by Marian MacNally Private Francis Harrup Northey has garnered the sort of attention from my family that other relatives never could, as his real fate was never entirely certain. There were niceties that prevented us talking about him with his immediate family, and the fact that people who lived through the war years and grief […]
Category: Banyule
Victoria Cross Estate
VC Estate history recognised City of Banyule – September 2015 The history of the VC Estate in Macleod West is finally being recognised, nearly 100 years after it was conceived, with the launch of new signage and the installation of a time capsule to be opened in 25 years. The Mayor of Banyule, Cr Craig […]
Macleod Avenue of Honour
Reprinted from Heidelberg Historian (newsletter of the Heidelberg Historical Society) June 1990 “Avenue of Honour” On Monday 23 April 1990, some 250 people attended the unveiling of a memorial and the dedication of the Avenue of Honour in the Mont Park Grounds, near Cherry Street, Macleod. The plaque records the planting of the Avenue by World […]
Arthur Albert Meekcoms: a survivor of his great adventures
By Liz Pidgeon For many young men, especially early in the war, enlistment was seen as the opportunity for a grand adventure. For Arthur Meekcoms, his journey of a lifetime came when he had earlier decided to migrate to Australia. Arthur was among 150,000 state assisted settlers who arrived in Australia between 1906 and the […]
My Dad – George Stanley McCrohan
by John Stanley McCrohan My father was born George Stanley McCrohan on 15 January, 1894 and lived with his parents, 7 brothers and 5 sisters at 77 Arthur Street, Fairfield. At the age of 19, on 13 July,1915, Dad enlisted in the Army at Fairfield. On 18 November,1915, as Gunner G S McCrohan 6376, 10th Battery, […]
Nurse Gallagher
“at home to her friends” The Mildura Cultivator published this notice on the 13th October, 1915. “Miss Bessie Gallagher will be at home to her friends tomorrow afternoon.” To us this seems a quaint remnant of an era when ladies would go visiting in the afternoons to exchange news and cement friendships. But in the […]
Last Survivor of the 14th Battalion
Maurice Gerald “Gerry” Hevey, one of the last surviving members of Jacka’s Mob – the 14th Battalion, Ist A.I.F. and pioneer archer passed away in Ivanhoe, Victoria on Tuesday 21 June 1994. He was aged 95 years. As a young man Gerry had been very keen to join the fight. “I, like many others, went […]
Memories of a military hospital patient
From Heidelberg Historian No. 154 February 1993 newsletter of the Heidelberg Historical Society The following memories were written by George M. Mollison of Ivanhoe in December 1968, relating to his experiences at the Macleod Military Hospital in World War I. I knew Heidelberg in the early 1910’s where we used to drill in the Militia […]
Story of a Chalice
First published as The Story of the Chalice Heidelberg Historian (Heidelberg Historical Society) October 1994 On 25 August 1994, a special service in the Ivanhoe Grammar School Chapel was the occasion of the presentation of an historical chalice by members of the 2/14th Battalion Association. The story of the chalice was provided in the order […]
World War 1 : Sister Emma Argyle CUTHBERT
Sister Emma Argyle CUTHBERT (R.R.C) Address : c-o Mrs BORTHWICK, ‘Malwa’, Main Street, Heidelberg Next of Kin : mother, Mrs Emma Argyle Cuthbert, King Street, Sydney (later South Yarra), Father Robert (late) Emma Cuthbert was shown c-o Mrs Borthwick, “Malwa”, Main Street, Heidelberg when she embarked; her mother was given as next of kin in […]