peter WATSON, Peter GALLACHER, Alan PITT, Wayne HOFFMAN, Chris STONE, Peter CHAMINGS, Ray BLACKBURN, Scott IDE, Garry POWER, John LEE, Bill WHALLEY Centre Row Peter BERGERSEN, Greg SUTTON, Steve MARTIN, Peter STONE, Lindsay REGENTS, Ian LAUDER, Greg PALMER, Sonia McKELL, John ROGERS, Steve McCLURE, David MAGUIRE, Barry METZ, Dave TESTER, Paul BLOOD, Andrew NEW Front Row Tony PARSONS, Toni McMAHON, Michelle LANGERIES, Peter STARLING, Tom LUPTON, Ray JAMES, James BUNFIELD, Kerry SIMMONS, Andrew FISHER
Steve McClure – front and centre
‘Stinky’, you were a great bloke who always thought of others before yourself and were always ready to put your hand up for a great cause.
On behalf of all of us old Warilla Police, we wish you a safe journey and may you Forever, Rest In Peace.
Our deepest heartfelt condolences to Trish, Hugh and family.
POLICE SEND OFF FOR SERGEANT STEVE McCLURE AT THE BURDEKIN HOTEL, OXFORD ST, SYDNEY, FROM 5PM.
A VERY INFORMAL FUNCTION WITH ABOUT 40 PEOPLE THERE.
6″ SUBWAY SANDWICHES, CHIPS AND PIZZA WAS THE MEAL.
BUY YOUR OWN DRINKS & IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT.
Presentation at Steve’s Send Off
Mates: June 2018 Steve ‘Stinky’ McCLure & Harry ‘The Wasp’ Wawszkowicz – together again. May they both forever Rest In Peace.
Harry Wawszkowicz June 18, 2018 · Friends for life. How tome flies Hugh has grown into a fine young. with Stephen McClure and Tricia McClure.
Leigh Stewart Follow · June 17, 2018 · With Greg Costello, Vic Thestick, Stephen McClure, Brett Sergeant and David De Santi at City Diggers Wollongong.
Sunday 17 June 2018
City Diggers Club, cnr Church and Burelli St’s, Wollongong, for Cancer fundraiser for Wollongong Hospital which was Hosted by Retired Sgt Steve ‘Stinky’ McClure.
Steve is the frontman for his band, ‘The Humphreys’
Steve McClure – giving thanks at the Cancer fundraiser – Sunday 17 June 2018
The Humphreys ride again… with Stephen McClure, John Nichols and Greg Costello at Slacky Flat Bar.
Various other family and friends photos with Stinky McClure over the years.
William John SCOTCHER
| 01/03/2020
William John SCOTCHER
AKA BILL
Late of Boambee East ( Coffs Harbour )
Father to Pete SCOTCHER – # 22184
NSW Redfern Police Academy Class # ? ? ?
NSW Police Cadet # 1128
New South Wales Police Force
Regd. # 8816
Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced 7 January 1955
Probationary Constable – appointed 20 October 1957
Constable 1st Class – appointed 20 October 1963 ( Western District )
Senior Constable – appointed 1 July 1968 ( North East District )
Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 28 September 1973 ( Peak Hill )
Senior Sergeant – appointed 31 March 1983
Final Rank = Senior Sergeant
Stations: ?, Western District, Lithgow HWP ( 1963 – 1968 ), Wallsend?, North East District, Peak Hill ( ? – 1983 ), North Sydney – 6 Division ( from app. 1983 ), Mossman ( OIC – SenSgt ) – Retirement
Service: From 7 January 1955 to? ? pre 1989? = 34? years Service
Nothing further, at the time of publication, is known about this man or his career other than what is now shown.
When / if further information is obtained, it will be reflected upon this Memorial Page.
Penned by Richard John CRICKMORE – NSW Police Cadet # 1287:
My first attempt to join the N.S.W. Police Cadets ended in bitter disappointment – deferred – under weight – back to the Rural Bank, Parramatta – “Eat plenty of bananas!” My mate John Valdmanis and I used to go and look at the police exhibits at the Royal Easter Show. There was the famous pyjama girl and the shark – tattooed arm murder cases, which absolutely fascinated us. John passed the medical first try. Oh, well, persevere! So I waited a couple of more months and applied again – got through the G.M.O this time. One of my ancestral great grandfathers, Edward Moloney, had been a member of the N.S.W. Police Force in the latter part of the 19th century. First Class Sergeant Wal Glascock, then head of the Police Wireless Section, resided just up the road from us on the corner of Dorritt & Little Streets, Lane Cove. Detective Sergeant Stanley Dugald Cameron lived just around the corner at 177 Longueville Road, Lane Cove and Inspector Ken O’Hara resided not very far away. It was my ultimate objective in life to be a policeman and a detective.
