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 […]
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Memories of the Great War
by Susan Webster The Heidelberg Voice, August 1, 1979 page 6 Modern memory encompasses two world wars. In those two battles we saw the shift from the importance of armed men to military machines. Yet in any war, no matter how much technology is deployed, the human element of man fighting man will still be […]
Lock Out the Landlords : Rose Street Brunswick
By Iain McIntyre. In one of many such cases the Commercial Banking company obtained a court order in April 1931 to evict an unemployed family in Rose Street, Brunswick. On this occasion a real estate agent and two police were confronted by a crowd of 100. After the family were evicted the crowd grabbed their […]
A Gift from Egypt
In 1917, a young soldier on leave took a day trip down Port Phillip Bay in the excursion steamer Reliance. On the return trip, while there was a “sing-song” around the piano, he was joined where he was sitting apart, by a young girl to whom he’d been introduced earlier, “and we talked.” Sam continued, […]
The Old Boys of Coburg High School and World War One
By Cheryl Griffin Below is a list of the old boys of Coburg High School who served in World War One. Most of them were in the first intake of pupils into the school in 1912, just a few years before hostilities began. The rest (Bowen, Buzaglo, Groves, Head, Jarvie, Scott, Sherlock, Tait, Templeton […]
The Great European War Eltham Honour Roll at Saint Margaret’s Anglican Church Eltham
Introduction On the south wall of the 1861 Church of Saint Margaret at Eltham is an Honour Roll of those men and women from the Eltham district who served in the Great European War from 1914 to 1918. Many were directly connected to Saint Margaret’s. It is inscribed Eltham Honour Roll 1914 Great European War […]
Frederick Charles Sweeney 1st AIF
Age 17, Fred enlisted in the AIF and was posted to France with the medical corps. He returned home to marry and settle in Macleod where he was very active in the local sporting community and local RSL 10/12/1901 to 30/7/72. Fred Sweeney was born in Bendigo, where he attended school and later worked in […]
Arthurs Creek 1914-1918 Honour Roll
The following was contributed in March 2016: “If you have driven past “The Hall” at Arthurs Creek recently, you will probably have noticed a large rock and a new flagpole located by the front gate. The Arthurs Creek Mechanics Institute Management Committee has been working to complete a very exciting project. This is our Commemorative […]
World War 1 Casualty : Alexander Woods (aka Gingles (Whittlesea and Scrubby Creek)
The death of an Alexander Gingles was noted in the Preston Leader on 2 February, 1918 in an article relating to the return of another serviceman from Whittlesea. He remained a mystery as there is no record of a serviceman of this name listed in any World War One archives, but his true identity was […]
Arthur Edward Griffiths : World War 1 veteran
WW1 Veteran: Arthur Edward Griffiths Lance Corporal No: 920 Born in Victoria ~ August 1893 (Narioka near Echuca) Died in Victoria ~ October 1945 He lays to rest at Fawkner Cemetery (Victoria) Garden of Remembrance 1 Compartment 34 Niche 23 Arthur enlisted in Echuca on 19 August 1914 & was discharged in Melbourne 23 September 1919. He […]