PHOTO: Descendants of Constable John Mitchell traveled to Coonamble to mark Police Remembrance Day: Melinda Pettigrew (Great-great-grandchild), Peter Mitchell Edwell (Great-great-grandchild), Robert Mitchell (Great-grandchild), James Ewing-Jarvie (Great-great-great-grandchild), Helen Kochman (Great-grandchild), Thomas Kochman (Great-great-great-grandchild), Libby Ewing-Jarvie (Great-great grandchild), and Samantha Ewing-Jarvie (Great-great-great-grandchild).
Friday 29 September marked National Police Remembrance Day, a day to honour police officers who have died while serving.
For Coonamble Police, no story is more notable than that of First class constable John Mitchell, the man who was shot down by bushrangers in Coonamble in 1885.
On Friday, community members, police officers, and the family of the John Mitchell attended the Orana Mid Western Police Districts Remembrance Day service at St Barnabus Anglican Church in Coonamble, before moving over to the police station for a re-dedication of the John Mitchell monument…