On the 8 February 1956 I reported at the Police Training Centre, Redfern with a number of other fresh police cadet recruits where I was advised by Sgt. 3/c Jack Hyslop that a cadet aged 17 years or more had to be able to not only write and transcribe shorthand at the rate of 100 words per minute but to be also proficient at typing and pass rates of 45 words per minute prior to attaining 19 years of age as one of the mandatory requirements to qualify for acceptance as a probationary constable.
The officer in charge of cadets, Sgt. l/c McCorn, then accompanied three of the fresh recruits, including yours truly, to the Police Rules Section, which at that time was located on the northern side of the quadrangle near the Traffic Infringement Office. Our duties there included updating Police Rules and Instructions which, incidentally, gave me a very good introduction to the various facets of law with which I was to be associated with in numerous capacities during my entire working life – Criminal, Mining, Environmental, Local Government, Valuation, Land, Commercial and Civil Acts in N.S.W., Queensland and Papua/New Guinea. We had only been in this section for a matter of two weeks when one of my fellow recruits aged 15 committed suicide at Liverpool over a girl friend.
The O.I.C. Police Training Centre was Inspector Jim Ferguson, Brian Ferguson (son). The Cadet Sergeants were Sgt. 1st Class McCorn, Sergeants 3rd Class Jock Stewart, “Bricky”, Jack Hyslop, while Sgt. Len Barber and Sgt. Porche were law instructors. Drill/Gym instructors were Senior Constable Ben Hall, Constables Dave Ferguson, Roy Dykes, Brian Andrews and Barry Harris. Finallym, the Shorthand Instructors were Sgt 3rd Class Jack Hyslop, Constable 1st Class Joe Smith, and Constables Keith Belcher, Ernie Carmichael and Ron Gould until he left the force to sell AMP insurance in the latter part of 1956.
Shortly afterwards I was transferred to Regent Street No. 2 Division where I carried out telephone operations and intercepted wireless messages in a small alcove alongside of the charge room. The time spent there was very enlightening, to say the least. Les Walsh was one of the station sergeants and Jack Healey was in charge of No. 2 Detectives at that time.
During this transitional period between March/April 1956, Ian Beckett, Neil Taylor, Merv Lane, Brian Bourne and myself were learning elementary shorthand at the Metropolitan Business College, Macquarie Street, Parramatta, which was located about two blocks south of the Parramatta Police Station. On one occasion a girl sitting behind me took an epileptic fit and I managed to place a ruler in her mouth to stop her biting her tongue. The college later wrote to the Cadet Sergeants and I was permitted to read the complimentary letter. I studied very hard concentrating on learning and utilising the various phonetic outlines and grammalogues, building up my shorthand writing speed by taking down and transcribing parliamentary sessions and songs during this period. I was very concerned about the limited period that I had to pass the required shorthand and typing rates before I turned 19. Constable 1/c Joe Smith was in charge of the elementary shorthand class at that time. The cramming certainly helped me a lot because I breezed through the low speed class up to 80 words per minute in eleven working days and I was writing and transcribing shorthand at a 100 words per minute in four and a half months. This then enabled me to apply for a country transfer.
During this period we were attending the Police Training Centre on a daily basis, carrying out physical training, learning law and debating as well as participating in sport. While we were members of the N.S.W. Police Amateur Swimming and Life Saving Club, we swam mainly at the Sydney Domain Baths but on occasions held long distance swimming events at Brighton (outside of the baths). During the earlier part of 1956, various ideas were put forward as suitable “shark repellants” and on one occasion, just prior to our swimming out to the two distant buoys and returning to the shore, dry ice was used as “an efficient shark repellant”. All it appeared to do was send up enormous amounts of bubbles and whilst swimming back to the beach when some cadet yelled out “Shark!” That sure encouraged everyone to treble the speed and be running by the time we reached the shore. Johnny Raper (with Ray White and Andy Lynch hanging out of the box) rang the Daily Mirror from a public telephone down the road and reported the incident. I do remember that dry ice was not used as a shark repellant on any future occasion we swam there.
