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Friends of Soldiers Walk Inc: Newsletter Issue 14 September 2004 Contents AGM and Quiz Night Working Bee Launch of the Management Plan

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AGM and Quiz A very successful and enjoyable night. The new Committee is: A Howard (President), Mike Wilkie and John Trethewey (Vice Presidents), John Wadsley (Secretary) Kirsten Black (Treasurer) with Victoria Wood and John Panton joining as Committee members. Ian Harrison and Dr Peter Sexton remain as ex-officio members representing the RSL and HCC respectively. Many thanks to Rod Hunt and Darby Quinn for their work on the Committee over the last two and a half years. The quiz night was fun and beneficial to the coffers with $670 raised for FOSW and $110 passed to Legacy for use of the venue and to support their work. Thanks to all those who donated prizes including Senators Paul Calvert and Eric Abetz, Duncan Kerr MHR (who also attended) and MHA. Paesano’s of West donated 2 pizza vouchers and Shane of Shane’s West Hobart Butchery donated a bag of snags. Marco and Nick of the Hill Street Grocer provided cheeses and biscuits for the supper and prize pool. Richard Palfreyman (Dr Syntax Hotel) and Darby Quinn also chipped in with a couple of bottles while Kirsty Black, Adrian Howard, and Victoria Wood provided other food and cakes for the supper.

Sunday 19 September: Next Working Bee Sunday 19 September is our next working bee. Arrangements will be as always: meeting at the carpark at the northern end of the TCA at 10am. Work will focus on the southern section of the Avenue and on removing understorey plants within the Avenue footprint. We will be completing the numbering of trees and sites. The working bees program will continue on October 17th and November 7th (placing poppies) so mark out these dates on your calendars.

Launch of The Soldiers Memorial Avenue Management Plan On Tuesday 3 August, the Lord Mayor Rob Valentine officially launched the Management Plan for the Soldiers Memorial Avenue. There was a great turnout with many descendants present. The plaques removed from the plinths were on display, over 200 of them, and a number were ‘presented’ to descendants as a symbolic gesture of the Council’s renewed commitment to the preservation of the Avenue. Rob Valentine and Adrian Howard made speeches before

Page 1 of 1 Subs now due FOSW14 the symbolic opening of one of the plinths by an Honour guard of soldiers from the 12th/40th battalion. There was great press coverage of what turned out to be a quite moving ceremony. When the plaques are cleaned up an exhibition will be arranged so that all members can view them. A full list of the surviving plaques is included as part of this issue.

Divisional Insignia In the last issue, it was incorrectly stated that the 52nd Bn was part of the 5th Division: it wasn’t it was, along with the 47h Bn, part of the 4th Division. This division had a higher proportion of men from the smaller states (8 of the 12 battalions) while the 5th division was mostly made up of men from Victoria and New South Wales with only 2 battalions from the smaller States. A 6th Division was planned complete with colour patches but was shelved after the failure of conscription in the plebiscite of 1916; the troops recruited (including Tasmanians in the 69th Bn) were distributed as reinforcements among existing units.

1st Division: rectangle

2nd Division: Diamond 3rd Division: Oval

4th Division: Circle (note 4th brigade had rectangle patch)

5th Division: vertical rectangle Each Division was made up of 3 Brigades each made up of 4 battalions, each of c1100 men. At the divisional and brigade level, extra specialist troops were added such as medical details, signallers and so on. In the perfect world, that certainly never existed in any war, each division had a pioneer battalion, a company of engineers, later a machinegun battalion, trench mortar companies and so on. Often these ‘associated’ units operated independently. Certainly the artillery units (each infantry division had 2 associated artillery brigades) were controlled at much higher levels and were moved by the dictates of overall strategy not the commands of the infantry brigade or division they were associated with originally. Artillery brigades comprised 4 batteries of guns.

The 1st Division was formed in 1914 (1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades consisting of the 1st to 12th Battalions). Tasmanians served with the 12th Battalion. With an excess of volunteers, a 4th Brigade (13th to 16th Battalions) was formed. All these units served on Gallipoli as part of the New Zealand and Australian Division. Tasmanians served in the 15th Battalion.

The 2nd Division comprised the 5th, 6th and 7th Brigades (17th to 28th Battalions) and formed in . Tasmanians served in the 26th Battalion. It was formed in Egypt in mid-1915. The 3rd Division was formed in Australia and trained in England (9th, 10th and 11th Brigades, 33rd to 44th Battalions) and was committed in November 1916. Tasmanians formed the entirety of the 40th Battalion.

