Goodwood Public School WW1 Roll of Honor

Details

Location 140 Goodwood Rd , Goodwood, Unley - South Australia, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

Goodwood Primary School. An ornate polished wooden board incorporating 304 names. At either end of the name panels are capped columns. All details are in gold paint. Thirteen members of the Roll had gained distinction, including a Victoria Cross recipient; fifty-five had made the Supreme Sacrifice. The boys and girls of the school collected money for the board and it was hung in the senior boy's classroom. A manufacturers plate is at the centre bottom.

GOODWOOD SCHOOL HONOUR ROLL.
On Tuesday evening at the Goodwood Institute, in the presence of a large number of residents, the Goodwood State School roll of honour was unveiled by the Minister of Education (Hon. W. H. Harvey). Supporting him were Col. Price Weir, Messrs. Wholohan, Bronner. and Sutton (past and present head masters of the Goodwood School), and the School Committee. The Minister said there were on the roll names of 300 soldiers, all or whom, exception three, bad passed through the charge of the chief assistant of the school (Mr. W. Fisher), who had spent 20 years at Goodwood. Thirteen of the men aid gained distinction, including one V.C., and 55 had made the supreme sacrifice. Ten teachers had gone from Goodwood and nearly 200 from the Education Department. Speeches were delivered by Col. Weir, the Chairman of the School Committee (Mr. W. Culley) and Messrs. Bronner, Wholohan, and Sutton. The Goodwood School Choir rendered appropriate selection. The roll, which was designed by Mr. Guy and executed by Mssrs. Pengelley & Co., will be hung in the school. - The Register Thursday 7 Nov 1918 page 6

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Built Manufactured by A Pengelley & Co Edwardstown Printed in England
Opened 5 November 1918 by Minister of Education (Hon. W. H. Harvey)
Inscription

Title:


GOODWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL


FOR KING AND EMPIRE

Ribband:

ROLL OF HONOR

 

Base:

1914      THE GREAT WAR      1918

 

Base:


UNVEILED ON 5TH NOVR 1918


BY


W.H.HARVEY


MINISTER OF


EDUCATION

 

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: School Board

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Part of the wreath is missing

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Names

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EVANS, Harold Easton

Service number 2409
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1890

DAVIDSON, Arthur Leonard

Service number 3597
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1886

DICKINSON, Avery Benjamin

Service number 247
Lance Corporal
9th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 11 Feb 1890

NASH, Frank Geoffrey

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

CRAWFORD, Ronald

Service number 1025
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 22 Dec 1895

MORAN, Leonard Hamilton

Service number 13415
Private
4th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 31 May 1897

DAVEY, Phillip

Service number 1327
Corporal
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Oct 1896

MILLER, James Alexander

Service number V17329
Private
Born 25 Jul 1884

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