Kelv D: Thanks for the thought but I now seem to have found the answer to my own question, assuming the extract (below) from this
link is trustworthy!
(It's a fascinating article that also reveals Anderson & Hitchcock were 'ejected' from Kingsford-Smith's planned Southern Cross flight. Subsequent litigation resulting in Anderson receiving enough money from Kingsford-Smith to buy the Westland Widgeon he would later fly to his death searching for a 'missing' Charles Kingsford-Smith . . . the irony!)
"In 1928 he and Anderson had set out on their own attempt to fly to Britain in record-breaking time. They got as far as Darwin, where they crash landed their Bristol."
The ever useful '
Flight Archive' confirms this
Australia-England Flight
LIEUT. KEITH ANDERSON and Mr. Hitchcock left Sydney,
in a Bristol Tourer, for England on September 9, arriving the
same day at Charleville. Unfortunately, on September 11
they crashed at Pine Creek, and although escaping injury
themselves, the machine is badly smashed.
was this the 'old pioneer'??
here
It is!!
G-AUDJ