Thelma Edith MCCONNELL

MCCONNELL, Thelma Edith

Service Number: 91885
Enlisted: 25 March 1942
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: RAAF Stores Depots
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 5 January 1919
Home Town: Goodwood, Unley, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Accidental (Motor Vehicle), Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 28 June 1944, aged 25 years
Cemetery: Charters Towers Cemetery, Qld
Plot A. Row B. Grave 10, Charters Towers War Cemetery, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Daw Park Repatriation Hospital WW2 Women of the Armed Forces Who Died HR, St Marys SA Army Nursing Sisters/Women Memorial Wall
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World War 2 Service

25 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91885, Air and Ground Radio School
25 Mar 1942: Involvement Corporal, 91885
25 Mar 1942: Enlisted Adelaide
25 Mar 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 91885
28 Jun 1944: Involvement Corporal, RAAF Stores Depots
28 Jun 1944: Involvement
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Daughter of William Robert and Rebecca McConnell of Goodwood, SA

 

RAAF Vehicle 202023 (Chevrolet 1541) was involved in an accident with Army Vehicle C17069 on the evening of 28 June 1944 on the Burdekin Highway, approximately 6 miles east of Charters Towers.  The vehicle was returning from a dance that had been held that evening at RAAF Breddan.  Sixteen servicemen and women were severely injured, with three airwomen and a RAAF officer killed:

2380 Flight Lieutenant Bernard Keith Barty of RAAF Headquarters North Eastern Area

91885 Corporal Thelma Edith McConnell of Number 8 Stores Depot (8SD)

99391 ACW Estelle May Scaroni of Number 8 Stores Depot

90550 Sergeant Mary Catherine Wynack of Number 8 Stores Depot (passed away at 5th Australian Camp Hospital, Charters Towers)

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