Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards Back to Search

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Location North Terrace - Adelaide Railway Station concourse north end, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

A spectacularly large series of four gloss finished wood panel Honour Boards in excellent condition upon which are inscribed the names of South Australian Railways employees who enlisted for service in both wars. Each panel contains eight columns of names. The WW1 names are not in alphabetical order whereas the WW II names are. The Boards are complemented by a large index of the WW1 names in alphabetic order to enable location of names on the main panels. They appear to record names in random order - but perhaps the order in which the men enlisted, or compiled from lists sent by outlying depots.. The expanse of these boards illustrates the size of SAR as a key organisation in the fabric of South Australian life, and as an employer at the time. One wonders how the railways continued to function with so many men joining the war effort directly. 3601 names are recorded.

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Built Designed and Manufactured By A.PENGELLEY&Co. EDWARDSTOWN.S.A.
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Panels 1&2: Top: 1914-1918
Bottom:S.A.R. EMPLOYEES WHO JOINED AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES    1914-1918

Panels 3 & 4: Top:1939 1945

Bottom:S.A.R. EMPLOYEES WHO ENLISTED IN THE SERVICES    1939-1945

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Condition

Excellent

Maintained by South Australian Government

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Names

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SELLEN, William Frederick John

Service number 1049
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Dec 1888

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WALL, Eugene Joseph

Service number 15250
Sapper
6th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 14 Mar 1891

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ANDERSON, Howard George

Service number SX4424
Lance Corporal
2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 10 Feb 1912

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BIDGOOD, Arthur Edward Frank Henry

Service number 3819
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 20 Sep 1880

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BROWN, John Eyre

Service number 417809
Flight Sergeant
No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 23 Jul 1922

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BIRBECK, William Henry

Service number 2340
Private
5th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 May 1887

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DELO, John Alfred Alston

Service number 7960
Gunner
11th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 3 Dec 1897

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O'LEARY, Patrick Joseph

Service number 1166
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Oct 1893

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