25th April 2012

Commemorative booklet proudly presented by Michael McCormack MP Federal Member for IN HONOUR: The 17 local soldiers union jack’s anzac legacy endures who died in World War I are remembered at Union Jack. gallantry FROM ANZAC Cove at Gallipoli Youngsters bring and the bloody and muddy trenches purpose to ANZAC HENRY Charles Gaylard was of the Western Front to the swirling Day observances a fighting fit, strapping young desert sands or guerilla operations in because it is their lad when he enlisted with the back streets of Afghanistan, Australia’s future which has Australian Imperial Force and military personnel have earned a been secured by headed to The Great War in reputation for bravery, selflessness and mighty sacrifices 1916. made in campaigns perhaps above all, mateship. The 20-year-old past. Our soldiers’ renown as courageous and carpenter/labourer sailed fierce fighters, considered as good as any Indeed, more than one war memorial has out of on HMAT by Allies and enemy alike, was and is inscribed the words: “When you go home, Ascanius with the 55th also held in the same high esteem as that tell them of us and say, ‘For your tomorrow, Infantry Battalion’s 7th of our combative strength in the air and we gave our today.’” Reinforcements with several on water. The ANZAC legend is also embodied in other Riverina boys. As we approach the centenary of those gallant members presently wearing Captured by the Germans Gallipoli, the ANZAC spirit burns as an Australian Defence Force uniform. during the Battle of brightly as ever. It is in their DNA. So too are the Lagnicourt, France, in April rosewood’s allegiance qualities of true grit, valour and a desire 1917, Private Gaylard was It is evident in the determination of Ex- to seek peace in our times. May they all interned at Hamelin and UNLIKE The Great War of Servicemen and Women who wear their return home safely from their important spent time in a number of 1914-18 when men fought medals with pride as they stoically march overseas deployments when their duty Prisoner of War camps before the battles and women who on 25 April each year. went to war served in medical is done. falling gravely ill. It shows in the adults who line the units, World War II was truly This ANZAC Day, let us especially Tragically, on 17 September streets and look on with admiration and a matter of “one in, all in”. remember the families of our fallen in 1918, with a truce less than deep respect as yesteryear’s warriors file the War in Afghanistan since 2002. Lest eight weeks away, Pte Gaylard Many rolls of honour across past. the countryside represent the we forget. succumbed to Spanish fever fact the 1939-45 war generally It is there for all to see in the faces and heart weakness in the involved anyone and everyone, of children, many too young to know German camp at Wahmbeck irrespective of gender. the true meaning of the occasion, and was buried in the village but who nevertheless happily wave cemetery. Whereas in World War I flags to add colour and purpose to the MICHAEL McCORMACK MP After the Armistice his women stood behind their commemoration. Federal Member for Riverina men, this time they were in remains were exhumed many ways right alongside! and reinterred in the COVER PICTURE: Niederzwehren Cemetery, Olive and Pansy King, whose ON GUARD!: Standing to attention with their dress-up uniforms and toy guns, Bongongo Kassel, Germany – a long names are etched into a Public School Year 5 pupils Tom Lucas (left) and Drew Polsen, both 11, certainly look the way from home and family splendidly carved black granite part in front of the Honour Rolls. Tom has family ties to Joe and Tom Jones who members who ached for his slab installed in 1995 and served in World War I. See the full story in the centrespread. loss. placed beside the Rosewood War Memorial Arch Pte Gaylard’s name is on (pictured), are testament to ’s boer war heroes the Roll of Honour at the their district’s determination Australian War Memorial to help win the war. A CENOTAPH made out of granite, marble and stone in Canberra and, perhaps (pictured) situated in a lovely garden overlooking the peaceful more significantly for his Both were born at grounds of Richmond Park honours Tumut’s fallen Boer War loved ones, at Tumbarumba Tumbarumba and they trio. Privates Edward James Morris and Denis Joseph Murray, as well as at Union Jack, a enlisted at Holbrook on the both with the Imperial Bushmen (D and F picturesque and peaceful same day – 25 May 1943. Company respectively), died of enteric fever. Typhoid disease place, five kilometres north of They served as Sappers, Olive germs, due to polluted water, proved deadlier than bullets town, where a monument to with 4 Royal Australian in the Second South African War of 1899-1902. Tumut the 17 fallen brave locals was Engineers Training Battalion Trooper Robert Patrick Quin Boyd, with the Bechuanaland unveiled on Empire Day, 24 and Pansy with the Australian Rifle, was killed in action on 18 October 1901 and