In the foyer of the head office of the Country Roads Board (CRB) in Melbourne, Victoria, were two Rolls of Honour commemorating staff members who served in both World Wars. When I started working there in 1961, I often glanced at them but the names meant nothing to me.
The stories I tell here are about those colleagues who perished and those who survived.
David Jellie
David started with the two World Wars and then extended his research to cover the Vietnam and Korean Wars. His work is presented in the following Chapters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 2: First World War – The Men on the Roll of HonourCha
McCormack, William Thomas Bartholomew
Couve, Henry Thomas Ladsen
Dilworth, Edward Erskine
Kerr, Martin Brown
Upton, Thomas Haynes
Quail, Charles
Travers, James Arthur
Lewis, Keith Bannatyne
Bartlett, William Andrew
Clowser, George Charles
Allison, Matthew Robert
Moore, Robert Stirling
Taylor, Vivian George
Furmston, Edward Mitchell
Jansen, Rolf Frederick
King, Simon
Cooper, George James
Page, Harold Dunstan
Smith, Robert Hazel
Linford, Alfred Reginald
Murrell, William Lee
Kerry, Arthur Henry
Moodie, Edgar
Kneale, Thomas Frederick John
Galbraith, Alfred Vernon
Graham, Leslie Montrose
White, Leslie Wilkens
Herd, Leonard James
Wood, Harold Peachey
Payne, Fred Goran
Tuxen, Cedric Einer
Williams, Wesley Talbot
Birrell, William Dickie
Neville, William Henry
Ponting, Arthur Stuart
Chapter 3: First World War – Other CRB Staff who Served
Bissett, Norman Sinclair
Darwin, Donald Victor
Davies, Albert
Dempster, Robert Main
Foster, Reginald Francis
Golding, William Egbert
Hart
Hine, Frederick William
Humphreys, Robert Griffith
Loder, Louis Francis
Mackenzie, Aubrey Duncan
Miskin, Ernest William
Mulford, Sidney James
Roberts, Caleb Grafton
Vaughan, Norman E.
Whitehead, Vernon Joseph
Chapter 4: Second World WarChapter 4
Chapter 5: Second World War – The Men on the Roll of HonourChapter 5
Armstrong, Oliver John
Brown, Patrick
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Graham, John Oswald
Green, Donald Charles
Hunter, Frederick D’Orsa
Hutchins, Bernard George
Jones, William Albert
McGeary, Ernest Desmond
Montgomery, Alan Martin
Neave, Donald Roy
O’Keefe, Eric Vincent
Rough, Roy Leslie
Short, Eric Robert
Tucker, Robert Neil
Turner, John James Joseph
Willis, William Douglas
Chapter 6: Second World War – Others who Served – 2nd Australian Imperial Force
Alford, James Robert
Allan, James
Arkley, Ronald Ralph
Atkinson, Robert Sidney
Attridge, Francis John
Bailey, Mervyn Ernest
Barton, Jeffrey William
Baxter, Guy Morhead
Beecher, Leslie Frank
Black Geoffrey Duncan
Bortoli, Luigi
Brake, William Simpson
Brauer, Leo George
Brumley, Douglas Leslie
Cameron, David Alexander
Carpenter, William Thomas
Cooper, Russell Grantham
Coventry, Ivor John
Crebbin, Jack Neville
Davies, David Henry Vaughan
Deverall, Albert John
Dolamore, Wilfred
Donaldson, Robert Edward Vaughan
Eastick, Robert Frank
Eicke, Harold Sharpe
Everard, Harry Clifford
Fletcher, Peter Norman
Genat, Bruce Carey
Gill, William Clarence
Godkin, Harold
Golding, William Egbert
Goudie, Howard Stowe
Handley, Robert Charles
Haylock, Cecil
Helsham, Frank Kyle
Hobbs, Howard William Peter
Hosking, Frank
Izard, Leonard Thomas
Jackson, Frank Wolfe
Jardine, Raymond Cuthbert
Jones, Reginald Cecil
Joseph, John Alfred
Keats, Dudley Keith
Keil, Noel Bentley
Kilpatrick, Hercules Raymond
King, Edmund James
Kyle, Albert Richard
Lehmann, Louis Mervyn
Lester, Theodore Charles
Lingenberg, Ernest
Lukins, Thomas Albert
Maguire, Oliver Herbert
Masters, Harold Edward
Mau, Frank
Metzner, Charles Brandum
Miles, William Edward
Moncrieff, Eric John
Moore, Robert Stirling
Morgan, Merton Conroy
Neville, William Francis
Noble, Andrew Morden
O’Donnell, Ian John
Owen, Allan
Perrin, Clement Charles
