The Teachers College recognised the service of their teacher trainees with three wonderful leadlight windows and two astonishing tiled memorials.
Two of the leadlight windows carry the names of those who served , and those who died in World War 1, while the third features an AIF serviceman. The tiled memorials have been re-established in the building which is now the School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne, in Grattan St, Carlton.
The tiled memorials carry portraits of those who died. I've been comparing this memorial with the one at Maffra, which Linda on the Maffra and District Historical Society blog describes as an opus sectile work.
Six names from the Essendon and Flemington database appear in the leadlight window memorial:
E C Holmes *
B J Keddie
G R Scott *
R G Scott
C F Sullivan *
F H McNamara
(* those who died)
An article by Jay Miller in 2006 explains the rediscovery if the memorials and the research on them, 'We shall not wholly die' can be downloaded from the Ian Potter Museum website - a special issue of their Magazine "The Trainee" containing all the names of those who enlisted.
A brochure on the memorials can be downloaded from here
And last, but by no means least, a pdf version of "The Trainee: special War number 1919", which contains the names and portraits of the volunteers.
NOTE: Some six years after the event the Ian Potter Museum has removed the items to which I linked (in bold above). The best I can do to cover the subject is to provide a link to a webpage on the Teachers' Memorial Window on The Empire Called website, and you can download a copy of The Trainee from here.
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That was a truly wonderful find of yours - one of the trainees in the special bulletin was one I had just been asked about, and his photograph there is different to the one in the Education Department Record of Service.
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