Cottesloe Ocean Beach No 29 Troop Boy Scouts Honour Roll

Details

Location Cottesloe Community and Scout Hall, 65 Eric Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

Jane Holmes prepared and presented this Honour Roll to the Ocean Beach No29 Troop Boy Scouts WA on 16 September 1916. She actually completed it on 5th August 1916, unbeknown to her, the very day her son Harrie was Killed in Action at Pazieres, France.

This Honour Roll was kept at the Scout Hall that Frederick Waterhouse (father of 3 sons on the roll) built in his garden at 42 Irvine Street, Cottesloe.
It was housed there until c1925 when Frederick Waterhouse moved from his property to his sons farm at Goomalling, WA. Its location from then until 1998 is unknown, but was possibly based at Mosman Park Scout Hall until last seen there by Bob Waterhouse in 1998, after which it disappeared, between then and 2012 when looking for it to restore for the 100th anniversary.
Fortunately we had a tinted photograph of the original. From this Bob Waterhouse sought the help of the Superintendent, Kerri Bishop, of Bunbury Regional Prison. The New Roll was made in the Prison Cabinet Shop by the prisoners.

The replacement Roll is now housed at the Cottesloe Community and Scout Hall at 65 Eric Street, Cottesloe WA.

Noted there is no end date on the roll, but it is well known that Jane Holmes never laid a hand on it following the death of her son, even to the point of not recording the 7 KIA with an *

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 16 September 1916 by Jane Holmes
Inscription

HONOUR ROLL
1914 - 191

Ocean Beach (29) Troop Boy Scouts
W.A.
(Names)

Condition

Original lost - replica board made 2012

Names

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EDWARDS, Bevil Bernard James Glanville

Service number 5350
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

BUTTLE, Clement Francis

Service number W72371
Lieutenant
Born 13 Dec 1893

SHIPWAY, Albert James

Service number 1076
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

WADE, Hector William

Service number 925
Private
44th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Nov 1896

WATERHOUSE, Francis James

Service number 3504
Corporal
Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
AIF WW1
Born 1892

HOLMES, Harry Hanley

Service number 633
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1899

WATERHOUSE, Frederick Wicknea

Service number 1276
Gunner
12th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 13 Apr 1896

WATERHOUSE, Ernest John

Service number W73231
Sergeant
Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Sep 1899

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