St. Peters East Adelaide Public School Roll of Honour

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Location 57-59 Second Avenue, St Peters SA 5069, St Peters (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters - South Australia, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

Wooden with two panels and gold lettering

Made of Australian Blackwood

At St. Peters Town Hall on Friday evening a roll of honour to those who had gone to the front from the East Adelaide School was unveiled by Hon. F.W. Coneybeer, the Speaker of the House of Assembly. His Worship the Mayor of St. Peters (Mr. R.V. Wilson) presided. In performing the ceremony of the evening Mr. Coneybeer said that the love of children for their old school was wonderful, and if the 300 men from the East Adelaide School, whose names appeared on that roll of honour, were enrolled in one battalion, what an incentive it would be to them to fight for the honour of their old school. On that roll of honour every old east Adelaide boy might have his name inscribed, the greatest dunce and the greatest scholar, and he would say the greater the dunce the greater the credit. In days to come the history lesson would include the greatest war the world had ever known, and the teacher would be able to point with pride to the names of the old boys of that school who had taken part in the war.
The roll of honour was then unveiled. Addresses were also delivered by the Hon. W.H. Harvey, M.L.C., Col. Price Weir, V.D., D.S.O. and Mr. M.M. Maughan (Director of Education). A number of songs were admirably rendered by the school children. Occasion was also taken to bid farewell to Mr. R. Sutton, the headmaster of the East Adelaide School, who has been promoted to Goodwood, and he was presented with framed photographs of the school and the roll of honour.
The Mail Sat 15 June 1918 page 3

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 14 June 1918 by Hon. F W Coneybeer, Speaker of the House of Assembly
Inscription

Roll of Honour
East Adelaide Public School
1914 - 1919

(Names)

Condition

Excellent

Names

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CRITCHFIELD, Raymond Henry

Service number 1869
Driver
13th Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 28 Jan 1895

GODFREE, Bruce Lyle

Service number 2147
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Jun 1897

SIMPSON, Ralph James

Service number 4866
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Dec 1890

NASH, Frank Geoffrey

Service number 110
Sergeant
1st Divisional Signal Company
AIF WW1
Born 13 Jul 1895

ALLEN, Herbert William

Service number 3196
Sergeant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Oct 1887

BOYCE, Clive Eric

Service number SN 8488
Gunner
6th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 25 Sep 1894

AMBER, Archibald

Service number 3187
Private
1st Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 20 Oct 1896

CARTER, Howard Robert

Service number 19965
Bombardier
8th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 19 Sep 1893

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