Melrose School Roll of Honour

Details

Location Melrose & District History Society, Museum Centenary of Federation Building, Melrose Institute, Nott & Stuart Streets, Melrose, Mount Remarkable - South Australia, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Framed parchment

The scholars of Melrose School who enlisted in World War I are recorded on this roll of honour.

Mr Davie, the school teacher, produced the lettering and it was unveiled at the school by Mrs. Willington on Empire Day 1917.
Built Mr Davie
Opened 24 May 1917 by Mrs Willington
Inscription

FOR HIS
COUNTRY'S SAKE

ROLL OF HONOUR

(Names)
Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

GIRDHAM, Ernest Frederick

Service number 809
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

FOOT, Francis Herbert

Service number 1917
Sergeant
4th Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 Mar 1884

SMITH, Leslie Melrose

Service number 9984
Private
14th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 4 Mar 1890

JACKA, Clement Belmore

Service number 3480
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 20 May 1889

GRAHAM, William Andrew

Service number 320
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 May 1894

MARSHALL, Leonard Arthur

Service number 12210
Gunner
Born 8 May 1894

WILLINGTON, Eric Mattinson

Service number 2140
Lieutenant
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Feb 1886

MARSHALL, Thomas Edgar

Service number 1301
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Jul 1891

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