Ex-Students of Dubbo High School

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Author: Patrick Bourke

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A number of ex-students of Dubbo High School have their names on the WWII list on the war memorial at the Dubbo Memorial Rose Garden in Victoria Park, Dubbo. During WWII 47 ex-students from Dubbo High lost their lives. They were :

Royal Australian Navy

* Gregory Wade Benham. Distinguished Service Cross

* Kenneth James Fryer.

* James Ross Williams

Australian Army

* Robert Dugald Booth

* Athol Robert Burge

* John Eddy 

* Frederick Balte Emanuel

* Harold Boyer Giles

* Thomas Roderick Jones

* Percival Ross Kelly

* Reginald John Lance

* Reginald  George Leggatt

* John Joseph McCullough

* Keith James Phillips

* Frederick Herbert Salder

* Edward Colin Slip

* Owen Upcott Williams. Member of the British Empire. Mentioned In Despatches,

* Arthur Ernest Wright. Mentioned In Despatches. 

Royal Australian Air Force

* Kenneth John Nielsen Apitz

* Bruce Astley

* Ernest Douglas Bayley

* George Samuel Crawford Bell

* Kenneth Rupert Bruce

* Charles Richardson Digges. Distinguished Flying Cross. 

* James Blackman Donohoe

* Frederick Max Donohoe

* Maxwell Dunbar

* Edward Maxwell England. Distinguished Flying Cross.

* Arthur David Fryer

* John Douglas Gardiner

* Barrington Armitage Knyvett. Distinguished Flying Cross.

* Alan Llewellyn Littlejohns

* Trevor Hopetoun Mcllveen

* William Malcolm McLeod

* Rawdon Hume Middleton. Victoria Cross. 

* George Arthur Mills

* Maurice Meridith Mitchell

* Mervyn Henry Morgan

* Allan Gordon Morgan

* James Campbell Osborne

* Lionel Ernest Parkes

* John Maxwell Robertson

* Bertram James Stanford

* Edmond Macleod Stevenson

* John Taylor

* James Steward Wright.  ( Brother of Arthur Ernest Wright)

Civilian Internee

* John William Poole

 Sources 

* The Dubbo High School's  War Service Honour Boards, Dubbo College, Senior Campus.

* The WWII Nominal Roll, The Department of Veterans'  Affairs, Canberra

* The Australian War Memorial's Roll of Honour

* The National Archives of Australia's website, Montevideo Maru

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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