St Stephen’s church knew him as Edward Tho- [4] mas. http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service- records/army-wwi.aspx (accessed 16/3/16) [5 ]https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2008/07/18/the-worst-night- in-australian-military-history-fromelles/ (accessed 16/3/16) [6] 215 http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ ViewImage.aspx?B=3072649 (accessed 17/3/16) Journal of the Waverley Historical Society May 2016 [7] http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/Ite msListing.aspx (accessed 19/3/16) [8] Villers-Bretoneux Tower J TurtonVillers-Bretoneux http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ A Soldier of the Great WarA Soldier of the Great Turton J DetailsRe- Established 1970 ports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=5831002&isAv=N (accessed 19/3/16) Incorporated in Victoria The memorials in the Glen Waverley State Reg. No. A 0006377 A School and St Stephen and St Mary’s church Recent Research Enquiries PATRON and at the Civic Centre give the names of Dr Morna Sturrock AM many more Waverley men than I was able to This year there have been many enquiries find. Many more of our Waverley men died at about previous land use – one from the old C7 PRESIDENT MarJo Angelico 9544 8792 Gallipoli and other theatres of the Great War. road reservation, another about the moving back of Glen Waverley station, and the resultant SECRETARY car park on railway land, and another on the Norma Schultz 9802 9332 various stages of the construction of the EDITOR 11 April 1987 Philip Johnstone Monash freeway. (You will remember that it Age was not, like Eastlink, constructed in one fell WEB swoop, but section by section, often years www.vicnet.net.au/~whsvic The apart, and spilling traffic onto small streets not [email protected] suitable for the load.) https://www.facebook.com/ whsvic?fref=ts. Menin Gate J Turton Menin Family names being researched are Nichols, Dawes, Forster, Smith and Gouge. People are POSTAL ADDRESS looking for their house history in Windsor Ave, PO Box 2322, Mount Waverley Vic. 3149 Waverley Rd, and High St Rd, and family mem- bers in the Mt Waverley Football Club in the SUBSCRIPTION THE HOUSE 1950s. Do you have memories to share of $25 per household This wonderful rambling timber home was designed by renowned ar- I think I should take an- Carter’s Red Bus service that operated in High chitect Keith Storey and built by local builder Arthur Olney in the late other holiday, perhaps Street Rd? We acknowledge support of the City of Monash. 1930s. (Arthur was the father of long-serving Mulgrave/Waverley Gallipoli next, to see if I We have a researcher coming out from England councillor, Keith Olney). It was built for the Melville family which in- can find some more of to follow her family line in the antipodes, in par- With thanks to the Office cluded Dr. Joan Melville who consulted from there. The house is sur- our brave lost souls. of Anna Burke MHR for the rounded by well-established trees and a high fence, and faces the glo- ticular concerning Glen Waverley Post Office printing of our newsletters. from 1931 to 1947. Could it be this building? rious view of the Dandenongs. In real estate terms it is on a generous We will have some more allotment and is ‘tightly held’. It has had very few owners, and in fact history by Betty Horskins, the first owners bought it back when the second owners moved away. on some of the Mulgrave Men who went to WWI in Contents a future WHS Newsletter. Gate Inscriptions J TurtonMenin The House……. …………..…. 1 New Members …………...…. 2 Coming Events Please note that General All Roads Lead to Clayton…. 2-4 References: Meetings are now held Sun 24 Apr 10am Wreath Laying - [1] Coming Events (detail) …….... 4 Glen Waverley Cenotaph (Near Library) https://stainedglassaustralia.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/ The Melway Story…………….. 4 every two months and are Wed 27 Apr 2pm General Meeting, 1920-st-stephens-anglican-mount-waverley-vic/ ac- Statues Around Monash ….… 5 usually afternoon meetings cessed 16/3/16) starting at 2.00 pm. Spe- Guest Speaker: John Howell - The Only Woman Where are Our Waverley at Gallipoli. [2] ANZACs?...…………….…... 5-8 cial activities will be held in WHS File image Fred Marriott 1956WHS Fred Marriott File image Askew, B. The Heroes and War Memorials of Mulgrave. Recent Research Enquiries.. 