Pat Conroy (Charlton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am honoured and privileged to rise to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli. World War I was a conflict that divided the nation, communities, political parties and even families. Even the cause of the war is still debated today—whether it was purely German aggression or a product of balance-of-power politics. But what is beyond dispute is that the honour and sacrifice of all those who volunteered for service must be honoured and commemorated, because it was a tremendous act of sacrifice that our community should be exceedingly grateful for.

Like every other community in this country, the Hunter region was deeply touched by this sacrifice. Over 11,000 served and 2,072 men lost their lives. In the Lake Macquarie region, which I predominantly represent, over 1,000 men served and 167 died. The youngest was 18 and the oldest was 47. I would like to honour all those from Lake Macquarie who served in World War I by reading their names into Hansard, because I think that is a greater honour than having a politician like me talking about their sacrifice a hundred years later. I think it is much more important to record their names. With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I will attempt to do that in the time I have remaining:

Thomas Abell of Fassifern; David Absalom of Catherine Hill Bay; Charles Adams of West Wallsend; Albert Aley of Dora Creek; Sidney Allen of West Wallsend; Andrew Allison of Teralba; Leonard Amourous of Catherine Hill Bay; Alexander Anderson of Seahampton; Arthur Anderson of Belmont; Edward Anderson of Dudley; James Anderson of West Wallsend; Joseph Annoni of Speers Point; John Anson of Mandalong; James Antcliff of Teralba; Edward Ardron of Redhead; Walter Armitage of West Wallsend; Stanley Ashdown of Morisset; Ernest Ashman of Teralba; Paul Askew of Charlestown; John Atherton of West Wallsend; Edward Atkins of Toronto; George Atkinson of Cardiff; Thomas Aylward of Morisset; Daniel Baccus of West Wallsend; Samuel Bailey of Cardiff; Vivian Bailey of Cardiff; Wilfred Bailey of Cardiff; John Bainbridge of West Wallsend; John Bainbridge of Edgeworth; Arthur Baker of Catherine Hill Bay; Ernest Baker of Fassifern; Robert Baker of Catherine Hill Bay; William Baker of Catherine Hill Bay; John Baldwin of West Wallsend; Edwin Balkham of Dudley; Frederick Ball of Boolaroo; Thomas Ball of Toronto; Sydney Banfield of Dudley; Alexander Barbour of West Wallsend; Rupert Barnett of Boolaroo; William Barnett of Teralba; Peter Barrass of West Wallsend; Walter Barrell of West Wallsend; Benjamin Barry of West Wallsend; Percy Barry of Corranbong; Arhur Bateman of Boolaroo; John Bateup of Wyee; Timothy Baxter of Toronto; Frank Beattie of Toronto; Athol Beck of Teralba; Charles Beck of Teralba; Claude Beck; George Beck; Victor Beck; Eldred Belford; Ernest Bell; Walter Bennett; Sydney Benton; Charles Bice; Arthur Biggers; Roland Biggs; Gregory Bills; Edward Bird; William Bird; James Black; Robert Black; Samuel Black; Charles Blackett; John Blackford; Andrew Blackie; Alfred Blackman; John Blackwell; Angus Blakely; John Blakely; Edward Blatchford; Enoch Blek; George Bliss; Peter Bloomfield; Thomas Bloomfield; William Boekenstein; William Bookless; Frank Botham; Herbert Bowen; Samuel Bower; Frederick Bowers; James Bowie; William Bowles; Peter Bowling; Alexander Boyd; David Boyd; Herbert Bradley; Thomas Bradley; James Brady; Harold Branscombe; George Breakwell; Enoch Brennan; John Brennan; Joseph Brewer; Joseph Briddick; Cecil Bridgett; James Brierly; George Broadbent; John Broadbent; John Brogan; Charles Brooks; Henry Brooks; David Brown; Ernest Brown; George Brown; Harold Brown; Hugh Brown; John Brown; William Brown; James Brownlee; William Brownlee; John Broxom; Edwin