Where are they now

First Australian Female Policewoman to be Awarded the Star of Courage ( SC )

 

Leah Helene RUDDER SC

AKA  Leah RUDDER, Veg

Leah KENNAWAY

 

Related to:  David John RUDDER, NSWPF ProCst # 60367

“possible” relation in ‘the job’:    ?

NSW Goulburn Police Academy  –  Class #  241

 

New South Wales Police Force

 

Regd. #  26513

 

Rank: Commenced Training at Goulburn Police Academy on Monday 24 April 1989 ( aged 18 years, 9 months,9 days )

Probationary Constable- appointed Friday 27 October 1989 ( aged 19 years, 3 months, 12 days ) 

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Detective – appointed ? ? ? ( NO )

Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ? 

 

Final Rank: = Senior Constable 

 

Stations:   Wagga Wagga ( SPO ), Kings Cross ( ProCst )( GDs ),

Lower Hunter Command ( March 1996 – 23/12/10 )( Maitland )( Newcastle Crash Investigation Unit ) – Retired HOD 23/12/10.

  

Service: From 24 April 1989  to  23 December 2010 = 21 years, 1 month, 26 days Service

 

Retirement / Leaving age: =  40 years, 5 months, 8 days

Time in Retirement from Police:  Continuing in Retirement

 

Awards:  National Medal – granted ? ? ?

NSW Police Valour Award – granted 3 December 2003 ( SenCon )

NSW Police Medal with two Clasps ( 15 years, 20 years ) – granted ? ? ?

National Police Service Medal – granted ? ? ?

Star of Courage Medal ( SC )- granted 12 March 2007 ( SenCon )

 

 Born:  15 July 1970 at Deniliquin, NSW

 

 

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: Australia’s 1st Female Police Officer to be Awarded the Star of Courage ( SC ). 

The only female, having a number of life sized fixed banners, erected on “Heroes Walk” at the NSW Police Academy, Goulburn, NSW

 

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( April 2023 )

 

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I wish Leah and her family all the very best in life.

 

Cal

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Lot 4539    SESSION 18 (2.30PM FRIDAY 31ST MARCH)    Orders, Decorations & Medals – Australian Groups

 

POLICE BRAVERY GROUP OF FIVE: (listed as mounted)

 

Star of Courage; National Medal; NSW Police Valour Award; NSW Police Medal, – two clasps – 15 Years, 20 Years; National Police Service Medal.

Leah Helene Rudder on reverse of suspension bar of first medal, Leah Helene Rudder on all other medals except the third medal which has Senior Constable Leah Helene Rudder.

All medals pantographed.

The first two and the second two medals court mounted as pairs, the last medal with pin-back suspender bar. Nearly uncirculated.

Together with booklet for Investiture at Government House and with Entry Card to Admit Senior Constable LH Rudder; booklet Attestation Parade, Constable Education Program, at which Senior Constable Rudder was presented with Commissioner’s Valour Award; letters of congratulations from important officials; various articles, newspaper clippings, posters and a host of other documents and photos relating to the courage and police service of Senior Constable Leah Rudder.

Star of Courage: Awarded by the Governor-General Michael Jeffery and presented at Government House, Canberra 12 March 2007.

Citation: In the early morning of 10 April 2003, Senior Constable Rudder rescued an unconscious man from a burning house at Tarro, New South Wales.

At around midnight, Senior Constable Rudder was driving into her driveway after work when she heard breaking glass and yelling coming from a neighbouring house. She drove to investigate and found a female using a garden hose through a window of a house that was on fire. The woman informed Senior Constable Rudder that she had called emergency services. The fire had engulfed the front section of the house. Senior Constable Rudder looked through a partially broken window to determine whether the occupant of the house was still inside.

Visibility was poor, so she used a steel bucket she found at the rear of the house to break more of the window. She was still unable to see inside and the window was too high for her to gain access, so she returned to the rear of the house and tried the back door. It was locked so she kicked the wooden door repeatedly until she had made a hole to crawl through. She was unable to gain access, however, due to intense heat and smoke. She returned to her vehicle, called for assistance and grabbed a torch. Senior Constable Rudder used the torch to smash a window and look inside for any occupants. She saw a man lying on the floor, wedged between the foot of a bed and the wall. She returned to her car to advise colleagues who had now arrived, that she was going inside to rescue the man. One of her colleagues went with her and they both entered the house through the hole in the rear door. They tried to drag the man from the house but he remained wedged and they were forced to retreat when they were overcome by the intense heat and thick smoke.

After getting some fresh air, they re-entered the house and, despite the fire gaining in intensity, returned to the bedroom. As they dragged the man to the door of the bedroom, the walls and ceiling began to collapse and both officers were showered with sparks and debris. The man became jammed in the doorway, and while Senior Constable Rudder tried to free him, her colleague was forced to retreat due to smoke inhalation. Senior Constable Rudder continued to pull the unconscious man by his feet down the hallway.

