15. Brighton Cemetery Graves – 3 18. Kynaston Captain James Newland 70 Bambra Road Caulfield North He served in the Boer War and the Melway 68 C2 two world wars. He was awarded the Later known as Kahlyn, Kynaston was for actions on three built around 1889, it was opened as a occasions in WW1, retired from the hospital in 1914 by two sisters, army in 1941, and died in Caulfield in Nurse Grace Anderson and Nurse 1949. His grave is Methodist G 174A. Sadie (Sara Theresa) Dunphy. Nurse Dunphy enlisted in the AIF in October 16. Brighton Cemetery Graves – 4 1917. She served in England and World War 1 Walking Lance Corporal Henry Yin Goon returned to Australia in August 1919. Born 1895 in Elsternwick, he was a It is now a private home. market gardener. Departed with the or Self-Driving Tour 6th Battalion on 22 December 1914. He Other Glen Eira DandenongFeaturing Road selected sites of significance to fought in Gallipoli, the Middle East, World War 1 in the City of Glen Eira. France and Belgium. Died in the Battle memorials 17 of Broodseinde on 4 October 1917. He 19. Bentleigh Reserve is classed as a Chinese Anzac and is Jasper Road opposite Bentleigh Balaclava 5 6 7 remembered on his mother Lydia’s Library Melway 77 E1 4

grave which is at Methodist G 149. Street Road

Princes Road N Road 8 Private hospitals Glen Eira ↑ By 1915, there were 19 private hospitals Road 18 0 600 Hotham 3 in Caulfield. Many were in mansions and 2 Highway metres more opened in the war years. Private Orrong Glen Huntly hospitals were often the second stage of Road Neerim 9 10 11 Road hospitalisation for wounded veterans. Road Road 1 Road Road 17. Matlock House (now demolished) Nepean

Melway 59 A10 Road 21 The former Vadlure (below) was on Road nine acres of land bounded by Alma 20. McKinnon Memorial Park Kooyong Hawthorn Bambra Dandenong and Kooyong Roads. It Corner of Wattle Grove and Site locations 12 Murrumbeena was demolished 1963. It was a private Booran McKinnon Road Melway 68 D10 shown by red numbers North Poath hospital between 1914 and 1918; Dr 1 No. 11 Buxton Street Grange JW Springthorpe practised here. He 13 14 Koornang 2 No. 11 AGH Road enlisted in 1914 as a physician and was 3 Glen Eira Town Hall 15 16 Street Road farewelled at a party at Matlock. 4 Memorial Park 20 5–7 Caulfield Park* Road 8 Caulfield Racecourse 9 Caulfield RSL Road Road 10 Caulfield City Rifle Range Wheatley Centre Thomas Road Road 11 Classic Cinema Road

12 Avenue of Honour 19 Road 13–16 Brighton Cemetery* Mackie 21. Koornang Park 17 Matlock House** Highway Near Koornang Road Melway 68 J6 18 Kynaston

19 Bentleigh Reserve Tucker Jasper 22. Behind Cheltenham Moorabbin 20 McKinnon Memorial Park RSL 289 Centre Dandenong Road 21 Koornang Park South East Boundary Glen Eira Historical Society Inc prepared these Cheltenham Melway 87 F2 22 Moorabbin memorials Warrigal

