Erebus Roll of Remembrance

28th November 1979

We Remember

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Air New Zealand Flight TE901 left Auckland for an eleven-hour sightseeing flight to Antarctica. At 12:49 PM, the aircraft crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. It was the worst civil air disaster in New Zealand’s history.

Purewa’s connection with the victims is profound.

The remains of 79 passengers were cremated at Purewa, including 17 of the Japanese tourists who were on board and guide Peter Mulgrew, the renowned Antarctic explorer who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on his trek to the South Pole. (Hillary was originally rostered as guide on the Erebus flight,but was unable to come because of speaking engagements—Peter offered to take his place.

Crew

Captain
Thomas James (Jim) Collins

Flight Engineer
Gordon Barrett Brooks

Cabin Crew
Elizabeth Mary Carr-Smith

Chief Purser
Roy William McPherson

Assistant Purser
David John Bennett

Assistant Purser
Michael James Finlay

Senior Cabin Crew
Bruce Rhodes Maxwell

Japanese Tourists

Kuniyasu Furukawa
Mitsuo Higuchi
Asako Kitagawa
Junichi Mitsuhasi
Nakako Mitsuhasi
Shigeru Noda
Morihiko Odani
Masa Osawa
Norio Ozawa
Tetsuro Ono
Hisako Sato
Michi Seki
Toshiro Seki
Ryoichi Shionoya
Masaaki Takada
Hamako Yanagisawa
Nobuyoshi Yanagisawa
Ryoji Yokoyama

Buried

Thomas Eric Bainbridge

Alla Irene Christiansen

Joan Audrey Cockerill

Myra Pearl Harty

Jean Marie Elizabeth Holloway

Betty Kerr

Francis Ronald Kerr

Nola Minchin Paykel

Eileen Geraldine Revell

Alison Meryl Roberts

Michael Seaver Roberts

Alan Maxwell Stokes

Linda Emily Worth

Cremated

Guide
Sir Peter David Mulgrew

Alan Lawrence Malyon Allan
Jane Phillipa Allan
Audrey Gordon Anderson (UK)
Margaret Isobel Anderson
✍︎Grahame Mitford Ashton
Kay Marion Barnick
Marion Ruth Barnick
Earl Aubrey Beaumont
Marilyn Alma Bond
Robin Melville Bond
Heinz Bürgi
Bryan Harry Chadderton
Valerie Enid Chadderton
David Clark
Iris Clark

✍︎John Wright Cole
Dr. Constance Corey
June Davies
Peter Massie Dawson
Athol David Duke
✍︎❀Edna Miriam Edwards
❀Richard Gilliver
✍︎❀Pamela Margaret Gulland
Gordon Alexander Hill
John Greenleaf Houghton
Ernst Adalbert Jahn
❀Evelyn Lois Jenkins
✍︎❀Dennis Phyllis Kearney
Nancy Phyllis Kendon
Karl Robert Klensch
❀James Francis Lavin

✍︎❀John Alexander MacKenzie
✍︎❀Stella Vonomarie MacKenzie
Barbara Dawn Matthews
Olive Myrtle Maynard
Melba Pearl McMillan
Ethel Mary Paterson
Alexander Francis Plummer
Hilda Francis Plummer
Beatrice Irene Price
Beverley Joy Price
Valeria Mary Rawlins
Helen Lady Robb
Karl Ruden
Phyllis May Storey
Janet (Jan) Mary Williams
Leonard Heathcote Williams

✍︎ ~ Entry in Book of Remembrance ❀ ~ Scattered at Purewa

Dr Katsu Kaminuma from the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, a guest scientist with the NZ Antarctic Research Programme, sprinkles sake on the memorial cross before burying at its base a scroll listing names of Japanese who died.