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Richardson & WrenchMudgee
SAT 29TH APRIL, 200650 Windeyer Road, Grattai (Property Sold)
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS4 Dining room chairs, Coffee Table, Telephone table,Olivetti Word Processor Computer backed, Portable
typewriter, 4 Machined wooden table legs, Largequantity of paint, 3 Burner Gas BBQ, Riobi Whippersnipper, Garden Roller, ½ Acre Bug Zapper & hang-ing frame, Large quantity poly flower pots, Wheeled
fertiliser spreader
FARM EQUIPMENTSlasher, Super spreader, Scarifier, Ripper, Two fencewire spinners, Post driver, Post lifter, Fencing equip-ment, Fire fighter pump, Large Husqvarna chainsaw,
Husqvarna chainsaw, Drench gun, Wool clippers,Meat saw & two cleavers, Quantities of Poly Pipe &
fittings
TOOLS6ft x 4ft Box/Boat trailer, Set of wood drills & brace,
Stanley wood plane, Bolt cutters, Disc sander onpedestal, Extension ladder, Two hydraulic jacks, Two
car jack stands
PLUS NUMEROUS OTHER ITEMSPLEASE SEE OFFICE FOR FULL LIST
Outside Vendors InvitedDenis 0428 670 675 Adam 0409 721 703
CLEARING SALE
Mr and Mrs Birchall won prizes in 77 classes atthe Royal Easter, including:
• The David White Memorial for the MostSuccessful Exhibitor in the Large Fowl and BantamSoft Feather Classes. This is the 15th year theBirchalls have won this prize.
• Champion Heavy Breed Team and ChampionBantam Breed Team (a male and six female)
• 12 champion sashes• 31 firsts• 17 seconds• 9 thirds And they are keeping some of this success in the
family, with their granddaughter Claire Birchallwinning four firsts for her bantams and Langshansand a Champion Bantam Pekin.
Mr Birchall has been fostering his love of chookswith his grandchildren, who, like most Aussie kids,love them and Claire is particularly proud of herChampion Royal ribbon.
Family friend Daryl Bishop of Mudgee also didus proud at the Royal Easter this year, being madethe RAS Legend.
Mr Bishop made headline news with theannouncement, given for his dedicated service tothe Royal Show.
Mr Bishop and James Parlevliet won ReserveChampion Welsh Pony Stallion, winning two out ofthree stallion classes and two out of four mareclasses.
Mr Bishop also won Senior Champion DairyGoat Doe, Best Dairy Udder Exhibit, and SeniorChampion Saanen Doe and Best Dairy Goat inShow as well as the Most Successful SireCompetition.
Cattle also did extremely well in the region, withPine Creek Angus Stud at Bylong winning a swag ofribbons, including Junior Champion Bull, SeniorChampion Bull, Grand Champion Bull, the GT ReidMemorial Perpetual Cup, Fordhouse PerpetualBowl, The Abington Perpetual Tray PerpetualTrophy, the Andrew Reid Perpetual Trophy and thePeter Duddy Perpetual Trophy.
The Wakeling Family of Mudgee also did well,winning the Reserve Junior Champion Bull andother awards with their Dexter cattle.
Mudgee region has a good Royal Easter Show
Pat Birchall with his grandchildren, Emma and Claire. Mr Birchall is holding his MostSuccessful Exhibit, black Australian Langshan pullet and Claire her ChampionBantamn ‘Pekin Furness’. Mg 180406d # 665
More than 62 years ago ayoung Mudgee-born aviator,Francis Victor Suttor, set out fromRAF Silloth air base in north westEngland on a training flight in aWellington bomber.
He never returned, and until afew months ago the exact fate ofhis plane was one of the manymysteries left in the aftermath ofWorld War II.
Francis, aged 25, was part of amixed crew of Australian and NewZealand aviators training to fly inWellington bomber LB137.