A colleague then assisted her in removing the man from the burning house to safety. By her actions, Senior Constable Rudder displayed conspicuous bravery.

NSW Police Commissioner’s Valour Award: Conferred upon Senior Constable Leah Helene Rudder 3 December 2003 by K.E.Moroney, Commissioner of Police.

Citation: In recognition of the extreme bravery and meritorious service displayed when undertaking the successful rescue of a person from a house fire at Tarro on 11 April 2003.

Senior Constable Rudder became aware of a residence which was well alight and ascertained that a person was inside. Access was gained by crawling through a hole in a door made whilst gaining entry to the building. The occupant was located unconscious and wedged between the wall and furniture. Unable to release the person, she exited the premises to call for additional support.

On the arrival of assistance a further attempt to release the occupant was undertaken. However, due to smoke inhalation and the intense heat both officers left the premises.

Undeterred and facing intense heat, acrid smoke and falling debris, Senior Constable Rudder re-entered the premises unaccompanied. On that occasion she was able to free the person and began pushing the occupant along the floor.

Although this situation presented a real threat to Senior Constable Rudder’s life, she maintained her resolve and was eventually able to complete a successful rescue with the assistance of other personnel.

By her actions Senior Constable Rudder displayed courage, professionalism and responsibility to the community in an extremely dangerous situation. She is highly commended for her valour under extreme duress.

Leah Helene Kennaway, born 15 July 1970 at Deniliquin, NSW and then moved to Goulburn where her father worked as Valuer General and here she attended Goulburn High School; moved to Wagga Wagga when her father was appointed Regional Valuer General and attended Kooringal High School there until completing her Higher School Certificate; joined NSW Police Force on 24 April 1989 as a Student Police Officer, this was the first class conducted under the new PREP (Pole Recruit Education Program), a 6-month training course that included a placement period at Wagga Wagga Police Station;

attested to rank of Probationary Constable 24 Oct 1989 and stationed at Kings Cross Police Station where she performed General Duties Police, both mobile and beat patrol;

confirmed as a Constable Oct1990; for next 5 years at Kings Cross Patrol she performed secondments with various roles and duties within Sydney Charge Room and Cell Complex, Prisoner Transport Unit, Riot Squad and Sexual Assault Unit;

one of only a few female officers to train with the newly formed Riot Squad and highly sought-after IROC (Initial Response Officer’s Course) selected and specifically trained to take sexual assault statements from victims;

appointed Constable First Class in 1995;

married on 07 Jan 1995 to police officer David John Rudder;

twin boy and girl born prematurely at Paddington, Sydney NSW on 30 Aug 1995;

Senior Constables David and Leah Rudder transferred to Lower Hunter Command in Mar 1996,

David stationed at Cessnock Police Station and

Leah at Maitland Police Station where she performed duties General Duties, Domestic Violence, Warrant and Summons, Sexual Assault and as a Police Negotiator; she had another son born in 1998 and continued to work in a part-time capacity at Maitland Police Station as a Domestic Violence Liaison Officer for the Lower Hunter Command encompassing 17 police stations and also continued working as an IROC Officer, Police Negotiator and later as an Investigator at Newcastle Crash Investigator Unit;

Senior Constable Leah Rudder was medically discharged from the NSW Police Force with both physical and psychological injuries on 23 December 2010 after a 22-year career.

Senior Constable Leah Rudder was the first female police officer in Australia to be awarded the Star of Courage. She was also given the honour of being the only female of a number of life size fixed banners erected on ‘Heroes Walk‘ at the NSW Police Academy and she appears in The Who’s Who of Australia 2008 and the Valour Roll at the NSW Police Academy.

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This was published 16 years ago

Single-minded hero recognised

March 12, 2007 — 11.04am

A policewoman’s single-minded determination to save an unconscious man from his burning NSW home has been recognised with one of Australia’s highest-ranked bravery awards.

Senior Constable Leah Rudder is one of two heroes announced Monday as being awarded with the Australian Bravery Decorations’ Star of Courage medal.

The other brave Australian to receive the star is South Australian truck driver Daryl Smith who rescued a man from a burning car after an accident in 2002.

The star is awarded for non-military acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril where people put themselves in jeopardy to protect the lives or property of others.

Hours after dragging 42-year-old Charlton Redding away from the flames and smoke engulfing his home at Tarro, near Maitland, in 2003, Sen Const Rudder said: “I had one thing in mind – to get him out alive”.

Single-minded hero recognised

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Hunter police recognised for house fire rescue

Hunter police recognised for house fire rescue – ABC News

 

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Nothing further, than what is recorded above, is known about this person at the time of publication and further information and photos would be appreciated.

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Cal
5 April 2023

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John BAILEY

Late of Redfern  

 

NSW Goulburn Police Academy / Police Training Centre – Redfern  / Police Training College – Penrith / Belmore Barracks  Class #  ? ? ? 

