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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mont Park Hospital
The former Mont Park Hospital was located in Macleod near and on the site of LaTrobe University and Springthorpe Housing development. Mont Park mental asylum was opened in 1912, and in 1915 an army hospital opened for war injuries, disease and mental illness.