In early 1916 there were 8 brigades, 3 in the 1st Div and 3 in the 2nd Div plus 2 (the 4th and 8th Brigades) unattached. These two brigades went to the new 4th and 5th Divisions. The original 16 battalions of 1914 were split to form new ‘pup battalions’ in Egypt in early 1916. The 12th battalion split and the 52nd battalion was formed, the 15th battalion split to form the 47th Bn so these were partly Tasmanian formations. In the end the 4th Division included the 4th brigade (13th to 16th Battalions) and 2 new pups, the 12th and 13th Brigades (45th to 52nd Battalions). The 5th Division comprised the 8th Brigade (29th to 32nd Battalions) and 2 new pups the 14th and 15th Brigades (53rd to 60th Battalions).

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1st Working Bee of the Season Our first working bee of the season was very successful with a god turnout of about 30 people. Extra number plates went in so the numbers are now on trees up to about 310. Much foliage was removed and a barbeque followed. The main work area was just south of the TCA and Magazine with the whole area previously marked out by the Hobart City Council. The two photos below give some idea of the transformation in the work area. The photo above was taken from near the

Magazine looking down the outer row on the river side. Dense foliage obscures most this part of the Avenue. Photo below taken from the same spot 2 hours later.

Thanks once more to Barbeques Galore for the loan of a BBQ, Tasmanian Meat Wholesalers for meat and the Globe Hotel for beer. Their continuing support certainly makes for a better day.

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52nd Battalion Research John Wadsley, our new secretary is undertaking research on the men of the 52nd Battalion in which his uncle Lt Lennard Wadsley served. Lt Wadsley featured in an earlier issue. John would like to contact anyone who is a descendant of a soldier who served in the 52nd Battalion. He can be contacted on 6210 0628 (W) or 6248 7294. The history of this battalion has yet to be written. Craig Deayton another member is compiling a history of the 47th Bn and would also appreciate contact from any descendants. He can be contacted through MacKillop College.

Orientation program A second orientation session has been delivered for workers from the HCC, Civic Solutions and Collex who are working on the sewer re-lining program. They showed great interest not just the locals but the contractors from Melbourne who will be doing some of the work. We can be assured that they will conduct their work with a real awareness and care for the Avenue.

Project Hahn: Work for the Dole Over the last few weeks, 2 crews having been working 2 days a week each on the Avenue by arrangement with Project Hahn and the HCC. They have been concentrating on clearing woody vegetation along the northern section of the Avenue and have made a dramatic difference. Both rows can be clearly seen on each side of the path and the Avenue is really beginning to return as a visible physical feature on the Domain. Soon work will begin on removing the larger wattles that require chainsaws and when that is complete new vistas will open up along the pathway. These young people have done a wonderful job and are showing real interest in the history of the Avenue, making more people to spread the word and preserve the memory of the Avenue and the men from Hobart and Newtown that it commemorates. With our next few working bees and their work by year’s end the Avenue will be restored in shape at least and there should be time for the area to be slashed and mown. By Christmas, an Avenue! Thanks to all concerned.

An Infantryman’s Day in the Front Line During 1919, Frank Green, then Adjutant of the 40th battalion began compiling the history of the unit. This history is unique in that it was compiled while the battalion was still a unit and in Europe allowing for easy verification of details and interviewing of participants. It is also one of the most readable not least because of Frank’s fine dry wit. This issue will begin a series of extracts on the infantryman’s day. This is taken from F C Green The Fortieth: A Record of the 40th Battalion AIF Hobart (1922) printed for the 40th Battalion Association by John Vail, Government Printer pp 15-16. Frank Green won a Military Cross a fact he does not mention in the text nor does he append ‘MC’ after his name. General Sir John Monash provided a foreword in which he noted: “ But the name of Frank Green became widely known throughout the AIF for his soldierly qualities, his outstanding personality, and his capacity to do well everything that was worth doing.”