Bruce; Frederick Bruce; Albert Buckley; Alfred Bull; Alexander Bull; Rupert Burchell; Harold Burgin; John Burn; George Burns; Charles Burrows; William Burt; James Byrne; Henry Cadell; Edward Cain; John Callender; Wesley Callender; Samuel Cambridge; Alexander Campbell; David Campbell; Donald Campbell; James Campbell; John Campbell; Norman Campbell; Richard Campbell; William Campbell; William John Campbell; Charles Cannon; Frederick Cantelo; Roy Cantelo; Donald Carney; Joseph Carney; Robert Carpenter; Herbert Carr; William Carr; James Carter; Arthur Cartwright; Richard Casey; Archer Castleden; Cyril Castleden; James Castleden; Wilbie Chalk; Arthur Chapman; Clifford Chapman; Edward Chapman; William Chapman; Harry Charlton; Thomas Charlton; Elijah Chenhall; Herbert Cherry; James Cherry; Oliver Cherry; Eric Christian; Arthur Cima; Albert Clapham; Bernie Clapham; William Clapham; Herbert Clark; Alfred Clarke; Patrick Cleary; Leslie Clouten; Athol Clyde; Stanley Coates; Frederick Cockburn; George Cockburn; Henry Cockburn; Leslie Coleman; Edwin Collins; John Chalmers Collins; John Donald Collins; Thomas Common; John Conn; George Connelly; Arthur Convery; Robert Convery; Charles Cooch; Thomas Cook; Frederick Cooke; Arthur Cooper; John Cooper; Harry Copeland; John Copeland; James Corbett; George Cornish; Leo Cornish; Stanley Cornish; John Cornwall; Augustine Cotter; William Cotter; Peter Cousins; Arthur Coventry; Alexander Cowie; Edward Cox; Robert Cox; Norman Cragg; Alexander Craig; John Craig; Samuel Craig; Arthur Crampton; Frank Cravos; William Cresswell; Edward Cressy; Henry Cressy; William Crisp; Thomas Crittendell; Wilfred Crittendell; George Croft; Robert Croker; William Croker; Henry Crowe; Vincent Crosbie; Aloysius Culla; William Culla; David Cummings; William Cummings; Denis Curan; Alexander Curry; John Curtin; John Dallas; Harold Dalton; John Davidson; William Davidson; Robert Davey; Wallace Davey; James Davies; John Davies; Llewellyn Davies; Thomas Davies; Thomas Davies; William Davies; James Davis; Holles Dawes; Cecil Dawson; Henry Dawson; John Dawson; Adolphe de Sylva; Edward Dean; Roy Deaves; Charles Dedman; David Deeprose; Arthur Deighton; John Dempsey; Samuel Denney; Samuel Denny; Walter Desreaux; John Dever; Thomas Dial; William Dick; John Dickinson; George Dickson; William Dickson; Samson Dimmock; Andrew Dodds; John Dodds; Richard Donaghy; Andrew Donald; Patrick Donaldson; George Doncaster; Herbert Donnelly; James Dormer; Joseph Dorrington; George Douglass; Horace Douglass; Edward Douthwaite; Leslie Doyle; Herbert Drew; Thomas Drinkwater; Thomas Driscoll; Daniel Drough; Frederick Dudley; William Duers; Edward Duffy; Percy Duncan; Robert Duncan; Horace Dunford; Robert Dunn of Belmont; Robert Dunn of Homesville; Thomas Dunn; Claude Dunshea; John Durie; Archie Eade; Sam Earnshaw; Thomas Easton; McAlpine Eather; Reginald Eather; Richmond Eather; William Eather; Archibald Ebbeck Samuel Egginton; William Eller; Joseph Elliott; Stanley Elliott; Amos Escott; Samuel Etheridge; Joseph Etherington; Tom Evans; Walter Evans; Reginald Everitt; (Extension of time granted)Lindsay Fairmington; Charles Faith; Robert Fallins; Thomas Farinden; Victor Farr; Arthur Farrar; George Farraway; John Farrell; John Farrindon; Alfred Farroway; Thomas Featherstone; Foster Fennell; Edwin Fenwick; James Ferguson; Fabian Fernie; Earl Ferris; William Fiedler; Leslie Field; Matthew Findlay; William Findlay; Benjamin Finney; Charles Firth; Arthur Fischer; Louis Fisher; Percy Fisher; Cammeles Fitzsimmons; Robert Fitzsimmons; Thomas Fitzsimmons; Walter Fleming; Harry Flowers; Ernest Ford; James Forrester; Henry Forsythe; Robert Foster; Warwick Foster; Spencer Fowler; Joseph Fox; Arthur Francis; William Francis; Michael Freeman; Arthur Freestone; Michael Freestone; Richard