John Flynn's Grave
Uploaded: March 18, 2018 | Entered: March 18, 2018 12:35:45
John Flynn.
John Flynn (1880-1951), Presbyterian minister, founder and superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, was born on 25 November 1880 at Moliagul, Victoria. The Reverend John Flynn foundered the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service on the 15th May 1928 (later to be renamed the Royal Flying Doctor Service).
Survived by his wife, Flynn died of cancer in Sydney on 5 May 1951 and his ashes, at his request, expressed through his widow, were interred at the foot of Mt Gillen, Alice Springs.
He was cremated and his remains placed under a large boulder from the Devils Marbles. The Northern Territory Department of Public Works had taken the rock from a site sacred to its traditional owners, but after many years of negotiations the rock was returned to its original location in 1998. It was replaced with one acceptable to the Aboriginal people, both of the original rock's home and the people on whose land his grave
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