ABC Staff Memorial Print Page

The ABC Staff Memorial pays tribute to ABC employees who lost their lives in the line of duty. The ABC Board commissioned this Memorial in August 2012 on the first anniversary of the Lake Eyre helicopter crash in which John Bean, Paul Lockyer and Gary Ticehurst lost their lives. The ABC has also created a memorial online with biographies of the deceased to complement the memorial unveiled in the ABC studios in each capital cities.

16 of the ABC's finest journalists, (15 men and one woman) broadcasters, foreign correspondents, pilots and cameramen have lost their lives in conflicts in Borneo, Africa, East Timor and Iraq and more recently at home at the hands of tragic aircraft accidents, all in a vast range of destinations where the ABC's work takes place. They were in their twenties, their thirties, their forties, fifties and sixties. They were cameramen, broadcasters, a rural reporter, station manager, a TV director. Pilots, journalists and war correspondents .

Those listed on the Online Memorial are: -

John Bean                     Paul Lockyer
Gary Ticehurst              Paul Moran
Brett Joyce                    Paul Davis
Ralph Elphinstone        Joe Mooney
Bill Fryer                       Bruce Anning
Tony Joyce                   Roger East 
Patricia Ludford            Frank Parnell
Chester Wilmot            John Elliott

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