Remembering Some of Avoca's Fallen

 

The following thirty men from the Avoca district who served in WW1 are listed on the Avoca Soldiers’ Memorial as fallen: 

• Auld, Andrew 2121 RTA 18.1.19 Discharged 24.4.19 
• Beavis, James Sutherland (Jas Jun.) Lieut died of wounds, France 13/7/1918 
• Beer, Charles 3029 killed in action, France, 27/3/1918 
• Brown, James Neil 4741 died of wounds, France 7/9/1917 
• Brown, John Alexander 1799 died, Belgium 8/6/1917 killed in action 
• Burns, William 3039 died, Belgium 26/9/1917 killed in action 26.9.17 
• Dobley (Doblie), Leslie 1809 / 2301 died Belgium 4/10/1917 killed in action 
• Driver, William Henry died Melbourne 14/8/1915 
• Evans, Gilbert George Henry 148 died of wounds30/7/1916 
• Fish, Walter 2227 killed in action Gallipoli 13/7/1915 
• Harrowfield, Norman Andrew 1740 died France 26 - 28/7/1916 killed in action 
• Henderson, John Hamilton died Cerebro Meningitis 8/10/1915 buried Avoca 
• Henry, Clifford Albert 22076 died of wounds16.12.17 
• Howell, Tom Pym 2126 killed in action France 16/4/1918 
• Kiehl, Anton 2020 killed in action Gallipoli 19/5/1915 
• Lambert, Shadrach 1537 Discharged Jan 1917 
• Lansdell, Francis Henry (Harry) 7516 killed in action France 15/4/1918 
• Livingstone, John (Jack) 2406A died of sickness France 21/10/1918 
• McArdle, John Eric Farquhar 2544 killed in action 26.9.17 
• McDowell, William Robert 3831 killed in action 26.9.17 
• Oppy, William Edward 1964 died 13/10/1917 killed in action 
• Rowland, Henry Herbert 1131 killed in action 8/5/1915 Gallipoli, Lone Pine 
• Rowland, Wesley Richard 1877 killed in action 21/7/1916 Pozieres
• Smith, Stanley William 3484 died of wounds9/8/1918 
• Summers, David L. (Dave) 635 killed in action 19/7/1916 
• Templeton, George Hugh 4597 died of wounds 26/9/1917 
• Turpin, Henry 6357 died of wounds 17/4/1917 
• Willmott, Charles Jonathon 401 killed in action 25/4/1915 
• Wrigley, Fred Rankin 3168 killed in action 24.4.18 
• Yates, Leslie Reginald (Les) 2198 or 1861 killed in action 26.7.1916

Though from the designated Memorial catchment area, the following seventeen men, killed in action or died of wounds or illness during or immediately after the war, are not listed on the Avoca Soldiers’ Memorial: 

• Barnes, George Herbert 
• Barnes, Henry William 
• Chapman, Jas Mayman 
• Cox, Graham Rodgers 
• Cox, Lyle Hampden 
• Croft, Charles William 
• Currie, Hubert Roulstone Clifford (Cliff R.) 
• Davenport, Harold A. 
• George, Herbert L. 
• Hartigan, Clarence Victor 
• Knuckey, Frederick William Laurence 
• Mitchell, William Dawson 
• Petherick, Ordmonde Leslie(Orme) 
• Sells, William John 
• Stewart, Alfred Eyvel 
• Tootell, Edward 
• Young, John Percival 

Each of these men has his story. Here is one: 

Henry William Barnes, AIF number 2790, was born in Avoca. 

In June 1915, 38 years old, married, and working as a mill hand, Barnes enlisted in Perth, Western Australia. 

His battalion, the 51st, arrived in France on 12 June 1916 and immediately moved into the trenches on the Western Front. Barnes was promoted to corporal on 5 August. 

In August and September the battalion fought in its first major engagement, at Mouquet Farm, suffering casualties equivalent to a third of its strength. 

On 14 August 1916, less than a fortnight after his promotion, Harry Barnes was killed in action. 

His wife completed the Roll of Honour circular, stating that he had been born in Avoca and had gone to school in Percydale. The circular asked if Henry Barnes was associated with any other member of the AIF. She said that Henry's brother [George Barnes] was also killed, on 28 August 1917.

CORP. H. W. BARNES. (1916, November 5). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 3 (First Section). Retrieved November 10, 2020, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58019438 

Henry Barnes is listed on both the Percydale State School Honor Board and the Moonambel School Roll of Honor. 

His name is not listed on the Avoca Soldiers’ Memorial.

