Geelong Grammar School Community Members Who Served

Details

Location Geelong Grammar School, 50 Biddlecombe Avenue, Corio, Greater Geelong - Victoria, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

One of four metal plaques inscribed with with a quotation and names in alphabetical order. A metal poppy is featured in each corner.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

DVLCE ET DECORVM EST

PRO PATRIA MORI

(‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’ is a latin phrase that translates to ‘It is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland’.)

(22 names)

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

(22 names)

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN

THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY

DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

(22 names)

ESTO FIDELIS VSQVE AD MORTEM ET

DABO TIBI CORONAM VITAE

(‘Esto fidelis usque ad mortem et dabo tibi coronam vitae’ translates to ‘Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life’.)

(22 names)

Condition

Good

Names

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DOBIE, Meldrum Boyd

Service number 392
Second Lieutenant
1st Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1885

GRIFFITH, Henry Hunter

Major
Born 28 Aug 1887

FORREST, Donald Louis

Service number 6315
Driver
6th Infantry Brigade Train
AIF WW1
Born 27 Nov 1893

MICHAELIS, Grant Moritz

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
Unspecified British Units
British Forces (All Conflicts)
Born 23 Dec 1895

HENDY, Edward Percival

Service number 541
Trooper
8th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jul 1894

CARR, Eric Thomas

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
59th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1889

MACKINNON, Brice Bunny

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
Unspecified British Units
British Forces (All Conflicts)
Born 11 Sep 1897

WHITTERON, Edmund Reginald

Service number 402
Corporal
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

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