Finch Hatton - Netherdale District Honour Board
Location: | Was located in the old Finch Hatton Railway Station, Eungella Road, Finch-Hatton till it was stolen in 1992. |
Local Government Authority: | Mackay Regional Council |
Year Constructed: | post 1918?. |
Type of Construction: | Timber and pressed copper. |
War: | 1914-1918. |
Names: | 51 (8 killed), (8 wounded), (6 Invalided Home). |
History: | This honour board originally was hung in the waiting room at the Finch Hatton Railway Station. It was stolen shortly before Christmas 1991 and has not since been located. |
Information Sources: | Platypus Press, June 1992, No. 45, p.3. The Daily Mercury, Thursday, April 19, 2001. |
The Finch Hatton Netherdale Honour
Board. C. 1991 (Photo courtesy of Maurice "MO" Stokes , Southampton , England) |
(IH) Invalided Home
(K) Killed
(W) Wounded
Name Recorded | Identified As | |
BALL, F. (W) | BALL, Frederick, Private, 596, 41st Battalion / 52nd Battalion, enlisted 3 January 1916, Effective Abroad. | |
BALL, J. (K) | BALL, James, Sergeant, 597, 41st Battalion / 52nd Battalion, enlisted 3 January 1916, Died of Wounds 26 September 1917, Belgium. | |
BARBIN, W. | BARBIN, William, Private, 2767, 42nd Battalion, enlisted 12 October 1916, Returned to Australia 23 September 1918. | |
BARNES, W. | (not positively identified) | |
BLETCHER, V.R. | BLETCHER, Victor Revell (M.i.D.), Sergeant, 83, 41st Battalion, enlisted 3 January 1916, Returned to Australia 2 January 1919. | |
BROMAGE, A.E. | BROMAGE, Alexander, Elliott, Private, 6294, 26th Battalion, enlisted 19 September 1916, Medically Discharged 5 December 1916, did not leave Australia. | |
CHANDLER, J.W. | CHANDLER, James William, Private, 58, 25th Battalion, enlisted 30 January 1915, Returned to Australia 9 December 1916. | |
COOK, J. | COOK, John, Driver, 16994, 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, enlisted 21 February 1916, Returned to Australia 3 July 1919. | |
COURTNEY, G.L. | (not positively identified) | |
CROMPTON, M.L. (K) | CROMPTON, Major Lionel, Private, 3055, 41st Battalion/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, enlisted 23 September 1916, Killed in Action, 24 December 1917, France. | |
CROW, E. | (not positively identified) | |
DE ST HELLIER, A.R. | DE ST HEILAIRE, Rudolph Amedee, Private, 2407,2nd Light Horse Regiment /41st Battalion, enlisted 8 January 1916, Returned to Australia 11 May 1919. | |
DRAIN, G. | DRANE, George, Sapper, 7499, Tunnelling Companies, enlisted 30 March 1917, Returned to Australia 12 May 1918. | |
DREW, G. (W) | DREW, George, Private, 4295, 31st Battalion, enlisted 7 October 1916, Returned to Australia 16 March 1918. | |
EARLY, G.A. (K) | (not positively identified) | |
FAIR, C.H. (W) | FAIR, Charles Henry, Private, 646, 41st Battalion / 31st Battalion, enlisted 18 January 1916, Returned to Australia 12 March 1918, died 21 January 1959, aged 68 years, buried Walkerston Cemetery. | |
GILLESPIE, R. (K) | GILLESPIE, Robert, Private, 1326, 15th Battalion, enlisted 19 December 1914, Killed in Action 4 May 1915, Quinn's Post, Gallipoli, Turkey. | |
GREENWAY, E.F. (I.H.) | GREENAWAY, Ernest Fyfield, Private, 6325, 26th Battalion, enlisted 2 September 1916, Returned to Australia 26 September 1917. | |
GROTH, R. (W) | GROTH, Ronald, Lance Sergeant, 1191, 42nd Battalion, enlisted 22 February 1916, Returned to Australia 8 January 1919. | |
GROTH, W.L. (W) | GROTH, William Leo, Lance Corporal, 1194, 42nd Battalion, enlisted 21 February 1916, Returned to Australia 19 October 1918. | |