Sources

National Archives of Australia

NAA: B2455, BARNES H W - Barnes Henry William : SERN 2790 : POB Avoca VIC : POE Perth WA : NOK W Barnes Frances; digitised record at Barcode 3050618

Australian War Memorial

• 51st Australian Infantry Battalion

• Roll of Honour circular Henry William Barnes

Honor Boards

During WW1 and in the decade that followed, 'Honor Boards', also known as 'Honor Rolls',* were constructed and displayed in towns across Australia. An Honor Board was a list of the members of a local society or institution who had enlisted in the Army. Schools erected Honor Boards of ex-students who had signed on, and churches of their joined-up parishioners. Post Offices, and fire-stations, and railway employees'clubs, and other recreational, commercial, and philanthropic bodies, including local branches of State and and Federal organisations such as the Australian Natives' Association, all created and publicly displayed honor lists of their own.

It has been suggested that Honor Boards were erected by communities impatient to have their contribution to the war effort acknowledged and, more cynically, that displaying the names of those who had accepted their duty to serve was a reminder to men who had not yet enlisted.

In September 1920 the Honor Board of the Avoca branch of the Australian Natives’ Association (ANA) was unveiled. It had been made in Avoca, by Mr H.F. Classen, the town's cabinetmaker.

Unveiling the Board, Mr Moir, the Chief President of the Association, declared that the Avoca Board was typical of the many Honor Boards he had unveiled in Victoria. It was a 'splendid work of art, made from Australian timber by skilled Australian hands, and designed by a skilled brain'. He was concerned in his address to note that history was soon forgotten and many boards would be neglected, but he prophesied that 'the boards, if cared for, would be of greater value in the future, as [Australians] wanted their descendants to know who helped to make the history of this great island continent'.

 

The ANA Honor Roll now located in the Avoca RSL Hall

In October 1999, Mr Herb Robinson, an Avoca WW2 veteran, kindly arranged for me to view several of the town's Honor Boards in various churches, local halls and in the Avoca RSL. I was able to learn a little about the men whose names are recorded on Avoca's honour boards and about the Avoca associations that erected these memorials to them.

* 'Honour' is variously spelled, with and without the 'u'; as with 'Labor' in the name of the political party the British convention was not always followed.

99th anniversary of the opening of the Avoca Soldiers' Memorial

 

The Avoca Soldiers' Memorial in October 2020

Ninety-nine years ago, on 18 November 1921, a large crowd gathered in the main street of the Victorian goldfields town of Avoca for the formal opening of its new band rotunda. The dedication ceremony, part of a 'Back to Avoca' festival, had as its most distinguished speaker the Nationalist Senator Harold Elliott, who as Brigadier General 'Pompey' Elliott in the recent war had many men under his command who had enlisted from Avoca and the Avoca district.

Portrait taken about 1918 of Australian Brigader-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott (1878–1931).

When it was first proposed, the Soldiers’ Memorial Band Rotunda was intended to honour the men who had enlisted from the South Riding of the Shire of Avoca and those who had enlisted from Percydale, ten miles northwest. By 1921, however, the small gold-mining settlement of Homebush, five miles northeast of Avoca, was in the last stages of economic decline. Though not part of the South Riding of the Shire of Avoca, its population had shrunk so much that the Homebush Memorial Fund  committee asked to join the Avoca Memorial Fund.

The lists of the names of soldiers to be inscribed on the Memorial appear to have been prepared in rather a rush.  In a letter published in the Avoca Mail in mid-November 1918, Councillor Paten of the Shire of Avoca asked to be given the names of soldiers who had been on active service from the South Riding of the Shire and from the Percydale portion of the North Riding. On 23 July 1921 a sub-committee of the Avoca Memorial Fund met to discuss names to be included on the memorial. A list of soldiers from Natte Yallock had been supplied by G. Cain, a farmer. Robert Robinson, who had served in the AIF, contributed a list of soldiers from Percydale. Names for Avoca and Homebush were compiled by the Anglican vicar Canon Reynolds and Mr William Helliar, a farmer from Natte Yallock.  Several of the men listed on the Homebush Honor Roll prepared in Homebush in 1917 were not included on the Avoca memorial, and some men listed on the Avoca School Honor Roll and the Percydale School Honor Board are also absent. In the end, the names of only half the men eligible to appear on the Memorial Band Rotunda were recorded there.