 

New South Wales Police Force

 

Regd. # 1989  

 

Service:  From 10 August 1870   to   21 November 1887  =  17 years Service 

 

Rank:  Commenced Training at / as ? Police Academy Police Cadet on ? ? ?

Supernumerary Constable- appointed 10 August 1870

Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Constable 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Detective – appointed ? ? ?

Senior Constable – appointed 1 April 1876  

Leading Senior Constable – appointed ? ? ?

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 1 January 1882

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed ? ? ? 

Inspector – appointed ? ? ? 

Chief Inspector – appointed ? ? ? 

Superintendent – appointed ? ? ? 

Chief Superintendent – appointed ? ? ?

 

Final Rank =  Sergeant 2nd Class

 

Stations:  Redfern

 

Retirement / Leaving age: =  46

Time in Retirement from Police: ?

 

Awards:  National Medal – granted ? ? ?

1st Clasp to National Medal – granted ? ? ?

2nd Clasp to National Medal – granted ? ? ?

 

 Born: 1841

Died on:  21 November 1887

Age:  46

 

Cause: Unknown

Event location:  Redfern

Event date: 21 November 1887

 

Funeral date:  ? ? ?

Funeral location:  ? 

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Funeral Parlour: ?

Buried at:  Rookwood Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria, Mortuary 1 Area: AA Grave: 342

 

Memorial / Plaque / Monument located at: ?

Dedication date of Memorial / Plaque / Monument: Nil – at this time ( July 2021 )

 

 

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? is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance  *NEED MORE INFO

? IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

? is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED

? IS mentioned on the Sydney Police Centre Memorial Wall, Surry Hills

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DEATH OF SERGEANT 2nd CLASS JOHN BAILEY (1841 to 21 November 1887) No. 1989

John Bailey was born in 1841 in Kilkenny, Ireland. He emigrated to Australia and married Ellen Heffernan at Hunters Hill in 1869. They had eight children together between 1870 and 1881.

John Bailey was sworn in as a Supernumerary Constable of the NSW Police Force on the 10 August 1870. He was promoted to Senior Constable on the 1 April 1876 and Sergeant 2^nd Class on the 1 January 1882.

Sergeant Bailey died on the 21 November 1887. He was stationed at Redfern at the time. He was buried at the Rookwood Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria, Mortuary 1 Area: AA Grave: 342

At the time of his death he lived at 2 Sterling St Redfern and was a member of the H.C. Guild.

In 1925 Sergeant Bailey’s registered number was re-issued to Probationary Constable Ernest James Williamson.

Constantin SERGEEFF

aka  Con

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ?

Rank:  Sergeant 3rd Class

Stations:  ?, Fairfield G.D’s

Service:  From  ?  to  ?

Awards: National Medal – granted 22 September 1987

Act of Bravery –

Born:  ?

 

 

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Report of the NSW Police Department for the year ended 31 December 1978.

Sergeant 3rd Class Con Sergeeff—Whilst investigating an incident at Fairfield West on 7th November, 1978, the Sergeant found a young woman firing shots at a house from a parked car. Although threatened by the woman, who was affected by alcohol, the Sergeant positioned himself behind the vehicle while other Police attempted to persuade the offender to surrender. After about half an hour the Sergeant, seeing an opportunity, sprang forward, seized the rifle and disarmed the offender,
whereupon, other Police took her into custody.

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Chief Inspector of Distilleries Office. Sydney, 25th July, 1862.

THE APPOINTMENT of the Undermentioned Officers of Police to be Inspectors of Distilleries, duly notified in the Government Gazette, is now further advertised for public information, and for the guidance of Magistrates and Clerks of Petty Sessions in the country districts: —

Henry Zouch

William Chatfield

John Aitcheson McLerie

George Markham

T.B. Carrne

Edric N. V. Morisset

James Garland, and Charles J. P. Lydiard, Esqs,

Sir Frederick W. Pottinger, Bart,

Critchett Walker

Frederick R. Wilshire, Esq.

Edward M. Battye, and Henry H Bligh, Esq,

Messrs. John H. Bruyess

Arthur A. Abbott

Thomas M. A. White

John G. Hussey

John D. Meares

James Singleton

George Read

James A. Black

Charles Harrison

William O’Neil

Thomas Hogg

Charles G. Persin

William Malbon

Reginald Hare

Henry Garvin

John Oxley Norton

Henry C. Young and John Woolf.

HENRY LUMSDAINE, Chief Inspector of Distilleries.

Freeman’s Journal ( Sydney )   Saturday  2 August 1862   page 7 of 8

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115761002

NSW Police Officers who lost their lives as a result of active Defence duty – Cemetery and Memorial sites. This is not a complete list.

**AUSTRALIA**
*KATOOMBA Cemetery
HOUSTON, Kenneth Raymond – Private – 25/10/1968
Kenneth is also listed at ROOKWOOD NECROPOLIS at the Garden of Remembrance.