Primrose, James
Proudfoot, David George
Quonoey, Wilfred James
Renz, Ernst Fritz Albert
Roberts, Caleb Grafton
Robinson, Charles Frederick
Roe, Edward Thomas
Sibbert, Lindsay Russell
Simpson, Ronald Herbert
Smith, Ernest Henry
Smith, Russell Sydney
Smith, William Henry
Stein, Harold John
Stewart (Stuart), Maxwell Charles
Swift, Robert Stenton
Taylor, Clarence Roy
Thompson, Alan Ronald
Thorpe, John Douglas
Townsend, Mervyn John
Turnbull, John Edward
Upton, Leonard
Wade, Thomas Allen
Wallace, Frederick Albert
Watts, Frank Eric
Waugh, William Hector
Webber, Robert Mace
Whitehead, Richard Vernon
Wilson, Andrew James
Wilson, Cecil Alexander
Wilson, Gordon Stanley
Wood, Arthur Victor
Yardy, Keith Dinsmore
Yeoman, Cecil Ambrose
Zeirk, Geoffrey Lloyd
Chapter 7: Second World War – Others who Served – Royal Australian Air Force
Abery, Basil Richard
Anderson, Peter Noel
Archibald, Allen Stanley
Bugg, Owen John
Bush, Kevin Alexander
Butcher, John
Campbell, Harry Bernard
Chapple, Desmond Rupert
Clarke, Stanleigh Richard
Considine, Gabriel Alexander Pierre
Cutting, Francis Ernest
Dohrmann, John Frederick
Doig, Stewart Maxwell
Drayton, James Henry Albert
Dyall, Walter Frederick
Easton, Arnold Ralph
Edwards, John Frederick
Gavin, Stewart Keith
Guthrie, Andrew Edward
Hewson, David Thomas
Howlett, Edric Charles
Irwin, Maxwell Frederick
Kendall, William James
Kennedy, Alexander Edward
Lawson, Lloyd George
Lindstedt, William Peter
Martin, Eric Harold
Muir, Alan Graeme
Pittard, John Henry
Pullin, Keith Thomas
Quonoey, Wilfred James
Ryan, John Claude
Ryan, Jack
Sanguinetti, Melbourne James
Sargeant, Hartley Trevor
Scott, Edmund Thomas
Smart, William Henry
Smith, Albert Grant
Spencer-Jones, Donald
Stirling, James Belton
Storey, Valerie June
Upton, Leonard
Wade, Thomas Allen
Walsh, Kevin William
Wilkinson, Walter McClelland
Williams, Geoffrey David
Chapter 8: Second World War – Others who Served – Royal Australian Navy
Allanson, Noel Laurence
Banks-Smith, Stuart
Butler, Charles Ferrer
Fletcher, Peter Norman
Gray, Harold Lincoln
Ross, Donald John
Watts, Douglas Lawrence Bennett
Chapter 9: Second World War – Prisoners of War – Japan
O’Donnell, Ian John
Brumley, Douglas Leslie
Dolamore, Wilfred Hamlyn
Hamilton, Henry
Jackson, Frank Wolfe
Miles, William Edward
Morgan, Merton Conroy
Watts, Frank Eric
Wilson, Andrew James
Chapter 10: Second World War – Prisoners of War – Germany
Bush, Kevin Alexander
Pullin, Keith Thomas
Sargeant. Hartley Trevor
Webber, Robert Mace
Chapter 11: Second World War – the Legacy of Lieutenant Colonel (Sir) Albert Coates – Keeping the Men AliveChapter 11
Chapter 12: Second World War – CRB Officers in Other Services
de Werd, George
Hayden, Denis
Hopwood, Frank
Kayak, Edgar Bernard
Kozeill, Zygfryd Piotr
Marr, Patricia Mary
Matzner-Levi, Erwin Josef
Norris, William
Nyoeger, Elemer
Pommers, Antons
Porritt, Clive E. William
Stafford, Harry
Symons, James
Veismanis, Augustus
Adams, Robert John
Arthur, Kenneth Peter
Balfe, Peter John
Bruns, Juris Oskars
Bryan, David Alexander
Butler, Michael Hartley
Clay, Lindsay Neil
Giummarra, George John
Hoare, Michael John
Hose, Geoffrey Alan
King, David Leslie
Mathers, Kenneth William Joseph
McNamara, Brian Gerard
O’Keefe, Kenneth John
Osborne, Noel Francis
Osborne, Trevor Robert
Patterson, David Mitchell
Robinson, Peter Mervyn
Scantlebury, Brian Terrence
Smith, Robert Mervyn
Symons, Geoffrey Leonard
Thomas. Owen
Townsend, Peter William
Turner, Gerald Douglas
Walker, Leonard Alan
Welshe, Douglas Brian
Appendix 1
Memorial Wall in Ballarat
Bill Saggers after visiting Balarat: I J O’Donnell’s name is engraved on a lovely memorial wall located on the southern boundary of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. The wall commemorates those Australians who were imprisoned in wars.