To be precise, only 117 of the 223 men (52%) from the district who enlisted from the specified areas and served in the War are named on the Memorial. In deriving this percentage I have counted men from Avoca, Percydale, Rathscar, Natte Yallock and Homebush. These centres were specifically intended to be included in the Memorial's catchment area. I have excluded men mentioned in the local papers who are not named on other memorials, including men reported in the Avoca Free Press and Avoca Mail as having enlisted from the district or having been recruited at Avoca. I have also excluded from my calculation men from Amphitheatre, Barkly, Bung Bong,  Moonambel and Warrenmang. Although men from these areas were mentioned in the Avoca newspapers, the Memorial was not intended to include men from these areas.  For example, Percy Tuck - the first casualty reported in the local papers - was from Warrenmang, and therefore out of area and not listed.


[Over the next few days, a series of posts will consider these honour boards and other records, comparing them to the list of names on the memorial.]

Christmas Eve 1915 at Homebush Lower

On 1 January 1916 the Avoca Free Press reported that a Christmas Eve farewell had been held at Lower Homebush for Private George Templeton, on leave before sailing for the front.

The occasion was also a welcome home for Private Fred James, who had recently returned wounded.

Private Wes Rowland was also present. He was due to sail shortly.

Two of these three men, George and Wes, were killed. Only Fred survived the War, invalided out.

HOMEBUSH LOWER. (1916, January 1). Avoca Free Press and Farmers' and Miners' Journal (Vic. : 1900; 1914 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151688697

George Hugh Templeton was born in 1893 at Homebush Victoria to George Templeton, a miner, and his wife Annie. The younger George enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 23 August 1915, a labourer, unmarried, aged 22 1/2.


Two years later, on 26 September 1917 at the age of 25, he died in Belgium at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action at the Battle of Polygon Wood near Ypres. He was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

Photograph of George Templeton retrieved from http://www.lijssenthoek.be/en/address/6797/-george-hugh-templeton.html 

I am afraid I know very little about Fred James. He was called Texas, apparently. I don't know what that implies, if anything.


Wesley Richards 'Wes' Rowland was born in 1892 at Homebush Lower. He enlisted as Wesley Richard Rowlands at Bendigo on 9 August 1915, 23 years old, unmarried, a labourer.


Wes Rowland was killed in action between 19 and 20 July 1916 at the Battle of Fromelles, one of the 544 casualties of the 31st Australian Infantry Battalion.

Avoca newspapers and his family wrongly reported that he had been killed at Pozieres, eighty kilometres away, on 21 July 1916. A court of enquiry in August 1917 found that he had been killed in action at Fromelles


Wes Rowland's service personnel dossier states he is buried in the vicinity of Fleurbaix, a few kilometres from the village of Fromelles. He is memorialised at V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles.

On the Avoca Soldiers Memorial and on the Honor Board of the Avoca Methodist Church Wes and his brother, Henry Herbert killed 1915, are listed among the fallen.

Family of John and Jane Rowland nee Lardner with seven of their nine children about 1910. The photo possibly includes the two sons who died in World War 1: Henry Herbert Rowlands (1888 - 1915) and Wesley Richard Rowlands (1892 - 1916) . But which of the three sons in the back row is photographed is not clear: it could be any of Henry, Wes, Albert born 1885, or Leopold born 1890. Photo thanks to Neville Rowland and the Avoca and District Historical Society.

 References

HOMEBUSH LOWER. (1916, January 1). Avoca Free Press and Farmers' and Miners' Journal (Vic. : 1900; 1914 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151688697

National Archives of Australia: B2455  TEMPLETON George Hugh : Service Number - 4597 : Place of Birth - Homebush VIC : Place of Enlistment - Melbourne VIC : Next of Kin - (Father) TEMPLETON George

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour for George Hugh Templeton including link to Roll of Honour Circular completed by his mother

HOMEBUSH LOWER. (1915, October 30). Avoca Free Press and Farmers' and Miners' Journal (Vic. : 1900; 1914 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151685532

National Archives of Australia: B2455 ROWLANDS Wesley Richard : Service Number - 1877 3941 : Place of Birth - Maryborough VIC : Place of Enlistment - Broadmeadows VIC : Next of Kin - (Father) ROWLANDS John

TO THE MEMORY OF AUSTRALIAN HEROES. (1917, November 9). Avoca Mail (Vic. : 1863 - 1900; 1915 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152147905

Australian Heroes Honored. (1918, April 17). Avoca Free Press and Farmers' and Miners' Journal (Vic. : 1900; 1914 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151681674 ; UNVEILING OF HONOR BOARD. (1918, April 19). Avoca Mail (Vic. : 1863 - 1900; 1915 - 1918), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152145390

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour for Wesley Richard Rowlands including link to Roll of Honour Circular completed by his mother

Lest we forget

On 18 November 1921 a large and well-attended ceremony was held in the small town of Avoca in central Victoria to dedicate a memorial which had been erected in the main street to the soldiers of Avoca and district who had served in the Great War.