 

Others that don’t appear on the above list ( H. Chadban does appear above ) but do appear on the Newcastle Police Honour Roll of WW I are:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/159096387

2/6 Cavalry Commando Regiment and 2nd Cavalry Regiment

HATS OFF TO A FOURSOME

 (Cavalry News 67, Dec 2001)

 

On page 17 of our last issue is a picture of four of our members, each of which served post war in the police force.  One of them, John Emmett , joined the army in 1940, and saw active service in the Western Desert, Greece, Syria and the Northern Territory.

In 1942 Jack joined the 2/10 Commando Unit, however, in 1943 he left the Army to join the RAAF where he became a Navigator on Liberator bombers.

The other three members of the foursome all experienced active service with the 2.10 Commando Unit in some of the fiercest fighting in New Guinea and adjacent islands.

At war’s end each of them was discharged from the Services and each joined the NSW Police Force.

Jack (John) Emmett joined the Police Force in 1947 and was attached to Newtown Station.  Jack recollects that on reporting for duty his Inspector was a bit put out (to say the least) when he, Jack, stated he was a member of the Police Choir.

Like most probationers, Jack experienced a number of “faux pas”, the most serious letting a prisoner escape whilst he was cleaning the cells.

However, the Gods were looking after Jack and he went on to continue an industrious career.  His Newtown experiences included locking up the usual number of hoodlums, thieves and vagrants.

In addition he was able to shoot a number of injured dogs without shooting himself or a member of the public.

He then did a spot of School Lecturing at Parramatta.  It was at Parramatta that Jack found his calling for the Police Prosecuting Staff and for the next 25 years he prosecuted at various City courts along with relieving Country Prosecutors.

In 1964 Jack was transferred to Tamworth as a Prosecutor and remained so for 7 years.

He then moved to Newcastle in charge of Prosecutors until 1974 when he was transferred to Central Court in charge of Police Prosecutors until 7 Nov 1977 when he retired.  Jack is the 4th generation that has served with distinction in the NSW Police Force.

Nev Shorrock and Ossie Pomroy joined the Police Force on the same day in 1946.  Nev Shorrock served on general duty at Manly for 11 years, then as a Senior Constable he was transferred to Delegate for 2 years.  Neville resigned from the force at Delegate to purchase a General Store and Newsagency which he operated for the next 18 years.

He then moved to Greenwell Point where he operated the local Post office for the next 15 years.  He is now living in retirement at Greenwell Point.

Ossie, after his initial training of 1946, was attached to Phillip Street, after which on General Duty he went bush serving at Lismore, Tweed Heads, Gloucester, Werris Creek, Wee Waa and Nowra.

It was then back to the City to serve as an Inspector at Burwood, Blacktown and Katoomba where he retired.  Unfortunately recently in retirement Ossie had a misunderstanding with a box trailer.

It appears that Ossie was under the trailer doing some repairs when it collapsed on top of him and trapped him.  The result was severe leg injuries, however, he is on the road back.

The fourth member of the foursome, Ron Scott , joined the NSW Police Force in 1947 and after initial training he went to Leichhardt for a short spell, then to Lithgow for 18 months and then back to the City for 6 months at Regent Street.

Camperdown was the next stop for 12 months where he resigned in 1951 to re-enter the Army with the rank of Sergeant.  Ron served for 12 months in Korea to be followed by 2 years in Malaya.

He left the Army in 1963 to join the Commonwealth Police for three years.  he resigned from the Commonwealth Police to take on employment with Burns Phillip from where he retired.  Ron is currently the President of the old Army Association.

Hats off to this foursome who served their Country so well in Peace as well as in War.

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http://www.26cavcommando.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2700&Itemid=74

Adam DUNNING

Australian Protective Services Officer ( A.P.S. )

Australian Federal Police, 29 March 2003 – 22 December 2004

RAAF Reservist, 1995 –

Regd. # ?

Rank:  PSO1 (Protective Services Officer )

Stations:  Solomon Islands, 4 October 2004 – 22 December 2004

Service:  From  29 March 2003  to  22 December 2004 = 1+ year Service

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Unit:  RAMSI

Regiment:  ?

Enlisted:  ?

Service #  ?

Rank:  ?

Embarkation:  ?

Next of kin:  ?

Religion:  ?

Single / Married:  ?

Returned to Australia:  ?

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Awards:  Meritorious Unit Citation for work in East Timor.

Commendation for efforts in disarming a male carrying a replica pistol in Honiara Court.

Born:  ?

Died on:  Wednesday  22 December 2004

Cause:  Shot – Murdered

whilst deployed on official duties at Honiara, Solomon Islands

Age: 26

Funeral date:  Thursday  30 December 2004

Funeral location:  ANZAC Memorial Chapel,

Royal Military College, Duntroon, ACT

Buried at:  Cremated

Memorial:  The main street of a new AFP training village in Canberra was named Adam Dunning Drive in his memory.

Adam IS mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance

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Tears for the fallen as Adam comes home

By Craig Skehan and Aban Contractor
December 24, 2004

 

They had slow-marched their comrade’s casket to the plane that would take him home.

