MCCONNELL, Thelma Edith
| Service Number: | 91885 |
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| 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: | Salesgirl Myers, Theatre Usherette |
| 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 |
| 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 |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftwoman, 91885, Air and Ground Radio School | |
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| 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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Add my storyBiography 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)
Second S.A. WAAF
Hurt in Crash
Another South Australian WAAF was injured in the road accident in Queensland last week, in which Corporal Thelma Edith McConnell, 25, daughter of Detective and Mrs. W. R. McConnell, of Goodwood,
lost her life. The injured girl was Aircraft woman Kathleen Florence Gregory, 23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory, of Bolingbroke avenue, Toorak Gardens. A.C.W. Gregory suffered a fractured skull, lacerations to the face and right leg, and shock. Mrs. Gregory has received a letter written by her daughter in an R.A.A.F. hospital, saying that she is progressing satistactorily.
Before enlisting about two years ago, A.C.W. Gregory was employed by the Myer Emporium.
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