After working at Regent Street for a period of about three months, I was transferred to Parramatta Police Station No. 18 Division where I carried out similar station duties – Jack Fisher was in charge of the Detectives at that time about May, 1956.
Two months later I was transferred to country duties at Maitland Police Station arriving there in early July 1956. My duties there were carried out in the Public Safety Bureau office, typing up traffic breaches for PSB officers Dick Burgess and Ted Hamilton – Inspector Dave Sutherland was in charge at Maitland, assisted by Sgt 1/c Fraser with Ted Cahill, Prosecuting Sergeants Maurie Baker and Tom Sleeman were in the detective office at that time.
For the first four weeks that I carried out duties at Maitland, I did not receive my fortnightly salary, as there was a mail strike in Sydney. Things were really tough as I was boarding in Church Street and was unable to pay my second fortnight’s board until my parents had wired some money up to me. To the best of my knowledge the pay rate was seven pound twelve shillings and sixpence per week at that time because prior to my leaving home, my parents deducted five pound per week board and I had approximately two pound left, which just managed to see me through until the next fortnightly pay.
One day whilst performing duty at the old Maitland police station, which was directly behind and part of the court house, a list of stolen vehicles was broadcast over the radio from Newcastle police station and included: “Stolen – one sanitary motor truck”. The on duty police constable Tommy King called Newcastle by radio and said: “We’re all pretty browned off about that up here!” On another occasion, I was requested to accompany Detective Tommy Sleeman to a tennis court at East Maitland where I was directed to walk into the shelter at the rear of the courts and in a discreet manner, ask a man who had been previously identified to me by Det. Sleeman, to accompany me back to the car where he was interviewed by the detective and arrested on warrant for committing Bigamy.
In August 1956 I attended a medical examination at Maitland Hospital for National Service, which was compulsory in that decade – Hunter River Lancers. I was then transferred back to Police Training Centre, Redfern in September 1956 for initial induction of 28 Police Cadets into uniform and pedestrian crossing duties.
After the parade, I was transferred to the Public Safety Bureau, Parramatta No. 18 Division for duties on school pedestrian crossings and typing up breach reports etc. After receiving suitable instructions in signalling etc. on pedestrian crossings, I was taken out to the then pedestrian crossing adjacent to the four way intersection on Victoria Road, Rydalmere (Family Hotel corner) in motor cycle and sidecar by O.I.C. Public Safety Bureau, (Parramatta) Sgt. 3rd Class Arthur Hancock. Traffic was considerably heavy on this main road. One afternoon shortly after commencing duties and whilst operating the intersection, I had occasion to signal traffic travelling in both easterly and westerly directions in Victoria Road to stop prior to allowing school children and pedestrian traffic from the nearby factories to cross at the pedestrian crossing. The leading vehicle travelling in an easterly direction failed to stop when clearly signalled and continued east across the pedestrian crossing. All other vehicles became stationary. I obtained the registration number and typed out a breach report when returning to the station. The driver was subsequently summonsed and appeared at Parramatta Court where he pleaded “Not Guilty”. Cadet Sergeant Brickell was present as an observer in the courtroom. After I had given evidence under oath, the magistrate found the offence proved and a conviction was recorded. I am not aware whether any other cadets in the first uniform intake had similar experiences or not but it was my first and one of many later court appearances. If my memory serves me correctly, the offender’s name was William Henry Diggleman and he had prior convictions including for D.U.I.
At some time about November, 1956, Cadet Bill Scotcher and I were requested to attend Police Headquarters then located in Phillip Street where we were paraded before the then Commissioner of Police, Colin John Delaney and complimented on our outstanding shorthand ability. Christmas 1956 saw uniformed cadets on duty at the pedestrian crossing at George and Park Streets, Sydney and I was temporarily stationed at Clarence Street, No. 1 Division.
Between February and June 1957, I served my compulsory National Service with No. 12 Battalion, Holsworthy, N.S.W. for the first six weeks of training. Another police cadet, Nelson Chad, was also in “A” Squadron with me at that time, where we both attended O.T.C (Officer Training Course) and were promoted to the rank of corporal. For the remaining initial three month period, I was transferred for specialist duties to the Armoured School, Puckapunyal, Victoria.
