Feltwell Cemetery
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| Street name | Feltwell Road |
| Town or Locality | part section 570 Hundred of Grace |
The land for the cemetery site was acquired in two stages. An acre of land, identified as part section 570 in the Hundred of Grace, was purchased from Edward Amand Wright with the certificate of title issued on the 28th September 1869. It was entrusted to a group of men who were the trustees of the Primitive Methodist Church. On the 29th December 1941 the trustees of the Mallala Methodist Church transferred the title to the District Council of Mallala.The second piece of land was added when the sale and transfer of another part section of 570 took place on 20th August 1976. The 1.2ha of land was bought from Ernest George Wesley Earl and increased the area of the cemetery to1.6ha.
During Word War 2 a dedicated section of the Feltwell Cemetery saw the establishment of 12 grave sites which honour the men of the RAAF. The fenced garden area has two capped pillars standing either side of the entrance and one of the attached bronze plaques is enscribed with the following message.
"When the second World War ended in 1945, the total number of Australians serving the RAAF was 154,511, of whom 137,208 were serving in the South West Pacific theatre, the majority of these aircrew and support personnel were based and trained at a number of Airforce training establishments scattered throughout Australia. During the second World War the RAAF had some 6,200 personnel killed in action.
During the second World War, 1939-1945, the No6 Service Flying Training School of the Royal Australian Airforce was based at Mallala.
The Mallala War Cemetery contains 12 war graves, all of which honour men of the RAAF. Most of those buried here died in air training accident."
A stone with a plaque identifies the Feltwell Chapel and School as former organisations which had existed at the cemetery site.
The name Feltwell occurs as a village in Suffolk, England which derives from the Old English felt, a name of a plant and wella- spring
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