Terence John Hempenstall

• Birth Notes

  Qld Birth Cert No. for...
  Terence John Hempenstall
  Event date: 20/08/1918
  Event type: Birth registration
  Registration details: 1918/C/10494
  Mother: Margaret Sheehan
  Father/parent: George Worth Hempenstall

• Death Notes

  Qld Death Cert No. for...
  Terence John Hempenstall
  Event date: 23/12/1942
  Event type: Death registration
  Registration details: 1943/S/1465
  Mother: Margaret Sheehan
  Father/parent: George Worth Hempenstall
  
  Qld Death Cert No. 1943 / S1465 states that the death of Terence John HEMPENSTALL was registered in Queensland as a Service death, in 1943 (January). His father's name was recorded as George Worth HEMPENSTALL and his mother's name was recorded as Margaret HEMPENSTALL (nee Sheehan).
  
  The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld) - Thursday 23 December 1943
  "HEMPENSTALL, Terence John.—A tribute to the memory of Terry Hempenstall, who lost, his life in an aircraft accident at Western N.S. Wales, on December 23rd. 1942. May he rest in peace. Inserted by Tom's (Thomas Desmond Bernda) parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. Berndt, Gibbon Street, Woolloongabba."
  
  The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW) - Tuesday 20 April 1943
  "MIDAIR COLLISION WAS ACCIDENTAL: TWO PLANES AMOK
  After inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Terence John Hempenstall and Thomas Desmond Berndt, two young RAAF airmen who were killed when two aircraft collided in mid air, the Narromine coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten) returned a verdict of accidental death. 
  The accident occurred on a western airdrome on December 23. A medical officer told the court that he was called to the scene and found that Hempenstall had died instantly as the result of a fractured skull and haemorrhage of the brain. The body of Berndt was still in his plane and he had been burned. Berndt had sustained a fractured skull also.
  SAW PLANES CRASHING
  Bruce Robert Bremmer, grazier of "Koitaki," Eumungerie, said he was in   company with Mr. F. J. C. Bennett at his property, 'Killowen,' Narromine, and looked round in time to see a plane falling to earth. Almost imme- diately another machine came down after it. Both were falling vertically and one burst into flames.
  Tlie machines crashed a mile away, and when he arrived at the scene he   could see the charred remains of a man in the cockpit of one aircraft. About 40 feet from the second machine lay an airman with a partly opened parachute. The man appeared to be dead.
  CLOSE, OUT OF CONTROL
  Flying/Officer L. L. MacPherson said he observed two planes close together at about 1000 feet, both being out of control. He did not see them collide, but the facts suggested to him that there had been a collision. Other evidence given was that both men were trainee pilots and on practice flights at the time of the accident.
  The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death."