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OUR ANZACS They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn ANZAC Day, 25 April, is a special day in Australian history. It marks the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in 1915. It was here that the Anzac legend was born and, in the subsequent grim fighting, traditions of mateship, courage and perseverance were established as hallmarks of the Australian serviceman. Most of us know much more about Gallipoli than we do about the battles on the Western Front of the First World War and we tend to look on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign as our country’s finest hour. Yet nearly 10 times the number of soldiers fought at the Somme than at Gallipoli, and they fought more than five times as long and in equally shocking conditions. The Anzacs fought the Turkish army solidly for more than seven months at Gallipoli and Australia had 50,000 troops engaged there; some were just boy soldiers who lied about their age to enlist. The number of Australians killed and wounded (19,000) shocked the nation. Each year on Anzac Day we remind our-

selves of these things, and yet on the Western Front in France, from 1916 until the end of the war in November 1918, 500,000 diggers fought in the trenches of the Somme battlefields, sometimes for weeks at a time and up to their knees in mud. The bodies of nearly 40,000 Australians lie in the immaculate war cemeteries in France and Belgium; a further 11,000 have no known grave. More than three times this number were wounded, many of them

on more than one occasion. In the years that followed the war, many returned soldiers died from poor health resulting from their wounds and the aftermath of being gassed. It has been argued that some of the Western Front battles are more worthy of commemoration – battles such as Villers-Bretonneux, where the Australians stopped the German advance on Amiens (coincidentally on 25 April 1918, the third anniversary of the Gallipoli landing), or

Hamel, or Mont St Quentin – and other people have pressed the cause of significant dates relating to Kokoda or the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Second World War. But 25 April has become the day when Australians across the country, together with pockets of expatriates in far-off nations and thousands of young pilgrims at Anzac Cove in Turkey and in villages along the Western Front, stop to remember the men and women who served their country. It is the

day when we honour all who have served Australia since federation – from the Boer War to the present conflict in Afghanistan. Gallipoli made an immediate impact; on 25 April in 1916 services were held in many towns and cities in Australia and 2000 troops marched through the streets of London. In the 1920s and 1930s, Anzac Day services were well attended and war memorials sprang up in every country town. With the coming of the Second World War, Anzac Day became a day on which to commemorate the lives of Australians lost in that war as well. The meaning of the day was subsequently broadened to include those killed in all military operations in which Australia has been involved. However, by the 1950s Anzac Day had become “the one day of the year” for old diggers to drink and play two-up, to the embarrassment of rising generations. Thirty years later feminists used the annual march to protest against male violence in war, and were banned from marching. The difficulties of the Vietnam War period

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Sole survivor remembers Don Charlwood was an RAAF navigator in Bomber Command during the Second World War. In two autobiographical books, No Moon Tonight and Journeys into Night, Charlwood recalls the excitement, tedium and terror of navigating nighttime air raids in Europe and his years in Bomber Command. He is also the author of All the Green Year, a novel about boyhood and adolescence in a coastal Australian town (Charlwood grew up in Frankston), and Marching as to War, a memoir of life in Australia between the two world wars. Here he remembers the tragedy and utter futility of war; a time without a future. OUR generation and our parents’ generation were always conscious of two monstrous markers in their lives to which everything else was related. There was “before the war� and “after the war�. Our parents first used these terms; they were mostly born between the late 1870s and the early 1900s. They might say, “Tom was born before the war�, or “Julia was married the year after the war�. That was their war, the Great War of 1914-18, “the war to end all wars�. We, their children, learnt in our school days that the Allied sacrifices of that war had made our world “safe for democracy� and we were taught to revere the Anzacs for their part in it. But from the vengeance of the 1919 peace terms, Nazism resulted

and the unthinkable came – our war. The name Great War all but vanished; instead we now had a First World War and a Second World War. Ever after our generation has looked back on youth “before the war�, before 1939 when the great economic Depression merged into our war. Now, in the 21st century, as our generation vanishes, so too are these monstrous markers vanishing. During our war, the men I knew in Bomber Command, avoided using the term “after the war�. It suggested expectations and would have been thought of as tempting providence. The poet Marya Mannes wrote a sonnet Love in War that might well have been for us. It began: We are masters of the present tense,/Having imposed upon ourselves a law/Prohibiting the future. There was even belief among some of the Bomber Command leaders that hope was the enemy of good morale, that it sapped courage, that we should not think beyond the bombing raid that night. Yet I remember unmistakable signs of hope among ordinary aircrew. I became aware of them in September 1942 when our crew of Australian and RAF sergeants arrived at the Royal Air Force station Elsham Wolds, in Lincolnshire, UK. Our posting was to the four-engine Lancasters of 103 Squadron. For the pilot and navigator this was the culmination of 18 months of training. In six or seven weeks we were to

“dice with death�, as aircrew parlance had it. We were allocated beds in long barracks, which were camouflaged on the outside. Most of the aircrew sergeants were out for an operational briefing and their grey blankets were folded around their pillows in the regulation way. The barracks were cold, the pot-bellied stoves long out. Beside each bed was a low chest of drawers. On most of these were photographs, each one of a girl, the girl with whom an unknown man shared secrets and confided hopes for a future together after the war. Most of the photographs had been taken in studios and had been back-lit in the manner of the day. The girls’ hair styles resembled those of contemporary film stars, their eyes gazed longingly, their lips slightly apart. Most were of girls from the British Isles since most aircrew were from the RAF. The photographs contrasted with everything else in the barracks; the bare floor boards, the metal beds with their folded blankets, the ash spilt from the dead stoves. We already knew, of course, that RAF men could see their girls whenever they went on leave. In our training days we had envied them, but we realised now that this wasn’t as good as it seemed: to say good bye to a girl in the early hours of the morning with the likelihood of flying over Germany that night had a terrible unreality to it, a possible but unutterable finality.

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Off to war: Left, a young Don Charlwood in Canada in 1942. Above, Don Charlwood, Geoff Maddern, Ted Batten, Max Burcher and Arthur Browett flew their first operational mission from Lichfield to Bremen on 13 September 1942 and shortly afterwards were posted to 103 Squadron at Elsham Wolds.

On the evening of our first day the absent men came tramping back into the barracks, their manner subdued. They had not long been briefed to fly to a target somewhere in Germany. There was little opportunity to do more than exchange a few names. Predominantly they were RAF, but there were Canadians and Australians and a couple of New Zealanders among them. With their arrival the barracks looked like the senior dormitory of a

third-rate boarding school. Some of the men, in fact, had actually come from school straight into the air force. The average age was between 22 and 23. Some of us pulled up the average: I had just turned 27, Geoff Maddern, my skipper, was 26. Regardless of age, we looked on these men with respect; they were already operational. Some had done 10 or 12 of the 30 operations over Germany and Italy required of us. This was called a “tour�. We glanced

at the operational men as if their demeanour might tell us something of ourselves in another few weeks. They were restrained, monosyllabic, preoccupied. We wished them luck as they left. Well after dark, as we were settling to sleep, we heard their planes roar overhead. I drew my blankets closer. In the early hours of the morning we were aware of the operational men coming back into the barracks, aware too that there weren’t as many of them as had left the night before. I had feelings of unreality; we had

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hopes for life together after the war. The bedclothes were taken, the bare metal bed left for a newcomer. Somewhere, girls were waking to this day, not knowing. Within a couple of weeks most of the operational men in the barracks vanished, their girls’ photographs vanishing with them. Though the squadron was haemorrhaging, numbers never changed, only faces; transfusions flowed from Training Command – eager youngsters most of them, caps aslant, faces shining, spirits assured. We who were

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OUR ANZACS older could see that for most of us there wasn’t going to be an “after the war”. Most replacements were RAF men, but others came from the dominions and allied countries. The supply seemed endless—the best of men, carefully selected, thoroughly trained, most bringing photographs to replace those gone. My initial impulse had been to cry out against such wholesale loss of first-class youth, but again and again the realisation returned to me: the Nazis were occupying most of continental Europe, only Bomber Command could strike them. All over Britain were servicemen from the occupied countries; the struggle was as much for their homelands as for Britain. Everything depended on Bomber Command maintaining its resolve. We were in the barracks seven weeks and now had our own Lancaster. Geoff said, “This place is no good for morale, I’ll see if I can get rooms”. In this he succeeded. Each had its own pot-bellied stove. In the one Geoff and I shared I dared put out the photo of Nell East, the Canadian girl I hoped to marry. It was in a leather folder, my family members on its other side. On operations I used to shove it down my battle dress as a talisman. Each of us had our superstitions but in one we were united: we all wanted the same WAAF driver, 18-year-old Peggy Forster, to drive us to and from our plane. This she did, even returning once or twice from leave. We had three married RAF men in the crew and Geoff was much concerned for them, particularly for Arthur Browett, our rear gunner, whose wife was in an advanced state

of pregnancy and suffering an acute state of anxiety. Geoff and I passed her delicacies from our hampers from home. There came an evening when Arthur failed to show up for briefing and we had to take a replacement rear gunner. Next day he was paraded before the Wing Commander. I think all he could plead was that his wife was prostrate with anxiety. His failure to fly never occurred again. When his wife’s time came their baby only lived an hour. They never had another. Of all our RAF men none had children, even when the war was over. Only Geoff and I had families when our operational days were behind us. I tell these things conscious that it was not only men who suffered in the Bomber Command war. In the room Geoff and I transferred to we no longer saw empty beds. We slept soundly; nightmares belonged to the waking world. In the morning as I drew our black-out curtains I would think, “How have we fallen into this grotesque existence?” Gradually I learnt to shrug it off and settle to the day’s routine. It might have steeled our resolve had we been told what barbarous acts the Nazis were perpetrating, told particularly of the extermination camps. But I doubt that we would have believed such reports. We were a cynical generation; we had been alerted to war propaganda in our school days, when we had learnt of the false accusations made against Germany in the Great War. How could we believe now that millions of our fellow beings were being “put down” with industrialised precision? As 1943 began we had completed only six of our 30 operations and had

A moment of relief: RAF Lichfield sports day, 25 July 1943. Don Charlwood is standing second from the right.

seen no crew reach the end of a tour. Four senior crews were taken off operations early because Training Command was running out of pilots with four-engine experience. Other crews reached more than 20 operations and were then lost. One was lost on its 29th operation. Then, on 8 April 1943 – the target was Duisberg – we reached 30, the first on the squadron to survive in eight months. I see myself writing in the navigator’s log: “0245 landed Base”. It is scarcely to be believed – our lives have been given back to us! It is a rebirth! We free ourselves from the umbilical cord of oxygen and intercom, pass down the long belly to the steps, emerge into the fresh Lincolnshire

night, septuplets from the womb of our Lancaster. Peggy, our driver, our midwife, embraces us. She drives us then to the operations room for the usual interrogation by intelligence, but the group captain and our muchloved squadron medical officer intervene to congratulate us. Incoming crews are cheering. Thirty ops at Elsham Wolds is possible after all! Geoff was the first to realise the loss about to fall on us: loss of our crew. After almost nine months of flying together, in training and on operations, we had become a devoted, disciplined team, utterly dependent on each other. It was Geoff who had fashioned us, who wished us to be an all-NCO [non-commissioned

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Answering the call – the Cole family By Peter McCullough OF the 300,000 enthusiastic Australians who volunteered to fight in the First World War, 61,000 perished with the dreadful Western Front accounting for 46,000 of the fatalities. My task was to identify a local man who paid the supreme sacrifice and who still had family in the area. As a starting point I looked at the war memorial in Tyabb and found the name “Cole” appeared three times: Lewis George and Godfrey Lawrence Cole, both of whom returned, and their younger brother, Harry Theodore, who was killed in action. I sought out Tyabb residents Harry (son of Lewis, and named after his uncle) and Valda Cole and, with their assistance, compiled this story.

George Graham Cole (known as Graham).

A LARGE contingent of the Cole family arrived in Melbourne in February 1842 and among them was George Cole (1822-1866). With his brother, Thomas Cornelius Cole, he established fruit tree nurseries along the Merri Creek and in the eastern suburbs; Thomas was in Richmond and Tooronga, and George set up in Malvern. Family

records show that George and a cousin, John Cole, attended Melbourne’s first meeting of the horticultural society and, within a decade of their arrival, the Coles were issuing catalogues advertising their produce. An advertisement in Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper in June 1851 (see below left) shows that catalogues could be obtained at either “Collins Street or Richmond Nursery”. George Cole and his wife, Emma, had 11 children and the fifth of these was George Graham Cole. Graham, as he was known, was born in Malvern in 1855 and died in Tyabb in 1946. He and his wife, Sarah, built “Fernbank” on FrankstonFlinders Rd, Tyabb, (adjacent to Stockton’s Cool Store) soon after they purchased the land in 1886. They lived there until about 1914 when they built a new home opposite the recreation ground and near the shops in Tyabb. Graham and Sarah also had 11 children and their sons and several of their grandchildren continued the family’s nursery and orchard interests. Graham was active in community affairs and was a councillor and president of the Shire of Frankston and Hastings. Graham and Sarah’s 11 children were: 1. Adeline married Charles Grant, the son of 1859 Somerville pioneer James Grant. (Coincidentally Charles’ brother, John David Grant, was the father of Ray Grant who was the father of Valda Cole and Ron Grant.) 2. Elsie died in infancy. 3. Millicent died in infancy. 4. Graham Clifton was a nurseryman in Tyabb. 5. Queenie Stella did not marry. 6. Lewis George* (18881951) married Elma Clarke,

granddaughter of James Clarke, a 1860 pioneer of Somerville. Also a nurseryman. 7. Godfrey Laurence* (1890-1958) married Ivy Van of Tyabb and conducted Roselton Nursery on the Frankston-Flinders Rd near where the Telstra building is now. 8. Ida Helen married Harry Denham and lived in Tyabb where Harry managed the cool store. 9. Harry Theodore* (18951918) was killed in action in France. Did not marry. 10. Leslie John married Violet Gamble of Frankston and had a fruit tree nursery. 11. Dorothy Violet married Frank O’Neill of Tyabb whose property was in

O’Neill’s Road. *Enlisted in AIF. The Great War Although my original objective was to write a piece on Harry Theodore Cole, one of the 61,000 young Australians who did not return, the story would be incomplete if it did not mention the contribution of his brothers, particularly Lewis George Cole, whose war service was extensive and significant. Lewis George Cole: Having served for 18 months in the Hastings 6th Battalion Australian Field Artillery until its disbandment in 1908, Lew, as he was known, enlisted in the AIF at Frankston on 14 September 1914; Great Britain

Captain Lewis George Cole (known as Lew).

