WEIDENHOFER, Elinor Dorothy
| Service Number: | 111644 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 December 1943, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Aircraftwoman |
| Last Unit: | 4 Personnel Depot (RAAF) |
| Born: | Murray Bridge, SA, 20 September 1922 |
| Home Town: | Ponde, Mid Murray, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Methodist Ladies College |
| Occupation: | Home Duties |
| Died: | Truck crash, Near Mount Pleasant, SA, 10 September 1948, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia Section L, Drive C, Path 15, Site Number 143C |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Dec 1943: | Involvement 111644 | |
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| 29 Dec 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 111644, 4 Personnel Depot (RAAF), Adelaide, SA | |
| 15 Feb 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Charles WEIDENHOFER and Myrtle nee TEAKLE, Ponde, River Murray, SA
Three people were killed-one outright-when a fully loaded milk truck crashed into a huge gum tree on the Mannum-Adelaide road two miles from Mount Pleasant today. Victims were:- Andrew Mitchell, 23, dairy man, of Ponde (near Mannum) and Miss Elinor Dorothy Weidenhofer, 25, home duties, of Ponde, John Frank Wachner, 25, driver, married, of Mannum.
They were in the cabin of a 3-ton truck carrying between 120 and 130 cans of milk on the main Mannum-Adelaide road. The accident occurred at 10.35 a.m., and although rescuers were on the scene within 30 minutes, it was more than an hour after the accident before the last of the trio had been extricated.
Miss Weidenhofer, who sustained head and internal injuries, died on the roadside half an hour after having been rescued.
The accident occurred be tween Tungkillo and Mount Pleasant. The truck swerved off the road and crashed into the tree, which was about 3 ft. in diameter. Force of the impact telescoped the engine into the cabin. The truck was owned by J. Schofield & Son Ltd., of Kensington.
M.C. Huxley is preparing a report for the Mount Pleasant coroner.
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