The memorial, initially conceived as a band rotunda, was an irregular octagon with eight piers carrying a roof obscured by a parapet. A frieze above the columns gives the names of the main areas where volunteers from Avoca fought: Gallipoli, France, Palestine, and Belgium. Low walls on four sides have a soldier’s helmet and pack sculptured in high relief. The entrances on the other sides are guarded by freestanding granite tablets inscribed with names of some of the soldiers from the district who fought in the First World War. The tablet on the northern side of the memorial records the names of some of those who died.

The Avoca memorial was intended to commemorate only those soldiers from the South Riding and from Percydale, but by early 1921 the town of Homebush was declining rapidly, and had lost so many of its residents that the Homebush Memorial Fund asked to join the Avoca fund. As a result, in addition to those from the South Riding and Percydale, the names of soldiers from Homebush were also intended to be included.

In theory perhaps, it should have been a straightforward matter to list the all the names of soldiers from these three places on the Memorial. In practice it was not so simple, and to this day, the names of many men who should be recorded there are missing from the Avoca memorial's granite tablets.

Although a memorial to the town's soldiers had been discussed for many years, the lists of names for the memorial appear to have been prepared in a hurry and were shockingly incomplete. In a letter to the "Avoca Mail" published on 19 November 1918, Councillor Arthur Paten, Honorary Secretary of the Memorial Committee, requested parents, relatives, or friends of soldiers from the South Riding of the Shire of Avoca and from the Percydale portion of the North Riding who had been on active service to forward him their name, rank, decoration, and whether killed. A list would be prepared and 'it was desired that the list be a complete one'. On 23 July 1921 a small sub-committee met to discuss names to be included on the memorial. A list of soldiers from Natte Yallock had been supplied by G. Cain, a farmer. Robert Robinson, who had served with the AIF, supplied a list of soldiers from Percydale. Names for Avoca and Homebush were compiled by Canon Reynolds, Vicar of the Church of England, Avoca, who was secretary of the local Progress Association, and Mr William Helliar, a farmer from Natte Yallock.
Perhaps a complete list could have been prepared from this information, but the attempt to produce it was compromised by bad planning, bureaucratic incompetence, and petty in-fighting between various
committees and local groups. The result was that only half the names that should be on the memorial are actually inscribed there.

This disgraceful treatment of Avoca and district soldiers has never been put right. The Avoca branch of the Returned and Services League, which boasts that "We foster respect and thanks from the nation for all those who have made sacrifices in Australia’s name...", has long known that the memorial is incomplete.

In less than a hundred years, 'Lest we forget' has become 'We have forgotten'.

Below is a list of 312 men associated with the Avoca district who served in the Great War. Only 137 of them are listed on the Avoca Soldiers’ Memorial.

