Henry Gullett
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Sir Henry Somer Gullett KCMG CB was an Australian journalist, military historian and politician. He was a war correspondent during World War I and contributed to the official history of Australia's in
Harry Gullett 1925
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Gullett with S. M. Bruce, who gave him his first ministerial appointment
Undated photo (Dickinson-Monteath Studio)
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,
Henry Gullett
…and Customs (1931–1933), External Affairs (1939–1940), Information (1939–1940), and Scientific and Industrial Research (1940). He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, along with two cabinet colleagues and the head of the army. Gullett was born on 26 March 1878 in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria, in either Harston…
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)