Corryong and District Avenue of Honour Memorial

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Wood carvings and information boards of the Corryong and District Avenue of Honour Memorial

Key information

Memorial Name:
Corryong and District Avenue of Honour Memorial
Address:

5 Towong Road
Corryong VIC 3707
Australia

Memorial Type:
Sculpture
Conflicts:
  • First World War, 1914–18
Dedication Date:
Memorial Designer:
John Brady (Woodcarving), Joe Calvert (Signage)
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John Thomas Budd

John Thomas Budd was born on 27th May 1893 in Balmain, NSW, to Herbert Norton Budd and Elizabeth, nee Sharkey. 

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Richard Lenore Brett

Richard Lenore Brett was born on 19th November 1885 at Richmond, Victoria, to Jean Baptiste Lenoir and Rebecca Grenfell.

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Norman Thomas Berrigan

Norman Thomas Berrigan was born in 1888 in Albury, NSW, to Thomas Phillip Berrigan and Theresa Mary Ann (nee McGarr). He would be the fourth of nine children.

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Allan Stewart Bailey

Allan (Tod) Stewart  Bailey was born in 1892 in Corryong, Victoria, to William and Catherine Allen (nee Fraser). He was the second-youngest of 12 children.

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Frederick Amos

When Frederick Amos was born on 1 December 1880 in New South Wales, his father, John William (1846 - 1887), was 34 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth nee Eaton (1847 - 192

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Alfred John Rixon
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Alfred John Rixon

Alfred was born on the 16th of March 1891 at Walwa, Victoria. He was one of eight children to William and Sophia (née McPherson) Rixon.

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Grave marker of Joseph Patrick Ward
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Joseph Patrick Ward

Joseph Patrick Ward was born on the 23rd of March 1884 to John and Mary Ward of Ottawa, Canada.

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Headstone of Trooper George Jeffries
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George Allan Jeffries

George Allen Jeffries was born in 1885, at Tocumwal, NSW, to George Rutherford and Anna Miller (née Forsyth) Jeffries. He was one of six children in the family.

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William Williams

William Henry Williams was supposedly born in Corryong, Victoria sometime before 1900. He was one of five children of William and Martha Williams.

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David William Eade

On the 4th of October, 1917, the guns of the British Second Army opened a barrage to support the beginning stages of what would become the Battle for Broodseinde Ridge

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David William Eade

On the 4th of October, 1917, the guns of the British Second Army opened a barrage to support the beginning stages of what would become the Battle for Broodseinde Ridge

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Percival Edgar Clifton

Percy was born at Turvey, Bedfordshire in England on the 18th of January 1891, to William Arthur and Charlotte Lavinia (née Turner) Clifton.

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