Their backs were straight, but the emotions were too much: tears tumbled down the cheeks of the Australian Federal Police pallbearers as they did Adam Dunning this last honour.

Then, once his body was stowed in the hold of the RAAF jet on the tarmac in Honiara, his mates made a last gesture of solidarity with the colleague they were farewelling forever – forming a circle, heads bowed, arms locked around each other’s shoulders.

Adam Dunning, the 26-year-old AFP protective service officer who was killed by a sniper in the early hours of Wednesday morning, was accompanied home by the Minister for Justice, Chris Ellison, and the Opposition’s home affairs spokesman, Robert McClelland, but at Fairbairn air base in Canberra, where the RAAF 737 touched down just before 6pm, it was Mr Dunning’s family and friends – his parents, Michael and Christine, his sisters, Sarah and Emma, and his girlfriend, Elise Wiscombe – who formed the guard of honour.

Standing in two straight lines, they faced the plane.

With the Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick Keelty, standing watch nearby, Mr Dunning’s parents held their heads high, and his sisters and Ms Wiscombe quietly sobbed as eight AFP pallbearers bore his flag-draped casket from the plane. His parents held hands and seemed to stand even straighter as their only son was placed in the hearse that would take him to the mortuary.

In the Solomons, police are questioning a taxi driver about several suspects in the murder. A Solomon Islands police source told the Herald that the taxi – seen near the murder scene with several passengers before the shooting – had been seized.

On a narrow, potholed road on the outskirts of the Solomons capital, Honiara, locals offered heartfelt apologies for the shooting.

“I am so very sorry,” said one young man. “He came here to help us.”

By the roadside at Zion Junction, investigating officers had cut the long grass to help search for clues to the identity of the person who, in darkness shortly after 3am on Wednesday, shot Mr Dunning while he was on patrol in a Toyota Land Cruiser.

Zion Junction does not have a particularly dangerous reputation. Rather, locals said, other settlements further along the same ridge were known for trouble, ranging from extortion to payback shootings.

Moffat Suiga, a community elder who was awakened by the shots that killed Mr Dunning, said he and others were at a loss to explain the murder.

A middle-aged businessman said the overwhelming majority of Solomon Islanders wanted to see those responsible put in jail. He said it would be a good thing if the Australian-led intervention force remained for the next 40 years.

At a commemoration service earlier in Honiara, Mr Keelty said Mr Dunning had “died for peace”.

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Sir Allan Kemakeza, said the young man had been helping the country overcome ethnic strife and crime. “We will not forget him,” he said.

A police funeral will be held for Mr Dunning on a day to be announced.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Tears-for-the-fallen-as-Adam-comes-home/2004/12/23/1103391900411.html

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Offenders:  John Hen OME, 31 & James TATAU, 29

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Peacekeeper killed ADG’s funeral brings Air Force and police together By FLGOFF Fiona Peacock The funeral of LAC Adam Dunning, a member of the PAF and Air Force Active Reserve. LAC Adam Dunning. LEADING Aircraftman Adam Dunning, an ADG with No. 28 (City of Canberra) Squadron and former member of No. 2 Air Field Defence Squadron, was killed in December last year while on operational duty with the Australian Federal Police as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). In the early hours of December 22, LAC Dunning and an Australian Protective Service colleague were on a routine vehicle patrol in Honiara, protecting the Prime Minister’s and Governor General’s residences. A concealed gunman shot at the vehicle, fatally wounding LAC Dunning, who was 26. He deployed to the Solomons in October and, after only six weeks there, was awarded a commendation for disarming a man in front of the Magistrates Court. At LAC Dunning’s funeral, members of 28SQN played a part in recognising his Air Force service. The squadron’s honorary air commodore, Air Commodore Justice Terence Higgins, represented 28SQN among the official party of Service chiefs. Members of the Air Field Defence Wing provided the firing party and the guard of honour for receiving VIPs. The RAAF Ensign was carried by Pilot Officer Shane McGaughey and was escorted by Flight Sergeant John Forth. Two close friends of LAC Dunning, Leading Aircraftmen Tim Gresham and David Pauli, were members of the bearer party. The President of 28SQN Association, Steve Williams, represented former 28SQN members. 28SQN members joined AFP personnel to form a guard of honour. AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty praised No. 34 Squadron for the way it handled bringing LAC Dunning’s body back to Australia. http://www.defence.gov.au/news/raafnews/editions/4701/topstories/story03.htm

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-12-22/afp-officer-adam-dunning-was-murdered-while-on/606888

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Family, friends, colleagues farewell peacekeeper

They stood side by side. Two long lines of blue uniforms facing each other along the tree-lined road. Like a slow Mexican wave, each snapped to attention and saluted as the body of one of their own passed by.

Adam Dunning, murdered by a sniper while on patrol in the Solomons early last week, had begun the last leg of his journey home.