Name	AIF Number	Killed or wounded?	Returned	Avoca Soldiers' Memorial
Anderson, Neil Watson	2281	Wounded May 1915	RTA 8.1.19	Listed
Armstong, Henry Martin	5647		RTA 18.1.19	Listed
Armstrong, James
Auld, Andrew	2121		RTA 18.1.19 Dis 24.4.19	Fallen
Bailey, George	6232		Dis 13.10.19
Bannister, Arthur William	3016A		Dis 28.8.19
Barnes, George Herbert	3118		KIA 10.9.17
Barnes, Henry William (Harry) - ? Should be Henry James	2790		KIA 14-16.8.16
Barnes, Hurtle Edgar	2459
Barnes, Walter	410		RTA 15.1.19
Barry, George
Barry, Roderick Ernest	61825		RTA 25.9.19	Listed
Beavis, James Sutherland (Jas Jun.)	Lieut 22	died of wounds, France 13/7/1918	DOW 13.7.18	Fallen
Beavis, John (Jack S.)	3691		RTA 18.1.19 Dis 15.5.19	Listed
Beer, Charles	3029	KIA, France, 27/3/1918	KIA 27.3.18	Fallen
Bennett, Donald	Major
Blackney, John Ernest	Lieut 2950		Dis June 18
Blain, John	Depot 2109		RTA 24.6.16	Listed
Bonsor, Vivian
Bowen, Leslie Francis	3615		RTA 6.9.19 Dis 18.11.19	Listed
Bowen, William Henry	1623
Bradley, Herbert James (Bert)	6477	wounded & invalided home	RTA 21.7.18	Listed
Brazil, Frank Edward	1884		RTA 2.1.19	Listed
Brereton, Charles Cecil	170		details not on nominal roll (AWM 133)	Listed
Brereton, William Gordon (Gordon)	1787		RTA 20.5.19 Dis 16.8.19	Listed
Bright, James Frederick	13684		RTA 9.12.18
Broadbent, J.
Brown, H. (Herbert / Bert)	3697		RTA 1.5.19	Listed
Brown, James Neil	4741	died of wounds, France 7/9/1917	DOW 7.9.17	Fallen
Brown, John Alexander	1799	died, Belgium 8/6/1917	KIA 8.6.17	Fallen
Burke, J.F.				Listed
Burke, P. (Son)				Listed
Burnett, W. (or Barnett?)				Listed
Burns, William	3039	died, Belgium 26/9/1917	KIA 26.9.17	Fallen
Cain, Henry George	Depot			Listed
Calnan, Claude	2386		RTA 18.1.19 Dis 17.4.19	Listed
Cameron, William
Carter, Edgar William
Carter, H.B.
Castleman, Ernest John	5813		RTA 12.4.19
Chambers, Hubert Randall	10234		Dis 5.11.17
Chandler, Horace Arthur				Listed
Chandler, W.				Listed
Chaplan, W.				Listed
Chapman, Jas Mayman	198	died 7/11/1920	RTA 13.4.19
Cheesman, William (Willie, Will)	1803		RTA 30.4.19
Clune, John Patrick	on home service		Dis 31.8.16
Coates, Ernest Frederick Collis	61246			Listed
Coffin, C.
Collins, Arthur William
Cox, Graham Rodgers	2567	killed in action Fleurbaix 16.7.16	KIA 19.7.16
Cox, Hubert Franklin	V78217		Dis after signing of Armistice
Cox, Lyle Hampden	4761	died of wounds 16.11.18	DOW 16.11.18
Cox, William Bramwell	7218		Dis 23.3.19
Crick, William James (Jack)	5064	wounded	RTA 8.4.17
Croft, Charles William	801	died Melbourne 17/6/1916
Cross, Frederick Beswick	1689 / 2021		RTA 23.7.19	Listed
Cross, George Murray	4757	Wounded	RTA 25.8.17	Listed
Crute, Arthur Thomas	134	wounded 1916	RTA 8.4.17	Listed
Cullip, Charles Wm Neil	14444			Listed
Currie, Hubert Roulstone Clifford (Cliff R.)	884	fallen	KIA 7.8.15
Curtain, M.
Da Fonte, Albert	1623
Daly, John Francis	358		RTA 4.1.19	Listed
Darker, William
Davenport, Harold A.	3074	killed in action 8/6/1917	KIA 8.6.17
Davies, D.
Derrick, Ernest Albert	1691			Listed
Diamond, Charles Patrick	2493			Listed
Dobley (Doblie), Leslie	1809 / 2301	died Belgium 4/10/1917	KIA 4.10.17	Fallen
Doodt, Charles A.	2654		RTA 16.3.19	Listed
Doodt, D (Dave)	3763		RTA 3.3.19	Listed
Douglas, J.
Douglas, James Oliver	3217		RTA 22.6.19	Listed
Downing, F.
Downing, Frederick
Driscoll, Allan Ernest	6132	KIA 12/7/1918	KIA 12.7.18
Driscoll, Bertie (Cecil Albert)	1676
Driver, William Henry	n/a	died Melbourne 14/8/1915	~	Fallen
