Hazelwood Soldier Settlement Memorial

Details

Location Anzac Lookout, Yinnar Road, Hazelwood, Latrobe - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Large boulder with bronze plaques.
Flagpole

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Hazelwood Estate - 1922
(MacMillan Selection)

The names listed below are the original 44 WW1 Returned Soldiers who were allotted 44 of the original 45 allotments for farming under the Solider Settlement Scheme on the Hazelwood Estate originally owned by the MacMillan Family.
The number shown before each name is the Lot number of the subdivision established and also shows where each returned soldier originally came from.
Other Returned Soldiers took up other allotments privately.

(Names)

LEST WE FORGET

THIS PLAQUE AND MEMORIAL STONE
IS IN RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTION
MADE TO THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF
THE HAZEL WOOD DISTRICT BY THE
51 RETURNED SOLDIERS FROM THE
FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918
WHO WERE ALLOCATED LAND BY THE
SOLDIERS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION TO
DEVELOP DAIRY FARMS IN THE AREA
TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF THIS POINT,
AND NOW IS COVERED BY THE
HAZELWOOD PONDAGE.
ERECTED BY THE MORWELL,
YINNAR AND BOOLARRA MEMBERS OF
THE RETURNED AND SERVICES LEAGUE
OF AUSTRALIA AND
THE MORWELL SHIRE COUNCIL
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THEM

LEST WE FORGET
DEDICATED ON THE 24TH APRIL 1988

PRESIDENT
MALCOLM J BUGG OAM, JP
SECRETARY
COLIN F HOWER

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

SHAW, Donald Lachlan Murray

Service number 2475
Private
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

BROOKER, Alfred

Service number 1677
Private
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HORSBURGH, George

Service number 1932
Private
46th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

LEVISTON, John

Service number 3378
Private
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1

RULE, Robert Leonard

Service number 29777
Gunner
Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF
AIF WW1

THOMAS, Stanley George

Service number 3789
Sapper
5th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1

PAYNE, Charles Francis Maine

Service number 2953
Private
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

BRUCE, Alfred Leslie

Service number 1439
Private
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

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