Sadly, on Friday the 1st of December North Bondi SLSC lost one of it’s greats in Craig “Cungy” Cunningham.
The Cunningham’s are a four generation North Bondi SLSC family, the type that make up the fabric of our great club. Craig was a 60 year member and an Australian Champion, winning the senior Surf Boat Championship in 1959. He was a fierce competitor that coached and mentored many athletes in the art of Surf Boat rowing and sweeping. He was a tough but fair man, very well respected in the surf boat community and will be sadly missed.
Steve Larnach
President, North Bondi SLSC
2 December 2023
* Story behind any Nickname: Cungy – ( Cunjevoi ) is a sea squirt.
Cungy was a member of North Bondi Life Saving Surf Club, NSW for 60 years.
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Headquarters Company 2 Division 17 February 1969
39 Air Dispatch Platoon 2 May 1971
2 Air Supply Control Section 1 March 1972
38 Supply Company 28 March 1973
33 Transport Platoon 12 November 1973
12 Transport Company 1 July 1974
3 Transport Company 1 July 1975
Date of birth:
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Date of intake: 17 February 1969
Date of exit: 29 March 1978
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Medals: Australian Defence Medal
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Police Awards: National Medal – granted 21 August 1989 ( Det Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 25 June 1999 ( Det Sgt )
2nd Clasp to National Medal – granted 15 August 2011
National Police Service Medal – granted 14 February 2017
NSW Police Medal with 3rd Clasp – granted 7 November 2003
2nd Clasp to NSW Police Medal – granted 13 February 2004
Born: Saturday 7 October 1950
Died on: Monday 3 July 2023
Age: 72 years, 8 months, 26 days
Organ Donor: Y / N / ?
Cause: ?
Event location: ?
Event / Diagnosis date: ?
Funeral date: Tuesday 11 July 2023 @ 11am
Funeral location: South Chapel, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium, Military Rd, Botany, NSW
Back Row: ( L – R ) Graham LAYT, Mark BRADY, Neville SMITH, Peter CRYMBLE, Paul McCALLUM, Paul VALLIS
Centre Row: Kevin ROBERTS, John HAYES, Peter ABEL, David CHARTERIS, Alan CONDON, Daniel RUMING
Front Row: Ken ROWLANDS, Ken MURRAY, Fred ALDRED, Col WATKINS, Les BATES, Ken JOHNSON, Jill FRAZER
Glenn Crompton 4 July 2023 RIP Paul. Photo of Valice at Diethnes, Mick Carters’ pre-passing wake 1994 where there were a lot of old C District blokes….
Australian Jewish News (Sydney, NSW : 1990 – 2008),
Friday 17 March 2000, page 6
Rusty nail isn’t kosher
A SIX-year-old boy bit into a kosher sausage recently, only to find a rusty needle in it.
The 3.5cm needle was discovered after the child complained that something had lodged in his mouth.
The boy’s mother, who purchased the packet of sausages from Coles Supermarket at Bondi Junction, told the Australian Jewish News that she “freaked out; my son could have died if he had swallowed the needle”.
Coles media relations manager Lisa Amor confirmed that a “contamination has been reported. We believe it was introduced at store level. We’re making inquiries with our supplier, but we’ve handed the matter to the police, who will be conducting the investigation.”
Waverley Police Detective-Sergeant Paul Vallis said “both Waverley Police and the NSW Department of Public Health have taken a report of the incident and we’re monitoring the situation”.
Stephen Lewis, general manager of Melbourne’s Continental Kosher Butchers — the supplier of the sausages — said he “was loathe to make any formal statement … given the police involvement”. Nevertheless, he stressed that “the processing procedures, coupled with regular external audit inspections of the processing premises, were such that the inclusion of any foreign matter such as described simply could not have been effected in production”.
Mr Lewis said “as an official supplier to Coles Supermarkets Australia for some years, I’m confident that the company will properly investigate all matters associated with the claims, which will no doubt result in no blame being laid on Continental Kosher Butchers’ procedures”. He urged customers to “check that products are sealed when purchasing. If a consumer notices any breakage to a package, it should be handed to a Coles employee” to ensure that it is not sold.
SYDNEY: After considering its verdict for three hours, a Sydney District Court jury found two men guilty yesterday of the savage bashing of teenage fine defaulter Jamie Partlic in Long Bay jail in November 1987.
