City of Townsville WW2 HR

Details

Location Jezzine Barracks, Mitchell Street, North Ward,, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

Wooden Honour Board with turned wooden pillars

In 1947 the Townsville City Council commissioned Townsville cabinet making company Harvey and Clark to build this Honour Board to be housed in the Old City Hall in Flinders Street.
Like the World War One Honour Board, the board is made entirely of North Queensland timbers; silky oak, cedar and Bean tree.
The Honour Board lists the names of people from Townsville and the surrounding communities who served during World War Two. Names have also been added in the right-hand panel for those who served in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam.
The names of people killed in action are indicated by KIA or DOAS or DOW after their name on the plaque.
In July 1969 the Honour Boards were extensively damaged by a fire that went through the City Hall. After the fire the council dismantled the boards to rebuild the city hall.
In 1976 the council chambers were moved to new buildings in Walker Street and the boards were with the RSL ‘to utilise and restore’.
In February 1978, a fire much worse than the first gutted the building storing the boards, with both the WW1 and WW2 boards being damaged.
Taken to Lavarack Barracks they were restored and then mounted in their present location in Jezzine Barracks in 1981.
Now, as museum artefacts, they are kept conserved, and can neither be altered, added to or amended.

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Inscription

THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE
HONOUR ROLL
1939 1945
(Names)

Condition

Excellent

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

THOMAS, Cecil Keith

Service number 426708
Pilot Officer
No. 514 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 18 Feb 1921

LLOYD, Norman David Livingstone

Service number 414050
Pilot Officer
No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 20 Jul 1913

LENOY, Stafford Kenny James

Service number QX54232
Sergeant
3rd Battalion
The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR)
Australian Army (Post WW2)
Born 21 Oct 1924

CREWE, Thomas Frederick

Service number Q111416
Bombardier
Paga Hill Battery
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 29 May 1909

MCINTOSH, John Charles

Service number Q132251
Lieutenant
Born 3 Apr 1924

BALLARD, Victor Norman

Service number 414289
Flying Officer
Operational Training Units (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 17 Jul 1917

CHOWNS, Nurden Anderson

Service number 426311
Flying Officer
No. 13 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 27 Nov 1923

MUNROE, Albert Henry

Service number 426647
Flying Officer
No. 466 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 6 Oct 1923

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