Earlier, these men and women of the Australian Federal Police and the Royal Australian Air Force had wept openly as Mr Dunning was farewelled with full police and military honours in the Duntroon chapel. “He was a great man,” said his federal police mate Pat Castle.

The nation’s military chiefs turned out to pay tribute, as did Prime Minister John Howard, Governor-General Michael Jeffery and senior cabinet ministers.

But this ritual belonged to those who knew and loved Adam Dunning.

His mother, Christine, read from a tribute that she and her husband, Mike, had written to their son in February. They had praised his courage, sensitivity and mettle.

His partner, Elise, who had brought red roses for the man she had loved, said he was her greatest friend. “He was my strength, my inspiration, my love.”

Peacekeeper Beau Tennant, who was with Mr Dunning the night before he died, broke down as he recalled his friend’s generosity.

“Before he left me, his last words were: ‘Are you right for money mate?’ That was the kind of bloke he was,” he said.

Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Mr Dunning would live on in the memories of grateful Solomon Islanders.

“Adam Dunning died for peace and law and order. His work and his death will always be remembered by his colleagues,” he told mourners.

The federal police hope to build a memorial to Mr Dunning at their new training centre for overseas police peacekeepers.

Mr Dunning also served with RAAF in Timor before joining the AFP.

Police believe his murder and another attack on police on October 21 were carried out by three former members of the Malaitan Eagle Force militia.

They have charged two men – John Ome and Philip Kwaimani – over the attacks and are hunting James Tatau, who Mr Keelty said was present at both events and had access to a cache of weapons.

Police believe the trio were working on their own, with no sign of any broader uprising against the peacekeeping effort.

It fell to Emma, who had adored her older brother, to claim his service medals and caps from the flag-shrouded coffin and hand them to her grieving parents.

As his police mates carried Mr Dunning’s coffin from the chapel into the sunlight, drummers and bagpipers ushered him on his way. A police motorcade led the cortege through Canberra’s streets to a private service and cremation.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Family-friends-colleagues-farewell-peacekeeper/2004/12/30/1104344927723.html

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Body of sniper victim arrives in Canberra

 

A plane carrying the body of murdered Australian peacekeeper Adam Dunning has landed in his home town of Canberra.

The 26-year-old Australian Protective Services officer was shot twice in the back by a sniper while serving as part of a peacekeeping mission in the Solomon Islands yesterday morning.

Members of Mr Dunning’s family, and his colleagues were on hand to formally receive his body.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty returned from the Solomon Islands about half an hour before the plane bearing Officer Dunning’s body landed.

He was among those waiting for Justice Minister Chris Ellison and Labor’s homeland security spokesman Robert McClelland, who accompanied the body on the flight back to Canberra.

Commissioner Keelty, Senator Ellison, Mr McClelland and AFP officers formed a guard of honour before the coffin was removed from the plane.

Family members, including Officer Dunning’s parents Mike and Christine, and girlfriend Elise Wiscombe, stood arm in arm watching proceedings.

A guard of honour, carrying Officer Dunning’s hat, led the flag-draped coffin to the hearse.

Eight pall bearers stood tall under the weight, as Officer Dunning’s police colleagues watched on.

A cavalcade of AFP motorcycles is waiting to lead the hearse to Canberra’s mortuary.

A full police funeral will be held for Officer Dunning on a day to be announced.

Officer Dunning’s parents took the time to thank those who attended the short ceremony before the hearse headed for Kingston mortuary under police escort.

Senator Ellison later said the Solomons people were behind RAMSI and Australia’s efforts to bring law and order to the country.

He said some adjustments might be made to the conduct of night patrols but any final decision would depend on recommendations from the AFP.

He denied the Government had too quickly reduced the AFP’s military support in the Solomons.

“We’ve made fantastic progress in the Solomons and we never underestimated the danger that our people faced,” he told ABC television

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Body-of-sniper-victim-arrives-in-Canberra/2004/12/23/1103391888916.html

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More troops sent in as peacekeeper slain

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/More-troops-sent-in-as-peacekeeper-slain/2004/12/22/1103391841939.html

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Protective Service Officers were deployed along with other Australian law enforcement officers in the Solomon Islands as part of RAMSI. The peacekeeping force suffered their first casualty on 22 December 2004 when PSO1 Adam Dunning was shot and killed while deployed on official duties in the Solomon Islands. Two former members of a local militia were charged but acquitted of Dunning’s murder.^[5] Officer Dunning was buried with full police honours.

The main street of a new AFP training village in Canberra was named Adam Dunning Drive in his memory.^[6] The $2.8 million training facility at Mount Majura just outside Canberra, has been designed to replicate situations in regional countries to which personnel might be assigned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Protective_Service

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Dunning remembered in training complex

The main street of a new training village for Australian Federal Police and other personnel being sent overseas has been named after murdered peacekeeper Adam Dunning.

The $2.8 million training facility at Majura, just outside Canberra, has been designed to replicate situations in regional countries to which personnel might be assigned.