The jury found Gary Donald Stokes, 33, of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
He faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
His co-accused, Darren Bruce Difford, 22, was found guilty of the lesser charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. He faces a maximum of seven years’ jail.
After the verdicts, Detective-Sergeant Paul Vallis told the court that Stokes was currently serving a sentence of 18 years, with a 15-year non-parole period, after pleading guilty last month to another charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Crown Prosecutor Chris Maxwell said that that charge had considerable relevance to the bashing of Mr Partlic. It related to an incident in Newcastle in 1986 in which Stokes bashed another man, Nick Psaltis, and jumped up and down on his head in an argument over drugs.
Stokes’s counsel, Ken Magnus, said he had lodged an appeal against the severity of that sentence.
In a brief outburst from the dock, Stokes said, “He sentenced me to 18 years because he knew about this case. That’s why I got 18 years.”
Sergeant Vallis said Difford was currently serving a sentence for breaking and entering and was due for release in June next year.
Judge Nash remanded both to appear for sentence this morning.
The Jamie Partlic case has had a far-reaching effect on the prison system in NSW, acting as the catalyst for reforms within the jail system and the abolition of jail terms for those who failed to pay fines imposed for minor offences.
Traffic offenders now have their driver’s licence or vehicle registration cancelled until they pay up. Other offenders must perform community service work.
Jamie Partlic, now 20, of Cronulla in Sydney’s south, went to Long Bay Jail on November 7, 1987, to serve four days, for non-payment of traffic fines totalling $1197.
According to witnesses at the trial, Partlic was in the fine defaulters’ yard when he was approached by Difford and Stokes, who had been working out on a punching bag nearby.
There was apparently some conversation.
Witnesses said Mr Partlic’s comments were innocuous.
Both Stokes and Difford said Mr Partlic had spat on Stokes and had been behaving like a “smart arse”.
The prosecution alleged that Difford had begun the attack and that Stokes had continued it, punching and kicking Mr Partlic, then stamping on his head as he lay on the ground. Stokes had thrown him head-first into a fire hydrant and then jumped on him again. Finally, Stokes had lifted the then unconscious Mr Partlic and thrown him headlong on to the concrete.
The savage bashing left Mr Partlic comatose for four months with severe brain damage. He is still profoundly disabled, with little prospect of a complete recovery.
Both Stokes and Difford admitted they had been drinking “jail brew” at the time.
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Service: From 29 February 1960to? ? ? = ? years, Service
Retirement / Leaving age: = ?
Time in Retirement from Police: ?
Awards: National Medal – granted 15 September 1980 ( Sgt )
1st Clasp to National Medal – granted 22 September 1987 ( Sgt 1/c )
2nd Clasp to National Medal – granted 2 December 1995 ( Sgt )
VKG2, WARILLA POLICE RADIO – SENIOR SERGEANT DICK BROOK ( Richard Alan BROOK # 9570 ), FROM WARILLA POLICE STATION comes to VKG2 to say hi. THESE PHOTOS ARE ‘GRABBED’ FROM VIDEO TAPE FROM ‘VARIOUS 4’ OF THE COLLECTION OF GREG CALLANDER. 1987 – 1988 Video transferred to DVD on 230206
5 September 1987
Born: Monday 28 October 1940
Died on: Wednesday 28 June 2023
Age: 82 years, 8 months, 0 days
Organ Donor: No – Age prohibitive
THESE PHOTOS ARE ‘GRABBED’ FROM VIDEO TAPE FROM ‘VARIOUS 4’ OF THE COLLECTION OF GREG CALLANDER. 1987 – 1988
Video transferred to DVD on 230206
SENIOR CONSTABLE KARL HANSON # 8870 (SEATED), VKG2, WARILLA POLICE RADIO – SENIOR OPERATIONS OFFICER – SPEAKING WITH SENIOR SERGEANT DICK BROOK # 9570, FROM WARILLA POLICE STATION.
Rear of the old Wollongong Police Station – next to the Wollongong Court House. January 1963. Constables ? KILNE # ????, Cst Richard ‘ Dick ‘ BROOK # 9570, Carey GARDINER # 7563
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Wednesday 7 October 1992, page 3
Gruesome find at Mount Pleasant rest stop
Detectives examine a human torso, wrapped in material, beside the Princes Highway about 5km south of Kiama yesterday.
