Mildura Methodist Church & Sunday School Great War Honor Roll

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Location MADEC, Former Mildura Methodist Church, Deakin Avenue & Tenth Street, Mildura, Mildura Shire - Victoria, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Wooden Honour Board with brass inset
Last Sunday evening the Mildura Methodist Church was filled with a large congregation to witness the unveiling of the magnificent honor roll designed by Mr. H. Hammerton for the members of the Methodist Church. The Honor Roll has been remarked on by the Melbourne dailies as the finest that has yet been brought under their notice. Two seats were specially reserved for returned soldiers, of whom there were between thirty and forty, who had come to pay their respects to those comrades who have fallen on the battlefield, and to those who have not yet returned. The congregation rose as the Rev. Williams asked Mrs. E. B. Surgey (mother of the first Mildura boy to fall in battle) to unveil the Roll.

Mrs. Surgey said it was with heartfelt gratitude that she acknowledged the great honor conferred on her by the Methodist Church in giving her the privilege of unveiling the Tablet erected in honor of the brave and glorious boys gone from the Church. Mrs. Surgey said she felt a deep sense of pride in the fact that the name of her own boy is first on the list. Through the dark days of the war many had suffered together. Her earnest prayers were for the safe return of the boys who are fighting nobly on the battle-front for King and Country, and that their splendid efforts would soon be crowned with victory. Mrs. Surgey then lifted the Union Jack and unveiled the Honor Roll on which 70 names are inscribed.
Excerpt from Mildura Telegraph and Darling and Lower Murray Advocate (Vic), 9 April 1918.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 7 April 1918 by Mrs. E. B. Surgey (mother of the first Mildura boy to fall in battle)
Inscription

FOR GOD & COUNTRY

1914 1918

ENLISTED FROM
MILDURA METHODIST CHURCH
AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
IN THE
GREAT WAR

HONOR ROLL

[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

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HARPER, Gordon Robin

Service number 2180
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

PARISH, Arthur Gordon

Service number 656
Private
13th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 22 Dec 1899

HENDERSON, Albert Edward

Service number 1690
Private
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Oct 1898

SURGEY, Thomas Edwin

Service number 722
Private
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

PARISH, Frederick George

Service number 2747B
Private
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Jul 1896

DODEMAIDE, Arthur Robert

Service number 3312
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

LOCK, James Alfred

Service number 6306
Private
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

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