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| − | *[[Herbert Ernest Baldwin]] | + | * [[Herbert Ernest Baldwin]] |
| − | *[[Frank Ball]] | + | * [[Frank Ball]] |
| − | *[[Edward James Bell]] | + | * [[Edward James Bell]] |
| − | *[[Harry Douglas Butcher]] | + | * [[Harry Douglas Butcher]] |
* [[Ernest Camp]] 8 Aug - 29 Oct 1917 | * [[Ernest Camp]] 8 Aug - 29 Oct 1917 | ||
| − | *[[Alfred Warburton Chapman (Snr)]] | + | * [[Alfred Warburton Chapman (Snr)]] |
| − | *[[John Richard Hall]] | + | * [[John Richard Hall]] |
| − | + | * [[James Kirk]] | |
| − | *[[James Kirk]] | + | * [[James Edward Laugher]] |
| − | *[[James Edward Laugher]] | + | * [[George William Liddington]] |
| − | *[[George William Liddington]] | + | * [[Bruce Leslie Logan]] |
| − | *[[Bruce Leslie Logan]] | + | * [[Dugald Thomas Main]] |
| − | *[[Dugald Thomas Main]] | + | * [[Edward Dudley Mann]] |
| − | *[[Edward Dudley Mann]] | + | * [[Lewis George Martin]] |
| − | *[[Lewis George Martin]] | + | * [[Sydney Clarence Owen Matthews]] |
| − | *[[Sydney Clarence Owen Matthews]] | + | * [[Albert Hughes Michel]] |
| − | *[[Albert Hughes Michel]] | + | * [[Edward Mordan Neale]] |
| − | *[[Edward Mordan Neale]] | + | * [[Michael Dennis O'Rourke]] |
| − | *[[Michael Dennis O'Rourke]] | + | * [[William Harold Raynor]] |
| − | *[[William Harold Raynor]] | + | * [[Frederick William Scott]] |
| − | *[[Frederick William Scott]] | + | * [[Ellis Shackleton]] |
| − | *[[Ellis Shackleton]] | + | * [[Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan]] |
| − | *[[Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan]] | + | * [[John Edward Thomson]] |
| − | *[[John Edward Thomson]] | + | * [[Peter Grant Watt]] |
| − | *[[Peter Grant Watt]] | + | * [[Harold Watts]] |
| − | *[[Harold Watts]] | ||
Men who came to the district after WW1<br/ > | Men who came to the district after WW1<br/ > | ||
| − | *[[William Hart]] | + | * [[William Hart]] |
Remained in Australia<br /> | Remained in Australia<br /> | ||
| − | *[[Reginald George Grierson]] | + | * [[Reginald George Grierson]] |
Revision as of 02:59, 19 February 2021
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Contents
Remarks
Alongside other Australians, Victorians rushed to enlist when recruiting commenced. The first recruits camped in tents in the courtyard of the Victoria Barracks while others were put up at the Showgrounds or at racecourses. A patriotic Victorian, R.G. Wilson, offered to house a military camp on his land at Broadmeadows and the government quickly accepted. (Later the government bought the land). Broadmeadows camp was close to a railway line, was flat and could be well-watered. There was plenty of room for a large number of soldiers.
On 19 August 1914, two weeks and one day after the announcement of war, 2,500 men set off for Broadmeadows from central Melbourne. Crowds lined the streets as these men in mufti, some clutching Gladstone bags and some carrying neat parcels, walked from Victoria Barracks to the camp.
Leaving the Barracks at 9.30am they reached the camp at 5pm where they found ‘a green plain, rather high and windswept, with rows of pine trees and an old homestead.’ ‘A hard road made [for] many sore feet,’ a marcher reported.
Charles Bean referred to Broadmeadows as:"Broadmeadows Camp was 10 miles from Melbourne, and officially every soldier was supposed to be in his blankets by 9.30 pm. As a matter of fact, every night both men and officers thronged the streets and cafes in Melbourne until the small hours of the morning.”[1]
Broadmeadows camp became the central training point for those allocated to artillery units in addition to training for signallers. As such, many West Australian enlistees spent time at Broadmeadows receiving Corp specific training after their initial induction at Blackboy Hill camp in Perth.
Soldiers
- Herbert Ernest Baldwin
- Frank Ball
- Edward James Bell
- Harry Douglas Butcher
- Ernest Camp 8 Aug - 29 Oct 1917
- Alfred Warburton Chapman (Snr)
- John Richard Hall
- James Kirk
- James Edward Laugher
- George William Liddington
- Bruce Leslie Logan
- Dugald Thomas Main
- Edward Dudley Mann
- Lewis George Martin
- Sydney Clarence Owen Matthews
- Albert Hughes Michel
- Edward Mordan Neale
- Michael Dennis O'Rourke
- William Harold Raynor
- Frederick William Scott
- Ellis Shackleton
- Francis Joseph (Frank) Steffan
- John Edward Thomson
- Peter Grant Watt
- Harold Watts
Men who came to the district after WW1
Remained in Australia
A Battalion on parade https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/773049
Notes
- ↑ Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Vol 1. page 92. C.E.W. Bean. University of Queensland Press Edition