Loxton Pyap West Great War Honour Roll

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Location Loxton RSL, 11 Tobruk Terrace, Loxton (SA), Loxton Waikerie - South Australia, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Wooden Honour Board with parchment inset behind glass

The communistic Village Settlement here began like most others in 1894 with the arrival of 94 members who had paid their fees to join the settlement and families making a total population of 388 people. The founding chairman was A Brocklehurst and things went well as by the following year there were 400 people in the settlement mainly from new births. The commune had control of over 9,000 acres which they had to clear, level and then dig irrigation ditches across. The government provided resources for pumps on the River Murray but like other settlements the pumps were never big enough. But hopes were soon dashed by the reality of hard work and conflicts and people were leaving the Settlement of Pyap by 1896. In the early days of the Village Settlement the teacher at the government school in Pyap spent half the week in the Pyap School and the other half in the Moorook School. He travelled between the two by paddle steamer. Pyap Settlement was closed down in 1904 and the land was leased to a Melbourne syndicate. Then the district was transformed again when the former settlement district was sold to C.J De Garis in 1913. He farmed the estate known as Pyap Estate vigorously with married family men as his workforce. He occupied the former Engineer’s House built by the government in 1905 when the government assumed control of irrigation systems and he built twelve stone houses for his workers and a stone school room also used as a hall and a general store. The school room was built in 1914 and still stands. He sold his estate in 1921. Unlike most of the Village Settlements Pyap retains one landmark structure from the 1890s settlement. It is a large round stone chimney flue with a stone cap built to vent the steam from the boilers used for the irrigation pumps. It was built around 1895 and is one of only a few structures still standing from the eleven Village Settlement schemes along the Murray from the 1890s.

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HONOUR ROLL
PYAP WEST

Roll of Honour

(Names)

1914 - 19118

'LEST WE FOREGGET'

Condition

Good

Names

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CAMERON, David Alexander Brandis

Service number V357105
Warrant Officer Class 2
Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 10 Jul 1891

CASS, Charles Bouchier

Service number 934
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Feb 1889

KINNANE, Clair Delacy

Service number S66145
Lieutenant
3rd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Feb 1896

BIRCH, Richard Samuel

Service number 1511
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Mar 1880

CASS, James Oliver

Service number 2282
Private
3rd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Sep 1890

BIRCH, Albert Roy

Service number 2377
Corporal
29th Australian Army Service Corps
AIF WW1
Born 7 Oct 1894

GATES, Norman William

Service number 125
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

MACULLY, Arnold Alexander

Service number 5689
Gunner
14th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 16 Jul 1894

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