Dunell, Frank Thomas Richard	6251		RTA 18.1.19
Durant, William
Ebeling, Eric Arthur	27732	twice wounded	Dis 28.9.17
Ebeling, GA (Gus)		Wounded at Gallipoli		Listed
Edwards, Alfred Richard (Lambert E.)	1537
Edwards, Archibald Richard (Arch.)	1337	Wounded May 1915	RTA 15.2.18
Elliott, Arthur
Elliott, N. (Norman)				Listed
Elliott, T. (Tom) [Thomas Job]	2628		no detail on AIF Nominal Roll	Listed
Elliott, W.N. (William or Nelson)				Listed
Esperson, Oscar Charles Rev
Evans, Gilbert George Henry	148	fallen	DOW 30/7/1916	Fallen
Evans, Stan W.
Farnsworth, William John
Farrell, Richard Louis
Firns, Septimus	1878 or 1078		RTA 4.12.15
Fish, Walter	2227	KIA Gallipoli 13/7/1915	KIA 13.7.15	Fallen
Ford, Arthur W. or Arthur T.		Wounded
Ford, H.				Listed
Fraser, Donald George (Don, Donald John)	2763		Dis 21.9.19	Listed
Frean, Norman Alfred	26		RTA 27.8.15
French, Charles George (Chas / Charles)	61608		Dis 7.10.19	Listed
French, Walter Henry A.	1702		RTA 24.5.16 Dis Sept 1916	Listed
French, William Henry	670		RTA 3.2.15	Listed
Fuller, Mark Reuben	7128		RTA 1.7.19
Gallag(h)er, Nathaniel	885	KIA Belgium 30/4/1917	KIA 30.4.17
Garner, David
Garner, Joseph James	2856		RTA 12.5.19	Listed
Gee, Frederick Roy	7489		RTA 13.7.19 Dis 28.9.19
Gee, Frederick William	2660		RTA 1.5.19	Listed
Gee, Jno. (Jack)	1856	wounded at Gallipoli; wounded in hand 1916	1/05/1919 Dis 6.7.19	Listed
George, Herbert L.	408	KiA France 25/7/1916	KIA 25.7.16
George, John James	4122
Gibson, Chas. A.	2654		RTA 16.12.17 Dis 6.8.18	Listed
Gilbert, Audrey S.	1125		Dis 6.8.16
Golder, Alfred Charles G.	42	wounded 1915	RTA 24.12.18 Dis 11.4.19	Listed
Golder, Frederick Otto	551		RTA 6.5.19 Dis 24.7.19	Listed
Gollop, Harold	4814		RTA 19.12.18 Dis 17.3.19	Listed
Gordon, Hugh G.
Gouge, Walter	2043	died 1928 of war wounds	RTA 18.1.19 Dis Apr 1919	Listed
Greenwood, Harold James	1852		RTA 8.5.19	Listed
Greenwood, Walter Herbert	886	invalided after 6 months in trenches	RTA 10.9.17	Listed
Hanly, Joseph Dillon
Harbour, Herbert Joseph H.	1716		RTA 19.8.19	Listed
Harris, Norman Cecil	2197	wounded Dardanelles	RTA 6.8.15	Listed
Harrowfield, Frank	2323		RTA 15.3.1919	Listed
Harrowfield, Norman Andrew	1740	died France 28/7/1916	KIA 26.7.16	Fallen
Harrowfield, Robert Leslie	4954	once wounded; once gassed	RTA 2.1.19 Dis 20.4.19	Listed
Hartigan, Clarence Victor	1927	KiA 20/1/1917	KIA 20.1.17
Hellings, David Harrison (Dave)	3401		RTA 22.7.19; Dis 30.9.19	Listed
Henderson, Alexander Thomas	5845		RTA 22.8.19
Henderson, C. [Charles?]				Listed
Henderson, John Hamilton	~	died Cerebro Meningitis 8/10/1915	buried Avoca	Fallen
Henderson, Joseph J.	792	once wounded; once gassed	Dis 18.5.18	Listed
Henderson, Thomas Arthur	2786		RTA 22.1.17	Listed
Henderson, Victor William	30		details not on nominal roll
Henry, Clifford Albert	22076	fallen	DOW 16.12.17	Fallen
Hilderbrand, Wm Jas (Will)	1687	wounded - Sep 1916	Dis 25.7.19	Listed
Hill, C.
Holland, Henry S.				Listed
Hope, George Reuben	623	fallen	KIA 30.8.15
Howard, Harold
Howell, Tom Pym	2126	KIA France 16/4/1918	~	Fallen
Hughes, A.
Hughes, W.				Listed
Humphrey, WC
Impey, Harold Thomas	5645		Dis 12.9.19
Irwin, Jas.
Jane, Percy
Jardine, John Armstrong	2770	malaria	RTA 3.7.19	Listed
Jardine, John William	2771		RTA 8.4.19	Listed
Jardine, William Edward	2772		RTA 4.10.18	Listed
Johnson, Cedric	1018?		RTA 22.9.19
Johnson, F.				Listed
Johnson, G. (George)				Listed