After this phase of national service, I was transferred to Burwood Detectives, No. 9 Division conducting school pedestrian crossing work there as well as clerical duties in the detective office until passing my final medical, being sworn in as a probationary constable after completing the inductional class at the Redfern Police Training Centre during August/September 1957.
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001), Friday 4 October 1974 (No.121), page 3908
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the following appointments:
The undermentioned Members of the Police Force to be Inspectors under the Liquor Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, for the Licensing District preceding their names, from the dates specified, viz.:
Peak Hill.—Sergeant 3rd Class William John Scotcher, stationed at Peak Hill, vice Sergeant 3rd Class Reginald James Southam,; from 14th June, 1974.
Peak Hill.—Sergeant 1st Class William Bryant, stationed at Peak Hill, during the absence on leave of Sergeant 3rd Class William John Scotcher, from 25th August, 1974.
Rank: *Terrence was a Rejoinee having only done 1 month as a Probationary Constable
*Probationary Constable – appointed 26 June 1978
Constable – appointed 26 July 1978
Senior Constable – appointed 26 July 1986
Sergeant –
Final Rank = ?
Stations: ?, Newtown ( 1970’s ), Marrickville ( early 1980’s ), Newtown ( Sgt – 1990’s ), ( Coach of the Newtown Jets Police Rugby League Football Club )
Service 1 NSWPF: From? ? ?to? ? pre June 1978? = 4 years Service
Between his 1st & 2nd Service with NSWPF, Terry worked as a Psych Nurse at Callan Park Psychiatric Ward. Terry originally left NSWPF due to the death of his 1st wife having passed away.
Service 2 NSWPF : From ? ? pre June 1978? to 8 November 2001 = total of 27 years Service
Class 159. Group D. Monday 26 June 1978. Back Row: ( L – R ) K.E. MOORE, P.J. NUNN, R.B. McLENNAN, B.R. MORRIS, J.W. NELSON, R.R. NEWMAN, T.J. O”NEILL, S.K. NAYLOR. Middle Row: R.J. MAUDE, P.L. O’BRIEN, R.G. NICHOLLS, M.H. OWEN, S.T. MUSCAT, P.D. PHILLIPS, N.J. NIXON, Robert N. NORVAL. Front Row: M.L. O’KEEFE, P.G. McINNESS, S.J. McGRATH, K.M. RYNNE, B.E. PARKER, Terrence Raymond McGLYNN ( R.I.P. ), C.M. PLUMMER, J.W. NEWSOME ( Missing: M. PETROVIC )
Peter NISSEN ( #18778 ) & Terry McGLYNN
Worked with Terry at Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital prior to us both joining the job. On the left of photo is Jeff Prentice ( # 14115 ) another ex Psychiatric nurse and NSW Police Officer, Terry in the middle and myself ( Phillip Brand # 14273 ) on right.
Terry is in second row in the middle, did not have his moustache then.
The Callan Park Rugby League team, probably late 1960’s.
Terry is in second row in the middle, did not have his moustache then.
TERRY is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
Funeral pamphlet
FURTHER INFORMATION IS NEEDED ABOUT THIS PERSON, THEIR LIFE, THEIR CAREER AND THEIR DEATH.
By all accounts, Terry appeared to be a great bloke and great policeman who had the respect of all whom worked with him.
He apparently joined the NSWPF some time prior to 1978 and Served for probably 4 years before ” pulling the pin ” and working as a Psychiatric Nurse at Callan Park where he was given the nickname of “Maggots” before eventually returning to the NSWPF where he apparently Served all of his Service at Newtown and Marrickville.
Terry Retired in November 2001 and eventually he and his 2nd wife, Fran, moved to warmer climes in far north NSW.
Terry suffered various conditions which required hospitalisation. These conditions caused the removal of a leg and also the removal of multiple large skin cancers off his face.
His funeral was recently attended by around 25 of his former mates from the old Newtown Police days.
Richard Hurst: I was Traffic Sgt at Blacktown when Norma started she was amazing……I’m lost for words. She was the most efficient, loyal person you could wish to meet, she had a lovely family, her husband Freddy was a great bloke. Rest in Peace Norma.
