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DON FARQUHAR, ROSEBUD, VICTORIA, UNSUNG HERO OF AUSTRALIA.
Don was discovered while I was researching my journal about Charles Coleman, which includes two terrific articles from trove about Don. Both illustrated his determination to overcome adversity, namely his blindness. These will be added to this journal shortly. Hatred engendered by war is a lot harder to overcome but Don Farquhar managed to do so.


Innocent schoolgirl stepped across the bitterness of war
By Denise Ryan
February 6, 2012 — 12.00am
YOKO Miyazaki didn't realise that some people opposed her visit to Australia — and that was probably a blessing.
As a 16-year-old in 1962, she applied to be Australia's first Japanese Rotary exchange student, at a time when many older Australians remained deeply upset about the events of World War II.

📷Yoko Miyazaki visiting Australia this summer. (Photo)

When Ms Miyazaki returned recently to visit her former host families and friends at Rosebud Rotary, she marvelled that she had felt so welcome as a teenager that she had not realised the extent of the furore surrounding her visit.

Her host brother, Alan Farquhar, was more aware of how some saw the exchange. "It was very controversial," he says.

The exchange came about through the dogged efforts of an unlikely advocate. Mr Farquhar's father, Don, was blinded during the war by a Japanese attack on the RAAF plane he was navigating.

Alan Farquhar recalls: "In 1961 he decided to go to one of the first international Rotary conferences held in Tokyo after the war. Many of his close friends in the RSL tried to talk him out of going."

At that event, Don Farquhar proposed a youth exchange program between the two countries. That this was proposed by a veteran with such a serious shrapnel injury inflicted by the Japanese confounded many.

Few could understand why Mr Farquhar wasn't bitter. His son recalls how his father's determination to forge links between the nations inspired others to support the program. "For the Rotarians to decide this needed to happen only 15 years out from such a hell of an event was extraordinary," Alan Farquhar says.

"And don't forget there was still a White Australia policy. Not everyone wanted it but from the moment Yoko arrived any negativity was swept away by her personality."

Don Farquhar died in 1984 but his generosity of spirit was remembered in the 1988 book Unsung Heroes & Heroines of Australia, edited by Suzy Baldwin.

Looking back, Ms Miyazaki is surprised her parents were not worried about her travelling to Australia. "It was unusual at that time. They were very open-minded."

Ms Miyazaki made many friends and the experience helped her gain work as a flight attendant for Qantas and other airlines. She later lived in Egypt before returning to Japan.

"My life became exciting and broader," she says. "My host families treated me like a daughter or sister, and I met so many people from different countries that I became more open. My father was taken aback when I came home and threw my arms around him and kissed him."

Staff and students at the then Rosebud High School were also ahead of the times in 1962, with The Mikado performed by the school in honour of their visiting exchange student. Ms Miyazaki was in the chorus.
Rosebud Secondary's focus on Japan has endured, with language learning from years 7 to 12, a sister school in Japan and regular exchanges.

Principal John Miller says students and parents were visibly moved when Rotarian David Jarman explained Don Farquhar's link to the school's Japanese language program at last year's awards ceremony. "They sat up and their jaws dropped."

Ms Miyazaki spoke to the students and presented a new Rotary scholarship to support year 10 students to study Japanese.

Rotarian Stuart McDonald, who is co-ordinating coming exchange programs, says Ms Miyazaki's experience demonstrates the power of — and the bonds formed — during international exchanges.

Applications close on March 31 for exchanges to Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Taiwan and other countries this year.

ROTARY VIDEO OF YOKO'S 2011 VISIT

DETERMINATION.
Blind, but can still play golf
Knows the landmarks

LIKELY BIRTH RECORD FOR DONALD (based on him being 69 when he died as stated in previous information.)