notes in October 2014. The Society is at 965 Glen Road Huntly Road Caulfield South, phone 9077 5395 Glen Eira Historical Society Inc is proudly * Multiple sites 22↑ and website is gehs.org.au We thank David sponsored by the City of Glen Eira Community ** Demolished Southwick MP for printing these notes. Grants and Bank Murrumbeena. The plaque is located Welcome to the Glen Eira Historical Society’s World War 1 Walking or Self-Driving Tour. 8. Caulfield Racecourse behind the Race Day 12. Avenue of Honour Station Street Office north of the Melway 67 K8 Melway 68 E1 Rupert Clark Stand. The Avenue of Honour on North Road We list here a variety of sites significant to World War 1 in the City of Glen Eira. Please do not The racecourse was used by recruits, and Point Nepean Road (now Nepean trespass on any properties. Be thoughtful when approaching any businesses. Some original who slept in the stands. It also hosted Highway) was a joint collaboration of buildings have been demolished or have been heavily renovated. the huge Red Cross and Purple Cross the Caulfield and Brighton Councils to Thirty-one honour rolls are on the foyer commemorate those who had served Have a pleasant and informative tour. fund raising carnival and gymkhanas, Caulfield walls. Fifty names per plaque equals plus other patriotic events. in World War 1. The final planting in 1 550 people. Caulfield Council was North Road took place on A plaque commemorates the 90th 1. No. 11 Buxton Street, Elsternwick deeply involved in the war effort. 1919 and comprised 432 trees. In the Anniversary of World War 1. The course Melway 67 J4 Caulfield Red Cross, with a huge 1960s, the Avenue was removed due hosts Lawrence Stakes Day races Family home of author George Johnston. membership, almost took over the to road widening. The Caulfield Park commemorating the war. His My Brother Jack concerns growing up premises as an operations centre. Memorial Stone records the history of in Elsternwick during and after the War. its planting. Also see Entry 7. His father was a returned soldier and his mother a nurse at the nearby No. 11 Caulfield North and East Elsternwick Brighton Cemetery, Army General Hospital (AGH). 9. Caulfield RSL Corner Hawthorn and North Roads Do not enter this private property. 4. Memorial Park, corner of Kooyong Entrance is at Melway 68 A8 4 St Georges Road First recorded burial 1855. The cemetery 2. No. 11 Army General Hospital, Road and Dorgan Street Melway 67 G3 Melway 58 K11 served as a burial place for many World or No. 11 AGH (now Caulfield Formed in 1918 by men who were in War 1 returned servicemen who had been Formerly Crimea Park, Memorial Park Gallipoli and concerned about their Hospital), 260–294 Kooyong Road was opened 23 November 1997. In 2001, hospitalised at No. 11 AGH. Four grave Melway 67 K3 rights and prospects. The first clubrooms sites are included here. the Council re-sited to this park some were a single storey building, which were No. 11 AGH grew from the Australian of the plaques from the North Road, replaced by the current building in 1935. Government’s purchase of the 18 room McMillan Street and Point Nepean Road Long-term patients from No. 11 AGH mansion Glen Eira, which was built sections of the former Avenue of Honour. around 1880 on 27 acres of land. No. used the club giving them a social outlet. 11 AGH was established in 1916 and 5. Caulfield Park: Cenotaph 10. Caulfield City Rifle Club No. 119 had extensive garden wards and a Red Melway 59 B12 The Cenotaph is at Cross Rest Home. The mansion has been the Hawthorn Road 294 Glen Huntly Road This was built in 1930 demolished but portions of its wrought end of Caulfield Park. Melway 67 F3 and unveiled Anzac Day iron fence can be seen on Kooyong Road Formed in 1915 when shooting was 1931 in honour of the citizens of south of the main entrance. seen as a necessary skill. There were Caulfield who served in World War 1. several other Rifle Ranges in the area: After the Second World War, the Council a miniature one in Caulfield Park and Check the board inside the North Road Entrance for the added an inscription recognising the another on racecourse land on the location of different sections in Brighton Cemetery. contributions of Caulfield residents corner of Queens Avenue and Neerim during the war. 13. Brighton Cemetery Graves – 1 Road. Sir John Monash Sites 6 and 7 are 150 metres In World War 1, he led the 4th Brigade’s 6. Caulfield Park: NNE of the Cenotaph. Memorial Stone 11. Classic Cinema landing at Gallipoli and in 1918 led the Melway 59 B12 Gordon Street largest corps in the British Army. He Melway 67 F3 died on 8 October 1931 and had a State The Stone is a bronze plaque, which Built in 1889 and established as a funeral. His grave is at Jewish originally marked the former North Road cinema in 1911 as the Elsternwick F Graves 20 and 21. Avenue of Honour – see Entry 12. The Theatre. It was used as a venue plaque lists the names of World War 1 for No. 11 AGH patients to have 14. Brighton Cemetery Graves – 2 fallen from Caulfield. recreation outings. The soldiers arrived Sapper Harry Ford Fence is all that remains of Glen Eira mansion which Born 1875 in the United Kingdom, he housed No. 11 AGH. Note the lamp standard on the pillar. 7. Caulfield Park: by ambulance, on wheeled beds, wheelchairs, and crutches and on foot, migrated to Australia. He served in 3. Glen Eira (formerly Caulfield) Lone Pine Tree and Plaque all smoking and smiling. France in 1916 and returned wounded, Melway 59 B12 to Melbourne in 1918. His leg was Town Hall corner of Glen Eira and The Lone Pine Tree plaque recognises amputated. He died in hospital on 18 Hawthorn Roads Melway 68 A2 the 1965 planting of the tree, said to be March 1919. His grave is at Church of from a seed of the original lone pine at Caulfield South England Y 766. Gallipoli.