8 most alternate months. Wed 22 Jun 2pm General Meeting, 2008, Brian Askew General & Post Office store built by Frank Wilson in 1889 We are located above the Guest Speaker: Anne Miller - The 1956 Mel- bourne Olympic Games 60 Years On. [3] https://www.awm.gov.au/people/roll- on the NW corner of Springvale and Waverley Rds. Sold Mt Waverley Library 41 to the Sampson family in 1940, later the Noll family took search/all/?preferred_name=fear&service_number=&unit Annual subscriptions 2015/16 are Miller Cres., Mt Waverley. Wed 11 May 1pm Valley Reserve Lawrence =&conflict=0&op=Search (accessed 16/3/16) over. Demolished in 1957. Picture taken in 1956. due on 1 July. $25 per household Rd . Historic Walk (Repeat) Details P.4 8 HISTORY HERE 215 1 All Roads Lead to Clayton sociates prepared the plans for the American com- Army records indicate he had been a Lance Waverley State School. When Gayle Nicholas pany Metro Goldwyn Mayer Properties Pty Ltd Corporal, his body was buried “in the vicinity of he enlisted, he was working (MGM). Designing and building a large theatre with Poziers”. Frank's name appears on the and living in Murrumbeena. He he Clayton Drive-in Theatre impassions [7] twin screens set Clayton aside from other Drive-ins. Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in France. was killed in action in France in those who were part of its story. Theatre T The curved screens were the only screens of this 1918, 14 months after enlisting. buffs and professionals enthuse over its re- Driving around the Somme region, I became type in Australia. Each screen stood 50 feet (15 markable and unique design. Today’s Boom- very aware of how flat and desolate this area Basil’s body was buried in a metres) high. The screens could be seen for miles ers were the theatre goers, local residents, is. The remnants of the trenches are still pre- Cemetery in Picardy, in the and many former theatre goers still visualise the university students and patrons in the thea- sent. You can feel the spirit of our lost souls. Somme Region. screens while driving past the former site. Felicity tre’s heyday. Now they are keen to post sto- reminisces on Facebook about being told to cover Stanley Edward HORE, as 24 year old was George Sackville Cotter ries of films, food and pranks on Facebook. her eyes as her family drove past the large and visi- living in Burwood and working as a fitter when HORNER, a 20 year old gar- And those who weren’t part of it back then? War Aust. Ames Basil Memorial ble screens - in case she saw nudity! he enlisted in 1915. He died of wounds in dener from Glen Waverley, They want to hear all about it now. Mel- France. He had been a parishioner at St died in Belgium of wounds he bourne Drive-in guru David Kilderry recalls, MGM equipped the theatre with American projec- Stephen’s Church in Mt Waverley hence his received in 1917, 2 years and 2 ‘the old Metro Twin was a wonderful drive-in: tion equipment. name is in the stained glass window. months after enlisting. George one of the top trading theatres in the country Both projection rooms were identically equipped. The Stanley’s body was buried in the Bailleul Com- is buried in a known grave at the Huts Military [8] for a couple of decades.’ projector heads were Century, the sound heads and the munal Cemetery Extension, Lille, France. Cemetery south of Ypres. George was a Lance sound system was Westrex. [3] The Drive-in operated N Corporal From memory, there were five I am told that when you see the headstones from 1957 until 1984, power amplifiers in each projec- very close together, it means the bodies were Some of the Waverley men were never found or less than 30 years. tion room. Arc lamps were placed in a mass grave. I also found that no never identified. Some cemeteries in the Somme Mulgrave Shire Council Ashcraft Super Cinex burning rank is listed on the headstones. The men and Belgium have headstones honouring “an un- gave permission for 13.5 mm black carbons. The were seen as equals in death. known soldier”. These mens’ memories are im- the building of the rectifiers could deliver up to 200 mortalised in places such as Villers - Bretonneux theatre on industrial amps to each arc lamp. Kevin in France and the Menin Gate in Ypres. zoned land on the Swiggs Cinema and Theatres of north east corner of the Australia Facebook page 18 Feb Unlike Villers-Bretonneux May Road and Wel- 2016 which is a monument set lington Road intersec- Geoff Atkinson and Brian aside the main road with tion in 1954, the same Quigley, the first two projec- headstones of known sol- Aerial Survey (1970) From aerial photographs in WHS year the Burwood Sky- tionists at the theatre, helped diers, the Menin Gate in line, Australia’s first drive-in opened. In 1956 assemble the Westrex equipment. Apprentice elec- Ypres in Belgium is a memo- May Road was renamed Blackburn Road and tricians dug the holes for the speaker poles and put rial built over the main road in 1958 land opposite the theatre, on the the underground wiring in.