Bendigo High School Roll of Honour WW1

Details

Location Bendigo Senior Secondary College, 40 Gaol Road, Bendigo, Greater Bendigo - Victoria, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Large Wooden Honour Roll

The State Commandant (Brigadier General Brand) and Director of Education (Mr. F. Tate), visited Bendigo on Monday in connection with the unveiling of an honor roll at the High School. The visiting party also included General Smith, of the 17th Brigade, and Mr. P. Hansen, chief inspector of secondary schools. They were received by a guard of honor, comprising returned soldiers, at the railway station and accorded a civic reception by the mayor (Cr. A. Dunstan) at the town hall.

In the afternoon the party visited the High School, and were accorded another enthusiastic reception by a large crowd of scholars, parents and friends. Mr. George MacKay, who presided, said that the honor roll contained the names of 160 former scholars. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Tate and Brigadier-General Brand, who expressed deep sympathy with parents and relatives of the brave boys who had fallen. Brigadier General Brand then unveiled the honor roll.
Age (Melbourne), 24 June 1919.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 23 June 1919 by Brigadier General Brand
Inscription

BHS
ROLL OF HONOUR

(Names)

THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

QUI PATITUR VINCITI

Condition

Good

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