The Cole houses Home front: Merle, Harry and Alice Cole at “Fernbank” in about 1930. Below left, “Fernbank”, built in the 1880s by George Graham Cole; n in 1979 during Alice Cole’s residency. Below, the second house built by George Graham Cole, situated near the Tyabb shops and now awaiting restoration.

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Notes from the front: Pages from Lew’s diary recording his first four days on the Galipolli Peninsula.

had only declared war on 12 August. The local newspaper reported how, like towns all over Australia, Somerville farewelled local servicemen: “In October 1914 a sterling silver wrist watch was presented to each man at a social held in the Fruitgrowers Hall at which Lewis G. Cole responded on behalf of his comrades.” (From Western Port Pioneers and Preachers by Valda Cole). Lew left Melbourne on SS Chilka on 2 February 1915, arriving in Alexandria, Egypt, on 9 March 1915. He was a member of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train and was

based at a camp near the ancient pyramids for several months. On 14 July Lew landed at Gallipoli, about seven weeks after the original Anzac landing, and spent the following five months taking water up to the front line trenches. He kept a diary, pages of which are pictured above, which shows that in spite of a bit of shrapnel flying about there was still the opportunity to socialise; whether Harold was happy to be woken for a swim at 5.30am is not recorded. On his second day ashore Lew posted letters to his wife Elma (who was six months

pregnant) and his mother Sarah. Lew’s diary entries recorded the positive outlook of a 26-year-old: 6 August – Gallipoli Peninsula No. 4 Depot. The shells are screeching over our head a treat but, I am glad to write, well over. Our bombardment commenced this evening. Our Allied warships are giving the Turk what-ho. Terrific bombardment all night. Transport work between Anzac Cove and No. 4 Forward Depot. 7 August – Terrific bombardment. A grand sight this morning at daylight – the war ships and transports that had

come to light on the previous night. We have had a very busy day. Our boys did good work throughout the previous night and early morning. Advanced many hundreds of yards, captured several machine guns and a great many Turkish prisoners. Other entries were not so cheerful: 16 August – Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. Royal Edward transport reported to have been sunk. Great loss of life. On 14 December 1915 Lew left Gallipoli at 3.30am on SS Caron, bound for Lemnos in the Aegean Sea. For

the rest of the war he served in desert campaigns, including at Beersheba. He received his commission as a Lieutenant then became a Captain in 1918. In operations east of the River Jordan between 30 April and 4 May 1918 he was mentioned in despatches for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty”. Lew maintained his diary and the entries told consistently of extreme heat, fractious camels and hostile aeroplanes. At the conclusion of hostilities he returned to Tyabb where he resumed nurseryman activities with his brother (Leslie John) as

G G Cole and Sons. He was prominent in local affairs and became a Justice of the Peace. However the army was not finished with Lew Cole. He had retained the honorary rank of Captain in the reserve and, accordingly, in May 1940 Southern Command made contact with the result that Captain L G Cole served as Railway Transport Officer at Seymour until May 1944. Godfrey Laurence Cole: Perhaps inspired by the deeds of his older brother Lew, Laurie, as he was known, enlisted on 23 November 1915. On 20 September 1916 he was taken

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OUR ANZACS on as a signaller with the 17th Battalion (2nd Division) in France. His stay at the front was not extensive for on 20 November 1916 his army record states: “Gunshot wound, scalp and back – severe.� Nine days later he was invalided to England where he spent about 18 months, his recovery interrupted by several severe bouts of influenza that required hospitalisation. Laurie returned to Australia on 15 April 1918 and on 24 May he was discharged as unfit for duty. Registered as a nurseryman on his enlistment papers, Laurie was able to resume where he had left off at “Roselton�, the family nursery in Tyabb.

Off to war: Harry Cole (left rear) and Laurie Cole (left front). The identity of the other two men is unknown.

Harry Theodore Cole: When he enlisted on 18 October 1916, Harry Cole’s papers stated that he was a 21-year-old nurseryman from Tyabb. On 23 November he embarked on the troop ship Hororata in Melbourne, arriving in England on 29 January 1917. After some months of training in England, Harry was “taken on strength� with the 7th Battalion in France on 18 May. In March 1918 he had a break from hostilities when he was sent to the Corps Pigeon School. He then spent several weeks in

Grim news: Official advice of Harry Cole’s death.

hospital in July with influenza, rejoining his unit on 27th of that month. Private Harry Theodore Cole (No. 6973) was wounded in action on 9 August in France and died the same day. Although the family had already received the dreaded telegram, official advice was conveyed by the officer in charge of Base Records on 15 August (see above). Although the letter states

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Family time: Top, Captain Lewis G Cole, left, at Southern Command Headquarters in Seymour with wife Elma and son, Corporal Lew S Cole. Above, Australian Women’s Army Service driver Merle Cole.

Second World War As mentioned, Lew Cole spent four years in khaki during the Second World War. To round off this story it should be noted that he and his wife Elma had five children, one of whom died in early childhood. Of the other four, all served in uniform of one type or another: 1. Lewis Stanley, born 1915, enlisted in the army on 4 June 1940 and, as a corporal, went to Malaya with the 27th Brigade Company of the Australian Army Service Corps. He was captured at the Fall of Singapore and spent the next three years enduring the horrors of Changi and the Burma railway. He was discharged on 14 January 1946 and resumed duties as a nurseryman. He died in 2006. 2. Merle, born 1920, joined the Australian Women’s Army Service on 29 October 1942 and was employed as a driver for 3 Ambulance Car Company until her discharge on 3 November 1943. She then took up nursing which she practised until her marriage to Andrew Gibson, an orchardist of Hastings. 3. Alice, born 1922, became a student nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1941, later becoming a midwifery tutor at the Royal Women’s Hospital. She was a Fellow of the Victorian College of Nursing. 4. Harry Rowland, born 1927, joined the RAAF Air Crew Training on 23 March 1945 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in August when the air force scheme was cancelled. Until his discharge on 26 May 1947, Able Seaman Cole was engaged in dumping old and unstable ammunition and explosives in Bass Strait and off the east coast. This was dangerous work and Harry’s time was spent on the armament supply carrier HMAS Woomera, which later blew up with some loss of life. After the war Harry had a fruit tree nursery and later a poultry farm at Tyabb with wife Valda (nee Grant).

Navy service: Top, Able Seaman Harry Cole. Above, Alice Cole with brothers Harry, left, and Lew in the dining room at Fernbank in 1984.

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James Singleton, from Flinders to Gallipoli By Cameron McCullough

Flinders-born James Singleton was present on the fateful day that has gone down in Australian folk law – the landing of the first troops in Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Did he survive to tell the tale? And how did his life lead him to that day, storming that fatal shore so far from home?

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JAMES Singleton’s story begins with his grandfather and grandmother who emigrated from England on the ship Wallace. Departing Liverpool on 3 November 1843, the ship arrived in Melbourne on 16 February 1844 after a journey of 104 days. Disaster struck when disease broke out as they crossed the tropics. There were 38 deaths recorded (11 adults, one older child and 26 young children) from diarrhoea, dysentery and typhoid. Five births on the 15-week voyage went only a short way to evening the ledger. Surviving the journey were Robert Singleton, aged 25; his wife Martha, 22; William John Singleton, three, and newborn Mary Ann Singleton. William grew up in Victoria and married Christina Mitchell in 1864. They settled in Flinders and went on to have 10 children in total; Martha (born 1865), Helen (1867), Mary (1869), Robert (1871), Catherine (1873), George (1875), Margaret (1877), William (1879), James (1882) and Allison (1885). Little is known of the life of the Singletons in Flinders. However, an insight is gained from newspaper reports, one of which was entitled “Fatal gun accident�. The report in The Argus on Tuesday 27

August 1889 reads: FLINDERS: A fatal accident occurred here yesterday afternoon. A lad named Robert Singleton, the son of a shepherd, was out with a double barrelled gun. After shooting a bird he sat on a two rail fence waiting for some other boys to join him. When the others came he was leaning forward holding the weapon in front of him, and with the butt end of it was bruising a fern that was growing underneath against the lower rail. The gun slipping, the hammer of the locked barrel struck the rail, and an explosion followed. Singleton remained on the fence motionless for two or three seconds and his companions thought that he was un-

hurt, but he presently sank down, and exclaiming, “I’m shot�, did not speak again. His companions then found that he was seriously injured, the charge of shot having entered the top of his right breast, just below the shoulder. He died in about 20 minutes, in sight of his home. He was 18 years old. The intelligence of the sad event was promptly conveyed to Constable Fowler at Dromana. A magisterial inquiry was held by Mr Robert Anderson JP this forenoon when the evidence of James Piddington, Edward Piddington, William Russell, George Singleton, and James Singleton showed that the mishap was purely accidental, and a finding to that effect was recorded.

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Beginning: The attestation paper for James Singleton.

One can imagine the trauma of watching their brother die of a gunshot wound would have been nearly unbearable for the two Singleton boys; George was 14 and James was just seven. As the years went on, James (Jim) Singleton worked as a labourer, “wandering around Victoria� to work, as a fellow soldier would later say. His father died in 1908, followed by his mother in 1913 and one gets the feeling it was left to his oldest sibling, Martha, to keep an eye on the young James. He was no angel; his enlistment states that he had been fined for common assault. When the war arrived, it didn’t take long for James to sign up. He enlisted at Yarram in Gippsland on 17 September 1914 and was assigned to a Light Horse Brigade. He was aged 31 and Martha was listed as his next of kin. James embarked for war on the troopship Clan MacGillivray to join the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, which would undertake the Gallipoli campaign. The first port of call was Alexandria in Egypt for training and then it was to a strange-sounding place called Gallipoli in Turkey on the now infamous date of 25 April 1915. James received gunshot wounds to his neck, back and, most severely, his calf during the first day of fighting at Gallipoli and was evacuated to Alexandria for recuperation. In September he was admitted to various hospitals as he struggled to recover from the gunshot wound to his leg.

A letter received by Martha in January 1916 states that in November the previous year he had been evacuated to England from the convalescent depot in Gibraltar aboard the hospital ship Regina d’Italia suffering from enteric fever (typhoid). He was admitted to hospital in London. James’s mischievous ways resurfaced in England, where he was arrested on 21 December 1915 for “irregular conduct� and resisting arrest. He was detained for 168 hours and fined seven days’ pay. On 29 January 1916 he was examined by a medical board to determine his fitness for duty. The report stated: “He was struck on the front of the right leg, the bullet entering about the middle third. The bullet emerged on the inner side just above the ankle. There was no discharge from the wound and no fracture. He is complaining of pain round the ankle and up the leg on walking any distance. There is no permanent disability to be detected.� The board recommended home service for three months. In March, the board had decided that James had recovered sufficiently to resume active duties in Egypt. A letter received by Martha on 7 April 1916 informed her that her brother had returned to Egypt on 25 March and had then been posted to France, where he had been wounded three times and was then invalided to England again. Correspondence received by Martha dated 4 February 1918 stated: “I now beg to advise you that Private J Singleton has been reported admitted to 1st Birmingham War Hospital

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Wounded: Above, James Singleton’s service and casualty form reveals he was injured on Anzac Day. Above right, an excerpt from Singleton’s service and casualty form showing a scrape with the law. Below, a notification from 1918 informing Singleton’s family that James had been injured and hospitalised.

27/1/1918 suffering from accidental fractured ribs.” James rejoined his battalion in France on 13 June 1918, and was killed in action on 9 August 1918. As was routine for the day, the Red Cross made enquiries as to the fate of Private James Singleton. One of his fellow soldiers reported: “Singleton is buried in a shell hole just outside of Rosieres with several more men who were killed on August 9th.” Private Wright wrote: “He was killed by a wizz bag at Rosieres and was buried in front of the old German C.C.S. There was a cross put up afterwards. I saw his grave.” Another soldier stated: “About 2pm on August 9 at the Rosieres stunt between Villers-Bretonneux and Rosieres, Singleton was hit by a bullet through the head and was killed instantly. I saw him fall and saw his body... On the 11th August I went to where I saw his body to bury it but it was not there. It may have been buried by one of the burial parties on the field. He was acting as scout to the tanks following when he was hit.” On 16 May 1919 Martha wrote to the base records office. “My brother Private Singleton was killed in France 9th August 1918. Has any of his personal things, his watch, been returned?” she enquired.