An Infantryman’s Day in the Front Line The ordinary trench life of a soldier is a dirty, dreary thing, and to be able to get an impression of trench warfare a description of a soldiers’ daily routine is necessary. It is given faithfully, for the benefit of soldiers who have forgotten their miseries, for soldiers who were never in the trenches and imagine it a place of excitement and souvenir hunting, and for civilians whose ideas on the subject are somewhat hazy and imagine the life of an infantryman to be midway between that of D’Artagnan and Tom Sawyer. The day is from “stand-to”, an hour before dawn, to “stand-to” on the following day. “Come on, chaps, stand to” – the voice sounds miles away, but on half waking you find the post commander or another NCO with his head in your dugout opening, inviting you to leave your bunk on the ground to stand-to in the front line with your rifle, for no other apparent reason than to watch the enemy’s flares or listen to his machineguns playing tunes over the parapet. The dugout in which you are us about 6 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 3 feet high, and is occupied by two others beside yourself. By this time you are awake, and when awake the dugout does not seem as comfortable as

Page 4 of 4 Subs now due FOSW14 you thought it was when you were half awake, so you crawl out, put on your equipment, respirator, and steel helmet, grab your rifle, and wade through the foot of mud and water to your post about 20 yards away. From the dugout to this spot there are the usual shell-holes and broken duck-boards, and usually in the darkness, and sleepy as you are, you find the holes, and, with curses on everybody and everything and the scheme of things generally, you pull yourself out of them and face the day more miserable than ever.

You arrive at your post and find the other six or eight men there already, and you help them gaze into No Man’s Land beyond which the enemy is going through the same routine. As you watch his flares and listen to his machine-gun bursts, you suddenly see in front of you a dark object. You strain your eyes, and it seems to move – you tell them man alongside of you in a whisper. He laughs and says, “You are seeing things – that’s a stump.” Then you realise that your eyes are playing a game with you and you remember that the stump was there yesterday. Presently someone behind you says, “Get your dixies.” If you have not got your dixie you have a cigarette tin or some other suitable drinking vessel, and you hold it out while a hot drink is poured into it from a petrol tin or hot-box. Sometimes the hot drink is replaced by rum, and if it is you feel much better, and begin to take an interest in life and feel at peace with the world, when – whiz, bang, crash – your train of thought is upset, and you get down in your trench, with your back to the parapet and pretend to be thinking of something else, though “Ginger” there on the same post cannot bear to miss anything that is going on, and has his head over the parapet till the trench sergeant pulls him down as he passes. This lasts a few minutes and things become normal again – it is just the enemy’s morning hate. It is now getting daylight, and you look along the trench and see something covered with a waterproof sheet, lying on a duck-board. You say, “Who stopped one?” Somebody tells you it is Bill ___, “’Minnie’ fell on his post. Only got him, but wounded Digger ___ and Darkie___. Stiff luck! He was going on leave tomorrow.” You swear about Bill’s stiff luck to hide the emotion you feel at the death of a pal you went to school with, and you make a mental note to get one of the Pioneers to make a good cross over Bill’s grave, which will be in Armentieres, because you know Bill’s father, and you know it will hit the “old man” pretty hard, and you rather think Bill’s mother would like a good cross put up. Then you ask if anything else has happened, and someone says one of the scouts was killed just in front of our wire – machine-gun got him. Somebody else says Ted ___ was wounded out on wiring party. You ask if he was badly knocked, and the sergeant says, “ Well. I thought he was: but he borrowed 20 francs off me as they carried him out, so I reckon he wasn’t too bad.” The illustration is a watercolour from the surviving drawing pads of Lt Keith Eltham (tree #185). He was killed in action near Flers on 31/12/1916. A clerk in the City Engineers Department of the HCC he served on Gallipoli with the 3rd Brigade Australian Field Artillery (AFA) and was promoted to Lieutenant with the 1st Bde AFA. He had represented in cricket against England, South Africa, Victoria and New South Wales and rowed for the Derwent Rowing Club. Thanks to Roslyn Budd and family. Next Issue: Breakfast and the morning wash. A big thanks to Duncan Kerr’s office for photocopying. Friends of Soldiers Walk 11 Franklin Street, West Hobart TAS 7000 Phone: (03) 6234 4396 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] President: A Howard Secretary: J Wadsley

