Obituraries - angells-au

It was the 9th May, 1964. The day before mothers day that year. My eldest brother Brian had been working on Binerah Downs and was waiting for a plane to arrive to take him to Broken Hill so that he could spend Mothers Day with his mother and to obtain his driver's permit while in town.

The previous Christmas I had been given a Astor transistor radio and I had rewired it so that when a piece of wire was run from the antenna to our kitchen window you could pick up short wave radio. The Royal Flying Doctor Service and all the Stations in the district operated on short wave. It was when we heard the news that the Flying Doctor had been called to Binerah Downs to attend to an emergency where some one had been shot. No names were given out on the radio yet it was always in my heart that I knew something had happened to Brian.

It was a few hours later that I went with my father to the airport to meet the Flying Doctor plane on its arrival back in Broken Hill. It was here that Arnold DeGoumois (Station Manager) alighted from the aircraft and gave our father the bad news that Brian had passed away as the result of an accident.

It is now 44 years since that fateful day and rarely does a day go by that I do not think of my brother.

The dedication of this page is in his memory and my love for him.

R.I.P

Created on 07/10/2008 01:25 AM by Rod
Updated on 10/10/2008 01:22 AM by Rod