South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

Details

Location South Melbourne Town Hall, Bank Street, South Melbourne, Port Phillip - Victoria, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Wooden Honour board with white marble inset plaques

**NB only those killed in the war are currently listed - process of adding other names is now under way

The Draft of the names to appear, on the Honor Roll at the Town Hall is now completed, and is on view at the Town Clerk's Office during the day and the Library at night. It contains the names of those who were resident in South Melbourne at the time of their enlistment, and is taken from the list of those who have applied for the Council's Certificates. The List will be open for 1 month from this date, and Citizens are asked to inspect it and see that the names of their relatives are properly enrolled.
E. C. CROCKFORD, Town Clerk. Town Clerk's Office, Town Hall, 3rd September, 1920.
Record (Emerald Hill), 18 September 1920.

From the private secretary to the Governor, the Mayor (Cr. T. Craine) has received a letter stating that, in response to the Council's invitation, the Earl of Stradbroke will unveil the honor board in the South Melbourne Town Hall at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 14.
Record (Emerald Hill, Vic), 26 November 1921.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 14 December 1921 by Earl of Stradbroke
Inscription

1914 1919

IN HONOR OF THE CITIZENS OF
SOUTH MELBOURNE
WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR

[ Names ]

Amiens Bullecourt Peronne

Ypres Fleurbaix Hamel

Bapaume Pozieres Messines

Left Side Inscription
Gallipoli
Lone Pine
Cape Helles
ANZAC Cove
Mesopotamia
Palestine

Right Side Inscription
Passchendaele
Lagincourt
Villers Bretonneux
Polygon Wood
Mont St Quentin
Bellicourt

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

JOHNSON, Frederick Miller

Major
6th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 2 Apr 1863

SUTHERLAND, Percival

Service number 11996
Gunner
Born 1895

HAILEY, Ernest Godfrey

Service number 20249
Gunner
8th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 14 Oct 1892

SALTAU, Victor Leslie

Service number 393
Second Lieutenant
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

POULTER, Reginald Ernest

Service number 2878
Corporal
60th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Apr 1897

CURNOW, Herbert Franklin

Service number OFFICER
Captain
22nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Jan 1893

DILLON, John

Service number 3266
Private
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1890

COSGRIFF, Thomas Joseph

Service number 2150
Private
59th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1896

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