A reply was received as follows: “No personal effects of James Singleton have yet been returned to this office, but anything coming to hand will be promptly transmitted to you in accordance with the terms of his will. Some delay is inevitable in the transmission of deceased soldiers belongings.” Having heard nothing more about James’s effects, on 29 March 1920 Martha Singleton again wrote to Base Records. “I have not received any personal property of my brother Private J Singleton [who] lost his life in the war August 1918,” she wrote. On 16 May she once again entreated the office: “My brother Private Singleton was killed in France 9th August 1918. Has any of his personal things, his watch, been returned?” In July a letter from the Australian Graves Services referred to correspondence in which Martha Singleton had enquired after her brother’s personal effects. An officer from Base Records replied to Martha in a letter dated 13 August, saying: “I have to state that no personal effects of any description have been received in connection with your brother, the late No. 1172 Private J. Singleton, 8th Battalion. As previously advised the London Kit Store records show that no effects were returned in the late solider’s name and his kit bag con-

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tained no personal belongings.” Although the office had always liaised with Martha and she was listed as James’s next of kin, Base Records contacted Martha in October 1920 to enquire whether James had closer relative – specifically a male – who could receive his war medals, the better to comply with the Deceased Soldiers’ Estates Act 1918. Martha replied on 15 November 1920: “Father and mother not alive.

The eldest brother living is George Singleton, patient Yarra Bend Asylum. I would be glad to take care of medal; I am the eldest sister.” But before the eldest sister would come the eldest brother, or any brother for that matter, and Base Records persisted, again questioning Martha on November 23: “I shall be much obliged if you will favour me with advice as to whether the deceased soldier has any other

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Presented to high standards IN a class of its own, this very modern home has been meticulously designed to meet the requirements of a growing family. Measuring about 279 square metres the home has four or five bedrooms, depending on your needs. The main bedroom has an ensuite with a spa bath as well as a walk-in robe and space for a couple of comfy chairs to create a nice reading area. The three established bedrooms all come with built-in robes and have a distinct colour scheme. A separate home office could be the fifth bedroom. The layout of the living zones has a good flow from room to room and provides enough space for every member of the family. A lovely, semi-circular kitchen is central to a dining area and the family room, making it very convenient for kids’ snack breaks. With a host of under-bench and overhead cupboards, storage will never be a problem and the counter tops add a nice splash of colour. The dining area has an outlook to the leafy outdoor entertaining area and gardens, and the soothing sounds of a water feature can be heard throughout the home. Completing the impressive street appeal of the property is a double garage and paved driveway.

Address: Price: Agency: Agent:

63 The Bittern Boulevard, BITTERN $470,000 – $495,000 MC Real Estate, 4/83 High Street, Hastings 5979 8833 Michael Curry, 0409 410 456

House & Land Package North Clyde - $374,880

To advertise in the real estate liftout of Western Port News, contact Jason Richardson on 0421 190 318 or jason@mpnews.com.au NOW PUBLISHED WEEKLY

DLots of different colours available DSave $$$ on stamp duty - buy off the plan DNew home with garage and al-fresco DExposed aggregate driveway + pathway DGarage with remote D/RFNV À\ VFUHHQV RQ RSHQLQJ ZLQGRZV DFlyscreens to sliding doors DStainless steel appliances + dishwasher DTiling, carpets and fencing

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Perfect family package

Ideal living

ON a leafy and quiet 1050-square metre allotment (approx), this four-bedroom family home has a versatile floor plan that offers plenty of space for activities. The single-level residence features both formal and informal living zones with a handsome solid timber kitchen overlooking the rear yard, where there is a double lock-up garage. The living areas have jarrah timber floors throughout and have been freshly painted with lovely window furnishings perfectly complementing the makeover. The main bedroom has a walk-in robe and ensuite and the main bathroom has been completely remodelled and includes a claw-foot bath. A paved outdoor entertaining area overlooks lush, low-maintenance gardens.

OFFERING exceptional value for money, this very sound brick-veneer home is surrounded by neat lawns and gardens and is close to shops and transport. The home has four bedrooms or keep one as a home office. The living areas are beautifully decorated with the lounge having a nice bay window and plush carpets. The combined kitchen and dining area has polished floorboards, gas heating and air-conditioning. The kitchen has a wall oven and plenty of cupboard space. From the meals area you can step out to the undercover entertaining area. Other external features include a detached double garage – with a handy second driveway – and garden shed.

Address: 57 Hamilton Street, CRIB POINT Price: On application Agency: Century 21 Homeport, 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555 Agent: Kerry-Lee Marshall, 0408 363 686

Address: 9 Goris Close, BITTERN Price: $452,000 Agency: Satchwells Real Estate, 1/97 High Street, Hastings, 5979 1888 Agent: Don McKenzie, 0419 955 177

White picket fence and all

Wills you to purchase

A PICTURE of peaceful suburbia, this quaint three-bedroom home is set on a 724-square metre corner site and offers excellent value as an investment property or for first home buyers. There is a small entry area leading to the combined kitchen and dining room. Floating timber floors present very well and stylish downlights add a nice touch. The kitchen has been updated and features a dishwasher and upright stove with rangehood as well as a pantry cupboard. Through a set of bifold doors is a nice lounge room with air-conditioning. Overlooking the backyard is a large undercover timber deck that during the warmer months increases the living area considerably.

HIDDEN away in the peaceful residential pocket known as “Old Tyabb” sits this gorgeous three-bedroom home. The established gardens, both front and back, create a very private setting from which to enjoy the timber decked areas for entertaining with family and friends. A room unto itself, the stunning kitchen has Tasmanian oak cupboards and granite benchtops all beautifully complemented by cafe-style tiled floors and stainlesssteel appliances. The timber theme continues throughout the home with polished timber floors in the bedrooms, dining and lounge room. The bathroom is also exquisitely tiled and has a corner spa bath and separate shower. The home is spotlessly presented, very well-priced for this area and on a large block.

Address: 10 Dalton Drive, TYABB Price: $349,950 Agency: Baywest Somerville, 1/1085 Frankston-Flinders Road, Somerville, 5977 9660 Agent: Wayne Bourke, 0411 266 696

Address: 10 Wills Court, HASTINGS Price: $350,000 Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Real Estate, 1/109 High Street, Hastings, 5979 2288 Agent: Rob Pryzler, 0408 808 698

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Country Style Living

Palm Drive

This well maintained unit is a must see. Two bedrooms, main with dual access bathroom, separate laundry, large lounge with high vaulted ceilings & meals area. The modern kitchen has under bench oven & gas cook top, a third room could be used as a study or bedroom. The home comes with gas heating & air-conditioning and single garage. Leased until November 2012, walking distance to shopping precinct, doctors surgery & foreshore.

/RRNLQJ IRU D JRRG LQYHVWPHQW RU D ÀUVW KRPH EX\HU 7KLV brand new unit yet to be built nestled in a court position might be the answer. This unit of 18.77 squares consists of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge, dining, study, double garage and comes with quality appliances, tiles, carpet, dishwasher, ducted heating & cooling & 2000 litre water tank connected to home. Your choice of colours, paint, tiles, carpets (if purchased before commencement).

Set on a beautiful treed block of 847m2. This home has sprawling verandahs, three edrooms, main bedroom overlooks garden and has FES with spa bath. The open plan lounge/dining has exposed beams, gas heating & A/C also with garden outlook. The modern kitchen with servery, s/steel upright gas cooker, dishwasher, pantry & stained glass window adds to the country feel. The home has been tastefully decorated with as new carpets.

Beautifully maintained, retirement unit with twobedrooms, both with BIR’s & ceiling fans. A large lounge with gas heating, split system air-conditioning & ceiling fan. A good size modern kitchen with wall oven & gas cook top overlooks the meals area with picture window. The main bathroom has a large shower & the laundry leads to the long carport with roller door. Option for a 30 year lease.

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For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

$295,000

$350,000

$385,000

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Sandstone Lodge

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Ideal for the larger family the home has 2 living areas, main living with Coonara wood heater adjacent to the meals and a modern kitchen with s/steel appliances. The main bathroom, laundry and 2 bedrooms are on the lower level. A timber staircase leads to the 2nd living and main bedroom with FES & BIR’s + 4th bedroom or study. Outside is a large garage shed with power, concrete slab, water tanks, pergola and verandahs to keep the harsh sun out.

For Sale:

For Sale:

$412,870

RED HILL

$189,000

Look No More

Builders/investors 3-4 unit site (S.T.C.A). Build 3 with rental income from house or build four if the house is removed. Set on a 1439m2 approx block of land all services available. Be quick to secure your next project.

For Sale:

$495,000

CRIB POINT

HASTINGS

$358,000

BITTERN

A Quiet Retreat

As new unit set on a block of 4. Two bedrooms, main with WIR & dual access bathroom, lounge, modern kitchen with s/steel appliances & separate meals area with sliding doors leading to paved courtyard. Tiled and carpeted throughout. S/system, air con, single garage with internal entry and remote door. If you’re looking for an investment rental look no further, or perhaps a starting point to get into the market. Walking distance to schools shops + navy base.

Exquisite Two Bedroom Unit

If you are looking for the peaceful life this home is it! Set in the tranquil surrounds of Red Hill this architect designed double story home overlooks a 1/3 acre of land. Walk through the large monastery doors where the light ÀOOHG ORXQJH DZDLWV ZKLFK OHDGV WKURXJK WR WKH NLWFKHQ and dining area. The home features 4 bedrooms - main with walk in robe and full ensuite, a separate study, high SLWFKHG FHLOLQJV SROLVKHG à RRUERDUGV WKURXJKRXW

Close to the shopping precinct, this immaculate unit will delight with a large lounge/dining area overlooking the kitchen that has solid timber cupboards, upright gas FRRNHU SDQWU\ WLPEHU à RRULQJ DQG TXDOLW\ FDUSHWV throughout. Large main bathroom has shower & bath, there is a separate laundry & 2 bedrooms have BIR’s. Private courtyard with gate access, beautifully landscaped with extensive colour.

Imagine your own homestead tucked away behind high fences with bullnose timber decked verandahs. The sweeping path & treed surrounds add to the country feel. The home comprises of 4 bedrooms main with full ensuite, 2 living areas with high vaulted ceilings, split system airconditioning, gas column heater & coonara for year round comfort. A good size country style kitchen with gas up right cooker and plenty of bench space.

For Sale:

For Sale:

For Sale:

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Mud Brick Masterpiece

$770,000

$279,000

HASTINGS

BITTERN

Spectacular Kinfauns (app.1.58 acres) Commercial Land or Business, A unique lifestyle awaits you in this huge 1.58 acre take your pick! property situated in the sought after Kinfauns Estate. Public transport stops at the Estate’s entrance, Hastings town center two minutes drive and the brand new Bittern shops two minutes in the other direction. Fully serviced and surrounded by homes of equal quality and prestige.

$SSUR[LPDWHO\ P RI Ă DW LQGXVWULDO ]RQHG ODQG LQ the busy commercial/industrial street of Hastings. Currently set up with a nursery business you can purchase WKH EORFN RI ODQG ZLWK WKH RIĂ€FH VWUXFWXUH LQFOXGHG DQG use it for your own purposes or purchase the land + business WIWO for an extra $25,000 + GST.

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$949,000

DOMINIC TALLON Phone: 0408 528 857

NIGEL EVANS Phone: 0439 540 055

$280,000

35 High Street, Hastings

$345,000

Secluded Homestead

$412,000

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Industrial 3 Zoned Factory + Yard

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For Lease: $1550.00pcm + GST + OGS

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For Sale:

$1,850,000

5979 3000

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HASTINGS

HASTINGS

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Asking $254,000

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2 Dylan Drive - Inspect Sat 1.30- 2.00pm

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You enter this 4 BR property through a pleasant well maintained front garden. Access is also via Salmon St & through the private common area grounds.The property has a r/c gate & single garage. A colour video pedestrian gate door phone with remote opening & a security alarm system is provided for peace of mind.

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58 Campbell Street - Inspect Sat 3.00-3.30pm

288-290 Stony Point Road - Inspect Sat 11.00-11.30am

9 Goris Close - Inspect Sat 2.30-3.00pm

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1/97 High Street 14 Balnarring Village Cnr Cook and Wood Streets

03 5979 1888 03 5983 5509 03 5989 0744

REAL ESTATE SOMERVILLE

$285,000

Tyabb

Auction: Friday 18th May @1.00pm on site

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Somerville

Est 1989

6/1160 Frankston-Flinders Road Position Position Position Ɣ 4uality built 3 bedroom, low maintenance unit Ɣ Only minutes walk to local shopping, transport, schools Ɣ Large lounge/dining area, oating oor boards Ɣ Modern kitchen with s/steel appliances plus dishwasher Ɣ Security shutters on all windows,

$325,000

SigniďŹ cant Tyabb Landmark Ć” Original Tyabb landmark formerly known as Potts General Store Ć” Built Circa 1915 Ć” Offered for sale for only the second time in 97 years Ć” Plethora of opportunities for the investor/owner, occupier or developer.

Ć” Blue ribbon site consists of 3 dwellings on 1 title Ć” Potential land bank with income Ć” A rare & versatile offering unlike any other in Tyabb Ć” SigniďŹ cant investment in the Western Port Region with the Port of Hastings redevelopment and Peninsula Link Bypass. Ć” Zoning: Business 1 – Land Area: 560m2 approx

Somerville

Somerville

$325,000

From $290,000 - $380,000

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Tyabb

1527 Frankston - Flinders Road

1-3 / 3 Seaton Court Brand New Units - Only 3 On The Block

More Bang For Your Buck

Classy and Stylish

Ć” Lovely 3 bedroom B.V home surrounded by parklands Ć” Large formal lounge room with vaulted ceiling Ć” Modern kitchen & family room with ducted heating Ć” Paved pergola area Ć” Single carport and double garage.

Ć” Beautifully presented 2 bedroom unit Ć” Comprising large formal lounge room with gas wall furnace Ć” R/cycle air-conditioning Ć” Modern kitchen with s/steel appliances inc. dishwasher Ć” Outdoor entertaining area Ć” Single lock-up garage with remote.