Event:births Registration number 32368 / 1913
Family name:FARQUHAR Given name(s)Donald Norm Wm
Place of event: KEW, VIC, Australia
Mother's name Kate Annie, Mother's family name at birth WEIR
Father's Name: Wm Alex


TO BE CONFIRMED WITH RON COLEMAN.
Ronald Coleman Thu, May 14, 4:54 PM (7 hours ago)
to me
Hi ---. Yes, Don's wife was Joan. Enjoyed the article on Don Farquhar, he was also the first president of the group committee re the 1st Rosebud Sea Scouts.

DONALD'S MARRIAGE?

Event:marriages, Registration number 17827 / 1940
Family name:POBERTSON Given name(s)Joan Merton
Spouse's family name: FARQUHAR Spouse's given name(s)Donald Norman

Don's record seems to be missing. Just as well I searched for his marriage in 1940-1941 and not Joan Robertson's! I wonder why Don had been in New Zealand!

Embossed Satin Gown
The marriage of Joan Merton,youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.W. Robertson, Subiaco, West Australia,
and Donald N. Farquhar, Kew, formerly of New Zealand, was celebrated by Canon Roscoe Wilson, at Holy
Trinity Church.
The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. K. Robertson, chose a lovely gown of white embossed satin, with her tulle veil falling from a wreath of gardenias. A trail of pale blue hydrangeas fell from the prayerbook she carried.
A dinner party, was held at the Oriental Hotel after the ceremony.(P. 15, The Age, 21-12-1940.)

FARQUHAR (nee Robertson). - On July 2. at St. Omer. Camberwell, to Mr. and Mrs.Donald Farquhar-a son (Alan Donald).(Both well.) (A brother for Ian.)P.16, THE ARGUS, 3-7-1946.

FARQUHAR (nee Robertson).—On July 26,at St. George's, to Mr. and Mrs. D. Farquhar—a son (Ian Robertson). (Both well.) P.2, THE ARGUS, 27-7-1944.

MARRIAGE OF DON'S PARENTS.
FARQUHAR—WEIR.—On the 20th September, at the residence of the bride's parents, Wellington-street, Kew, by the Rev. R. Betts, William Alexander, only son of William Farquhar, of Kew, to Kate Annie, eldest daughter of Alexander Weir, of Kew.(P.55, The Australasian, 28-10-1899.)

DON FARQUHAR AND CHARLES COLEMAN SEEM TO HAVE MADE THEIR MOVE TO ROSEBUD IN ABOUT THE SAME YEAR.
Was that just coincidence or had these two, both suffering the effects of wounds suffered during flying missions in W.W.2, known each other previously? They were certainly firm friends, their two families holidaying together by mid 1951.
VACANT Dec. 4 to 18, 1949 and March 12 to 16, 1950. McCrae, beach. Res. 6 rooms, accom. 7,H.W.S,, septic tank, garage. Reply D. Farquhar. McCrae P.O. Phone Rosebud 334. (P. 34, The Age, 27-8-1949.)

SPECULATION.
Had Donald been in New Zealand prior to his engagement because of the 1930's depression which had seen many young Victorian men head for Western Australia? It is possible that he was related to the Farquhars, prominent in N.Z., which may have included Mr. F. A. Farquhar, whose New Zealand-bred Nile of Koiro was adjudged champion bull at the Royal Show of 1931 in W.A., Captain Farquhar, among New Zealand's most prominent golfers in the early 1900's and Miss Marie Farquhar, a champion swimmer in N.Z.at about the time Don moved there. He may have even been related to the Farquhars of pearling fame at Thursday Island. Just speculation, mind you.

