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 […]
A Local Diamond Creek Boy
Friday, 24 April, 2015 was a beautiful sunny day, the wind a little chilly, but the view from the paddock of Sutherland Homes in Diamond Creek was beautiful and peaceful, the soft rolling hills of Plenty, and the view looking towards the Kinglake Ranges was breath taking. It was to be a memorable day; the […]
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 […]
Life at the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. It’s been slow work given that there are really only newspaper reports to go on, but finally a picture is emerging of what life might have been like at the Glenroy Military Hospital during its eighteen months’ existence. If you look closely at the image of the hospital at ‘Ashleigh’, courtesy Broadmeadows […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 2
By Cheryl Griffin. If ever you needed a reminder that there was a class system at work within the military (officers and the ranks), just consider the Glenroy Military Hospital set-up. ‘Ashleigh’ and ‘Sawbridgeworth’ were two Italianate mansions built side by side during the years of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. As living quarters they were beyond anything […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 1
By Cheryl Griffin. The 5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria), more commonly known as the Glenroy Military Hospital, opened at Glenroy in June 1915 and closed in January 1917. I have also seen it referred to as the Glenroy Measles Hospital, and this was its principal purpose, although the hospital took in pneumonia and tuberculosis cases, […]
Not Forgotten
The Bell Boys of Kangaroo Ground – WW1 By Gayle Thwaites As a parent how does one sign a piece of paper authorizing the government to allow their son to be part of the AIF, how does one hand over a life to be used as a tool to fight somebody else’s war. I don’t […]
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 […]
Called from the Shadows
The news that the United Kingdom had been at war with Germany in 1914 had stirred a rather similar response here in Victoria to that in England in 1852 with the arrival of news that gold had been discovered here in Victoria awaiting those prepared to set sail and dig for it; those responding to […]
World War 1 : Home Nurse Jessie FLANNERY
Nurse Jessie FLANNERY, Hutton Street, Thornbury Home Service Nurse, Bodington Soldier’s Home and Sanatorium, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales Parents : John Thomas and Mrs Matilda Flannery (nee Horgan) Jessie Flannery is not listed in official records as a member of the A.I.F., but her demise was listed in the “Died In Service” column of […]