Kellyville WW1 Roll of Honour

Details

Location Kellyville Public School, 35A Windsor Avenue, Kellyville, The Hills Shire - New South Wales, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

In November 1919, Richard Orchard, the then Federal Member for Nepean, unveiled the Kellyville Roll of Honour. It listed 32 soldiers, four of whom were killed in action in the First World War. It was attached to a wall at the Kellyville Public School, facing Windsor Road.

Since 1919, the board has been mounted in various locations around Kellyville:

1919 – Kellyville Public School
1924 – Kellyville Memorial Hall
1990 – Kellyville Recreation Centre, Kellyville Park
In 2018, it was returned to its original location, and attached to the heritage listed school building. On 15 November 2018, it was unveiled by the Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson AO, Director of the Australian War Memorial, and rededicated by Chaplain Nalbandian, Royal Australian Air Force, Richmond. It is approximately 6 feet (1.8m) tall and 3 feet (920mm) wide. Originally framed in oak, the maple board is now covered in glass

The roll of honor for the Kellyville district, recently unveiled by Mr. R. B. Orchard, M.H.R., consists of an oak frame work enamelled to represent white marble, with a movable polished panel of maple, on which, in gold letters under plate glass, are the names of 32 soldiers, representing 22 families, who have gone to the front. Five have fallen, and these are shown by Maltese crosses after their names. It is erected on the public school wall facing Windsor-road, from which the names can be easily read.
Windsor and Richmond Gazette (NSW), 9 November 1917.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 1 November 1919 by Richard Orchard, Federal Member for Nepean
Inscription

Kellyville Roll of Honour

[Names]

* Killed in Action

Condition

Good

Names

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GRIEVE, James Turnbull

Service number 228
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Jul 1893

PEARCE, Norman Matthew

Service number OFFICER
Captain
6th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 6 Jan 1881

RUSSELL, William

Service number 4300A
Sergeant
54th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Aug 1892

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