THIS IS THE LINK TO THE JOURNAL:
MEMBERS OF THE 1ST A.I.F. MENTIONED (USUALLY QUOTED) IN PETER FITZSIMONS' VICTORY AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX

The surnames list under the journal has already reached capacity as indicated by Brigadier Charles Rosenthal's surname in the list having shrunken to R.(In fact it has now disappeared entirely!) SOME SURNAMES MAY HAVE DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY. IF SO THEY WILL BE ADDED HERE in bold type.
SURNAMES LIST UNDER ORIGINAL JOURNAL.
ADAMS ADCOCK AVERY BARWICK BEAN BETHUNE BISHOP BUIE CARTER CHAMPION COBBY COURTNEY DEVINE DOWNING ELLIOTT FEEZ GLASGOW GELLIBRAND GODDARD GRIMWADE HARDIE HAWKER HOBBS, IMLAY JESS JOYNT KENNEDY LAVARACKLEANE MAGEE (MALLEY???) McCONAGHY McLAGLAN MARKS MITCHELL MONASH MORSHEAD MURRAY NEED NICHOLLS NOLAN PFLAUM POTTS ROSENTHAL SIMONSON (STRAKER???) WHITEWILKINS

The details about those who are first mentioned after page 270 (who have not already been included in the original journal) will be given in this journal. DETAILS ABOUT THOSE WHOSE SURNAMES ARE LISTED ABOVE ARE IN THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL.

THOSE FIRST MENTIONED AFTER PAGE 270 IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
P.294. Sergeant Bill Brown would note: "If it hadn't been for McDougall, the enemy would have got through. He did most of the work." (This action involved the 47th Battalion at Dernancourt on 28-3-1918 and the following Bill Brown's "Unit name(was)47th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement" and he was "At VILLERS BRETONNEUX on 1st May, 1918", so I am confident that he was the Bill Brown who supported McDougall on 28 March.
2779 BROWN, William Edward Cairns, Queensland 47th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement




P. 273. The Australian 5th Division under General Talbot Hobbs.
HOBBS, Joseph John Talbot The Bungalow, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia Divisional Artillery Headquarters


P.292. Worse for McDougall's 47 Battalion........McDougall, accompanied by his mate, Sergeant James Lawrence, charges south-west etc. (It can be assumed that James Lawrence was in the 47th Battalion.)
Pages 288-294 are entitled first light, 28 MARCH 1918, DERNANCOURT WHEN MCDOUGALL TOPPED THE SCORE, and the following James Lawrence, in the 47th Battalion, won a military medal for his efforts at Dernancourt just a week later. I am confident that he was McDougall's mate.
"Military Medal
At DERNANCOURT South West of ALBERT April 5th 1918. He did magnificent work in organising two platoons after the officers became casualties."

2206 LAWRENCE, James Charles Townsville, Queensland 47th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement


P.280. Captain Longmore, 44th Battalion on his men: They could be led easily, but the officer who tried to drive them died of exhaustion.
'Eggs-A-Cook!' The Story of the Forty-Fourth. War - as the ...
https://www.treloars.com/pages/books/105052/44th-battalion-captain...

[44th Battalion]. LONGMORE, Captain Cyril 'Eggs-A-Cook!' The Story of the Forty-Fourth. War - as the Digger Saw It ['as the Digger Fought It' (cover subtitle)]
LONGMORE, Cyril 21 Ada Street, Sth Fremantle, Western Australia 44th Battalion Machine Gun Section


P.325. ...the 34th's Colonel Ernest Martin, etc.
MARTIN, Ernest Edward Mudgee, New South Wales 34th Battalion, Headquarters



P.325. ... battalion commanders of the 9th Brigade..., the 36th's Colonel John Milne, etc.
P. 484.Theshellhas scored a direct hit on 36th Battalion headquarters. Colonel Milne lies dead...
"For coolness, gallantry, ability and consideration, the colonel could not be excelled."(39)
MILNE, John Alex Burnet Street, Bundaberg, Queensland 9th Battalion, E Company
MILNE, John Alexander Bundaberg, Queensland 41st Battalion, Headquarters


P.289. Lieutenant George Reid, one of the two officers of the 47th Battalion checking that all sentries are in place etc.
None of the 46 named GEORGE REIDis specified as being in the 47th Battalion. Some are chaplains or medics and can be eliminated but the rest will have to be checked regarding their rank by 28 March 1918.


