Day 2 in Darwin: Bombing of Darwin stories
At the US Perry Memorial on the Esplanade
At the Cenotaph on the Esplanade
The Darwin Cruise learning about the bombing
Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum
Roy Gardiner by Jack Lattas
Corporal Roy Stewart Gardiner Born on the 12 th of September 1917, in Culcairn Roy Stewart Gardiner was the first of a soon-to-be family of six. Growing up in Culcairn his father Arthur John Gardiner was a labourer for over twenty- four years before becoming a glazier. Roy Gardiner spent his early years playing for Culcairn’s and Henty’s AFL and Rugby teams, in his spare time he also went down to the shooting range and was known for his incredible clay pigeon shot. In 1935 at the age of 18 after marrying Maida Beatrice, he was employed as a mechanic and share farmer in which he eventually won the Culcairn Pastoral Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial (PAH & I) Society Incorporated wheat crop competition (A mouthful wow). In 1941 as the war continued across the world Roy Gardiner travelled to Melbourne to enlist in the Royal Australian Air Forces (RAAF), however, he was rejected due to his skin disorder of psoriasis (A long-term inflammatory disease which mean...
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