Prime Minister John Howard officially opened the facility on Thursday in the presence of police chiefs from across the country as well as from several regional nations.

Australian Protective Service officer Mr Dunning, 26, was fatally shot twice in the back while on night patrol in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara in December.

He was serving as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomons.

His parents attended the opening of the village, through the centre of which runs a road now named Adam Dunning Drive.

“The loss of Adam Dunning signified that this is very dangerous work,” Justice Minister Senator Chris Ellison said.

Mr Howard said the new facility reflected the new security reality for Australia and its region.

“Events of the last five years have totally transformed both the demands and the expectations of the Australian community on the Australian Federal Police,” he told the gathering.

“In that five-year period we have seen the threatening arrival of international terrorism.

“We’ve (also) seen the emergence of an ongoing need on the part of this country, in cooperation with our friends in the Pacific region, to involve ourselves in the restoration of conditions of law and order and cooperation with police services and governments of those countries.”

The training village, to be used by a range of emergency services personnel as well as police, recreates the environment that police experience when on overseas missions.

Designed to reflect the streetscape of a small overseas township, it enables true-to-life scenario training which helps to prepare police for unknown and sometimes dangerous challenges.

It includes 18 buildings and structures including a corner store, a town hall, a police station, a school, a pub, a marketplace and even a cemetery, reflecting the fact that police are sometimes required to perform exhumations in the course of their work.

The spokesman said 124 personnel had already trained at the complex which was completed in March.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Dunning-remembered-in-training-complex/2005/06/23/1119321840325.html

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When depression and ” the job ” is obvious to the family.

A letter from a daughter to the Commissioner of Police.

8 years on and still ‘ no response ‘

 

Monday 21st August 2006

ATTN: Ken Maroney
Commissioner of Police
Sydney Police Centre
GPO Box 45
Sydney NSW 2000

Dear Ken,

It is with regret that I write this letter to you. A letter of this nature should not ever need to be written and the events that led to the writing of this letter should not have taken place.

I am writing to tell you about my father, James Breeze. My father is a Bravery Award winning Vietnam Veteran who joined the Police Force 25 years ago. Since joining dad has spent the full 25 years on the front line. During those 25 years he has added value to the NSW Police Force not just in his front line duties, but also as a Protocol Officer, a Gay Liaison Officer, an Aboriginal Liaison officer, a Leading Senior Const., training other officers and has also been a proactive and positive member of the NSW Police Force.

Dad is a leader among his pears, in the last 25 years I have been fortunate enough to meet some of dad’s peers and work mates and I am always so proud of my dad. Work mates and colleagues have so much respect for my dad and the contributions he has made but most importantly the support he has given them. His accolades include; a Good Conduct Medal, Long Service and the St John’s Life Saving Award (presented by you in 1994).

Also over the last 25 years, I have been less fortunate to see the effect my fathers chosen vocation has had on him as an individual. 25 years as a front line Police Officer has really taken its toll on my father. Growing up I began to be able to tell a good day from a ‘bad’ day. When I say bad; visiting an accident, witnessing family violence, violence on children, jumping in a car to hold someone’s body together, literally, while you wait for help to come, pulling the deceased from the wreck of car. Worst of all, pulling your deceased mate from a car wreck. For 5 years my dad ran a one man station at Barellan. Country life and people were fantastic, everyone knew everyone. No one preempted hard it would be to pull your dead mate from a car. I have heard my dad cry, I have seen his eyes when he comes home from a ‘bad’ day. I know there are things so horrible, that they are far beyond description. At times I have asked dad to share his load, and he has just looked at me and cried, he has said that there are people and things in this life worth not knowing.

The most recent of these ‘bad’ days, was in February when a young girl walked into Bowral Police Station and attempted suicide by Police. She held a gun up to my father and after time so did he. This was the event that changed my fathers life. My father is a broken man. Due to this recent event, my father has taken sick leave from work. His family and friends have grouped around him, each day is a challenge, and each day is hard. You see, the Police Force defines who my dad is, he loves his job, he lives and breathes the police force and now, he feels as though they have forgotten all the good he did, all the sacrifices he made.

Two days ago, a GSO (administration officer) called my father and told him that on his behalf, they have a medical discharge for him to sign! After 25 years of devoting your life to an organization regardless of whether they service the Australian community or not, you deserve more than a phone call telling you are no longer needed and that your condition is not being recognized. No one calling to sympathies, no superior calling to see ‘how you are’, no one calling to see what assistance they can lend you, what help they can give you after all the years of giving yourself to them. Talk about putting a nail in the coffin! What is the NSW Police Force trying to do to my father? Can you please tell whoever is making these decisions that I would like my dad at my wedding in November, and I would like him there for Xmas, and I would like him one day to meet his grand kids, but most of all, tell them I need him here, and I need him in my life. If you don’t help him and give him the assistance and respect he deserves, you will push him over the edge. I am outraged that my father has been treated like this, not only by an individual, but by the NSW Police Force.