P.285. Private Eric Russell and his 58th Battalion are not so lucky."On our journey down," he later recalled to his mother etc.
3443 RUSSELL, Eric Caulfield, Victoria 58th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement



P.274. This is certainly the view of a runner in the 5th Division's 14th Brigade, Edmund Street.
1570 STREET, Edmund Harrington Woodlawn, Dowell Street, Chatswood, New South Wales 6th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement
Bear Grills thrives on challenges but I don't think he would be very keen to try the type of running that won Edmund a Military Medal!


P.287. On the left of the 47th Battalion's sector, Captain Charles Symons, the commanding officer of D Company etc.
2256 SYMONS, Charles Willie Mackay, Queensland 47th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement


P.341. Captain William Uren of the 3rd Division.
UREN, William South Townsville, Queensland 41st Battalion, B Company

P.307. .... an Australian patrol of the 42nd Battalion- Queenslanders all under Sergeant Alston Wheeldon- creeps closer to the village of Sailly-Laurette.....
501 WHEELDON, Alston Lyle Oakey, Queensland 42nd Battalion, B Company

THOSE MENTIONED AFTER P.334 WHOSE SURNAMES ARE NOT IN THE SURNAME LIST.
335. COLONEL ERNEST MARTIN.
MARTIN, Ernest Edward Mudgee, New South Wales 34th Battalion, Headquarters


338. CAPT. GILBERT COGHILL.
COGHILL, Gilbert Gordon 'Evelyn ', Bunnerong Road, Kensington, Sydney, New South Wales 35th Battalion, A Company


350. CAPT. BOB SALMON, staff officer with Pompey Elliott.
He says that he had command of the brigade (of which Brigadier-General H.E. Elliott, C.M.G.,D.S.O., is in charge) for a period, and the Brigadier's staff captain was Captain Robert Salmon, a son of the late Dr.H.R.*Salmon,of Ballarat.
See A TOMMY YARNabout Robert being called Bob from before the Gallipoli landing.
*Captain Robert Arthur Salmon's birth record.
SALMON Robt Arth, Birth, mother: Alice Jane nee WALTER, father: Hy Robt
BALLT E, 1892, 818/1892

195 SALMON, Robert Arthur Avoca Street, South Yarra, Victoria 2nd Field Company Engineers




352 PRIVATE SYDNEY YOUNG OF 36TH BATT.
1433 YOUNG, Sydney Bond Sydney, New South Wales 36th Battalion, Headquarters


358. CAPT.ALEXANDER ELLIS OF 5TH DIV'S 29TH BATT.
Possibly- ELLIS, Alexander Donald 'Basonas', Cross Street, Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria 31st Battalion, D Company



363. PRIVATE ALFIE HOLTON 36TH DIV.
101 HOLTON, Alfred Edward 155 Underwood Street, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales 36th Battalion, A Company



363. PRIVATE REGGIE DILLEY 36TH DIV.
3417 DILLEY, Reginald West Maitland, New South Wales 36th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement



364. CORP. TOMMY POLSON, JOHN HARDIE'S MATE, killed by shell which crashes through the roof of a building in Villers-Bretonneux in which several Aussies are being billeted overnight. The 33rd Battalion had been ordered forward to help the 35th with the digging of trenches late on the evening of 2 April 1918. (P.361)
516 POLSON, Thomas Uralla, New South Wales 33rd Battalion, B Company


PHOTOS BETWEEN P.364 AND 365.
PRIVATE A.G. TOWNSEND OF 46TH BATT.
3217 TOWNSEND, Arthur George Perth, Western Australia 46th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement


SERGEANT W.JOYCE? Probably 2077 JOYCE, William Charles GPO Westdale, New South Wales 33rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement


DRIVER SIMISTER? The only Simister listed in the Anzac Project.
15545 SIMISTER, George Guildford, New South Wales September 1916 Reinforcements

SERGEANT STANLEY ROBERT MCDOUGALL for whom details have already been given.