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Surviving plaques. Note that there are multiple plaques from some trees (due to families making new plaques). FOSW has 4 of plaques and about 12 are with the Museum and Art Gallery. The remainder are currently held by the HCC. Tree Number Given Names Second name Family name Final rank Final Unit 251 Robert Nathaniel Abbott Pte 26th Bn 333 David Leslie Clyde Absolom Cpl 40th Bn 112 Harcourt Adams Pte 15th Bn 140 Barry Wentworth Addison Sgt 52nd Bn 383 Thomas Andrew Ahearne L/Cpl 40th Bn 292 Reginald Percival (Percy) Aherne Pte 15th Bn 339 Arthur Albert Albury Pte 12th Bn 213 Hilary L Alcock Pte 12th Bn 55 Harry (Henry) Alexander L/Cpl 2nd Bn Wiltshire Regt 148 Robert James Bertram Anderson Pte 52nd Bn 138 Benjamin Anderson Pte 52nd Bn 154 Frederick George Ba(I)nes Cpl 26th Bn 206 Guy Brooke Bailey Cpt 52nd Bn 318 William Joseph Barnett Pte 26th Bn 236 Clive Linklator Barrow Gnr 3rd Bde AFA 50 Alfred George Bartley Dvr 10th Coy, AASC 386 George William Best Lt 3rd Squadron, AFC 299 Harold George Bidgood Pte 26th Bn 241 Leslie John Birkett Sgt 12th Bn 212 Albert Robert Blackmore Pte 12th Bn 369 Arthur Bonser Pte 40th Bn 426 Percy James Bowen Cpl 3rd Bde AFA 78 James Purcell Bowerman Pte 12th Bn 118 Leslie John Brooks Pte 12th Bn 297 Lauriston Brownell Lt 27th Bn 184 Alex Teulon Beamish Bruford Cpl 26th Bn 188 Harry Russell Beamish Bruford Lt 26th Bn 13 George Kenny Buckpitt Pte 12th Bn 14th Field Coy Aust 332 Thomas Albert Burton Spr Engineers 139 Brian Nairn Butler 2/Lt 12th Bn 153 Roy Butler Pte 4th Coy AASC 338 Alfred Robert Cahill Pte 40th Bn 356 Horace Edward James Calvert Pte 12th Bn 3rd Field Co Aust 64 Victor Capstick Spr Engineers 245 Ernest Edgar Casbourne Pte 40th Bn 304 Henry Edward Caulfield Pte 40th Bn 129 Charles Cecil Cearns Cpl 21st Bde AFA 293 Lionel Eric Chalmers Cpl K Supply Column AASC 191 Thomas William Chance Pte 52nd Bn 363 Roland Maurice Chessell Pte 51st Bn 414 Theodore Chubb 2/Lt Queen Alexandra Rifles, 169 Thomas/Tasman Leslie Clark Pte 26th Bn 454 Cecil Roy Clark Sgt 26th Bn 28 Errol Vincent Cleary Pte 15th Bn 389 Wyn(fred) Howard Cleary Sgt 1st Bde AFA 361 Louis Cleaver Gnr 3rd Div MTM Bty 396 Lionel Chapman Collings Dvr 26th Bn 357 William Richard Cooper Cpl 40th Bn 360 Leslie Corbett Gnr 2nd Bde AFA 182 George Cowen Pte 12th Bn

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391 Charles Watkin Cowen Pte 40th Bn 178 William Leslie Cragg Pte 1st Pioneer Bn 3 Wilfred John Crane L/Cpl 12th Bn 86 Russell Charles Creed Sgt 20th Bn 3rd Field Co Aust 290 Arthur Edward Watts Currie Spr Engineers 81 Michael Eric Curtis Pte 40th Bn 313 Thomas Henry Curtis Pte 12th Bn 68 Frederick Dale Pte 59th Bn 291 John Edward Joseph Daly Pte 15th Bn 330 Richard Leslie Devine Pte 40th Bn 3rd Divisional Train, 404 Richard William Dewson Cpt AASC 410 Arthur Ernest Dineen L/Cpl 12th Bn 79 Frank Donaldson Pte 12th Bn 382 Bertram Stephen Dove Pte 40th Bn 134 Andrew Robert Dunkley 2/Lt 51st Bn 370 Arthur Roy Edwards Gnr 12th Bde AFA (112th Bty) 185 William Keith Eltham Lt 1st Bde AFA 1st Div Signal Coy Aust 228 Percy Alexander Emery Spr Engineers 38 Frank Hubert Evans Pte 15th Bn 6th Field Coy Aust 400 Nuriel Ivor Evans Spr Engineers 92 Arthur Stanley Eyles Pte 26th Bn 52 James Clarke Fisher Pte 26th Bn 388 John Edward Flanagan Gnr 8th Bde AFA (30th Bty) 399 Archie Youl Flexmore Gnr 12th Bde AFA 57 William Wallace Flood Tpr 3rd Light Horse 217 Charles Bertram Foreman Pte 12th Bn 123 Charles Walter Forster Pte 12th Bn 329 Percival Lewis Fowler Pte 40th Bn 159 Thomas John Fox Pte 12th Bn 166 Lambert Victor Gadd Pte 26th Bn 284 Roy Cecil Glover Pte 52nd Bn 324 Walter John Goodey L/Cpl 40th Bn 117 Archie Darling Gould Pte 52nd Bn 412 Victor John Gray Pte 12th Bn 316 John Henry Green Pte 12th Bn 120 Norman John Alexander Hall L/Cpl 52nd Bn 344 Eric Arthur Hall Sgt 52nd Bn 218 William August Halton Pte 12th Bn 18 Cecil Herbert Hanigan L/Cpl 15th Bn 35 George Ernest Harding Pte 15th Bn 59 Albert Harrex Pte 15th Bn 168 Percy Herbert Harrison Cpl 26th Bn 83 Claude Vernon Harrison L/Cpl 12th Bn 181 James Andrew Henderson Pte 1st Pioneer Bn 113 John Henderson Pte 15th Bn 171 Benjamin Joseph Hewitt Dvr 103rd Heavy Bty AFA 239 Thomas Charles Whitfield Hill Pte 6th Bn 230 Walter Patrick Hill Sgt 52nd Bn 288 Stanley Hinchcliffe Pte 12th Bn 6 William Henry Hodgkinson Pte 1st Bn 275 Harry Hodgman Pte 5th Bn 15 George Albury Hunt Pte 15th Bn 147 Walter Alfred Hurst Pte 12th Bn

