The Empire Called and I Answered

The honour board at Museum Victoria, originally from the Newmarket Saleyards.  Last week I visited Museum Victoria to see the two WW1 Ex...

In the entrance to the Supreme Court in William Street Melbourne, there is a memorial board commemorating 158 lawyers and solicitors who s...

I saw this on the Flemington-Kensington News Facebook: "In commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, St George'...

Courtesy of The Reverend Phillip Court, St Stephens Presbyterian Church, Flemington. A very lucky find is a photograph of the Honour Boa...

St Thomas' Grammar School Cadets, circa 1910, taken by Ruth Hollick.  Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection.  H2004.61...

Elizabeth Street, Moonee Ponds is on the far left of the MMBW plan dated 1904. Source:  State Library of Victoria, http://handle.slv.vic.g...

The Roll of Honour at the Northern Golf Club , Glenroy, of which  many Essendon and Flemington men were members.  Photo courtesy  of ...

A page for the volunteers who were members of St Paul's Church of England in Roxburgh St, Ascot Vale, has been loaded onto the webpage ...

In the 1970s the Holy Trinity church building was sold.  The Honour Board disappeared around this time and probably won't be seen again....

This board records the "Old Boys" of St Thomas' Grammar and Carlton College.  It is now located in the junior school of Penlei...

This board hung in a church in Mt Alexander Rd, North Essendon, now closed. See identifications here (progressively putting up individual...

It turns out that the Northern Golf Club in Glenroy has or had an honour board with many Essendon members included. The list was included i...

The Roll of Honour for the Cordite Factory is now stored at Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.  Many of themen listed on the board l...

This board is located in the enquiry area of the La Trobe Library of the State Library of Victoria. Not strictly relevant to my own line o...

This singularly unattractive Honour Board turned up as a postcard on eBay a year or so ago.  The seller managed to identify it as an Essen...

The departure of a contingent of young men with the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force was a cause for celebration in Essendon, and the...

It appears that the designer of the MMTB Roll of Honour was a young artist of growing reputation, who became well-known as a water-colourist...

Recourse to the online Argus has revealed that the M&MTB Roll of Honour was unveiled in 1921, as below: TRAMWAYS HONOUR ROLL. Unveile...

At present the whereabouts of the Roll of Honour which is presumed to have existed at the Depot of the North Melbourne and Essendon Tramways...

This board is also located at the Malvern Tramways Museum.  There did not appear to be an Essendon WW1 Board, but I would think there was on...