Ć” 2 x three bedroom units, FES to main bedroom Ć” 7LOHG ZHW DUHDV V VWHHO DSSOLDQFHV WR NLWFKHQ Ć” Open plan living areas, 9ft ceilings Ć” Double garage with remote, landscaped gardens Ć” Minutes walk to local shops & transport Ć” Buy off the plan and save on stamp duty

Somerville

Somerville

$475,000

$480,000

$750,000 - $795,000

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8 Colchester Court Simple Yet Stylish

Light, Space and Comfort

34 Seaview Road Seaview Gums

Ć” Four bedrooms, ensuite to main Ć” Lounge room with wood heater and ducted heating Ć” Modern kitchen & family area Ć” TerriďŹ c outdoor entertaining area, lovely gardens Ć” Room for boat, trailer or caravan Ć” Double garage with workshop

Ć” Located in one of the ďŹ nest parts of Somerville Ć” &RQVLVWV RI WKUHH bedrooms, main with FES Ć” Lounge with open ďŹ re place, family room with gas heating Ć” Evaporative cooling throughout Ć” Timber kitchen with dishwasher Ć” Outdoor entertaining area, very private setting

Ć” Outstanding solid brick 30sq approx. residence Ć” Picturesque 2 acres approx well-treed block Ć” Includes 4 bedrooms, FES, formal lounge/dining area with A/C Ć” Modern tiled kitchen/family area with coonara heating Ć” Plus 2 bedroom semi self-contained in-law accomadation Ć” Tennis court, triple carport, large sheds plus car parking.

Pearcedale

Somerville

French Island

$790,000 - $820,000

$1.4 million

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$830,000 - $850,000

795 Robinsons Road ‘Norwood’

Character and Charm

‘Picnic Point’

Ć” Beautiful 8-acre property with charming colonial style homestead Ć” Large open plan lounge and dining areas Ć” Blackwood timber kitchen and meals area Ć” Three bedrooms, FES to main Ć” Verandah overlooks two ornamental dams Ć” Lots of sheds for storage and separate bungalow

Ć” Hidden sanctuary located 1.25 acres approx Ć” Huge 4 bedroom family home with wrap around verandah. Ć” Featuring timber kitchen/family area with polished floor boards, Ć” Ducted heating, lounge/dining area with open fire place Ć” +uge rumpus room Ć” Entertaining area overlooking flood lit mod grass tennis court Ć” Huge 12m x 8m shed.

Ć” 50 acre (approx.) allotment with incredible Western Port Bay views Ć” Short drive to Crib Point ferry Ć” Build your dream getaway (STCA) with access to your own beach Ć” All measurements in above image are approximates. For all enquiries contact Phil Stone

1067 Frankston-Flinders Road, Somerville 5977 7766

PHIL STONE 0412 226 758 HUGH GAMBLE 0401 319 811

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SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER PHONE: 03 5979 3555 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road. HASTINGS. VIC. 3915 CENTURY21HASTINGS.COM.AU

HOME PORT Quality four bedroom open plan 7 main residence with soaring 3 pine lined cathedral ceilings! Double garage under roof plus 4 additional double garage to rear and verandah on three sides! There is a second three bedroom home under the same roof to rear with connecting verandah. Set on almost 3/4 acre, with planning permit issued for three lot subdivision. Contact Exclusive Agent. PRICE: EXPRESS SALE VIEW: By Appointment AGENT: Chris Watt 0417 588 321 OFFICE: 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

HASTINGS 34 Burke Street You will fall in love with this 2 well-presented home, with a 1 touch of French provincial flair. Large informal living and meals 2 area with near new carpet, plus a spacious kitchen with Caesar stone bench tops. Both bedrooms are very spacious, master with W.I.R. This home has been tastefully renovated and is in excellent condition. Contact Exclusive Agent.

HASTINGS 10 Sunset Rise VENDOR SAYS SELL!! MAKE AN OFFER!!! Carefully designed for the growing family, this executive residence is only five years old. Boasting four large bedrooms, master with W.I.R. & ensuite, plush quality carpets, three living areas plus quality fixtures and fittings. Also featuring ducted heating, double garage with rear roller door access, block size 800sqm and too many more features to mention. Still under builders warranty! Contact Exclusive Agent. $410,000 NEGOTIABLE

4 VIEW: By Appointment 2 AGENT: Kerry-Lee Marshall 0408 363 686 4 OFFICE: 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings 5979 3555

PRICE: VIEW: AGENT: OFFICE:

BITTERN 15 Skinner Street This well built Merchant Builder 4 home on approx.1/4 acre 2 allotment (1080sq metres) 4 has been lovingly cared for. Boasting 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 living areas,vaulted ceilings with chefs delight kitchen and lovingly maintained gardens, fernery & mature trees in a private setting. Our vendors have a genuine need to sell! Contact Exclusive Agent.

Positioned on a 1050m2 approx. 4 allotment, this four bedroom 2 family home features spacious formal and informal living zones, 6 solid timber kitchen and secure double lock-up garage plus master bedroom with a W.I.R. and ensuite. Also boasts ducted heating, solid Jarrah flooring, freshly painted with quality carpets and window furnishings. Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: $439,000 Negotiable VIEW: Saturday 12.00-12.30pm AGENT: Kerry Lee Marshall 0408 363 686 OFFICE: 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

PRICE: EXPRESS SALE VIEW: Saturday 11.00-11.30am AGENT: Kerry Lee Marshall 0408 363 686 OFFICE: 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

BITTERN 3 Flinders Street

CRIB POINT 57 Hamilton Street Spectacular English style 4 Tudor home of approx 50 3 squares of living. Featuring four enormous bedrooms, two with 5 full ensuites and all with walkin robes. Brand new kitchen that opens to a fully enclosed entertaining area. Outdoor boasts a 30 x 60 garage, surrounded by approx 2 acres of natural bushland. Contact Exclusive Agent.

THREE BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW 2 UNITS. Contemporary style, 1 two bedroom, single storey town houses! Ultra-modern and 1 stylish - located in one of the best streets in central Hastings. Featuring two spacious bedrooms, master with W.I.R. & semi ensuite, two living areas, kitchen with stainless steel appliances, lovely outdoor area, ducted heating and air con. Contact Exclusive Agent.

PRICE: EXPRESS SALE VIEW: Saturday 2.00-2.30pm AGENT: Wilma Green 0407 833 996 OFFICE: 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

PRICE: VIEW: AGENT: OFFICE:

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$329,900 By Appointment Wilma Green 0407 833 996 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

> WESTERN PORT realestate 24 April 2012

HASTINGS 17 Rankin Road

$300,000 Offers Over Saturday 1.00-1.30pm Kerry Lee Marshall 0408 363 686 2100 Frankston-Flinders Road, Hastings, 5979 3555

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Somerville

$139,000

Hastings

$209,500

Hastings

$239,000

Cheap Land With Plans

Town At Your Doorstep

Walk To Water

Block of land in Somerville complete with approved plans for a 3br, 2bath, DLUG, BV house measuring approx 18.89sqs only minutes to public transport, shops, schools and more. The vendors are keen to get this sold and have even agreed to pay of the driveway costs making this property even more affordable. Get in now and beat the rush of investor expected once the Peninsula Link Freeway opens.

Step out your front door and enjoy the convenience of this prime location in a growing town. This entry level property would make the SHUIHFW LQYHVWPHQW RU ÀUVW KRPH DQG IHDWXUHV D VSDFLRXV RSHQ GHVLJQ bright kitchen facing the street, 2 large bedrooms with built-ins, electric heating and cooking and off street parking. It is currently returning $200 per week to an established tenant or vacant possession available.

Beautiful position, a leisurely stroll to the foreshore and marina and handy to the town centre. Set well back amid dappled shade, this tidy unit is on the front of a small 4 unit development. Features separate entry, open lounge with heat bank and a good sized kitchen. Two bedrooms with BIRs, separate bathroom, toilet and laundry and a lock up garage.

Bittern

Hastings

Hastings

$249,500

$347,500

$297,000

R UNDEA CT R T N O C Court Position

Relax at Westernport Gardens Retirement Village

At Last An Affordable First Home!!

If you feel like slowing down and putting your feet up yet still enjoy a feeling of having space around you then look no further. With it’s own private street entry and plenty of land to look at - without looking after, this home sized unit has a good sized lounge with gas ducted heat t/out and s/system cooling, 2BRs & study, kitchen/meals with gas cooking & dishwasher, private courtyard & L/U garage - don’t miss this one!

You will jump for joy when you see this delightful 5y.o. home, set in tidy native gardens in a popular new estate. Bright and open with fresh neutral dcor and lots of windows enjoying garden aspects. From a separate entry WKH KRPH RSHQV RQ D ODUJH VWDJJHUHG OLYLQJ DQG PHDOV DUHD WKDW Ă RZV easily to the covered deck and adjoining double remote garage. The kitchen is also a cheery, sunny room with plenty of cupboards.

Great 3BR home, located in the centre of town. Open living space IHDWXULQJ SROLVKHG à RRULQJ DQG IUHVK QHXWUDO GHFRU 6HW RQ D JRRG VL]HG EORFN WKLV ZRXOG PDNH DQ LGHDO ÀUVW SURSHUW\ WR OLYH LQ RU LQYHVW DOO bedrooms have BIRs, the inviting kitchen has had a facelift and features electric cooking and breakfast bench to the meals area. The yard is a blank canvas. Other features include gas heating, carport & shed.

Hastings

Crib Point

Bittern

$365,000

$389,000

$464,950

1/4 Acre Mark Lew Design

R UNDEA CT R T N O Cpiece of the country. Your

1,066m2 Perfect For Families.huge Workshop!!

Set in the Old Tyabb area this contemporary home was built with passive energy use in mind. Featuring a North facing clerestory window to provide Winter warmth to the core of the home and plenty of windows for a real light and open feeling. There are 2 main living zones, 3BRs with robes, s/system cooling. The chefs sized kitchen overlooks the private back garden through a shady pergola area.

Rare opportunity to enjoy space set at the end of a country lane. High set 4BR ranch with verandas and spa; 18 sqs incl spacious lounge with s/system, slow combustion heater, dining room, meals and upgraded kitchen. All bedrooms have BIRs, main with full ensuite and WIR. Outside is plenty of shedding: dble carport and 20 x 30 machinery shed with attached carport. Currently tenanted at $430/wk to secure tenant, or vacant possession is available.

Set at the top of the quietest brick paved court, this perfect family property has space and then some. With a beautiful wide frontage you can spread out and enjoy the luxury of your garden surrounds. The stunning 4 bedroom home is freshly decorated and features 2 great sized living areas and meals. Well zoned bedrooms, main with full en suite and walk in robe, great sized kitchen with dishwasher.

Bittern

$850,000

Hastings

$465,000

ED REDUC 000 , BY $16 3.75 Acres Country living at its best

Display home style..... 4 Bedrooms

Lifestyle without compromise is offered here at Stone gate on the fringe of Warrangine Park. A long driveway sweeps past native stands and reveals a stunning new home. Built for luxurious family living this beauty offers 32 squares of living with 4 bedrooms and study. Need space? How about a cavernous tiled lounge, separate home theatre/rumpus, family- meals and a show stopper kitchen featuring stone tops, 900mm gas range, dishwasher DQG EL ZDWHU ÀOWHU 7KH PDLQ EHGURRP KDV DQ HQ VXLWH WR SDUW\ LQ DQG GXDO ZDON LQ UREHV (QMR\ UXUDO RXWORRNV DW \RXU QDWXUDO VXUURXQGV IURP PDQ\ aspects while other luxuries include; Ducted heat & vac, alarm system, alfresco area, high ceilings and double remote garage. Great opportunity for a family needing room for horses or lots of vehicles and sheds with a home that sparkles!

Beautifully located in the prestigious solar estate, on a generous 815m2, this stunning as new Henley home features 24sqs of quality living – 28.3 sqs under roof. Formal entry and a formal lounge, huge family and meals with the central kitchen offering practical entertaining on stone bench tops and quality appliances! A separate rumpus room. There are 4 dble BRS, main with superb ensuite. Shade sail covered deck overlooking trim gardens & shed.

Hastings

$559,000

Hastings

FOR PUBLIC TENDER Offers over $950,000 considered

Tender form available on request. Closing date for tender Friday 4th May

1/2 Acre (approx) Luxury living...10 sq garage!!

Rural calling 20 Acres

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Roll up your sleeves, its time to seize the day and give your family a new lifestyle!! Set on the fringe of this rapidly growing area this could be the idyllic escape you seek. Once a vibrant horse training and agistment complex, this property has extensive infrastructure but needs plenty of maintenance to bring it back up to scratch. The existing timber homestead has loads of potential and features 3 bedrooms & study, 2 living zones and a huge PXVWHU HQFORVXUH IRU HQWHUWDLQLQJ RU IRU KRVWLQJ IDUP VWD\V )DFLOLWLHV LQFOXGH ‡ VHOI ZDWHUHG SDGGRFNV ZLWK ORRVH ER[HV ‡ VWDEOHV ZLWK WDFN WLH XS DUHDV ‡(OHFWULÀHG SRVW UDLO IHQFLQJ ‡)XOO VL]HG DUHQD URXQGLQJ ULQJ ‡ P 7UDLQLQJ WUDFN ‡/RDGV RI VKHGV ‡6WDII EXQJDORZV OXQFK URRP What an opportunity to secure a property like this at vacant land price!!

