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Eveleigh Locomotive Water Supply Shop WWI Honour Roll, Railway Remembrance Wall, Central Station

Eveleigh Locomotive Water Supply Shop WWI Honour Roll, Railway Remembrance Wall, Central Station
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Part of the Railway Remembrance Wall, this is a light cloured polished wooden board with veterans' names and inscription in gilt. The whole board is enclosed in a glass-fronted wooden case. The memorial is located near platform 23.

Additional information by Sydney Trains:

Now known to be the Eveleigh Locomotive Water Supply Shop Honour Roll WWI. A wooden Honour Roll board, with 37 Eveleigh Locomotive Water Supply Shop railways employees names who served in the First World War written in gilt, encased behind a glass pane. It was eventually fixed to the western Railway Remembrance Wall at Central Station.

After investigation of this untitled Honour Roll, it was found that the employees all belonged to Locomotive Branch, and a letter was discovered from the Inspector Water Supply, Erskineville, regarding E. Jordan, to Base Records Victoria Barracks, Paddington on 15 October 1919.

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Address
Central Station
Haymarket NSW 2000
Local Government Area
Sydney, City of
Setting
Building – inside
Memorial type
Board/roll/plaque/tablet
Recorded by
David Roden. Updated info by Sydney Trains
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18