1940 Canberra air disaster
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The 1940 Canberra air disaster was an aircraft crash that occurred near Canberra, the capital of Australia, on 13 August 1940, during World War II. All ten people on board were killed: six passengers,
Wreckage of A16-97
Two Australian Lockheed Hudsons in 1940
Plaque of Memorial Cairn (1960) at the site of the disaster
Memorial opened by Robert Menzies in 1960 (20th anniversary)
Robert Menzies
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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United
1940 Canberra air disaster
…landing approach, when it was too low to recover. The deaths of the three cabinet ministers severely weakened the United Australia Party government of Robert Menzies and contributed to its fall in 1941. The aircraft involved in the crash, military serial A16-97, was one of a batch of 100 Lockheed Hudson bombers…
Official portrait, 1950
Article in Melbourne Punch detailing Menzies's feat of topping the state school examinations at the age of 13
Declaration of War Broadcast, September 1939
Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, with his British counterpart, Winston Churchill, London 1941