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8 Archibald James Hutchison Pte 7th Bn 358 Walter Hutton Pte 12th Bn 183 Walter Gordon Ibbot Pte 12th Bn 91 Robert Nelson Jackson Pte 29th Bn 196 Tasman Coutencin Jackson Sgt 26th Bn 198 Thomas Jones Pte 40th Bn 403 Leslie Roy Jones Sgt 3rd Bde AFA 248 Clement Southwell Keen Pte 12th Bn 447 Harold Horace Kennedy Pte 51st Bn 124 Frank Kent-Newbold Pte 12th Bn 390 Henry Kirkham King Pte 9th Bn 4th Light Horse Field 349 Sydney Moor Lake Pte Ambulance 164 Walter Langdon Pte 19th Bn 36 Frederick Einar Lange Pte 12th Bn 238 Roy Stuart Lee Cpl 12th Bn 194 Frederick William Lewis Sgt Major 40th Bn 96 Victor Tasman Lisson Pte 26th Bn 301 Walter John Livingston Cpl 14th Bde AFA 406 Felix Edward Lopez Pte 12th Bn 347 Leonard Christopher Lucas L/Cpl 52nd Bn 175 Cyril Edmund Luttrell Cpl 26th Bn 151 James Thomas Mackey Gnr 3rd Bde AFA 1st Aust Clearing Hospital 295 Alan Lindsay Marsh L/Cpl Corps 137 Harry Edward Moncrieff Massey Cpt 52nd Bn 163 William Henry McAllister Cpl 5th Bde AFA 176 Wallace Carlyle McDougall Pte 40th Bn 51 Sydney Duncan McLeod Dvr 10th Coy, AASC 109 Edward Andrew McNamara Pte 26th Bn 232 William McPherson Pte 15th Bn 300 Norman Richard Thomas Meagher Lt 40th Bn 53 John William Miller Pte 12th Bn 376 Kenneth Douglas Mills Pte 49th Bn 2nd Infantry Bde 110 William Gladstone Monks S/Sgt Headquarters 71 Errol Vere Walch Moore Pte 1st Bn 105 Harry Havelock Morey L/Cpl 4th Field Ambulance 334 Harry O’Brien Pte 40th Bn 195 John Tasman Ambrose O’Neal Cpl 52nd Bn 423 Herbert Edward Roy Owen Pte 12th Bn 15th Field Co Aust 417 John Shadrick Pace Spr Engineers 323 Hector Clarence Pacey Pte 26th Bn 352 Oliver Alfred Page Sgt 12th Bn 348 Rowland John Page Pte 12th Bn 249 Claude Tasman Parker Cpl 12th Bn 17 Robert Yeaman Parker Pte 15th Bn 335 Cyril Vivien Partridge Pte 12th Bn 366 Herbert Richard Patterson Pte 2nd Pioneer Bn 231 Thomas Andrew Payne Pte 2nd Bn 407 William Pegler Pte 40th Bn 73 Frederick Henry Pelham Pte 12th Bn 303 John Stanley Piesse Sgt 40th Bn 167 Tasman Henry Pitman Pte 40th Bn 189 Zephaniah Poultney S/Sgt 12th Bn 221 John Purcell Pte 12th Bn

