Browse Items (390 total)
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Honor Boards of Wyndham - 1914-1918 War
A listing of the known Honor Boards of the 1914-1918 War throughout the municipality of Wyndham. -
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Supplementary List : ANZAC Project 1914-1918
An alphabetical list of soldiers and nurses from the Wyndham area that are not named on the Werribee RSL Honor Board, but were discovered whilst completing this research.
Please note: Some of these soldiers and nurses may have had their names included on Wyndham's other Honor Boards. -
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[Werribee] State School Honor board
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Werribee area named on the Honor board now held at the Werribee Primary School, 2 Deutgam Street, Werribee. -
St. Thomas' Presbyterian Church Honor Board
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Wyndham area named on the Honor Board originally located at St. Thomas' Presbyterian Church (now Crossroads Uniting Church), Watton Street, Werribee.
Its current location is unknown. If you know where this Honor board is located, please contact familyhistorylibrarian@wyndham.vic.gov.au -
Christ Church Little River Honor Board
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Little River area named on the Honor Roll held at the Christ Church Little River, 48-50 Rothwell Road, Little River. -
Wyndham Presbyterian Church Honor Board
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Wyndham area named on the Honor Roll held at the Wyndham Presbyterian Church, 116-120 Black Forest Road, Wyndham Vale. -
Metropolitan Farm, Werribee Roll of Honor
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Wyndham area named on the Metropolitan Farm Roll of Honor.
This plaque is attached to a large boulder at the front of the offices of Melbourne Water Western Treatment Plant, Cocoroc. -
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Little River Honor Board
Residents of the Werribee Shire who resided in Little River, who served in World War One, 1914-1918 named on the Honor Board held at the Little River Mechanics Institute Hall, 8 Rothwell Road, Little River. -
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Archie Boadle MM (1896-1977)
Biographical information on the residents of the Werribee Shire who served in World War One, 1914-1918 named on the Honour Boards held at the Werribee RSL and the Church of England, Werribee (known as the Little River Honour Board). -
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St. Thomas' Church of England, Werribee Honor Board
An alphabetical list of soldiers from the Wyndham area named on the Church of England Honour Board held at St. Thomas' Anglican Church, 117 Synnot Street, Werribee. -
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2nd Lt Alfred Lindsay Newland
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Werribee RSL Honor Board
An alphabetical list of soldiers and nurses from the Wyndham area named on the Honour Board held at the Werribee RSL, 2A Synnot Street, Werribee.
This Honor board was originally located at the Wyndham Council offices. -
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32nd Battalion Werribee, 1939.
A photograph of the soldiers of the Werribee 32nd Battalion 1939. -
Soldiers of the 32nd Battalion, Werribee.
Volunteer Defence Corp. 1942.
Some of the men pictured are: Keith Barnes, Harold Bond, Bill Cations, Warwick Cayley, Ken Clarke, Roy Davis, Eddie Hayley, Bert Hosking, Les King, Ted Le-Noury, Bob Morrison, Bob Sutherland, Harry Verity and Jim Wells. -
Soldiers marching down Watton Street, Werribee.
Werribee troops from World War 1914-1918 marching down Watton Street, Werribee near the Post Office.
Taken 1918 or 1919. -
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Henry Joseph Delaney (1891-1917)
Studio portrait of 5671 Private (Pte) Henry Joseph Delaney, 7th Battalion. A grocer from Werribee, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Delaney embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ayrshire on 3 July 1916. On 27 April 1917 he was killed in action on the Somme, aged 26, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/DA15130/ -
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George Beamish Swanton (1882-1916)
Studio portrait of 1159 Private (Pte) George Beamish Swanton, Australian 24th Battalion, of Werribee, Victoria, with his wife Nellie and young baby, Joan Helen.
Pte Swanton enlisted on 28 April 1915 and embarked on board HMAT Euripides on 8 May 1915. He died of wounds on 28 July 1916 at Pozieres, France.
Pte Swanton had two brothers who were also killed in action:
No.222 Pte John (Jack) Swanton, 2nd Battalion, enlisted on 27 August 1914 and was killed in action at Gallipoli Peninsula on 2 May 1915;
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No.2760 Pte Henry Swanton, 29th Battalion, enlisted on 5 March 1916 and was killed in action at Pozieres, France on 2 November 1916.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/DA09050/ -
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Postcard (and reverse of postcard) of seven men dressed in army uniform from World War One.
Seven men in army uniform from World War One.
Reverse of postcard lists names of those in photograph.
Standing: A. R. Leake, L. S. Burniston, W. F. Conibear, W. Thexton.
Sitting: L. W. Cuddie, Sergeant, Stan Batson.
[W. Thexton may be William George Thexton (information from World War One Nominal Roll)
World War One Nominal Roll has L.W. Cuddie listed as Lawrence Walter Cuddy.
Stan Batson may be Arthur Stanley Batson (information from World War One Nominal Roll).]
Alfred Robert Leake: No 1841. Place of birth - Truganina, Victoria.
Leslie Stuart Burniston: No 2409. Place of birth - Melbourne, Victoria.
William Frank Conibear: No 1831. Place of birth - Bristol, England.
James Winwick Thexton: No 2434. Place of birth - Bairnsdale, Victoria.
Lawrence Walter Cuddie: No 2411. Place of birth - Dundas, Tasmania.
Sergeant - Unknown.
Stanley Batson: No 2408. Place of birth - Wurdiboluc, Victoria.