JOHN MORGAN HUTCHISON
20yo Sub-Lt RAN Fleet Air Arm Pilot of 816 SQN Fairey Gannet AS.1 on HMAS Melbourne. KIA 23/03/65 during night sortie over Strait of Malacca during an "Confrontasi" with Indonesia. Commemorated at the AWM Canberra.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
by Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jnr.
Forver remebered by the Hutchison, Staples & Ross families.
Lest We Forget
Location: Geelong
JOHN MORGAN HUTCHISON
20yo Sub-Lt RAN Fleet Air Arm Pilot of 816 SQN Fairey Gannet AS.1 on HMAS Melbourne. KIA 23/03/65 during night sortie over Strait of Malacca during an "Confrontasi" with Indonesia. Commemorated at the AWM Canberra.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew --
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
by Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jnr.
Forver remebered by the Hutchison, Staples & Ross families.
Lest We Forget
