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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Stories

Horace Lennox
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Horace Gilchrist Lennox

Horace Lennox had a short war. Whilst his service records indicate that he was 18 at the time of enlisting, birth records show that he was born in 1899.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Joseph Hamilton
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Joseph Bell Hamilton

War diary extract for the 22nd Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, 24 June 1916. 

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Albert Bartlett
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Albert Thorburn Bartlett

Albert Thorburn Bartlett was born in Williamstown, Victoria on 28 March 1876. At the time of his birth his father, Sidney, was 39, while his mother, Mary, was 35.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Noel Robertson
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John Noel Robertson

John was born on Christmas Day, 1897 to Rev Colin C Robertson and Margaret Gray Robertson (nee Dixon) at Cranbourne, 40 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

James R Wheeler
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James Rookie Wheeler

James was born in 1877 in Beechworth, Victoria. He was the eldest of four children (3 boys and 1 girl) of Charles and Emily (née Mildren).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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John Mocatta

John Norman Mocatta was born on the 22nd of October, 1890, in his home in Miller Street, South Shore, NSW.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Alexander Seaton
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Alexander Galt Seaton

Alexander Seaton was born in Corryong in 1888, to Robert and Janet Alexandrina Seaton. He attended both Corryong and Mt Elliot State Schools.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Stanley C Robinson
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Stanley Claude Robinson

Stanley Robinson was such an effective teacher, that the AIF wanted him to remain in Australia to instruct new recruits at the training camp at Broadmeadows, just on the outskir

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private John Mackerrell
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John Mackerrell

John Mackerrell (also spelt MacKerral) was born on the 5th of May, 1890, at Port Ellen on the Isle of Islay, a small Scottish island of the Inner Hebrides, only 40 km north of t

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Corporal Albert J Kinght
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Albert John (Jack) Knight

Albert John Knight was born in 1883 in Adelong, NSW. He was the tenth child of George and Mary Ann (née Williams).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Stanley H Bailey
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Stanley Hector Bailey

Stanley Bailey was born in 1890, one of eleven children of William and Catherine (née Fraser) of Corryong.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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