buried at May 1922. Wonderfontein Farm, Groot Marico. Women’s Army Service. There was a gold mine at They certainly did their bit … Union Jack from 1898 and OFFICES OF MICHAEL McCORMACK: FRESH- their duty and the collective FACED: Henry Gaylard, who the magnificent obelisk was efforts of women right across CANBERRA: PO Box 6022, Parliament House, ACT 2600 P: 6277 4725 F: 6277 8563 died of disease as a PoW aged 23. Picture a tribute to those from the Australia played no small part GRIFFITH: 100 Yambil Street P: 6964 1212 F: 6962 7722 courtesy Catherine and Ron Frew, Adelong Road and Pound in ensuring a hard won victory : Suite 2 11-15 Fitzmaurice Street P: 6921 4600 F: 6921 5900 AT REST: authors of Sons to the Empire’s Cause Creek area who did not return for the Allies. E: [email protected] www.michaelmccormack.com.au The grave of Private Henry Gaylard. – Tumbarumba in World War I. from the war. Mighty men of Adjungbilly THERE is a heart-rending marble memorial which has Just days later a similar fate awaited Pte Jeffery, also in been framed and affixed to the wall of the community hall France. at the 125-year-old Bongongo Public School in the hills Several months went by before Courts of Inquiry near and Tumut. determined that both men had been killed in action, their The names of 13 locals are inscribed, representing those bodies never recovered. brave men of Adjungbilly and Tomorroma who fought Both are remembered at the Villers-Bretonneux in The Great War of 1914-18, as the tablet records “For Memorial as well as those at Bongongo, Gundagai and King and Country”. the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Sadly, four of those are marked with a cross, indicating All 27 Adjungbilly soldiers returned home from World they were killed in action. War II and only three sustained wounds including Four out of 13 from a close-knit district is a heavy price Military Medallist Sergeant Leonard Gardiner, Pte to pay by a small community doing its duty in the service Norman Ellison and Sgt Berton Kingwill, who was IN REMEMBRANCE: The district’s Roll of Honour of the nation. Mentioned in Despatches. for World War I. (Far left) HEROES ALL: The names of Two of those who died, Alexander Jeffery and Dudley Although tiny and sparsely populated, Adjungbilly Adjungbilly’s finest who fought in World War II. Clyde Maher, enlisted a month apart in 1916 and died punched well above its weight when the call came for within two days of each other the following year. volunteers to fight wars in faraway lands. Private Jeffery, 35, signed on with the Australian Imperial Its men went willingly and fought bravely. Force’s 1st Infantry Battalion on 13 March 1916 and Not all of them made it home. sailed out of Sydney with the 19th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 22 August the same year. Locals remain grateful for the service they gave. Those plucky Adjungbilly Diggers are remembered and their He was a widower and when he headed off to the deeds admired, especially on ANZAC Day and each time battlefields of Europe he bade farewell to his cherished a child at the historic Bongongo school looks up at the daughter, Hilda, born in 1908, not knowing he would honour boards and asks about the gallant men whose never see her again. names are etched upon them. TROOPSHIPS: The vessels which took two ill-fated How heartbreaking must it have been for this little girl to Adjungbilly Diggers to war … HMAT Euripides lose both parents at such a young age? IMMORTALISED: Dudley Maher and (above) which took Dudley Maher away from his She was granted a pension of £1 a fortnight from 11 Alexander Jeffery’s names on homeland and HMAT Wiltshire (below) which carried October 1917. the panels which form Alex Jeffery to his destiny. the World War I Roll of Like Pte Jeffery, Pte Maher was born at Tumut, was also a Honour at the Australian labourer and he, too, had taken his oath at War Memorial in although a month to the day earlier. Canberra. Red The 23-year-old left Sydney on 9 September on HMAT poppies placed Euripides bound for Plymouth, England, where he spent alongside names of time with the 5th Training Battalion. the fallen by visitors signify the respect The son of John Maher, Clyde saw action with the 19th they command Battalion but was reported missing in France on 3 May forevermore. 1917. 2012 ANZAC DAY SERVICE times and venues : 11am Main Service. ADELONG WAGGA WAGGA 9.45am Pilgrimage to Adelong 5.45am Dawn Service arranged by Cemetery to lay flowers on Legacy at the Cenotaph in the graves of recently deceased Victory Memorial Gardens, Ex-Servicemen and Women. Baylis St. gundagai’s dedication 10.45am March. 6.30am Pilgrimage to Wagga Wagga 11am Wreath Laying and Service, War Cemetery, Kooringal Rd. GUNDAGAI certainly did its duty in the Vietnam War Memorial Park Cenotaph. 