{"id":65836,"date":"2014-05-01T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=65836"},"modified":"2020-12-04T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:56:16","slug":"tiernans-crewmates-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/05\/01\/tiernans-crewmates-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiernan&#8217;s Crewmates Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65838\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65838\" title=\"20140430 Netherlands cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Burnett delegation pauses in thought at Uden Cemetery (Photo: Eleanor Sharpe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65845\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands3a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65845\" title=\"20140430 Netherlands cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands3a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands3a.jpg 250w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands3a-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murgon State High School captains Kirsty Upton and Geoff Kinsella (Photo: Eleanor Sharpe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 1, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett delegates visiting the Netherlands to honour former Murgon resident Patrick Tiernan have arrived safely in Europe and have begun their visit to significant war cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>The group yesterday visited\u00a0Uden war cemetery in the central Netherlands to place poppies on the graves of four airmen killed on June 17, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The four were crewmates of Flt Sgt Tiernan and were buried by the Germans with military honours at a municipal cemetery about 45km south of where their Halifax aircraft came down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pilot Officer Alan Crain (RAAF), age 21<\/li>\n<li>Flying Officer Trevor Davies (RAF), age unknown<\/li>\n<li>Sergeant Victor Gledhill (RAF), 19; and<\/li>\n<li>Warrant Officer Alexander Braid (RAAF), 26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However the bodies of Flight Sergeant Patrick Tiernan (RAAF), 29, and his crewmate\u00a0Flight Sergeant Alfred Burns (RAAF), 21, were retrieved by Dutch citizens and buried at Dodewaard.<\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett delegation will be in Dodewaard for Dutch Remembrance Day on May 4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65837\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65837\" title=\"20140430 Netherlands cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands4.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands4-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanango historian Liz Caffery tends to one of the graves (Photo: Eleanor Sharpe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65839\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65839\" title=\"20140430 Netherlands cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140430netherlands2-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Burnett mayor Wayne Kratzmann, left, Murgon RSL president Jim Kingston and Kingaroy-Memerambi RSL Sub-Branch president Don Davey with the four graves \u00a0\u00a0(Photo: Eleanor Sharpe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/delegation-leaves-for-dodewaard\/\"><strong>Delegation Leaves For Dodewaard<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/a-murgon-cobber-remembered-in-print\/\">A Murgon Cobber Remembered In Print<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/delegation-seeks-names-of-south-burnetts-fallen\/\">Delegation Seeks Names Of South Burnett\u2019s Fallen<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/03\/councillors-kick-in-15250-to-honour-murgon-war-hero\/\"><strong>Councillors To Honour Murgon War Hero<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/10\/school-captains-going-to-holland\/\">School Captains Going To Holland<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/02\/murgons-war-hero-to-be-honoured\/\">Murgon\u2019s War Hero To Be Honoured<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/meet-murgons-war-hero\/\">Meet Murgon\u2019s War Hero<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/11\/murgon-hero-remembered-in-netherlands\/\">Murgon Hero Remembered<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Burnett delegates visiting the Netherlands to honour former Murgon resident Patrick Tiernan have arrived safely in Europe and have begun their visit to significant war cemeteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":65838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[1131,28],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tiernan&#039;s Crewmates Remembered - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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