Frith; Herbert Froome; William Frost; Henry Fullick; Edward Gain; Albert Gardiner; Claude Gardner; Thomas Gardner; Wilfred Gardner; Harold Garfoot; Horace Garratt; William Garrett; William Gawn; Charles Geary; George Geary; Thomas Geary; William Geary; James Gemmel; David Gibb; Harold Gibson; Joshua Gibson; William Gilchrist; Thomas Gill; William Gill; Thomas Gillons; Victor Gilson; Robert Goldie; Frederick Goldsmith; Albert Goodsir; Harry Goodsir; Hugh Goodsir; James Goodsir; William Goodsir; Bertie Gordon; William Gore; William Gourdin; Alexander Gracie; Albert Graham; John Graham; Harold Grant; Lewis Grant; Charles Grey; William Grey; Gordon Green; Owen Green; Ronald Green; Thomas Greener; Albert Greenfield; Peter Greenfield; Stephen Greenfield; Ernest Greenwell; George Greenwell; Joseph Greenwood; William Griffiths; Victor Guest; Cecil Guilfoyle; James Guilfoyle; Aaron Haddon; Sergeant John Haddow; Private John Haddow; Thomas Haddow; William Haddow; Sidney Hafey; Charles Hailes; James Hainey; Andrew Hall; Arthur Hall; Albin Hall; Cecil Hall; William Hall; Andrew Halme; Walter Ham; Richard Hamilton; Walter Hancock; William Hancock; Leslie Hansen; Harry Hanson; Archibald Harden; William Harden; William Harding; Charles Harradine; Edwin Harragon; Frederick Harragon; Herbert Harrington; Arthur Harris; James Harris; John Harris; Albert Harrison; Francis Harrison; William Harrison; Reginald Harrower; John Hart; Albert Hartland; Edward Hartland; Benjamin Haworth; Ernest Hayward; Ernest Healey; John Heaton; Charles Henderson; Jack Henderson; John Henderson; William Henderson; Richard Hepplewhite; Kenneth Hill; Robert Hill; Oscar Hillery; Henry Hills; Alexander Hincks; Alfred Hindley; Albert Hindmarsh; Phillip Hoare; John Hodge; Eveleigh Hodges; Joseph Hodgetts; John Hogan; Percy Hogan; William Holden; John Holland; Frederick Holmes; William Hooey; Matthew Hopkinson; George Hopwood; William Hopwood; Daniel Horgan; Gordon Horgan; Joseph Horgan; Charles Horn; James Horn; John Horn; Clarence Horne; David Horne; John Horne; William Horne; Arthur Horsley; James Howard; Roy Hoyland; William Hoyland; John Hubbuck; Jonathan Huddart; Victor Huddleston; Anthony Hughes; Edmund Hughes; William Edward Hughes; William Victor Hughes; Richard Hugo; David Humphreys; Hugh Humphreys; Percy Humphreys; Thomas Humphreys; William Hungerford; Albert Hunt; Robert Hunt; Frederick Hunter; Robert Hunter; Charles Hyde; Robert Hyslop; Oswald Iles; William Innes; Edward Jackson; Alfred James; Frederick James; William James; William Jarvie; Edgar Jarvis; Henry Jenkins; William Jenkins; Charles Jess; Raymond Johnson; William Johnson; Alexander Johnston; Mark Johnston; Robert Johnston; William Adolphus Johnston; William Henry Johnston; Private David Johnstone; Lance Corporal David Johnstone; Alexander Jones; David Jones; George Jones; Herbert Jones; Pearce Jones; Robert Jones; Robert David Jones; Tacey Jones; William Jones, born in Stafford; William Jones born in Sydney; William Joseph Jones; Arthur Judd; Daniel Judd; Garnet Judd; William Judd; William Jury; Thomas Kane; Harold Kay; Michael Keane; Frederick Keen; James Keen; Thomas Kelly; Thomas Francis Kelly; Augustus Kembrey; Thomas Kilshaw; William King; Thomas Kirk; Carl Knudsen; William Koos; Peter Kusmin; Robert Laidlaw; Edward Laidler; Gordon Lane; Rufus Lansdown; George Laverick; Charles Laverty; John Lawson; James Leckie; Charles Lee; James Lee; William Lee; Herbert Lenham; James Lennox; Alma Lewis; David Lewis; John Lewis; William Lidgard; Albert Lindsay; William Linsley; Alexander Lochrin; William Locke; Ambrose Lockett; Harold Lofts; George Lovett; Henry Lovett; Joseph Lower; Herbert Lunn; Walter Lunn; Frederick Lyle; James MacKenzie; Allan MacLean; Horace Hector MacLean; Thomas MacLean; Alexander Main; John Mainey; Arthur Manbey; George