If dad had of fallen pregnant, the Police Force would have issued him another shirt and given him all the necessary assistance and a new position.

Please give my father his dignity.

Ken, I would like to meet with you to discuss this further. I am really hoping with every bone in body that you are not aware of this treatment and that you can help me and my father.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Regards

 

Carolyn Breeze

Charles Walter  BRAYNE

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # ?

Inspector – Retired around 1907

Stations:  Penrith ( 1880’s), Shoalhaven District ( Nowra – O.I.C. 1885 ),

Kiama ( 1899 ) then Braidwood

Awards:  ?

Service:  From  1873 to  1907

Born:  1846? – 1847?, Brighton, England

Died  22 December 1922 @ Braidwood

Age:  75

Cause: ?

Funeral date:  Sunday  24 December 1922 @ Braidwood

Funeral location: Braidwood Cemetery

Grave location:  Church of England section

 

[alert_yellow]C.W. is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow]

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Brother to Sergeant George BRAYNE – deceased 5 November 1906, aged 56

Brother to Constable William Henry BRAYNE – deceased 8 August 1940, aged 66

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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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The following notifications appear in yesterday’s Gazette –

APPOINTMENTS – Sergeant Charles W. Brayne as an inspector of magazines under the 34th section of the Gun-powder and explosive Consolidation Act of 1876 (40 Victoria No 1), for the purpose of laying complaints and taking legal proceedings as prescribed in the 58th section of such Act.

The Sydney Morning Herald       Saturday  5 July 1884       page 8 of 20

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The great Kiama fire

Sept. 11, 2012, 5:31 p.m.

IN THE early hours of Sunday morning, October 1, 1899 a fire broke out that was to be the most extensive and destructive one that had ever visited the township of Kiama. It would also change the face of Terralong Street forever.

The fire started in the Wood Brothers general store and within minutes the place was ablaze. With the help of a strong southerly breeze, the fire spread to adjoining buildings and according to William H Bayley, author of Bluehaven: History of Kiama Municipality, “half the block of shops fronting Terralong Street from Collins Street towards Shoalhaven Street caught fire at 2am and was destroyed soon after dawn.”

The Sydney Morning Herald dated Monday, October, 2 1899, reported: “By the time the local police and many others were on the spot, and under the direction of Senior-Sergeant Brayne, Alderman Hindmarsh and others, many willing hands made great efforts to prevent the flames catching the Royal Hotel. In spite of their efforts the hotel soon ignited.

“This building being in part lath and plaster outside blocked the advance of the fire for a time: but ultimately the fire got hold of the place, and being a two-storey wooden structure it soon became a burning maze belching out tongues of fire against the adjoining building.”

Unfortunately there was no fire fighting equipment in Kiama at the time – hoses and tank water being the best on offer – so extinguishing the blaze became a huge problem. There are conflicting reports about how the fire was eventually stopped. No lives were lost but 12 families were left homeless, and 16 shops and the hotel were destroyed.

The total cost of the damage was estimated at between £5000 and £6000.

http://www.kiamaindependent.com.au/story/314816/the-great-kiama-fire/

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New South Wales Police Gazette – 1906   page 4

Brayne, Charles W., Sub-Inspector 2nd class, to be Sub-Inspector 1st class, 351  ( I ‘think’ 351 ‘might’ relate to a page number ?? )

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Nepean Times ( Penrith )                   Saturday  30 December 1922                            page 1 of 6

Obituary  

Mr. C. W. Brayne.

Mr. Charles Walter Brayne, who died at Braidwood on December 22 in his 75th year, was for many years in the Police Force, from which he retired some 15 years ago. As a young man he saw some of the stirring life of the goldfields days in the southern district,   and had good knowledge of the bushranging exploits which culminated in the execution in Sydney in 1867 of Tommy and Johnny Clarke. Joining the police in 1873, Mr. Brayne gained rapid promotion. He was stationed at Penrith as a trooper over 40 years ago, and was given charge of the Shoalhaven district in 1885, and remained at Nowra many years, being transferred to Kiama, and later to Braidwood as inspector. His wife pre-deceased him by some 15 years, and a daughter ( Mrs. A. E. Prott, of Nowra ) in July last, from which time he appeared to have broken down in health. The late Mr. Brayne leaves to(sic) daughters and one son, viz., Mrs. A. C. Upton (Penrith), Mrs. A. Coleman ( Condoblin ), and Mr. Charles Brayne ( Darlinghurst ).

Mrs. Upton spent the last week with her father. The funeral took place on Sunday and was headed by members of the Police Force.

trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/104678027?searchTerm=charles w. brayne&searchLimits=#pstart10735592

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Cemetery location: 

https://www.change.org/p/honour-past-and-present-police-officers-who-suicide-on-their-wall-of-remembrance-and-national-police-memorial-one-wall-for-all/u/8876676

 

Honour Our Police – past and present who suicide on the National Police Memorial- One Wall For All.