Rozelle Sydney Harbour Trust Officers and Employees Pictorial Honour Board

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Location NSW Roads and Maritime Services, 33 James Craig Road, Rozelle, Leichhardt - New South Wales, Australia
Type honour_board
Description

The Sydney Harbour Trust operated from 1901 to 1 February 1936 when it was replaced by the Maritime Service Board of NSW. There were 323 Sydney Harbour Trust employees who joined the 1st A.I.F. and served in the First World War. Of these 323, 44 died while on active service with the A.I.F. during the war. This memorial board has 41 photographs of the veterans who died while on active service, three photographs are missing. One died at Fromelles, seven at Gallipoli, 22 in France, 11 in Belgium, two in England and one in Australia.

It is to be noted that 14 of the veterans have no known grave. Father and son, William James Crocket and William Ezra Crocket both died in France, 11 days apart.

Lieutenant Herbert Edwin Williams was killed in action, with no known grave, during the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.

Lieutenant Walter Willoughby Smith was awarded the Military Cross on 23 May 1919, six months after he died in France.

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Inscription

Officers and employees of the Sydney Harbour Trust who lost
their lives in defence of the Empire in World War 1, 1914 – 1918.

[portrait photographs, names and details]

Condition

Good

Names

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POMROY, Edward John

Service number 5387
Corporal
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1886

HENDRY, Jack William

Service number 6110
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

CUSACK, Patrick

Service number 1792
Private
35th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

LYDDON, Hugh Edmund

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
1st Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 30 Nov 1881

STINSON, Alexander

Service number 527
Trooper
1st Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1889

STRATTON, Hughie Charles

Service number 2854B
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

WALLIS, Skeen

Service number 16646
Sapper
7th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 1889

JARMAN, Alfred William

Service number 1420
Sapper
Born Mar 1885

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