10.30am Baylis St March begins. with 20 brave men serving 11.45am Service at Grahamstown- 11am Wreath Laying, Victory – 19 of them with the Army LEST WE FORGET: The remembrance gates lead to the Brungle Memorial Hall which Shepardstown Monument, Memorial Gardens Cenotaph. and the other with the Royal houses the district honour board on which is inscribed the names of 47 district men and Tumut St. Address by Senior Navy Officer, Australian Navy aboard one woman ( Joan Carter of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service) who served in Lieutenant Commander Linton World War II. BATLOW HMAS Hobart. Lee Senior Naval Officer. 6am Dawn Service at Cenotaph. Their efforts and sacrifice are Salute taken by Army Recruit 3pm March from RSL to Cenotaph. commemorated in the town’s Training Centre Kapooka 3.15pm Service. ANZAC Park in Landon brave brungle duo together forever Commandant, Colonel David Street on a magnificent black GUNDAGAI (Includes Coolac, Hay. granite monument (pictured) TRAGIC: How The Daily THE links between two brave Mount Horeb, Tumblong) INSIGNIAS: The WALWA, VICTORIA (Includes featuring the badges of the Advertiser at Wagga Wagga young Snowy Mountains men were 6am Dawn Service, ANZAC Walk. ) three services, replicas of three reported the awful news. unit colour patches uncannily similar as if their lives were of the Australia 10.30am March from Family Hotel, 10am Service, Cenotaph, Services service/campaign medals and FAMILY’S SAD LOSS drawn inextricably together until the Infantry Battalions Sheridan St. Memorial Hall, main street of a white cross which includes very end. of Ronald 11am Main Service, Cenotaph, Walwa ( Rd), an image of the war. Hartshorn (2/7, top A WELL-KNOWN They are honoured on the Memorial intersection of Sheridan and followed by free lunch provided “Together then together now” Gundagai family’s grief was right) and Leo Malone Gates at Brungle where both their (47) in World War II. Virgil St’s and Railway Pde. by Walwa-Jingellic Lions Club reads the gold lettering on the magnified when news filtered names and tragic fates are inscribed NANGUS then Two-up with proceeds to Memorial, emphasising the through that 20-year-old Neil Legacy. strong and enduring bonds of on marble plaques set into red brick To be commemorated on Thurs, 26 April. Anthony McInerney had pillars. mateship forged during those been killed in action in South 1943. The campaign ended with the 10.30am Service at Public School, Capital city services: CANBERRA difficult times. Ronald Gordon Hartshorn and Leo fall of Lae on 16 September 1943. Hulong St. Includes speeches Vietnam in 1968. Peter James McLeod from Malone were both born at Gundagai; by Gundagai RSL Sub-Branch 5.30am Dawn Service at the Australian Private McInerney had been Sadly, neither 21-year-old Hartshorn, Gundagai was an engineering Hartshorn in June 1922, Malone in and Kapooka Army Base War Memorial (suggested home just a month earlier with the 47th Australian Infantry mechanic on Hobart, a Perth the same month a year later. representatives. arrival from 4.30am onwards). to attend his father Barton’s Battalion, nor Malone, aged just class guided missile destroyer 6.30am Aboriginal and Torres Strait funeral, leaving for Vietnam Both became Privates with the 20 and a member of the 2nd 7th TALBINGO and gave 412 days of service Islander Commemorative soon after. Australian Army in World War II. Battalion, survived to see the Allied 6.30am Dawn Service, Cenotaph to his country. victory. in Miles Franklin Park. Ceremony at the Aboriginal There were six children in the Each was from the land; Hartshorn Memorial Plaque on the side The longest-serving TUMBARUMBA (includes close-knit family – five boys working in the dairy industry and Both were killed in action just six days of Mount Ainslie. Gundagai-born Vietnam , Rosewood,Tooma) War Veteran was Warrant and a girl – and losing two Malone listing farm worker as his apart in August 1943 and buried in 10.15am National Ceremony at the Officer Class Two Bruce members in such a short space occupation. Salamaua War Cemetery. 6am Dawn Service, District War Australian War Memorial Elphick, with 631 days in the of time was heart-wrenching. Memorial, cnr of Bridge and (suggested arrival 9.45am). Malone was first to enlist, signing on Together in so many ways throughout Winton St’s. Australian Army Training Educated at the Gundagai their lives, they were also united in SYDNEY Team. at Tarrabandra on 9 September 1942 6.30am Travel to Cemetery, lay wreaths Convent to Intermediate death and will be forever remembered while Hartshorn joined from Brungle on graves of Ex-Servicemen 4.15am Dawn Service at the Cenotaph level, Pte McInerney showed where their names are immortalised PLEASE NOTE: All on 8 February 1943. and Women who have died in Martin Place. particular promise as a … at the Australian War Memorial times and venues have The pair ultimately saw action in the during the past year. 8.30am Wreath-Laying Ceremony at swimmer, representing his in Canberra, on the Gundagai been supplied in good Lae-Salamaua campaign, a series of the Cenotaph in Martin Place. town several times at junior monument at the intersection of 10.30 March. faith by various RSL operations in New Guinea. 