Ben Tallon Real Estate Pty Ltd 1/34 High Street Hastings 3915

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Bay West Real Estate (VIC) Pty. Ltd. 87 High Street, Hastings Victoria 3915 Ph: 03 5979 4412 Fax: 03 5979 3097 Email: enquiries@baywestrealestate.com.au Web: www.baywestrealestate.com.au

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$145,000

5979 2700

A.H. Brad Wilcox 0419 583 634

$210,000

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For Sale

50 Bayview Road, Mornington Little Gem

TWO BRAND NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR SALE. SAVE ON STAMP DUTY

‘Cherry Tree Cottage’ - Mornington

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Price: $390,000 - $420,000 Contact: Lina Luppino 0419 571 583

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631 Esplanade, Mornington Privileged Position & Styled to Perfection Set directly in front of a beach-bound path and with sparkling bay views spread before you, this luxury beachside home and inground pool offers a privileged position and a lifestyle proposition too good to UHIXVH %HKLQG D WDOO IHQFH DQG DXWRPDWLF gates, the exquisite four-bedroom residence delivers amazing space, designer style and impressive entertaining options featuring an extensive poolside deck as well as a viewing balcony where sunsets over the water are VLPSO\ VSHFWDFXODU

Price: $699,000 - $750,000 Contact: Louise Varigos 0408 885 982

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1/14-16 Lucerne Avenue, Mornington Gorgeous Beachside Townhouse

Two superb townhouses, perfect for the H[HFXWLYH OLIHVW\OH $ FKRLFH RI D WZR bedroom or three- bedroom home, on its RZQ WLWOH ZLWK VW\OH TXDOLW\ WKURXJKRXW %RWK KDYH PRGHUQ NLWFKHQV ZLWK (XURSHDQ stainless steel appliances, polished timber à RRUV DLU FRQGLWLRQLQJ DQG *'+ /DQGVFDSHG JDUGHQV VXUURXQG HDFK KRPH 1R KDV D VLQJOH JDUDJH DQG 1R D GRXEOH JDUDJH DQG ERWK KDYH ÀQLVKHV WKDW ZLOO SOHDVH WKH PRVW GLVFHUQLQJ EX\HU :DON WR 0DLQ 6WUHHW EHDFK

Price Guide: $690,000 - $750,000 Contact: Louise Varigos 0408 885 982

Price Guide: $1.38 - $1.42 million Contact: Louise Varigos 0408 885 982

For Sale

1 & 2/3 Turnbull Street, Mornington 1R Own Titles, Super Location

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17 Parwan Crescent, Mornington Surprise Package

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Price: $660,000 - $695,000 Contact: Lina Luppino 0419 571 583

Price Guide: $380,000 - $400,000 Contact: Louise Varigos 0408 885 982

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Price Guide: $950,000 - $1,000,000 Contact: Louise Varigos 0408 885 982

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Price: $670,000 - $710,000 Contact: Lina Luppino 0419 571 583

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COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL

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Below replacement cost

Zoned for Industrial 3

OPERATING out of near-new premises, this Indian restaurant has 15 years remaining on its lease. A set of bifold doors open onto a patio area, with an outlook across parklands to the foreshore, which creates extra dining space during the warmer months. The restaurant has seating for 150 with scope to increase this to 200, which is in line with the current liquor licence. The business lends itself to corporate lunches and dinners with a full sound system, projector and visual display units, which are all included in the substantial chattels list. Opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.

ON Mornington-Tyabb Road with plenty of passing traffic, this large warehouse with Industrial 3 zoning has many possibilities for mechanics, engineering or storage. The site measures 757 square metres (approx), is fenced and includes a small side yard and rear yard. The factory is 295 square metres with a heavy duty frame, Colorbond exterior and three-phase power. The roof height is 6 metres and the roller door height is 4.4 metres, making it suitable for shipping containers. The factory is also available for lease at $1550 pcm + GST and outgoings.

Indian restaurant, HASTINGS Price: $150,000 Agency: Tallon First National Real Estate, 35 High Street, Hastings, 5979 3000 Agent: Dominic Tallon, 0408 528 857

Factory, TYABB Price: $320,000 Agency: Tallon First National Real Estate, 35 High Street, Hastings, 5979 3000 Agent: Dominic Tallon, 0408 528 857

Blue-ribbon commercial site FORMERLY known as Potts General Store, this Tyabb landmark is a significant part of the town’s history. Offered for sale for only the second time in 97 years, the site offers a variety of options to the investor or developer. Set on a main arterial road, the site measures 560 square metres and consists of three dwellings, all on one title. This is a rare and very versatile commercial investment in the Western Port region with the eventual Port of Hastings redevelopment and Peninsula Link soon to open.

Address: 1529 Frankston-Flinders Road, TYABB Auction: Friday 18 May at 1pm Agency: L Cooper Real Estate, 1067 Frankston-Flinders Road, Somerville, 5977 7766 Agent: Phil Stone, 0412 226 758

Tip-top bottleshop CURRENTLY run under management, this liquor outlet is in a prominent position in the industrial estate of Dromana. The business demonstrates consistent takings and the rent is quite low. Excellent lease terms are on offer.

Bottleshop, DROMANA Price: $245,000 plus SAV Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 172 Main Street, Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Russell Murphy, 0407 839 184

House & Land Package Live Near The Bay

Lot 16 John Coleman Close, Hastings MEL REF. 154 H7

$428,850 pic not indicative of view from home

DFour bedroom home, ensuite & bathroom DDouble garage and eaves DTwo living areas & rumpus room DStainless steel appliances + dishwasher D6 star energy rating DFencing and full driveway DAll connections DLetterbox, clothesline, towel rails, toilet roll holder and lots more Amery Homes - The builder with the lot

Call Ellen or Chris on 5977 8194 Page 14

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To advertise in the commercial real estate section of Western Port News, contact Jason Richardson on 0421 190 318 or jason@mpnews.com.au

For Sale – Sorrento

For Sale – Rye

For Sale – Sorrento

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Sale Price: $200,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $635,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $1,495,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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Sale Price: $315,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Sale Price: $895,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $95,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $145,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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Juice Bar

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dŚƌŝǀŝŶŐ :ƵŝĐĞ Ăƌ ŝŶ ĐĞŶƚƌĂů ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ͕ ŝĚĞĂůůLJ ůŽĐĂƚĞĚ ǁŝƚŚ ŚŝŐŚ ǀŽůƵŵĞ ŽĨ ƉĂƐƐŝŶŐ ƚƌĂĚĞ͕ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ŽĨ ΨϲϱϬϬ Ɖǁ͘ džƚƌĞŵĞůLJ ƉƌŽĮƚĂďůĞ ƚŽ ŽǁŶĞƌ ŽƉĞƌĂƚŽƌ͘ KƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ ŶŽƚ ƚŽ ďĞ ŵŝƐƐĞĚ͘

Sale Price: $195,000 + SAV ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗ <ĞǀŝŶ tƌŝŐŚƚ Ϭϰϭϳ ϱϲϰ ϰϱϰ

Sale Price: $195,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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Sale Price $259,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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:ƵŶĞ ǀĞŶƵĞ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ƐŚŽƉ ŝƐ ƚŚĞ ŽŶůLJ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŝƚƐ ŬŝŶĚ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ƌŽŵĂŶĂ /ŶĚƵƐƚƌŝĂů ƐƚĂƚĞ͘ dŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĞŶũŽLJƐ ƐƚƌŽŶŐ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ĂŶĚ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ƌĂƉŝĚ ĞdžƉĂŶƐŝŽŶ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĞƐƚĂƚĞ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝƐ ƐĞƚ ƚŽ ŵ ĂŶĚ ŐƌŽǁ ĞǀĞŶ ŵŽƌĞ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ůĞĂƐĞ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶƐ͘

'ƌĞĂƚ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ ƚŽ ŝŶǀĞƐƚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƌĂƉŝĚůLJ ŐƌŽǁŝŶŐ ZŽƐĞďƵĚ /ŶĚƵƐƚƌŝĂů ƐƚĂƚĞ͕ ͻ WƌŝŵĞ /ŶĚƵƐƚƌŝĂů >ĂŶĚ ŽĨ ϮϰϬϬ ƐƋŵ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ͻ &ƵůůLJ ĞǀĞůŽƉĞĚ ^ŝƚĞ ͻ džƚĞŶƐŝǀĞ /ŶĨƌĂƐƚƌƵĐƚƵƌĞ ͻ ^ĞĐƵƌĞůLJ >ĞĂƐĞĚ ĂŶĚ dĞŶĂŶƚĞĚ

Sale Price: $169,000 + SAV

Sale Price: $149,000

Sale Price: $1,250,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price $85,000 + SAV Contact Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

For Sale – Mornington

'ƌĞĂƚ >ŽĐĂƟŽŶ dŚĞ ǁĞůůͲŬŶŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ǀĞƌLJ ƉŽƉƵůĂƌ džƉƌĞƐƐŝŽŶƐ ŝŶ ,Ăŝƌ ŽĨ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ŝƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ͘ KƉĞƌĂƟŶŐ ŽŶůLJ ϱ Ъ ĚĂLJƐ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĂƐƚ ϮϮ LJĞĂƌƐ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ĞŶũŽLJƐ ƐƚƌŽŶŐ͕ ƌĞŐƵůĂƌ ĐůŝĞŶƚĞůĞ͕ ůŽŶŐ ůĞĂƐĞ͕ ĐŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ŚŝŐŚ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ͘ KǁŶĞƌ ƐĞůůŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƌĞƟƌĞ ĂŶĚ ƐĞŶŝŽƌ ƐƚĂī ǁŝůůŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƐƚĂLJ ŽŶ͘

Sale Price $79,000 + SAV Contact Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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A WELL-PRESENTED takeaway shop with seating inside for 8 customers and more outside. Trading hours are Monday to Friday 5.30am until 2.30pm. The premises has a coolroom and there is also an ATM. All equipment is in good working order and there is plenty of preparation area. This business has been established for about twenty and is located in a busy industrial estate. Opportunities like this are highly sought after.

THIS home business was established about 30 years ago. All equipment is in good order and include a near new cutting machine, 6 stamping machines, a German made wire cutting machine and a fully automatic, hydraulically operated wire straightening and cutting machine and 6 hydraulic presses. This family business manufactures the wire attachments for store security clips. All assistance is offered to the new owners.

Industrial takeaway, CARRUM DOWNS Price: $45,000 + SAV Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Manufacturing, FRANKSTON SOUTH Price: $100,000 + SAV Agency: Latessa Business Sales 50 Playne St, Frankston Agent: Tony Latessa, 0412 525 151

Business Sales Specialists www.latessabusiness.com.au

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OUR ANZACS

Western Port soldiers who served

Private William Hay Young, 1st Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Pearcedale. Private Young enlisted on 17 April 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ceramic on 25 June 1915. He returned to Australia on 14 January 1919.

Private Bernard Francis Wilson, 24th Battalion, of Flinders. Private Wilson enlisted on 12 August 1915. On 19 July 1916 he was reported missing in action at Fleurbaix in France during the Battle of Fromelles. He was later reported to have been killed by a prematurely exploding shell on 23 July. He has no known grave.

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Private Sydney Charles Myers Ward, 2nd Reinforcements, 31st Battalion, of Hastings. Private Ward enlisted on 14 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Kyarra on 3 January 1916. He returned to Australia on 8 September 1919.

Private Montague Romeo, of Hastings, originally enlisted on 11 September 1914 and was discharged on 5 October 1914. He re-enlisted on 28 September 1916 and embarked for overseas on 23 November 1916. He was wounded in action on 20 September 1917. After recovering, he returned to France on 23 December 1917. He was killed in action near Strazeele, France, on 5 June 1918.

Memorabilia for the most discerning collector... An iconic photograph of the 11th Battalion of the Australian Infantry Force taken in 1915 on the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

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Gunner Arthur Norman Potts, 21st Howitzer Brigade. A butcher from Tyabb prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 25 October 1916. He transferred to the 12th Field Artillery Brigade and then, due to sickness, to the Pay Corps where he was promoted to corporal. He returned to Australia on 9 March 1920.

Sergeant Hector Aeneas Sutherland, 8th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Flinders. Sergeant Sutherland enlisted on 6 March 1915 and was later promoted to Second Lieutenant. He was wounded on 26 July 1916 at Pozieres, France, and returned to Australia on 16 October 1916.

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Balcombe’s link with US war hero By Peter McCullough JOHN Basilone was born in Buffalo, New York State, on 4 November 1916. Completing middle school at the age of 15, he dropped out prior to attending high school. After working for a short time as a golf caddy at the local country club, Basilone enlisted in the army and completed his three year enlistment with service in the Philippines, where he was a champion boxer. Back home he worked as a truck driver, but after a few months he wanted to go back to Manila. He believed he could get there faster as a marine than in the army. He enlisted in July 1940 and, after his initial training, was sent to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands as a member of the 1st Marine Division. While on Guadalcanal his fellow marines gave him the nickname “Manila John” due to his prior service in the Philippines. The US and her Pacific allies Australia and New Zealand wanted to kick the Japanese off Guadalcanal to stop the threat to South Pacific supply lines. It was to be the first major Allied offensive against the Empire of Japan, which had been slowing spreading out across the eastern hemisphere like the red and white starburst on its war banner.

An American legend: John Basilone.

