CORNELIUS, Marc Stanley
| Service Number: | 29835 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1941, Perth, WA |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale |
| Born: | Woodanilling, Western Australia,, 20 March 1922 |
| Home Town: | Katanning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mechanic |
| Died: | Hit by car, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 22 June 1942, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria RC Plot Compt S Grave 181, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Woodanilling War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 29835, No. 1 Engineering School Ascot Vale | |
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| 10 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 29835, Perth, WA |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Bowden Cornelius and Mary Edith Cornelius, of Katanning, Western Australia.
DRIVER CENSURED
BY ACTING CORONER
In finding that Marc Stanley Cornelius, 21. of the RAAF. died on June 22 from injuries suffered when he was knocked down by a car in Epsom Road, Flemington the previous day, the Acting City Coroner (Mr Wade, P.M.) said there had been negligence by the driver, John Martin Kennedy, of The Ridgeway. Kensington, but there was insufficient evidence to send him for trial.
Kennedy told the Court that he overtook a tram in Epsom Road, and then entered a dark stretch of roadway. He did not see any one standing near the tramline. He felt a couple of bumps. He became flurried and drove on to a hotel in Ballarat Road, where he returned the car to the man who had lent it to him. Then he saw that one of the headlamps was missing. On the following day he reported the matter to the Kensington police.
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