Johnson, Reginald Clarence (Rege.) or Reginald Campbell?	679	Wounded May 1915	RTA 8.10.15 Dis 14.3.16	Listed
Johnson, Roy Seccombe	2825		RTA 12.6.19
Johnson, Walter Henry Clarence	681		Dis 22.2.19	Listed
Johnson, William Lennon L. (Lennon)	7875		RTA 15.5.19 Dis 25.3.19	Listed
Keleher, J.
Kiehl, Anton	2020	KIA Gallipoli 19/5/1915	~	Fallen
Kitchell, Percy Vincent	3180		RTA 21.7.17 Dis Nov 1919	Listed
Kitchen, Arthur Leslie	3834	wounded in face and knee, 1916	RTA 28.3.19 Dis 19.5.19	Listed
Kitchen, George R.	3155	wounded 1916 - sustained 5 wounds - bullet passing clean through his leg	RTA 7.3.17 Dis 25.5.17	Listed
Knuckey, Frederick William Laurence	66		Drowned 10.10.18
La Roche, John B.	1504		Dis 1919
La Roche, Roy (O.R.)	6529		Dis Apr 1919
Laidlaw, R.T.				Listed
Lambert, Bert L.
Lambert, Shadrach	1537		Dis Jan 1917	Fallen
Langdon, J.
Lansdell, Francis Henry (Harry)	7516	KIA France 15/4/1918	~	Fallen
Larkins, James		Wounded in action in France Aug or Sep 1916		Listed
Lawry, Henry
Leerson, Albert Henry	1861			Listed
Lewis, C.R.
Lewis, J.W.
Leyden, John Maurice	~		RTA 6.11.18	Listed
Leyden, Phillip James (Phil)	11032		RTA 7.2.19	Listed
Lindsay, Francis James	967	Wounded: disability pension	Returned to Aust 19.10.18	Listed
Lindsay, John
Livingstone, John (Jack)	2406A	died of sickness France 21/10/1918	~	Fallen
Lofts, Arthur Leslie	1672		RTA 16.1.19
London, Henry John
Looney, Oliver John	504		no details on nominal roll
Lundy, Andrew
Lundy, John
Lyons, Philip James	1994		RTA 11.12.18	Listed
Martin, Jack	6133		RTA 2.3.19
Martin, Orville Stowe			RTA 29.5.19
McArdle, John Eric Farquhar	2544	KIA 26.9.17	KIA 26.9.17	Fallen
McCracken, Norman P.
McCulloch, C.
McDowell, William Robert	3831	KIA26.9.17	KIA	Fallen
McEwan, Francis Jacob (Frank J.)	Lieut. / 531			Listed
McLaughlin, Thos.
McManus, Henry John
McVicar, Archibald A.	2124	three times wounded	RTA 27.5.19 Dis 28.8.19	Listed
McVicar, Frederick Neil George	3562		RTA 23.9.18	Listed
Miles, Edward T.L.
Mitchell, Thomas Trebilcock	955	twice wounded	RTA 17.5.19 Dis 4.9.19	Listed
Mitchell, William Dawson	6539	wounded France 27.9.1917	RTA 8.4.18
Mockett, Arch
Moodie, R. A. (Alec)			Dis 31.7.19	Listed
Morris, George
Mortimer, M.
Mouet, Gordon (? Mouat Gordon McKie)	1071		RTA 9.3.19
Neil, Arthur Stanley
Neil, O.
Nicholsen, William (or Nicolson, William George)	3845	died of wounds (effects of gas) at Avoca 25 Nov 1920	RTA 3.3.19
Nicholson, Ernest				Listed
Ohlsen, William Peter	2370		RTA 5.11.17
Opie, Ernest	4496		RTA 5/7/1916
Opie, M.
Opie, Norman	9		RTA 23.7.19
Oppy, William Edward	1964	died 13/10/1917	KIA 13.10.17	Fallen
Orrock, John Harold	6621	died of wounds	DOW 18.11.16
Perry, A.D.
Petherick, Ernest George			RTA 21.3.19
Petherick, Ordmonds Leslie(Orme)	2759	killed 1916 - reported Sept 1916	killed 23.7.16
Phillips, Thos.
Porter, Albert Beddingfield				Listed
Preston, A.E.
Rae, F.M.		wounded - gassed - lost power of speech & hearing but has since regained
Rafferty, Matt
Randall, Matthew Ernest (Ernest)	165	wounded - returned from Egypt; injured by fall of horse in action (Avoca School Honor Roll)	Dis 1917	Listed
Randall, William	532	twice wounded (wounded May 1915); prisoner in Turkey for 3 years 3 months	Dis 8.2.19	Listed
Rayner, C.
Rayner, W. H.
Redpath, Warburton S. (= S.)	2769		RTA 10.6.17 Dis 19.9.19	Listed
Rees, Frederick L.	1705		Dis 30.9.18
Reeves, Harold Henderson	252		Dis 19.1.20	Listed
Reid, D.M.
Reid, Ebenezer Uranus Randall Kaiser (Eb.)	215	once wounded	RTA 3.7.19 Dis 9.10.19	Listed