The US-led forces landed on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942, surprising the Japanese and seizing an airstrip called Henderson Field. But the Japanese clung on tenaciously and fought bloody battles against the Allies before finally relinquishing the island in February 1943. It was in one of those fierce counter-attacks on 24 October that John Basilone stepped up to the mark. A regiment of 3000 Japanese soldiers from the socalled “Courageous” Sendai Division defending the airport descended on John’s unit. The Japanese forces began a frontal attack using machine guns, grenades and mortars against the American heavy machine guns. Basilone led the defence with

two machine gun sections of about 15 men. They fought almost without a break for the next two days. Basilone’s comrades were cut down around him until he was left with only two other marines fighting off wave after wave of enemy troops. He repaired a machine gun, helped move another one into position and maintained continual fire until backup arrived. Basilone took enemy fire while running through the jungle to pick up more machine gun belts to keep his comrades supplied. By the time the next dawn broke he was fighting with just a machete and a .45 pistol. The Japanese regiment was laid to waste. About 3000 Japanese Banzai soldiers had been killed in the attack and the airfield

Balcombe Army Camp THE first huts were erected at the Balcombe Army Camp in 1939 and although it was used by the Australian army, including the 39th Battalion prior to its departure for New Guinea and the Kokoda Track, it was used extensively by American forces for most of the war years. After the war it was the home of the Australian Signals and Survey Corps until it moved to Watsonia in 1970. The Army Apprentices School was at Balcombe between 1948 and 1982 where plumbers, electricians, fitters and turners, mechanics, carpenters and other trades were trained. The last building left Balcombe in August 1999 and the area is now an upmarket subdivision, a private school, an oval and a park. The latter features a boardwalk from the mouth of Balcombe Creek to the oval.

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OUR ANZACS had been successfully defended. America had itself a new hero. For his actions during the battle, Basilone would receive the United States military’s highest award for bravery, the Congressional Medal of Honor, signed by President Franklin D Roosevelt. After Guadalcanal the 1st Marine Division came to Australia to “rest and refit.” Up to 30,000 men were accommodated at Balcombe near Mt Martha. Some of their rest was spent practising beach landings from HMAS Manoora near cliffs at Dromana and McCrae. On 22 February the division participated in a parade past Melbourne Town Hall. More importantly, in a ceremony at Balcombe barracks on 21 May 1943, the division received a Presidential Citation for its epic battle at Guadalcanal. Two of its veterans, John Basilone and Mitchell Paige, were presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor. After receiving his medal, Basilone returned to the US to participate in a war bond tour. Following a massive homecoming parade on 19 September 1943, he toured the country raising money for the war effort and achieved celebrity status. Basilone became the living embodiment of bravery and the American fighting spirit. There were parades and parties in his name. From movie stars to city mayors, everybody wanted to meet the marine who had shown the Japanese could be broken. But Basilone preferred standing behind a machine gun to posing in front of the cameras. He felt out of

Devastation: Above, the Japanese transport Kinugawa Maru wrecked on Guadalcanal in November 1943. Right, a United States propaganda poster of John Basilone during the war. Basilone is remembered to this day in statues and war monuments.

place and requested a return to the operating forces fighting the war. After a number of his requests were refused, the Marine Corps eventually relented, but before he left for war again, Basilone was to find love. While he was posted at Camp Pendleton, where he trained marines for coming Pacific battles, he met Lena Riggi. She was also a marine sergeant (a reservist) who had one less stripe than John. The two fell in love and Basilone realised he would likely have to leave Pendleton towards the summer of 1944. It wasn’t easy to balance their different schedules, yet he was determined to marry Lena before he returned to the Pacific.

“I wanted to know how it was to love somebody the way Pop loved Mama,” he said. “At least I wanted a few days, or weeks if I could get it, to know what it was like to be married. I wanted to be able to say ‘I love you’ a few times and mean it. Lena agreed to marry me. We set the date for July 10th, 1944.” As expected, Basilone shipped out one month after their wedding. On his return to combat, Basilone was assigned to the 5th Marine Division, which was about to undertake the invasion of Iwo Jima. On 19 February 1945 he was serving as a machine gun section leader in action against Japanese forces on Red Beach 11.

During the battle, the Japanese concentrated their fire at the incoming Americans from heavily fortified blockhouses staged throughout the island. With his unit pinned down, Basilone made his way around the side of the Japanese positions until he was directly on top of a blockhouse. He then attacked with grenades and single-handedly destroyed the entire strong point and its defending garrison. He went on to fight his way toward

the airfield and aided an American tank that was trapped in an enemy minefield under intense mortar and artillery barrages. He guided the heavy vehicle over the hazardous terrain to safety despite heavy fire from the Japanese. As he moved along the edge of the airfield he was killed by Japanese mortar shrapnel. His actions helped marines penetrate the Japanese defence and get off the landing beach during the

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How Basilone won the Medal of Honor THE President of the United States in the name of the Congress takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant John Basilone, United States Marine Corps, for service as set forth in the following citation: “For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action against enemy Japanese forces, above and beyond the call of duty, while serving with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division in the Lunga Area, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on 24 and 25 October 1942. While the enemy was hammering at the marines’ defensive positions, Sergeant Basilone, in charge of two sections of heavy machine guns, fought valiantly to check the savage and determined assault. In a fierce frontal attack with the Japanese blasting his guns with grenades and mortar fire, one of Sergeant Basilone’s sections, with its gun crews, was put out of action, leaving only two men able to carry on. Moving an extra gun into position, he placed it in action, then, under continual fire, repaired another and personally manned it, gallantly holding his line until replacements arrived. A little later, with ammunition critically low and the supply lines cut off, Sergeant Basilone, at great risk of his life and in the face of continued enemy attack, battled his way through hostile lines with urgently needed shells for his gunners, thereby contributing in large measure to the virtual annihilation of a Japanese regiment. His great personal valour and courageous initiative were in keeping with the highest traditions of the US Naval Service.

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Bravery rewarded: Left, 1st Marine Division Medal of Honor ceremony at Balcombe on 21 May 1943. The photo shows the first marines of the division to receive America’s highest honour in the Second World War. From left, Major General A A Vandegrift, Colonel Merritt Edson, Second Lieutenant Mitchell Paige and Sergeant John Basilone. Centre, Sergeant Basilone being presented with his medal at Balcombe. Right, Basilone wearing his Congressional Medal of Honor.

learned her husband had been killed in action when she received a telegram: “Deeply regret to inform you that your husband, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, USMC, was killed in action February 19, 1945 at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, in the performance of his duty and service to his country. When information is received regarding burial, you will be notified. Please accept my heartfelt sympathy.” The telegram was sent in the name of General Alexander Vandegrift, who had been Basilone’s commanding officer

OUR ANZACS How Basilone won the Navy Cross THE President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross posthumously to Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, United States Marine Corps, for service as set forth in the following citation: For extraordinary heroism while serving as a Leader of a Machine-Gun Section, Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, 19 February 1945. Shrewdly gauging the tactical situation shortly after landing when his company’s advance was held up by the concentrated fire of a heavily fortified Japanese blockhouse, Gunnery Sergeant Basilone boldly defied the smashing bombardment of heavy calibre fire to work his way around the flank and up to a position directly on top of the blockhouse and then, attacking with grenades and demolitions, singlehandedly destroyed the entire hostile strong point and its defending garrison. Consistently daring and aggressive as he fought his way over the battle-torn beach and up the sloping, gun-studded terraces toward Airfield Number 1, he repeatedly exposed himself to the blasting fury of exploding shells and later in the day coolly proceeded to the aid of a friendly tank which had been trapped in an enemy mine field under intense mortar and artillery barrages, skilfully guiding the heavy vehicle over the hazardous terrain to safety, despite the overwhelming volume of hostile fire. In the forefront of the assault at all times, he pushed forward with dauntless courage and iron determination until, moving upon the edge of the airfield, he fell, instantly killed by a bursting mortar shell. Stouthearted and indomitable, Gunnery Sergeant Basilone, by his intrepid initiative, outstanding skill, and valiant spirit of self-sacrifice in the face of the fanatic opposition, contributed materially to the advance of his company during the early critical period of the assault, and his unwavering devotion to duty throughout the bitter conflict was an inspiration to his comrades and reflects the highest credit upon Gunnery Sergeant Basilone and the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life in the service of his country. For the President, James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.

Resting place: John Basilone’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, US.

at Guadalcanal. It was he who had presented Basilone with his Medal of Honor at Balcombe. Because Lena was Basilone’s closest family member, she received the $10,000 life insurance payout given to the families of all American serviceman who had died as a result of war injuries. She promptly gave it to the Basilone family. Lena never remarried. She survived him by 54 years. When she died in 1999, Lena was still wearing the wedding ring her beloved “Johnny” had given her. Her grave is at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. She had declined the government’s offer of a burial spot near her husband at Arlington.

Sombre duty: Lena Basilone taking part in the launch of the destroyer that bears the name of her late husband, war hero John Basilone. Below, the USS Basilone.

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Four airmen killed when bomber flew into fog-bound Arthurs Seat Arthurs Seat has been the scene of two RAAF aircraft crashes. The first was an Avro Anson A4 on 10 August 1938, resulting in the loss of four lives and only one survivor. The second was a Bristol Beaufort A9-64 on 12 July 1942, with all four crewmen killed. This is the story of the Avro Anson crash. ON 10 August 1938, five RAAF Avro Anson A4 bombers from No. 2 Squadron based at Point Cook were on navigational exercises. The aircraft followed a short triangular course with Port Phillip, Western Port and the Gellibrand lighthouse at Williamstown as the three points. Due to worsening weather, the bombers had been recalled to Point Cook and four had landed. Mid-morning the air force was given the tragic news that A4-29 had crashed into the northwestern face of Arthurs Seat. Four men had been killed and one had miraculously survived. At 9.45am, while flying in low cloud over Arthurs Seat, A4-29 had mysteriously crashed into the 300-metre high mountain. The front of the aircraft was com-

Turret gunner miraculous survivor

Bomber command: Avro Anson bombers, including the ill-fated A4-29 of the RAAF’s No. 2 Squadron. A4-29 flew into Arthurs Seat on 10 August 1938. Killed were Flight Sergeant John Gillespie, Pilot Officer Robert Symonds, and Aircraftsmen Kenneth McKerrow and Robert Mawson. Turret gunner James Glover miraculously survived. Picture courtesy Australian War Memorial

pletely demolished after ploughing through trees, but the tail and mid sections were reasonably intact. The survivor was the turret gunner, James Glover, who was in the rear half of the aircraft. Aircrafts-

man Glover, a 31-year-old rigger of Hawthorn, had sustained abrasions and was in severe shock. He was admitted to Dromana Bush Nursing Hospital. Killed were Pilot Officer Stanley

Robert Symonds, aged 22 years, of Adelaide; Flight Sergeant John Mahon Gillespie, 28, of St Kilda; Aircraftsman Kenneth Campbell McKerrow, 23, of Carnegie; and Aircraftsman Robert Windram Mawson,

28, of Turramurra, NSW. Their deaths brought to 10 the number of airmen killed that year, a record in peace time Australia. A dense fog and drizzling rain limited visibility to about 30 metres (100ft) on Arthurs Seat when the plane roared in from the sea. Lopping the tops of the taller trees with its wing tips, the bomber crashed about 200 metres (600ft) up the mountain. The crash was heard by residents of Dromana about six and a half kilometres (four miles) away. Men working on the main road only 400 metres from the scene were first to reach the wreckage, about four minutes after the crash. They found the pilot dead and three other men unconscious near the Anson. A fifth member of the crew was seen struggling from the cabin. The first to reach the plane, G J Griffiths, said that he saw Glover emerge from the gun turret, struggle through the wreckage of the observation cabin, and stagger to the side of one of the men lying on the ground. Glover was suffering from abrasions and severe shock, and was bleeding profusely from a cut on the chin. Nothing could be done for the three unconscious men, and they died

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Grim discovery: The wreckage of Avro Anson A4-29 after it crashed into fog-bound Arthurs Seat. The front of the bomber was completely demolished after ploughing through trees, but the tail and mid sections were reasonably intact. Picture courtesy Australian War Museum, donated by H Smith

within 10 minutes without having regained consciousness. They were pronounced dead by Dr A J MacDonald, of Dromana, who arrived 20 minutes after the accident. Mr J Webb, who was working lower down on the mountain about 1200 metres from the crash scene, said he heard an aircraft above him, but it was obscured by low clouds. He said the Anson suddenly appeared through the cloud and was flying inland. A few seconds later he heard the crash and hurried to the wreck. Fragments of the plane were scattered along a path the Anson had torn through the trees for a distance of 125 metres down the mountain. The cabin, built of fabric on a steel frame with celluloid windows, took the full force of the crash and was almost completely crushed. This was where the four men had been seated. The four bodies were found where they had been flung in the direct line of flight of the bomber. The pilot’s body had been hurled more than 30 metres from the aircraft. A second man was found 15 metres in front of the wreckage, another about 10 metres away and the fourth was lying near a tree almost next to the aircraft. Instruments from the cabin, including the wireless, were scattered about seven metres from the wreckage. The starboard engine was flung about seven metres after the Anson struck the ground, and the port engine had been stopped by a tree about three metres behind the cabin. Pieces of the wings hung in the treetops further down Arthurs Seat. One indication of the terrific speed with which the bomber hit the ground was boots worn by the dead men had been ripped off their feet. Another eyewitness, Robert Williams, said he heard the aircraft flying low south of Dromana at about 9.45am. Broken branches indicated the Anson had struck trees more than 100 metres from where the wreckage lay. Early inquiries into the crash revealed there was no engine trouble or structural fault in the bomber. Minister for Defence Harold Thorby, after expressing his regret at the accident, said

that the RAAF Air Accidents Investigation Committee had reported the engines of the bomber were running immediately prior to the crash and there was no sign of engine failure having occurred. “It was a most tragic accident,” he said. “On the facts as they have been reported to me, it appears that no defect of the machine was responsible. It was sheer bad luck.” Direction finding equipment was installed in the plane, but it was later shown the pilot had not called for a bearing. Members of the investigation committee arrived at the crash site within three hours of the disaster. They inspected the wreckage, interviewed the men who reached the site first and spoke to Glover at Dromana Hospital.