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48 Harry Rafton Pte 18th Bn 337 Alexander Reading Pte 12th Bn 394 Francis Walter Reid 2/Lt 54th Bn 1st Bn Canterbury Regt 315 Robert Rennie Sgt NZEF 240 William James Aloysius Reynolds Pte 5th Bn NZ Mounted Machine 453 Charles Ribbon Tpr Gun Squadron NZEF 302 Albert Edward Robertson Pte 34th Bn 362 John Raymond Rogers Pte 40th Bn 336 Arthur Segbert Rometch Pte 40th Bn Douglas Guthrie 95 Wallace Fraser Ross Sgt 26th Bn 367 Harry Alfred Rossendell (all) Pte 12th Bn 287 James Campbell Rule Cpl 12th Bn 125 Walter Leonard Rutter Pte 12th Bn 66 Cecil Norman Salisbury Cpl 52nd Bn 267 Henry Thomas Scott Pte 12th Bn 365 Albert Edward Scurrah Bmdr 12th Bde AFA 487 Frederick Augustus Self Pte 12th Bn 47 Hobart Alfred Seymour Cpl 3rd Light Horse 320 Charles Frederick Sharland Lt 40th Bn 150 James Albert Shea Pte 52nd Bn 325 Charles Edward Smith L/Sgt 40th Bn 345 Roy Frederick Stirling L/Cpl 40th Bn 327 Montague Bertram Street Pte 26th Bn 145 John Alexander Swift Pte 52nd Bn 342 William Tapner Pte 40th Bn 321 William Henry Thollar Pte 12th Bn 82 George Harold Thomas Pte 12th Bn 384 James Bruce Thompson Pte 49th Bn 378 Alfred Charles Thurstans 2/Lt 40th Bn 102 Alfred Gibbs Tolman Sgt 3rd Light Horse 114 Owen Stanley Tolman Pte 26th Bn 373 William James Leslie Turner Sgt 47th Bn 162 Phillip Bingham Turner Cpl 6th Bde AFA (17th Bty) 3rd Bn Wellington Regt 411 Oswald De Witt Vaughan Cpl NZEF 311 Hedley George Venus Sgt 12th Bn 343 Lennard Lewis Wadsley Lt 52nd Bn 223 Alfred Warren Pte 12th Bn 160 Alfred Ernest Watson Pte 2nd Tunnelling Coy 351 Roderick Noel White Weaver Tpr 3rd Light Horse 3rd Field Co Aust 101 Joseph Clyde Weavers L/Cpl Engineers 305 Archibald Gilbert Weeding Pte 3rd Bn 63 Robert Ernest Westbury Pte 12th Bn 70 Francis Joseph Whelan Pte 60th Bn 158 Horace Gurney/d Whitmore Pte 52nd Bn 486 Rupert George Wickins L/Cpl 12th Bn 37 Robert Wiggins Pte 12th Bn 172 Charles Edward Wilkie C.S.M. 26th Bn 289 Ernest Walter Williams Pte 12th Bn 308 Wilfred Alfred Williams Pte 40th Bn 80 Gordon Frederick Williamson Pte 12th Bn 225 Charles Rowett Willing Pte 12th Bn 385 Charles H Wilson Pte 12th Bn

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341 Eric Henry Murray Windsor Gnr 1st Bde AFA 402 George Arthur Wood Pte 40th Bn 115 Augustus Oliver Woods T/Major 26th Bn 413 Charles Calvert Glenn Woodward Sgt 52nd Bn 62 Ernest Charles Mawby Woolley Pte 12th Bn 108 Gordon Samuel Woolley Pte 26th Bn 340 William Edward Wright Cpl 4th Machine Gun Coy 364 George Simon Wright Pte 40th Bn 280 Gilbert Stanley Young Spr 6th Field Coy Engineers

Shot of crowd and marquee. Guests included Michel Hodgman MHA, Doug Parkinson MLC, Col Jan Hyde OC ADF Tasmania and many descendants as well as HCC employees involved in the restoration.

The Honour Guard removing the plinth top. The soldiers are from the 12th/40th Battalion.

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