9am ANZAC Day March starting events. Sheridan and Virgil Streets and 11am Main Service. Sub-Branch officials and at Martin Place/George St/ Railway Parade and at the gateway to were correct at the time He also inherited his father’s Australian and United States forces TUMBLONG Bathurst St/Hyde Park. Brungle Memorial Hall. of publication. Every care Rugby League prowess. sought to capture two major Japanese 9am Service at Cenotaph outside St bases, one in the town of Lae and the 12.30pm Commemorative Service at the has been taken to ensure as A labourer before joining The families of the two men placed James’ Church on Adelong Rd. ANZAC Memorial in Hyde other at Salamaua. many services as possible the Army, Pte McInerney commemorative engraved silver TUMUT (Includes Brungle, Lacmalac) Park South. have been included. For had spent 195 days in the The campaign to take the Lae plaques under the original memorial 6am Dawn Service, Cenotaph in 1pm Aboriginal ANZAC Day verification of other 1st Battalion, The Royal and Salamaua area began with tablets on ANZAC Day eve in 1993, Richmond Park, cnr of Russell, March in Redfern. services please contact your Australian Regiment, before an Australian attack on Japanese the 50th year since the untimely Capper and Robertson St’s. 5pm Sunset Service at the Cenotaph local RSL Sub-Branch. his death on 7 October. positions near Mubo, on 22 April deaths of the brave boys from Brungle. 10.30am March from Wynyard St. in Martin Place. STUDENTS SHow anzac pride RIVERINA primary and secondary school students have again responded enthusiastically to the second annual writing competition “ANZAC Day in the Riverina”. Hundreds of poems and short stories were submitted with the best entrants being awarded book prizes from the Australian War Memorial. The most outstanding primary entrant received a copy of the wonderful tale The Red Poppy whilst the splendid hard cover book Australian Women and War went to the high school winner. Every student who sent in an entry will be presented with a commemorative signed certificate. A time to reflect I STOOD and stared nobly at the old soldier’s shiny medals and remembered all the stories I had been told about the war. What a horrible feeling: the suffering, WINNER: Breeanna hard work and fear he had been put Harrigan,11, Year 6, Adelong through. Public School. While he was out there on the treacherous battlefield, everyone back A Day to remember home would have been sipping cups of tea, dunking biscuits and chatting. Did AS WE stand there in our they ever fear for him? lines so quietly, we remember I thought about all this whilst I was those who lost their lives and listening to the stories being told by the fought for our country who families, friends and soul mates of their now lay there underneath the brave men that have fought in the war. ground, so peaceful and quiet. It was a mild day in Tumbarumba; the As we sing our National wind was rustling the red and yellow Anthem and say those words leaves and scuttling them across the BOOK PRIZE: Gary Spratling, 15, “Lest we forget” and march ground behind us. Everyone was dressed Year 10, Tumbarumba High School. with our friends wearing red in their finest clothes. People with poppies and others wearing heavily worn makeup, wearing dark grey their medals we remember suits and long flowing dresses gawked those soldiers who fought and at wreaths and plaques presented in the died for us in the war. memorial ring. No matter where we are, The Sun smiles from behind the clouds, whether we are in the park or burning them away and warming a circle at school, we remember this around the crowd. day, we will remember them. ANZAC Day is such a reflective day The happiness passes away as of re-living past events and emotions. I we remember them. looked around the park, perceiving the We may not know them but Ex-Commando’s weary and dreaded they are still special in eyes. They had grieved enough already, I every way. thought. SANDAKAN SHRINE: It was an emotional and fitting tribute when a magnificent monument was unveiled in Tumbarumba Memorial Park on 12 November 2011 honouring the four brave men with local connections who died in 1945 in the Sandakan death marches. At the opening are (from left) Judy Rutledge (daughter of Corporal Robert McEwan who died as a Prisoner of War at Ranau aged 29, Tumbarumba Shire Council Mayor, Councillor Ian Chaffey, Debbie Lilly (great-niece of PoW Private Gordon Burgun who died at Sandakan aged 40), Michael McCormack MP, Nerida Barnsley OAM (niece of PoW Bombardier Dave Taylor who died at Ranau at just 23) and Senior Personal Assistant to the President Sandakan Municipal Council, Catherin Chua. The other local PoW who died was Driver Charles Perrott, 33, at Sandakan. Authorised by Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack MP, Suite 2 11-15 Fitzmaurice Street Wagga Wagga NSW 2650. Printed by Chambers Whyte Design and Print, 5 Rabaul Place Wagga Wagga NSW 2650.