MEDHURST, RAYMOND LYELL

Son of Amos George and Gladys Ismay Medhurst  

Raymond was in the Australian Infantry Private TX12264 A.I.F 40 Bn., Australian Infantry Adelaide River is a township lying 116 Kilometers South of Darwin , on the main North-South road from the capital to the railhead at Alice springs . The war cemetery adjoins the civil cemetery, and is situated in Savannah country about 1 kilometer from the Stuart highway, in a short road which runs parallel to, and 100 metres from, the Adelaide River .  Within the cemetery the graves are set in grassed plots in an area contained by a raised concrete kerb. within Adelaide River War Cemetery will be found Northern Territory Memorial, which commemorates members of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Australian Merchant Navy and the services Reconnaissance Department who lost their lives in operations in the Timor and Northern Australian regions and in waters adjacent to Australia north of latitude 20 degrees south, and who have no known grave During the 1939-1945 War Adelaide River was the headquarters of a large base, and the War cemetery was created especially for the burial of servicemen who died in this part of Australia. It was used by Australian General Hospitals Nos. 101, 107, 119, 121, and 129; and after the war the Army graves service moved into it other graves from isolated sites, from temporary military burial grounds which were at the time called war cemeteries, and from various civil cemeteres in the area. These included Bagot Hospital Cemetery; Berriman Hospital and War Cemeteries; Daly Waters Civil Cemetery; Darwin Public Cemetery; Gove War Cemetery; Hughes Cemetery, Darwin; Katharine Civil and War Cemeteries; Larrimah War cemetery; Millingimbi War Cemetery; Mount Isa Cemetery, Queensland - just over the border, where No. 74 camp Hospital was set up; South Goulburn Island Mission Cemetery and Truscott War Cemetery. Adelaide River War Cemetery was taken over by the Commission in September 1947. There are over 400, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery.

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