The Tramways Board, Melbourne, the precursor to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, carried a Roll of Honour in its Annual Report to 30th June 1919. Occupations such as "gripman" indicated the extent to which the tram system was still operating cable-trams.
I will post the pages beginning at the end of the Roll of Honour so the first page will be at the top of the blog.
This is a little off-topic for my Essendon and Flemington focus, but it is valuable information not readily accessible and my thanks to Warren Doubleday for arranging copies.
Remembering 'the mothers of Ryde' who lost their boys in WWI
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This Mother's Day we think of all the mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts
and sisters who lost their boys during the battles of World War I.
Many would hav...
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