Gangland-style execution suspected
WOLLONGONG: The victim of a gangland-style execution whose torso was found yesterday morning dumped beside a road at Kiama could have been murdered up to four weeks ago.
But an examination by scientific detectives at the site yesterday did not reveal the specific cause of death.
A quarry truck driver found the body wrapped in a piece of material near the Princes Highway at Mount Pleasant Lookout, about 5km south of Kiama, when he pulled over at the rest stop to check his vehicle.
Police quickly cordoned off the area to allow scientific detectives to investigate.
Dozens of photographs were taken and plaster casts made of the area near where the body was found.
A police search yesterday afternoon between the road and the rolling hills down to the sea edge failed to find other parts of the body.
Inspector Dick Brook, of Warilla Police, said it was likely the body had been thrown from a vehicle.
The site is less than 10km from where teenager Kim Barry‘s headless and fingerless body was found in 1982. Graeme Gene Potter, who to this day maintains his innocence, is serving a life sentence for the Barry murder.
Carolyn Orphin, was another 1966 murder victim. A man was arrested by Sydney and Wollongong Police and charged with Carolyn Orphin’s murder. The man was arrested by, Detective Inspector Lendrum, Detective Sergeants Fleming, Paul, Boyd and Arantz, Detective Constables Watkins and Shaw, Detective Sergeant Winter, Constable 1 Class McDonald, Constable Rogerson, Constable 1st Class McCann, Detective Constable Welsh, Constables Hobson and Dryburgh, Detective Sergeant Brown, Detective Constables Bowra and Johnson, Constable Johnston, Detective Constables Parsons, Hadrick and McNally, Constable Dooley, Policewoman Constable 1st
Class Luke, Constable 1 st Class Brook, Detective Sergeant Pickett and Detective Constable Bendt.
The man was found guilty sentenced to life for the murder of Carolyn Orphin.
Source: Police Heritage P199
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Passed away peacefully on Monday, 30th January 2023 surrounded by his family. Much loved son, husband, father, poppy, and friend.
A Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Iain will be held in the Karinya Room, Bance Funeral Services, 12 Ashmont Ave, Wagga Wagga on Friday, 10th February 2023 commencing at 11.00am.
In lieu of flowers, donations on behalf of SIDS will be accepted at the chapel.
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ROY is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
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Nota (Hawks Nest and Tea Gardens, NSW : 1970 – 1999),
Tuesday 1 March 1988, page 1
Seckold family re-union
On April 24, 1988 (Anzac Day Long Weekend) a family re-union of the descendants of Frederick and Margaret (nee Lena) Seckold is to be at Camden NSW to mark the 150th anniversary of their arrival in Australia.
The children of Frederick and Margaret were Christiana, Frederick, Michael, Peter, Barbara, Thomas, Margaret and Theresa.
Associated names through marriage are Cox, Peden, Maxwell, Selden, Skelton, Rootes, Cronin, Dorman, McGrath, Patterson, Perkins, Roberts, Scheerer and many more.
The Seckolds were Bounty immigrants brought to Australia by the MacArthurs of Camden Park Estate to tend their vineyards.
They arrived in Australia on April 23 1838 on the Kinnear.
Should any of your readers be related and are interested in the re-union could they please contact Mr Roy Seckold, PO Box 346, Gosford, NSW 2250.
National Archives was ‘off line’ at the time of publication – thus not military records were obtained.
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 12 August 1955 (No.83 (SUPPLEMENT)), page 2369
SPECIAL GAZETTE UNDER THE “PUBLIC SERVICE ACT. 1902.”
APPOINTMENTS.
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and upon the recommendation of the Public Service Board, has approved of the following appointments:—
Mr. Roy James Seckold, Clerk, The Housing Commission of New South Wales, Ministry of Housing, on probation, — to take effect from 27th January, 1955.
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CHARLES is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
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BILL is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance *NEED MORE INFO
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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 13 February 1987 (No.33), page 716
NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE FORCE
Commissioned Officer Appointments
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the undermentioned Commissioned Officer appointments, effective from the dates indicated:
Detective Inspector, Officer-in-Charge, Motor Squad, Criminal Investigation Branch – Detective Sergeant First-class William Leslie McDonnell, date of entry on duty.