Mansfield; Cecil Marks; Cyril Marks; John Marks; Joseph Marks; Leslie Marks; Thomas Marrion; Christian Marshall; Charles Mason; Joseph Massey; Francis Masters; James Masters; James Masterton; Frank Mathers; Donald Matheson; Edwin Mathews; William Mathews; Thomas Matthews; William Matthews; William McAllister; Guy McClintock; James McCracken; George McCurry; Leslie McCurry; Michael McDade; Evan McDonald; Hector McDonald; Malcolm McDonald; Thomas McDonald; Archibald McDougall; George McDougall; John McDougall; Joseph McDougall; William McDougall; George McDowall; Thomas McEvoy; David McGeachie; Robert McGeachie; Charles McGuiness; Leo McGuinness; George McIlwraith; Andrew McIntyre; Andrew McIntyre; Colin McIntyre; Magnus McKay; Donald McKellar; George McKenzie; John McKenzie; William McLachlan; John McLaughlan; Joseph McLaughlin; Patrick McLaughlin; Allan McLean; William McLean; Daniel McMillan; John McMillan; William McMillan; Edwin McNaughton; Dougall McNeill; Norman McRae; Jack McVea; James McWilliams; Thomas McWilliams; William McWilliams; Herbert Meaton; James Melanophy; Albert Melling; William Merritt; Kenneth Middleton; Ernest Milburn; Robert Millar; James Miller, born in Miami; James Miller, born in Northumberland; William Miller; Alexander Mills; John Mills; John Roy Mills; James Milne; Albert Minslow; Robert Minto; Abraham Mitchell; Herbert Mitchell; Edwin Mittendorf born in North Brighton; Edwin Mittendorf, born in Baltimore; John Moffat; Robert Moffatt; Albert Moffitt; Peter Moffitt; Sylvester Moffitt; John Monagle; George Moncrieff; Thomas Monks; Ernest Moon; Montague Moon; Harold Moore; James Moore; William Moore; Albert Morris; James Morris; Reginald Morris; Robert Morris; William Morris; James Morrison; Hugh Morse; John Mowbray; Cecil Muir; Thomas Muir; Edward Murphy; Hugh Murray; Lester Murray; Robert Murray; Winsleigh Murray; William Mussen; David Mutton; John Mutton; Leslie Myers; George Naylor; Robert Naylor; John Neilson, born in East Maitland; John Neilson, born in Mount Kembla; John Nelson; George Nesbitt; Amos Newell; Stanley Newell; Samuel Newton; Thomas Newton; George Nicholls; Charles Nickson; George Noble; George Norman; Charles Nugent; John O'Brien; John O'Connell; Albert O'Leary; Timothy O'Leary; James Oliver; Arthur Olsen; Henry Olsen; Andrew O'Neil; John O'Neil; Wesley O'Neil; John Oro; Francis Osborne; Henry Osborne; Bertie Osland; Arthur Oswald; Collins Oswald; Hughie Outram; Samuel Outram; Aaron Owen; Percy Owen; David Owens; Thomas Padgett; Eugene Paillard; George Palmer; Herbert Parker; Joseph Parrish; Thomas Parrish; Francis Parry; John Parryman; John Paterson; James Patterson; Robert Patterson; Frederick Payne; John Peacock; William Pearce; William Henry Srodinski Pearce; Francis Pearson; Annaniah Pellow; William Pellow; Sydney Pemberton; Edward Penfold; Percy Penfold; George Perry; John Perry; William Perry; George Pike; Hugh Pillans; Edward Plummer; James Pobje; Herbert Pocock; Robert Poole; Charles Porter; Robert Porter; William Powell; William Power; Edwin Price; John Price; Samuel Price; Sidney Price; George Pritchard; John Pritchard; Joseph Pritchard; Thomas Provan; William Punton; John Purvis; George Pyke; George Raby; Benjamin Rae; James Rae; Robert Rae; Frank Randall; Frank Randle; Lyle Ranger; Robert Raw; Francis Redman; Frank Redman; Samuel Redman; Edris Rees; Harry Rees; John Rees; Leonard Reynolds; Bernard Rhode; Clifton Rhodes; Henry Rhodes; Lawrence Rhodes; Robert Rice; William Richards; Edward Ridley; Simon Ridley; William Ridley; George Robbins; Thomas Robbins; William Robbins; Albert Roberts; Ernest Roberts; George Roberts; Robert Roberts; Herbert Robertson; William Robertson; Joseph Robinson; John Robson; James Rochford; George Rockwell; Anthony Rodgers; Ernest Ross; Harry Rowan; Edwin Rowe; George