The four bodies were found where they had been flung in the direct line of flight of the bomber. The pilot’s body had been hurled more than 30 metres from the aircraft. A second man was found 15 metres in front of the wreckage, another about 10 metres away and the fourth was lying near a tree almost next to the aircraft.

It was reported in the press the next day that because the men’s shoes and parachutes had been removed and the emergency raft had been inflated the pilot must have thought he was flying over water. This theory was later discounted by members of the investigation committee. They said the raft had automatically inflated when the aircraft crashed and shoes had probably been torn from the men’s feet when they were hurled through the roof of the cabin. Official details of the flight of RAAF bombers from Laverton were made public a few days after the crash.

It was officially reported to the Air Board that five Avro Anson bombers attached to No. 2 squadron at Laverton had been engaged in a navigational reconnaissance course. After the first “circuit”, it was intended to repeat the exercise with the second pilot of each crew in control, but owing to weather conditions near the completion of the first exercise, the bombers were recalled. The plane that crashed had apparently received the call and was turning back. A further report to the Air Board after a cursory examination of the wreckage stated there had been no engine failure. Later it was reported: “It is believed the committee will report that an investigation disclosed no failure of the engines, which were running when the aircraft crashed and no other structural faults which might have explained the accident. “The committee has been unable to determine whether the altimeter was operating efficiently, because it was smashed in the accident. The committee is likely to suggest that the pilot of the machine was not aware that he was flying over land immediately before the crash, and that the low clouds were probably responsible for the course the plane was taking.” At the inquest conducted by Melbourne coroner Mr A C Tingate, Aircraftsman Glover said the Avro Anson bomber left the airbase at 8.55am. He was in the rear gunner’s cockpit. Flight Sergeant Gillespie was the pilot and Pilot Officer Symonds was navigator. McKerrow was wireless operator, Mawson was the fitter and Glover was there for general repairs if they were required. Mr Glover told the coroner he and Aircraftsman Mawson inspected the plane and its engines for efficiency and airworthiness before departure. (Mawson was the only son of Dr William Mawson and a nephew of Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic explorer.) Glover said the bomber circled the aerodrome twice to enable the wireless operator to make contact with the ground. The aircraft then headed for Williamstown pier at a height of 2000 feet (610 metres), made a right turn, headed down Port Phillip, and climbed to about 3000 feet (915 metres). On reaching Point Nepean, the aircraft Western Port News ANZAC Special Edition 2012

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made a left turn and after having travelled some distance entered a cloud bank. “The visibility was so bad that I could not see the cabin or outside the plane,� Glover said in his evidence. “After being in cloud for about four minutes at the normal cruising speed of 130 miles an hour [210km/h] we suddenly emerged. Directly in front of us and only a short distance away I saw trees and a hill. “I knew a crash was unavoidable and I gripped the seat with both hands. I remember the plane crashing into the trees and the hillside; I was stunned. Later I remember climbing out of the plane, which was badly wrecked “The four other members of the crew had been thrown out of the plane. I saw McKerrow about 80 feet away. He appeared to be dead. Mawson was about 10 feet away from the plane. He was conscious and said ‘I am pretty bad’. He died in my presence a few minutes later. “I saw Symonds about 40 feet from the plane. He appeared to be dead. Gillespie was lying about 20 feet from the plane and he appeared to have been killed outright.�

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OUR ANZACS Glover said that up to the time of the crash the plane was flying perfectly. Rupert Moorehead, an estate agent of Latrobe Parade, Dromana, gave evidence that he was in his backyard with his wife when he heard an aircraft approaching from the sea. Because of the fog, which was the worst that he had seen for some time, he did not see the aircraft until it was directly overhead. He saw the dim outline of the plane about 50 feet (15 metres) overhead. The aircraft disappeared in a straight line towards Arthurs Seat. He said to his wife “My God, that plane will crash”. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he heard a crash. First Constable Holland of Dromana told the coroner that he examined the path cut by the aircraft in the trees. The aircraft had struck light trees at a height of about 25 feet (7.6m) and had continued in a downward direction. Other trees about 18 inches (45cm) in diameter had been broken before it struck the ground at a point 150 feet (45m) from where it had first touched the trees. After striking the ground, the aircraft had continued on for another 120 feet (36m). Light rain had fallen that morning and Arthurs Seat was enveloped in a heavy fog. Pilot Officer Gordon Waters Savage, the officer commanding A Flight No 2 Squadron at Laverton, told the coroner he was acting ad-

jutant on the day the aircraft left on its flight. He produced written orders for the flight and read a statement detailing the course on which the navigator had been instructed to fly. A pilot’s duty, he said, was to pilot the craft as the navigator instructed him. Mr Tíngate asked: “What happens if they are lost in the clouds?” Pilot Officer Savage replied: “By the use of the direction-finding wireless bearings they can go right back to Laverton.” Savage produced a copy of the wireless log. Asked by Mr Tíngate if the crew had asked for their course, he said there was no record of this. At the inquest, Inspector McMillan assisted the coroner; Squadron Leader Knox Knight, of the RAAF’s No. 2 Squadron, appeared in the interests of the air force; Mr R V Monshan represented the widow and relatives of Gillespie; and Mr F G Marrie represented the relatives of Mawson. Mr Tíngate found the four occupants were killed when the aircraft accidentally struck Arthurs Seat. “I am unable to say just how the plane came to be on the course that it was on,” he said, “but I am quite satisfied that the collision was accidental.” The crash caused great consternation around the nation as it was the second air tragedy with multiple deaths that year, the first being near the RAAF’s air base at Richmond

in NSW when three airmen were killed. In the federal parliament, ALP leader John Curtin, who was to become Prime Minister in 1941 during the dark days of the Second World War, called for fuller inquiries into air accidents. He said the Arthurs Seat crash, unfortunately, added force to the Labor Party’s contention that the Air Accidents Investigation Committee should have as one of its members a person with magisterial experience. “I have always held the view that these inquiries should be open to the public,” Mr Curtin said. “Failing that, I consider that the presence of some person with cross-examination capacity (other than from within the Department of Defence) would excite greater public confidence in the Air Accidents Investigation Committee and would quash the growing belief that these inquiries merely apply ‘whitewash’ to the department. “It is certainly remarkable that, despite the number of fatal mishaps to RAAF planes, no statement has been made by the Minister for Defence of corrective measures adopted; there have been no changes (as far as I am aware) in the personnel of those charged with the control of the Air Force and, in brief, nothing has been done which would allay public disquietude as to the state of affairs existing within the Air Force.”

Four good men PILOT Officer Symonds of Adelaide joined the RAAF in 1937. He entered the Flying Training School at Point Cook in July and graduated in June the following year. He had been transferred to Laverton air station not long before the crash. Symonds played lacrosse, was regarded as one of the best defenders in Australia and had represented South Australia in interstate games. After moving to Victoria, he played for Malvern, which won the state premiership in 1937. The coffin containing the body of Pilot Officer Symonds was placed on the Adelaide Express. The funeral service was held at the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide Before being placed on the train, the coffin was placed on a trailer and covered with a Union Jack on which rested the hat and sword of Pilot Officer Symonds. A mourning party of 35 officers and cadets followed the trailer from the mortuary chapel of E W Jackson in Williamstown to Spencer Street Station. The Minister for Defence, Harold Thorby, was represented by Squadron Leader A M Charlesworth, while wreaths were sent by Mr Thorby, the air board, and from the No. 1 and No. 2 Air Squadrons at Laverton and Point Cook. Flight Sergeant John Gillespie joined the RAAF in July 1936 and graduated in June 1937. He had 360 hours of flying to his credit in official records. Full air force honours were accorded at the funerals of Gillespie and McKerrow, which were held on the same day. Gillespie’s funeral was at Melbourne General Cemetery and followed a requiem mass at the Carmelite Church in Middle Park, which was conducted by RAAF Roman Catholic chaplain Flight Lieutenant Chaplain K Morrison. As the long cortege following the flag-draped coffin approached the entrance to the cemetery, an Avro Anson bomber flew overhead and twice dipped its wings in salute with its motors silenced before returning to Point Cook. The service for Aircraftsman McKerrow was held at Brighton Cemetery. A firing party was at the graveside, where the service was conducted by Chaplain Morrison, assisted by the Rev Father Dillon. An air force bomber circled high overhead at the cemetery. Earlier, the funeral procession had left the home of his parents in Neerim Road, Glenhuntly. Draped with a Union Jack, the coffin was carried on an air force tender. The cortege, headed by the band of the RAAF, was met at the cemetery gates by a guard of honour, the members of which stood with reversed arms. The funeral of Aircraftsman Robert Mawson, who was educated at Cranbrook School and Sydney Grammar School, was held at the Melbourne Crematorium in Fawkner. He was cremated and the ashes sent to Sydney for burial in a family vault.

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Three go to war and one returns: the story of Mornington’s Somers ‘boys’ By Peter McCullough WHEN the “Great War” ended in 1918, Australia had a population of less than five million. During the previous four years about 500,000 Australians wore some type of uniform and few families were untouched by events in distant lands. For 61,000 families, telegrams delivered the tragic news that a loved one had been lost. Some families had the misfortune to suffer bad news more than once: the Somers family of Mornington was one of those. Dr J L Edgeworth Somers was a much-loved and highly respected doctor in Mornington in the late 19th and early 20th century. He died in 1938. Three of his sons enlisted during the First World War, but two never returned. This story comes from records at the Australian War Memorial and the book Our Boys at the Front, published last year by the Mornington and District Historical Society. SOMERS, Noel Travers Edgeworth Enlisted 14/12/1914; killed in action 8/8/1915. Noel was a 21-year-old bank clerk and stated on enlistment that he had prior service, namely “Cadet Royal Navy 2 years” and “3 years OIC Stonyhurst College”. He was in the 5th Reinforcements of the 14th Bat-

talion, which left Melbourne on the Hororata on 17 April 1915, arriving at the Dardanelles on 9 July. On 8 August he was reported missing at Gallipoli: was he killed or had he been captured by the Turks? It would be a year before the answer was known. On 6 September 1915, Dr Somers wrote to the army enquiring as to “… the circumstances under which my son is posted as missing, and if you would give me your private opinion as to his chances of being alive and well though a prisoner, or to the greater likelihood of his being dead and not being discovered or identified. My boy had two chums named Friend and Greenwood (14th Battalion). Could I possibly have their relatives’ names and addresses so as through them to make some enquiries.” The names and addresses were supplied. In January 1916 the youngest son, Gervase Somers, wrote to the army stating that a list of prisoners captured by the Turks had been published in The Argus, but his brother’s name was not among them; was another list likely to appear? Although the Anzacs left Gallipoli in December 1915, the fate of Noel Somers remained unknown. Eventually a court of enquiry con-

ducted by 4th Infantry Brigade AIF Headquarters sitting in Serapeum, Egypt, issued a determination on 7 July 1916. Although Noel Somers’s body was never found, the finding was based on a document submitted by the Australian Red Cross Information Bureau in Melbourne: “Sgt M P Connelley, 1079, 14th Btn, states that he was Sgt of the pla-

toon of which Somers was a member and was about 100 yards off when the casualty was wounded on the 8th August. They had advanced from trenches two days before near Suvla Bay, two miles inland. Informant saw the casualty hit and could not tell how badly he was hurt but by the way he fell he considered that he was hit through the body. The coy. did not advance beyond the point where the

casualty fell, or if they did advance, it was very little. They then retired and the casualty was left there with about 65 of the Btn. either wounded or killed. As far as informant knows the bodies of the dead were not collected by either side. Names of prisoners taken at that fight have been announced and the list did not include that of the casualty. Informant seemed reliable.”

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High price: Left, the Red Cross report stating the circumstances of the death of Noel Travers Edgeworth Somers. Above, the battlefield at Gallipoli where Noel Somers was killed. Picture courtesy the C E W Bean Collection. Right, the memorial board donated by Mrs Somers with the names of her two sons. Gervase Edgeworth Somers was a late addition to the board, tragically killed just before the end of the war.

By 29 September, Dr Somers had received a package containing his son’s effects: postcards, hairbrush and letters. Over the next few years he received Noel’s medals, the memorial scroll and memorial plaque. Sometimes the official records throw up a piece of information that leaves the reader guessing. Noel Somers stated in his enlistment papers that he was not married and listed his father as next of kin. When Dr Somers wrote on 6 September 1915 asking for the home addresses of Noel’s chums, Dr Somers concluded his letter: “It is Mrs Somers special wish that the news of whatever kind when it comes should be communicated

direct to me and not through the medium of another person.� However three days earlier (3 September 1915) the Officer Commanding of the Australian Records Section of the AIF in Alexandria received the following instruction: “In the event of any casualty to No. 2015 Private N T E Somers, 14th Battalion, will you please notify his wife, Sister Somers, Military Hospital, Grand Hotel, Helouan.� All of his effects, medals, etc were sent to his father as next of kin. Also, while service records of other soldiers contain a very basic will, this was missing from the file of Noel Somers.

SOMERS, Gervase Louis Enlisted 16/5/1917; killed in action 12/10/1918. An 18-year-old student, Gervase had to get permission from his parents to enlist as he was not 21. He, too, claimed experience in the Sea Cadets (two years) and he was posted as part of the 9th Reinforcements for 60th Battalion. It was May 1918 before he arrived in France and where he transferred to the 59th Battalion. After a spell in hospital with influenza and attending the Australian Corps School, he was selected to go to England for an infantry cadet course in October 1918.

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Words from the past: Left, a letter explaining death of Gervase Somers. Above, the Frankston Standard of 25 January 1945 published a snippet that revealed Neville Somers made it through the war after some lucky escapes.