HANSEN, H. (W) | (not positively identified) | |
HARTIGAN, E. (IH) | (not positively identified) | |
HERITAGE, G. | (not positively identified) | |
HUGHES, R.D. (K) | HUGHES, Richard Douglas, Private, 6028, 9th Battalion, enlisted 8 February 1916, Killed in Action, 20 September 1917, Belgium. | |
JOHNSON, R. | (not positively identified) | |
LENNON, W.S. (W) | LENNON, William Stanley, Sergeant, 915, 9th Battalion, enlisted 21 August 1914, Returned to Australia 13 March 1918. | |
LESLIE, A. | LESLIE, Alfred (M.M.), Corporal, 4551, 26th Battalion, enlisted 11 January 1916, Returned to Australia 16 March 1919. | |
LETCHFORD, B.G. | LITCHFORD, Bertie George, Private, 3184, 52nd Battalion / 4th Machine Gun Battalion, enlisted 12 October 1916, Returned to Australia 23 June 1919, died 21 January 1972, aged 81 years, buried Walkerston Cemetery. | |
LOWE, J. | (not positively identified) | |
MANSELL, C.E. (IH) | MANSELL, Claude Ernest, Private, 6063, 9th Battalion, enlisted 14 February 1916, Returned to Australia 17 March 1917. | |
McKENNY, F. | (not positively identified) | |
McNICOL, R. | McNICHOL, Robert, Private, 4100, 31st Battalion / 15th Battalion, enlisted 3 July 1916, Died of Wounds 16 June 1918, France. | |
PATERSON, W. (IH) | (not positively identified) | |
PLANT, E. | (not positively identified) | |
POLLOCK, H. | POLLOCK, Henry, Lance Corporal, 3423, 4th Pioneer Battalion, enlisted 27 October 1916, Returned to Australia 24 January 1919. | |
RODGERS, W. (IH) | (not positively identified) | |
SCRAGGS, J. | SCRAGGS, John, Sapper, 1938, 4th Pioneer Battalion, enlisted 3 January 1916, Returned to Australia 15 June 1919. | |
SHIELS, C.D. | SHIELS, Charles Warren, Private, 7058, 15th Battalion, enlisted 23 September 1916, Returned to Australia 25 January 1919. | |
SINCLAIR, A. | SINCLAIR, Albert, Private, 296, 12th Machine Gun Company, enlisted 13 March 1916, Returned to Australia 12 May 1919. | |
SMITH, G.A. | (not positively identified) | |
STRUGNELL, A. | (not positively identified) | |
THOMPSON, T. (IH) | THOMPSON, Thomas, Private, 7318, 15th Battalion, enlisted 27 October 1916, Returned to Australia 5 November 1917. | |
TOWNSEND, H. | TOWNSEND, Henry, Private, 7329, 9th Battalion, enlisted 18 November 1916, Returned to Australia 16 June 1919, died 9 January 1978, aged 86 years, buried Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mackay. | |
VALENTINE, F.W. | VALENTINE, Frank Walter, Sergeant, 1208, 42nd Battalion / 41st Battalion, enlisted 11 January 1916, Returned to Australia 27 April 1919. | |
VERNOST, F. | VERNOST, Frank Joseph Alfred, Private, 52nd Battalion, 3704, enlisted 14 April 1917, discharged 13 November 1917. | |
WABBERLEY, W.H. (K) | WEBBERLEY, William Harold, Private, 542, 25th Battalion, enlisted 30 January 1915, Killed in Action, 5 August 1916, Pozieres, France. | |
WARBURTON, E. (W) | (not positively identified) | |
WATERS, G.F. (K) | WATERS, George Young, Private, 4379, 31st Battalion / 15th Battalion, enlisted 7 October 1916, Killed in Action, 1 July 1917, Messines Ridge, Belgium. | |
WARD, T. | WARD, Tom, Private, 2274, 15th Battalion / 47th Battalion, enlisted 22 February 1916, Returned to Australia 2 June 1919. | |
WINTON, T. (K) | (not positively identified) | |
WOODS, S.F. | WOOD, Sydney Francis, Private, 3755, 31st Battalion / 52nd Battalion, enlisted 9 March 1916, Died whilst a Prisoner of War, 28 April 1918, France. |