Newcastle High School Honour Roll 1914-1918

Description

Extract from The Novocastrian Volume 12 No. 1 September 1922:

The Roll of Honour is of the Ionic order in design. The plinth is of white Carara marble, as are the bases and capitals of the columns. The fluted shafts of he columns are polished Australian Spring Hill marble.

The entablature, frieze and cornice are Carara marble with a highly polished surface. On the pediment, richly carved, in the monogram of the school set in a laurel wreath.

The panel bearing the names is 4 ft by 2 ft 6 in [1220 mm x 763 mm] and the overall size is 5 ft 4 in by 5 ft 7 in [1635 mm x 1703 mm].

The memorial is the work of Messrs. Meldrum and Markey, with the co-operation of Mr Scoular, and in its technical excellence and artistic effect is a work of which the school may well be proud.

Dedication

Extract from The Novocastrian Volume 12 No. 1 dated September 1922:

The memorial was unveiled on Anzac Day 1922 in the Assembly Hall of Newcastle High School, Tyrrell Street Newcastle in the presence of Mr C.R. Smith the first headmaster of the school and Mr and Mrs Jeffries, parents of Clarence Jeffries VC. It commemorates 90 former pupils of the school who enlisted during World War I

Inscription

Pediment -

1914 [NHS School Crest] 1918

(post nominal decorations follow the names, those who died marked with *)

Veterans listed on this memorial

Rank	Given Name	Family Name	Conflict/s	Fate	Service No.	Service	Unit	Campaign	Link
Lance Sergeant	M K D	Arkell	World War I	died of wounds	341	Army	30th Infantry Battalion	France	view
Lieutenant	E	Armstrong	World War I	returned to Australia	3004	Army	55th Infantry Battalion		view
Corporal	H R	Arnold	World War I	returned to Australia	4128A	Army	54th Infantry Battalion		view
Private	W	Aubrey	World War I	returned to Australia	6949	Army	4th Infantry Battalion		view
Private	R	Baker	World War I	returned to Australia	5040	Army	1st Infantry Battalion		view
Sapper	C	Bate	World War I	returned to Australia	7343	Army	7th Field Company Engineers		view
Private	T	Beveridge	World War I	returned to Australia	7449	Army	3rd Infantry Battalion		view
Private	T	Brown	World War I	demobilised in Australia	90739	Army	Central Recruiting Depot		view
Warrant Officer Class 1	W	Brownlee	World War I	returned to Australia	6464	Army	33rd Infantry Battalion		view
Lieutenant	T	Cadell	World War I	died of wounds		Army	3rd Infantry Battalion	Gallipoli	view

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Address

Turton Road

Callaghan College Waratah Technology Campus

Waratah NSW 2298

Location/surrounding area

Drama Theatre [former Assembly Hall]. Access by arrangement during school hours. The Honour Roll was relocated from the Tyrrell Street site to Waratah in 1934 when Newcastle Boys High School was opened at the Waratah site.

Recorded by

Newcastle Boys High School Old Boys Association

Established date

25/04/1922

Dedication date

unveiled on Anzac Day 1922 in the Assembly Hall of Newcastle High School, in the presence of Mr C.R. Smith the first headmaster, and Mr and Mrs Jeffries, parents of Clarence Jeffries VC. It commemorates 90 former pupils who enlisted during WW1

Conflict/s

World War 1

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