Other crewmembers includedpilot Jeffrey Duddridge, 26; pilotHarry Dransfield, 21; RAAF FlightOfficer Charles Cooper, 25, ofPenhurst; RNZAF airman JohnWaldrop from Otago, NZ; andFrancis’ mate RAAF airmanReginald Canavan, 22, of Ashfield,NSW.
Today his body rests in a gravein Campbeltown, on the westcoast of Scotland, beside othermembers of his crew.
On December 1, 1943, the crewtook off in LB137 from RAF Silloth,located on Solway Firth betweenScotland and England. They wereon a training mission prior togoing ‘operational’ in the battleagainst Germany.
The Vickers Wellington was atwin-engine medium bomberwhich was the main Britishbomber during the first part ofWWII. Flown by a crew of six, itwas armed with eight 7.7mmmachine guns and could cruise at
410kph carrying 2014kg of bombs.It was retiree Duncan
McArthur who uncovered thestory of LB137 in the course of try-ing to track down what happenedto a total 22 planes that crashed inthe vicinity of Campbeltown.
“She [Wellington LB137] wasexercising with naval craft off thenorth of Ireland when she wasreported missing,” Mr McArthurwrote. “There were reports shehad some sort of radio problemsheading to wrong bearings beinggiven. Initially she was thought to
have crashed in the sea.“The aircraft was, however,
spotted by accident by anotheraircraft from Prestwick. Thewreck was about three-quartersof a mile northeast of The Mull ofKintyre lighthouse at 1300 feet.
“RAF teams recovered thebodies and took them toCampbeltown. The RAF removedthe parts of the aircraft they need-ed to salvage, but the local scrapdealer a couple of days or so laterdragged the majority of the stuffleft back to the road side at a
small car park (very small, fivecars).
“The local police were calledand he was told to bugger off.However, the wreckage laid at thisspot for quite a while ’till it wasgradually removed by someoneor other.
“The RAF, however, a fewmonths later recorded this site atthe carpark as the crash site[because of] seeing all the bits.Thus the [actual] crash site waslost for years,” Mr McArthurwrote.
“I must point out that the areaof this crash is very inhospitable,being covered by heather aboutthree feet high and having lots ofbogs — not the type of place towander about in.”
Mr McArthur said war recordsreported Francis Suttor was bornin Mudgee, the son of CharlesRaymond and Eva Suttor, andthat by the time he entered theRAAF he was married to DorothyJoy Suttor, listing his occupationas grazier and his usual place ofresidence as Coogee.
MYSTERY SOLVED: Geoff Bland of Brisbane examines the site where Wellington bomber LB137crashed in 1943. The location of the crash site was a mystery for more than six decades. Mr Blandis a friend of crewmember Reginald Canavan, who was killed in the crash along with Mudgee-bornFrancis Victor Suttor and four other crewmembers.
Mudgee lad lies in Scotland
The humble Aussie chook is disappearing frommost Australian backyards where only a generationago it reigned supreme, but it appears you still can’ttake the chook out of some people, who fondly feedand groom their fine feathered friends to exhibitthem in the Sydney Royal Easter Show each year.
Mudgee couple Pat and Dot Birchall have onceagain led the poultry world with fine exhibits.
By DIANE [email protected]
Murrumbo Part of Rylstone alsohad some good wins, includingSupreme Beef Championship.
Spokesperson for KaludabahLimousins, Sally McFarland said theRoyal had a spectacular display of 230Limousin in the show ring.
“Kaludabah’s recent purchase of
Kensal Yeppoon won SeniorChampion Bull,” Ms McFarland said.
“Three of our four Heifers won rib-bons in highly contested classes.”
Ms McFarland said in the SteerShow on Friday, Limousins won everyclass with the School’s Steer winningthe Championship.
8 — MUDGEE GUARDIAN, Monday, April 24, 2006 www.mudgee.yourguide.com.au
By EDWARD K. [email protected]
A MUDGEE LAD’S GRAVE IN SCOTLAND:Francis Victor Suttor was killed in 1943 whenhis Wellington bomber crashed during a trainingflight. He was buried in Campbeltown, Scotland,near the site of the crash.
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