Resuggan, Arthur George	57	wounded 1916	RTA 4.7.19 Dis 10.10.19	Listed
Roberts, R.G.
Robinson, F.T.
Robinson, Robert W. (Bob)	2245	reported missing 1916	RTA 5.4.19	Listed
Roe, A.T.
Rooke, T.A.
Ross, John M.	3/2709		Dis Nov 1919
Ross, Wm Leslie	3464		Dis July 1919
Rowland, Henry Herbert	1131	KIA 8/5/1915 Gallipoli, Lone Pine		Fallen
Rowland, Wesley Richard	1877	enteric fever Egypt; KIA 21/7/1916 Pozieres		Fallen
Ryan, J.
Samers, Vincent Robert (Vince)	2209		RTA 31/03/1919	Listed
Schofield, E.J.
Scott, Robert Victor	57116		RTA 5.7.19	Listed
Sells, William John	2249		KIA 7.8.15
Shaw. C.E. [Charles?]
Sims, Herbert Louis (Lew)	4584		RTA 15.5.19	Listed
Smith, J.
Smith, L.
Smith, P.
Smith, Stanley William	3484	DoW 9/8/1918		Fallen
Smith, Tom
Squires, Leopold Alfred
Stavely, William C. B. (Will)	Lieut.		RTA 18.12.15 assume should read 1916	Listed
Stewart, Alfred Eyvel	232	KiA 13/8/1918	KIA 13.8.18
Stoddart, George Henry	233	Wounded	RTA 27.5.19
Stuart, William Charles	5454	fallen	KIA 20.9.17
Summerfield, Arthur Joseph	723	wounded 1916
Summerfield, Sydney Edwin (Sid)	310 / 510		RTA 14/12/18
Summers, David L. (Dave)	635	paid supreme sacrifice KIA 19/7/1916		Fallen
Templeton, George Hugh	4597	DoW 26/9/1917		Fallen
Tootell, Edward	5152	KIA 24/4/1918
Tootell, James	970		RTA 19.1.1919
Torney, Wm G. or George William	1742		RTA 8.4.19 Dis 22.7.19	Listed
Townsing, George James	6103		RTA 12.6.19
Tuck, Percy Clarence	1672	DoW 1/5/1915
Turner, Charles Herbert	3839		RTA 13.12.18
Turpin, Henry	6357	DoW 17/4/1917		Fallen
Turpin, Patrick
Walker, Elspeth
Walker, H.
Walker, Kathleen Lucy	S/Nurse		RTA 14.12.17
Walker, Lionel Everard	Depot V79629
Walker, Rose Mary	Sister		RTA 14.12.17
Wantess, T.G.
Warren, Arthur
Watt, H.
Webster, Frank Thomas	1011	Died of Disease 4.8.16	DOD 4.8.16
Webster, Isaac Oswald (Ike)	871	killed at Gallipoli landing	~
Weir, Arthur
Weldon, Robert James Max (Max)	1012	Wounded
Willett, Frank
Williams, Henry				Listed
Williams, W.H.J.
Willmott, Charles Jonathon	401	KIA 25/4/1915	~	Fallen
Willmott, David Horace	2046		RTA 27.7.17 Dis 14.12.17	Listed
Willmott, Herbert Stoten (Herb)	77		RTA 11.6.19 Dis 11.8.19	Listed
Wilson, Albert	Depot			Listed
Wilson, Barwise Carr W. (Barry)	606		RTA 12.11.17	Listed
Wilson, C.M.
Wilson, Vivian L.	3964		RTA 13.2.17
Wilson, William Allan	7584		RTA 24.1.19
Wiltshire, Edward George	5481	wounded twice; 2nd time gassed and suffers from concussion - Sep 1918	Dis 20.3.20	Listed
Wise, C.
Wise, Murray R.	3156		Dis Aug 1919
Wise, Terence Murray	607		Dis Nov 1919
Witherden, David William (Dave)	3956	wounded in France - 1916	RTA 16.1.19	Listed
Witherden, Thomas Haswell (Tom)			RTA 12.5.19 Dis 21.8.19	Listed
Wood, Herbert
Worthington, Argus A. (Angus Arbor)	1064/ 3482		RTA 24/7/19
Worthington, Roy Vincent
Wrigley, Fred Rankin	3168	KIA 24.4.18	~	Fallen
Wrigley, John
Yates, James Oscar	1858		Dis 17.6.19	Listed
Yates, Leslie Reginald (Les)	2198 or 1861	paid supreme sacrifice KIA 26.7.1916		Fallen
Young, Cecil Ernest	5115	wounded in action - GSW to thigh & ear	RTA, discharged TPI
Young, Francis	6914		RTA 5.7.19	Listed
Young, James Guthrie	3517	wounded	RTA 11.4.16
Young, John Percival	2763	gassed; died 9/11/1918 pneumonia in England	~

Related post: Remembrance Day (66 men from the district died during the war, the Memorial records 30 Fallen, 2 of whom actually survived the war, thus only 28 of the 66 who died are listed as Fallen on the Memorial.)