Eric McClelland‘s attestation suggests no other address for his parents “both solely supported by me” than c/- Shire Hall, Epping. The image shows McClelland’s butcher’s shop and house, High Street, Epping, pictured circa 1900. Family members not identified. They would have needed little introduction to the area, having been established and in the butchery business […]
Tag: Casualty
World War 1 Casualty : Albert Henry Reid (Hazel Glen, Doreen)
Albert Henry Reid was 47 years of age when he was killed in action in France in April, 1916 – he is the only casualty noted to date from the Shires of Whittlesea, Epping or Heidelberg to date noted as having earlier served in the Boer War. After volunteering in 1900, he served as a […]
World War 1 Casualty : Cyril James Jewell (South Morang)
Cyril Jewell was born in New Zealand, but his father James was the publican at the Morang Hotel when he enlisted, although by the time his son was killed, he had taken possession of alternate licensed premises in Dandenong-road, Windsor. Jewell embarked with 14 Infantry and served with the Battalion at Gallipoli, but after the […]
World War 1 Casualty : Colin Hicks (Mernda)
Colin Hicks was the first serviceman from Mernda to enlist and also the first casualty from the district in the Great War, dying of wounds while being invalided back to Egypt. Hicks suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and died at 2.30 a.m. on 14 May, 1915 on board the hospital ship H.S. Gascon […]
World War 1 Casualty : Daryl Gardener and Lance Siska Blannin-Ferguson (Arthur’s Creek)
Daryl Gardner and Lance Siska Blannin-Ferguson are both included in our Honour Roll, but the reality is that neither probably ever set foot on the district; their inclusion based on their father being based at Arthur’s Creek State School; the servicemen with their mother in what appears to have been an irreparable marriage breakdown. Both […]
World War 1 Casualty : Robert Jubilee Harris (Kangaroo Ground)
Harris’s death was not reported in the Evelyn Observer – perhaps understandably family grief played a part as his father, Robert senior was the proprietor of the newspaper! Harris was one the hundreds posted Missing following the offensive around Fromelles on the night of July 19, 1916 and declared Killed In Action as at that […]
World War 1 Casualty – Robert Meadows (aka Allan Cassell) (Eltham)
A somewhat bizarre case of a serviceman enlisting under his nephew’s name, the deception seemingly unknown to the A.I.F. until a letter from his father clarified the situation after his death. His sacrifice was commemorated on both the Eltham and Research War Memorials under the name of Meadows, but confusing the issue further is the […]
World War 1 Casualty : Harry Conway (Christmas Hills)
Harry Conway from “Penrith”, Christmas Hills died of wounds at Rouen, France on 28 April, 1918. Conway had certainly the most remarkable background of any serviceman from the-then Shire of Eltham to die in the Great War – born in the Singapore states, educated in India and having served four months Nigiri Volunteer Rifles before […]