Mickleham Avenue of Honour

Mickleham Road,Mickleham, HUME CITY

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  • Physical Description 1

    Mickleham Avenue of Honour - Physical Description 1

    Approximately 50 Eucalypt trees with commemorative plaques at base. (Plaques look recent, October 2002)

    Physical Conditions

    Mickleham Avenue of Honour - Physical Conditions

    Some trees missing but new trees planted to fill in gaps.

    Usage/Former Usage

    Mickleham Avenue of Honour - Usage/Former Usage

    Commemoration

    Veterans Description for Public

    Mickleham Avenue of Honour - Veterans Description for Public

    The Mickleham Avenue of Honour stretches 2.6km from the corner of Mickleham and Mount Ridley Road.Originally itcomprised of approximately 50 River Red Gum and Sugar Gum trees planted as part of ArbourDay in the early 1900s by School children. However the trees deteriorated and had to be removed. On 24th April 2002,Mickleham PrimarySchool children, teachers,Second World War veterans and their families reinstated the Avenueplanting 61 Red River Gums with new bronze name plates. The avenue is the longest avenue of mature eucalyptus in Hume City. Below is a list of servicemen with trees dedicated to them:

    1. 4164 - Private Rupert Francis Chambers 8th Battalion served in WW1

    2. 169 - Private Henry Coates 3rd Pioneer Battalion A. I. F. Served in WW1

    3. 4760 - Private Frederick John Cocking 5th Pioneer Battalion A. I. F served in WW1. Died in action 26.11.1916 "in the field" France.

    4. VX18809 - Sergeant Major George Hubert Cocking 2/2 field Regiment served in WW2 in Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Ceylon and New Guinea.

    5. 109 - Trooper William James Hall 4th Australian Light Horse served in WW1. Died in action 14.11.1915 Turkey, aged 22.

    6. A. Henderson Served in WW1

    7. P. Johnson Served in WW1

    8. 136 - Lance Corporal Percival Charles William Langford 4th Light Horse Regiment Served in WW1

    9. 2005A - Driver William John Pepper 11th Field Artillery Brigade Served in WW1

    10. B. Roberts Served in WW1

    11. W. Saunders Served in WW1

    12. 1405 - Gunner Bernard Schroeder 14th Battlion A. I. F. Served in WW1. Died of wounds received in action, 14.8.1916 in France.

    13. H. Sutton Served in WW1

    14. E. Talent Served in WW1

    15. H. Vincent Served in WW1

    16. Albert Williams Served in WW1

    17. 729 - Lance Corporal Leslie Norman Williams 8th Btn, Australian Infantry, A. I. F. Served in WW1. Died in action 20.9.1917 Aged 22.

    18. William (Bill) Williams Served in WW1

    19. 286 - Corporal John Thomas Williams 22nd Battalion Served in WW1

    20. VX138988 Mechanic Craftsman Gr 2 Edward Thomas Williams 3rd Motor Brigade Headquarters 285 Light Aid Detachment Served in WW2 in Australia.

    21. VX744 - Lance Bombardier John Edward Beasley 2/2 Field Regiment Served in WW2. Died of injuries 2.4.1942 Gun shot wound accidentally received.

    22. VX54325 - Private Andrew Mitchell Beveridge Australian Army Medical Corps Served in WW2

    23. V315242 - Private Denis Patrick Bourke 39th Australian Works Company Served in WW1

    24. VX117995 - Corporal Ernest John Bourke 5th Battalion Served in WW2

    25. VF345897 - Corporal Ellen Sarah Bourke Australian Women's Army Service Served in WW2

    26. Miss Irene Bourke Served in WW2

    27. William Bourke Served in WW2

    28. 120203 - Corporal Don Brown 10 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force Served in WW2 in England

    29. 23132 - Yeoman of Signals Kenneth Tom Brown Royal Australian Air Force Served in WW2

    30. VF515985 - Private Nancye Brown Australian Women's Army Service Served in WW2 in Australia

    31. VX100432 - Gunner Thomas Francis Curley 112th Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Served in WW2 in Darwin

    32. Captain F. Code Served in WW1

    33. VX128081 - Sergeant Laurence Walton Davis Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit Served in WW2

    34. VX119616 - Sergeant Neil Watson Davis 102 Australian Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment Service Served in WW2

    35. VX57551 - Bdr George Morris Loyd 24th Battery, 2/12 Field Regiment, 9th Division Served in WW2, in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo

    36. VX57550 - Gunner Sydney Evans Loyd 24th Battery, 2/12 Field Regiment, 9th Division Served in WW2, in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo

    37. VX57549 - Sergeant William John Loyd 23rd Battery, 2/12 Field Regiment, 9th Division Served in WW2, in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo

    38. 12889 - Corporal Ronald Lionel Gibson Royal Australian Air Force Served in WW2

    39. VX6517 - Sergeant Major Llewlyn Clarke Saunders 2nd 8th Battalion, 6th Division Served in WW2

    40. Corporal Robert George Troutbeck New Zealand Army Served in WW2 Captured as a Prisoner of War in Greece

    41. VX57338 - Private Philip Maxwell Uren 2/24 Battalion Served in WW2 ? Died in action

    42. VX56857 - Corporal Kenneth Mariott Webster 2/8th Australian Armoured Regiment Served in WW2

    43. VX106223 - Trooper Philip Leslie Webster 8th Light Horse, 8th Australian Cavalry Regiment Served in WW2

    In Australia, commemorative trees have been planted in public spaces since the late nineteenth century. Arbor Days were held regularly in most Victorian State Schools during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and numerous trees were planted in parks in Melbourne and throughout Victoria to mark the visits of important and famous people.

    This tradition of commemorative planting was continued in 1901 when at the end of the Boer War trees were often planted for each soldier of the district who was killed in South Africa. These plantings, however, rarely consisted of more than two or three trees in each town.

    During and after the First World War avenues of honour consisting of trees lining significant streets became a popular form of commemoration. They represented a new egalitarian approach to the commemoration of soldiers where rank was not a consideration: each tree symbolises a person.

    Avenues of honour are a uniquely Australian phenomenon. Australians, and in particular Victorians, embraced the idea of planting them more enthusiastically than any other country in the world. Dating from May 1916, the Eurack Avenue of Honour is the earliest known avenue of honour to be planted in Victoria.

    By the time of the Second World War avenues of honour had declined in popularity as a means of commemoration. Today it is estimated that over 300 avenues of honour have been planted in Victoria to commemorate service personnel since 1901.
    
    

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