Ruddy; Cyril Rundle; Reuben Rundle; Sydney Rundle; John Rutherford; Arthur Ryan; David Edward Sault; David James Sault; William Sault; Joseph Schmitt; Alfred Searle; George Seers; Thomas Sevester; William Sevester; James Sharp; Thomas Shaw; Alexander Shepherd; Hugh Sherry; Thomas Shields; William Shiels; Edward Shillabeer; Alexander Short; Donald Short; Edward Short; Charles Simmons; Robert Simpson; Archibald Skelton; Thomas Skinner; Martin Slater; George Slavin; Peter Slavin; William Smailes; Charles Smith; Clyde Smith; Cyril Smith; David Smith; Ernest Smith; George Smith; Gordon Smith; James Smith; John Smith; Oliver Smith; Oscar Smith; Peter Smith; Robert Smith; Robert Smith; Robert Smith; William Smith; William Smith; William Smith; Robert Snedden; Andrew Sneddon; Thomas Sneddon; Henry Spatz; John Speirs; Walter Spicer; Archibald Spowart; Cecil Stainer; Harry Standing; John Stanley; Thomas Stanley; William Staunton; David Steel; James Steele; Richard Steele; James Stenhouse; William Stephen; Robert Stephenson; Charles Stewart; David Stewart; George Stewart; John Stewart; Joseph Stewart; Robert Stewart; William Stewart; William Stockdale; Henry Stoker; Joseph Storer; Robert Storey; William Stott; Francis Stout; John Straker; William Stray; Arthur Streeter; William Sturt; Edward Sullivan; Reginald Sullivan; Percy Summerscales; William Sumner; John Swadling; John Sweeney; William Symington; Hugh Talbot; Leslie Talbot; James Tarrant; James Taylor; Linus Taylor; Wilfred Taylor; William Taylor; John Thain; Frank Thomas; Henry Thomas; John Thomas; Walter Thomas; Charles Thompson; Ernest Thompson; George Thompson; Henry Thompson; James Thompson; James Swan Thompson; John Thompson; William James Thompson; William Walker Thompson; Bruce Thomson; George Thomson; James Thomson; Keith Thomson; William Thomson; Sydney Thornthwaite; Victor Thornton; Walton Thorpe; Sidney Thoroughgood; Robert Thurston; William Tidball; Michael Toner; Frank Tong; John Tonner; Richard Toomey; Adam Towers; Arthur Towers; Thomas Towler; Herbert Traynor; William Treay; John Trueland; Harry Tudor; Peter Turnbull; Robert Turnbull; Christopher Turner; George Turner; John Tutin; Ernest Urwin; Roy Urwin; Alexander Vallance; David Vallance; Robert Waddingham; Richard Wakeham; Reginald Walker; William Walker; William Cecil Walker; William Waller; Charles Walls; Albert Walters; Charles Walton; Garforth Walton; George Walton; Horace Walton; James Walton; Joseph Walton; Mark Walton; Percy Wand; Walter Wappett; Albert Ward; John Ward; Joseph Wardle; Thomas Wardle; John Waring; Alfred Warren; George Warren; Ernest Watkins; George Watkins; Robert Watson; John Waugh; Eric Webb; William Webb; Reginald Wegg; Thomas Weir; Frederick Weiss; Aage Westergaard; William Weston; Edward Whale; Ernest Whiley; Charles White; David White; Thomas White; William Whitehead; John Whitelaw; Norman Whiteman; Alexander Wickham; Charles Wickham; William Wiggs; Thomas Wilcox; Vincent Wilkinson; Alfred Williams; Algernon Williams; David Williams; Francis Williams; Roy Williams; William Williams; Sydney Williamson; Harry Wills; Charles Wilson; Frederick Wilson; George Wilson; Robert Wilson; Thomas Wilson; Thomas Crookston Wilson; Thomas John Wilson; Theodore Windross; William Wingrave; James Wood; William Wooderson; George Woodman; Charles Woods; Thomas Woods; Alfred Woodward; Francis Woodward; Frank Woodward; Charles Worsnop; Frank Worsnop; William Wotton; Alfred Wright; Cecil Wright; John Wright; Norman Yeates; Charles Yorgensen; Andrew Young; David Young; James Young; Joseph Young; Thomas Young; William Young and Thomas Younger.

I honour their sacrifice and their contribution to this country. I say thank you again on behalf of the people of Charlton. Lest we forget.

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