It is believed that this is the same Billy McDONNELL who won the middleweight boxing championship of Australia – twice ( 1955 & 1957 ).
His brother, Don McDONNELL, boxed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.
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Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901 – 2001),
Friday 23 March 1973 (No.37), page 985
IN the matter of the estates of the undermentioned deceased persons, and pursuant to the Wills, Probate and Administration Act, 1898-1954; the Public Trustee Act, 1913-1960; Testator’s Family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act, 1916-1954; and Trustee Act, 1925-1942; the Public Trustee hereby gives notice that creditors and others having any claim against or to the estate of any of the undermentioned deceased persons, who died on or about the respective dates hereunder mentioned, and representation of whose estates was obtained by the Public Trustee in the manner and upon the dates hereunder mentioned, are required to send particulars of their claims to the said Public Trustee at 19 O’Connell Street, Sydney, on or before the 30th day of May, 1973, at the expiration of which time the said Public Trustee will distribute the assets of the respective deceased persons to the respective persons entitled, having regard only to the claims of which he then has notice.
Eli Hanson, late of Harbord, N.S.W., retired police inspector, died 4th January, 1973; probate of the will dated 25th July, 1969, was granted on 19th March, 1973.
Knew Clarie PIRIE well when I was at Cowra and Clarie was LUK at Young, I was transferred on the PSB at Lithgow and Clarie was transferred to Capertee so I used to see a lot him as the Highway Patrol done daily runs to Capertee.
I took the phone call at Lithgow from a chap from Cullen Bullen to say Clarie had been shot, then drove Insp. Eli Hanson and Det S/Cst Jimmy Foster to the Scene at Jew’s Creek.
Never will forget that day.
His Youngest son John was a Police Support Officer and KAC Manager at Orange.
( Eli HANSON, NSWPF # 2207, Retired in 1962 and died in January 1973 ( aged 71 years, 0 months, 2 days ) )
APPOINTMENTS
Premier’s Department
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has approved of the following appointments, to take effect from the 21st June, 1959:—
Hartley. — Inspector 3rd Class Eli Hanson, stationed at Lithgow, vice Inspector 3rd Class S. Lyndon, retired, — from 7th May, 1959.
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STEVE is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance * NOT JOB RELATED
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Steve had a fall, at home, on Tuesday 5 April 2022 – causing a severe head injury.
He was transported to John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, where he was admitted to the ICU Neurological Ward where he steadily declined in health – resulting in his death caused by a stroke.
Kate JONES & Steve JONES
Condolences are extended to his wife Kate and Steve’s family and friends.
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Deepest condolences to his son Daniel, family and friends.
Friends, Janice Bush Betts, Feathers & Alan Farlow – 2016
Feathers on the orange bike coming down the Barenjoey Mountain, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
Feathers on the orange bike coming down the Barenjoey Mountain, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
Gary Peacock & Ron Judd on Finns Rd, Douglas Park, NSW.
Gary J PEACOCK ( Orange bike ) & Ron JUDD riding up Bulli Pass, NSW on 7 May 2014.
Friends; Elena Dania Pusceddu, Feathers & Janice Bush Betts – 20 March 2016 at Bilpin, NSW.
Tucking into a pie at Bargo Pie Shop ( NSW ) on the way home. Friends Angelo DeCelis, Feathers & Elena Dania Pusceddu – 20 March 2016
Feathers and Ron Judd at Oran Park Cafe, NSW – 17 May 2014. It was too much for Ron this morning at Oran Park Cafe. Feathers was so loud poor Ronny had to get an improvised ear plug.
Gary Peacock ( standing ) with Russell Paterson at Boorowa Hotel, NSW, – 22 November 2017 Another prestigious award presented at our overnighter.
Feathers at Wests Leagues Club, Leumeah, NSW on 6 December 2016 for a Coffee Crunch catchup.
Feathers at Wests Leagues Club, Leumeah, NSW on 6 December 2016 for a Coffee Crunch catchup.
Ron JUDD visiting Gary PEACOCK in hospital
Class 132 of 1972 at Redfern Police Academy. Sworn In on 11 September 1972.
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Maroubra Detectives c1979