SOMERS, Neville Edgeworth Enlisted 26/1/1917: discharged 25/3/1919. A 21-year-old medical student, Neville claimed four years in the Sea Cadets as relevant experience. After training at No. 5 Australian General Hospital he embarked on 10 May 1917, reaching Suez on 20 June. Originally allocated to the Camel Field Ambulance, he was considered surplus to requirements and transferred to the 1st Light Horse Ambulance and saw out the war in Palestine. Like many others in that campaign,

Sadly he was killed before departing and was buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, near St Quentin in France. By May 1919 Dr Somers was signing for a package of personal effects: address book, leather cigarette case, leather card case, notebook, paper knife, silver spoon, wallet, cards, and photos. In July a separate package arrived with a pocket book, and then came medals and the memorial scroll and plaque. Photographs of the grave were also supplied.

Neville did not escape the scourge of malaria. The Peninsula Post of 31 January 1919 tells of an incident he experienced earlier. It reported: “Some months ago a horse he was riding was killed by a shell which burst nearby, and although Trooper Somers narrowly escaped death, he suffered severely from shock for some time and has since been in hospital with malaria for two months.” This incident may be the explanation for his misdemeanour on 3 February when he was fined for “offensive language to an NCO”. Trooper Somers embarked for

Australia on 26 January 1919 and was discharged on 25 March with the intention of resuming his uni studies. Did Neville Somers complete his medical studies? His service record gives no indication. The next document on his file, after his discharge papers, was a letter written in 1945 to the Officerin-Charge, AIF Base Records in Canberra, requesting a copy of his statement of service. By now he was using his full name, “Neville Essex Edgeworth de Firmont Somers”. It is understandable that it was not revealed to the boys in the

Camel Corps or in the Light Horse. Neville’s letter requesting a copy of his statement of service explained politely and in some detail that while serving as an RAF officer in Singapore in 1942, he had to depart in something of a hurry. His personal papers and other effects were to follow by sea, but he never saw them again. He even enclosed a stamp in case the army was short of petty cash. The letter, containing all the details, was not acceptable to the army; “Trooper Somers”, as he was referred to, was required to fill out the detailed statuary declaration to

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The heartbroken Somers parents

Forgotten memorial: A sundial atop a cairn was erected in the memory of Dr James Somers. Today it stands largely forgotten in a small park on the corner of the Nepean Highway and Main St in Mornington.

which was attached a form with a number of questions. Even then there was no guarantee of a favourable response; only “... further consideration will be given to the matter”. Although the covering page contained all the necessary detail, the army asked Neville to “... detail the circumstances under which the papers were lost”. Probably mouthing a few of the words that got him into so much trouble in Palestine in 1918, the old trooper wrote “Act of God”. Even the army baulked at the thought of questioning the act of the Supreme Being, and the request was acceded to.

Dr James Louis Edgeworth Somers The father of the three soldiers was a larger than life characters in Mornington and the wider peninsula community for many years. In The Bush – A story of the Mornington Bush Nursing Hospital by Hilary Abeyaratne, we are given an insight into his contribution: “Pioneer practitioner” was the term used by The Peninsula Post to describe Dr J L Edgworth Somers when he was, on account of his long and meritorious service in the area, given the honour of addressing the gathering at the opening of the hospital in 1937. In practice on the peninsula since 1892, one of its best known and respected citizens, Dr Somers was still amazingly fit at 75 when he died most suddenly and unexpectedly, “a grand old gentleman and an ornament to the medical profession”. He was loved as a doctor given to great skill in diagnosis, and also highly respected as the chairman of the local justices. In fact, the day before he died he presided over the cases listed at the local police court for the morning, did one set of his medical rounds soon after, another in the afternoon and again one that night, apparently in perfect health. He is also remembered for the white horse on which he made his calls (although he later owned both a motorcycle and a car) and for the pack of noisy dogs that accompanied them to herald his arrival. Dr Somers’s story before coming to Mornington is “most remarkable and romantic”. The son of a doctor in Ireland, he was, at 19, the youngest at that time in the British Empire to obtain his BA (Cantab) before going on for his clinical studies at St Mary’s Hospital, London. In the years between his graduation and his coming to Mornington at the age of 30, he had had a most adventurous life. He was serving as a surgeon at Fort Juby in West Africa when he was attacked and badly wounded by maraud-

ers; he was rescued by a friendly Arab tribe with whom he remained for the next couple of years, living as an Arab. Later, he lived and practised in South America and Spain before coming to Australia in 1890 where he first toured Queensland on foot before coming to Victoria and Mornington. He served the town for 45 years, never missing his daily swim at the baths, in winter or summer, until a couple of years before he died in his sleep at his home, Tarfayah, in Albert Street on 17 February 1938. Shortly after his death the citizens of Mornington erected a cairn and sundial. It was dedicated on 16 July 1939 by Sir George Fairbairn and the inscription reads: “This sundial is set here in memory of a beloved physician, James Louis Edgeworth Somers, who ministered to the sick of the Mornington Peninsula from 1893 to 1938.” Frances Mabel Edgeworth Somers Mrs Somers was the daughter of Dr Joseph P Usher of Ballarat and a cousin of Dr Somers. Apart from three boys, the family also included two girls: Florence Ruth Edgeworth Somers and Monica Mary Patricia Edgeworth Somers. Mrs Somers shared the “intense anxiety” that Dr Somers referred to in one of his letters to the AIF when they were waiting on news of Noel. On 15 June 1917, The Peninsula Post wrote in its editorial that “The memory of Pte. Somers is kept alive in St Macartan’s Church by two beautiful silver vases, suitably inscribed, presented by Mrs Somers ...”. In a letter to The Post in November, 1917, Mrs Somers said she was to make a presentation to the Shire of Mornington of a memorial board of the fallen of the district, as a “small personal gift”, and expressed the hope that a more enduring marble memorial would be erected after the war to which she would contribute.

On 22 December the memorial board was officially presented by Mrs Somers before “a large assemblage of relatives and friends”. It was described as “beautifully carved by an English artist (a brother of an Imperial Officer) ...” and bearing the names of 20 boys from the district. It was unveiled with great ceremony by His Excellency Sir John Maddern, Lt Governor, whose stirring speech was reported in The Post on 4 January 1918: “The noblest feelings of humanity which are theirs, adorned their character and their sacrifice, and so our grief was assuaged in the pride of their heroic deeds.” Sadly, more grief lay ahead for the Somers family with the death of Gervase toward the end of the war. His name was added to the board, which can be viewed at the Mornington RSL, beside that of his brother. The grief of Mrs Somers was made more tangible by a poem she wrote entitled “My Son” and published in The Post after the war: Little one with deep blue eyes Like shadows on the azure skies Sun kissed curls that seemed to dance Do you really lie in France? Son whose eyes ever grew darker blue, Hair that lost its golden hue, Eyes which looked with open glance, Do you really lie in France? Soldier son who left that day Kissed me softly seemed so gay I wonder do you know perchance My broken heart lies too in France.  Our Boys at the Front: 1914-18 The Mornington Peninsula at war from the pages of the Peninsula Post is an excellent resource for anyone interested in this period of history. It includes a DVD and is available from bookshops and newsagents on the peninsula.

HASTINGS FOOTBALL CLUB The late forties – a golden era

The resumption of MPFL football in 1946, proved to be one of the most exciting and successful periods in the long and proud overall history of the Hastings Football Club. Comprising champions such as Bob Stone, the Coleman brothers Albert and John, Les Tolson, Jack Roberts and captain-coach George Slocombe. These players were to provide the nucleus of three successive premierships 1946-7-8. The 1948 HFC Premiership side which went through the year undefeated were not only a team of champions but also a champion team. Although he did not play until 1947, this overall period was known as the “Coleman era”, and the late great John Coleman went on to become an AFL legend and one of the all-time “greats” of the game. Four only members of the historical 1948 team remain alive today and for the staunch football followers who can remember, the overall grief and sadness of the war period was soon forgotten and replaced by the joy and success of the Hastings Football Club’s late forties football dominance.

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Frankston orphan killed at Gallipoli By Matt Vowell ARTHUR Ernest Bolger joined the Australian Imperial Force on 2 November, 1914. He was born in Carlton in 1893 and was given up for adoption soon after he was

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Hellhole: Above and right, Quinn’s Post, where Arthur Bolger was killed two days after the first landing at Gallipoli. Right, the memorial to Arthur Bolger at Quinn’s Post Cemetery.

After completing his schooling in Frankston, Bolger got a job as a labourer. He never married and was single when he enlisted and went to war. He joined the AIF at Warragul on 2 November 1914 and passed all physical tests. He enlisted as a private in the 14th Battalion. Bolger embarked for Gallipoli on board HMAT Berrima on 22 December the same year. He was serving near Quinn’s Post at Gallipoli when he was killed in action

on 27 April 1915, two days after the landing. On that fateful day, Bolger was in one of two companies of the battalion lead by Major John Adams that were sent to Quinn’s Post. At arrival, the commanding officer was shot and severely wounded by Turkish machine gun fire. Returning fire was futile as the Turks were well concealed in the ‘dig-ins’ of the rough terrain. Twentyseven men lost their lives in the battle, nearly a third of the men of the 14th Battalion, including Arthur.

Just after midnight, Chaplain Frederick Wray made his way up to Quinn’s Post and buried the 27 dead soldiers in the cold and dark, at the Quinn’s Post Cemetery. Arthur Bolger was 21. Charlotte Bolger received Arthur’s war medals and certificate of death since she was his only next of kin. She was advised that a special memorial would be erected at Quinn’s Post with the inscription “Believed to be buried at this cemetery. He gave God’s greatest gift to man; his life.�

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Living in a world of Somme Mud By Peter McCullough FOR decades after the First World War, Australians were mesmerised by the legend of Gallipoli. Scores of books were written telling of the heroic actions of the Diggers and we adopted the anniversary of the landing at what became known as Anzac Cove as our national day of remembrance. About 20 years ago historians began to point out that while we had glorified those brave but ill-fated deeds at Gallipoli, we had ignored the achievements of soldiers from the Western Front, where so many more suffered, were wounded or killed. The Western Front was in many ways bigger than the Gallipoli campaign: five times as many Australians served there (250,000 compared to 50,000 at Gallipoli); more than five times more men died (46,000 compared to 8709), five times more battles were fought on the Western Front (40 compared to eight), 52 Victoria Crosses were won by Australian soldiers compared to nine at Gallipoli, and fighting raged across the front for two and a half years, far longer than the eight months of the Gallipoli campaign. Unlike at Gallipoli, the Australians on the Western Front fought under Australian command, with all five divisions led by General Sir John Monash. Perhaps most significantly, Australian soldiers on the Western Front, all of them volunteers, contributed to the defeat and surrender of the German forces, while the Gallipoli campaign was recognised as a defeat. As Monash reported, the AIF constituted 10 per cent of Allied forces but won 25 per cent of enemy territory, prisoners of war, arms and ammunition. This gradual appreciation of the significance

of the Western Front has led to the publication of historical accounts over the past decade: The Anzacs – Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pedersen, Diggers in France by Richard Travers and, perhaps the best of them, The Great War by Les Carlyon. Somme Mud by E P F Lynch is different to these publications as it is a first-hand account written by an ordinary private, Edward Lynch. Lynch was an 18-year-old AIF volunteer who sailed for France in August 1916. It wasn’t long before he was enduring the horror of the Western Front. “It’s the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable,” he wrote. “We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can’t escape it, not even by dying.” On his return from France in 1919, Private Lynch wrote his recollections in pencil, filling 20 school exercise books, perhaps in the hope of coming to terms with all he had witnessed. His account lay unpublished for more than 80 years, when it was brought to light by a grandson. The result is a book that, in the view of Bill Gammage, Australian National University history professor and author of several books on the First World War, can be compared with Erich Remarque’s First World War classic All Quiet on the Western Front. Somme Mud, written with dignity, candour and surprising wit, is a testament to the power of the human spirit. Out of the mud that threatened to suck out a man’s very soul rose a compelling story of humanity and friendship.

Extracts from Somme Mud Gas attack (page 240): The corporal bends down to tie a bootlace. He remains bent and speaks with a tremor. ‘Up near Polygon Wood I saw seven gassed men dying out behind a dressing station. They were in convulsions and black in the face and throat. Buckets of blood-specked foamy sort of jelly was coming from their mouths. The doctor and orderlies attending them wore gas masks. The poor gassed beggars kept grabbing at things and I saw one man grab his own hand and smash his own fingers out of joint. One man tore his mouth nearly back to his ear trying to pull the gas out of his throat. And as each man died, they threw buckets of mud over their head and shoulders. Been far kinder to have smothered them before they died, not after’. Tank attack (page 246): Our guide turns to the O.C. ‘You’ve heard of a man being called a flat, haven’t you sir?’ ‘Um, yes.’ ‘Well here’s one.’ And he leads us into a little patch of wheat squashed flat by the tank’s great caterpillar tracks. The guide points and we see a Fritz [German] uniform spread out on the ground. We look closer and see that a man is inside the uniform, squashed absolutely flat on the ground when a tank has gone over him. A terrible sight, and sickened, we turn away. The value of teetotallers (page 308): Later in the morning the mail is given out. I have landed a parcel from my old high school at Bathurst and one from my grandmother and aunt at Carlton, so our little crowd is set. We eat tinned pears and smoke Australian cigarettes. I find a nice pair of knitted mittens in my parcels and, not wanting to lug them all over France for another two months, I give them to Clem, for he gave me his rum issue this morning. He’s a teetotaller and as such is well worth cultivating. We could do with quite a lot more teetotallers in our platoon. Clem tries the mittens on. ‘Do me, thanks, Nulla. They’ll come in handy for the winter. It gets very cold over here I believe.’ And Clem goes away to put the mittens in his already overloaded haversack. A man’s expectation of life is pretty good when he can carry extra weight about for two months before it is needed.

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