367. PRIVATE STANLEY SUTCLIFFE OF 51ST BATT.
3470 SUTCLIFFE, Stanley Tenth Street, Harvey, Western Australia 11th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement


370. MAJOR HENRY CARR, CIVIL SERVANT FROM PARRAMATTA.
CARR, Henry Vince Albany, Robinson Street, Croyden, New South Wales 35th Battalion, C Company
The service record makes no mention of his promotion to major so I did a google search and found:
Donations and Contributions – Page 6 – The Harrower Collection
https://harrowercollection.com.au/category/donations-and-contributions/page/6

Henry Vince CARR was a married 33 year old Civil-Servant from Croydon in NSW when he applied for a Commission in the AIF. He had been serving as an Officer in the Australian Military Forces since October of 1908 and had held the rank of Major in the 17th Infantry since March 1916. He was granted a Commission in the AIF on the 16th of March 1916.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXTENSIVE HARROWER CONTRIBUTION revealed that the service record is correct. His commission on 16-3-1916 (as above) was as a captain, which rank he retained, probably because he countermanded a suicidal order issued by senior officers who had no idea of the situation on the front line. However Peter FitzSimons can be forgiven for assuming that he was a Major in 1918, as he had been before his enlistment.


370. CAPT. HUGH CONNELL FROM 35TH BATT. H.Q.
CONNELL, Hugh John Gosford Road, Hamilton West, New South Wales 35th Battalion, C Company


371 CAPT RALEIGH SAYERS OF D COMPANY.
SAYERS, Raleigh Merlin Street, North Sydney, New South Wales 35th Battalion, D Company



372 CAPT. FRANCIS FAIRWEATHER OF 10TH BRIGADE.
FAIRWEATHER, Francis Edward 15 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park, Victoria 38th Battalion, A Company


387. CAPT. HAROLD FERRES,(of the 58th?) guarding the bridge at Vaire, a mile north-west of Hamel.
FERRES, Harold Dunstan George Toora, South Gippsland, Victoria 5th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement


388. CAPT.HERBERT LAYH OF ELLIOTT'S H.Q. TOLD TO TAKE 59TH AND 60TH BRIGADES TO HOLD HILL 104.
LAYH, Herbert Thomas Christoph 85 Munro Street, Coburg, Victoria 7th Battalion, B Company



395. LIEUT. ALFRED FELL (34TH BATT.?)
64 FELL, Alfred James Watsons Bay, New South Wales 34th Battalion, A Company


396. MAJOR LEROY FRY (34TH BATT.?)
FRY, Walter Arnald Le Roy Strathfield, New South Wales 34th Battalion, A Company

400.Lt.Wynter Wallace Warden 35th Batt.
WARDEN, Wynter Wallace Milton, New South Wales 35th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement

400.Capt.Hawkins. Probably, due to service on Western Front and being the only one of three with no regimental number to hold the rank of Captain:
HAWKINS, Stanley William 35 Heidelberg Road, Clifton Hill, Victoria 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Headquarters

402. Robert Austen Goldrick, 36th Batt.
GOLDRICK, Robert Austin Coast Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, New South Wales 36th Battalion, B Company
EXTRACT:"Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll) *Spelt Robert Austen Goldrick on NR"

410. Capt.John Bushelle, Paddington, commander A.Company under Col. Milne in 36th. Batt.
(Not able to find a service record, I discovered that I'd wrongly written his surname as Buchelle.)
Informal portrait of Lieutenant John Edward Wallace ...
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1001342
Informal portrait of Lieutenant John Edward Wallace Bushelle, 36th Battalion, Officer Commanding (OC) troops aboard the transport ship SS Marathon, during the voyage from Australia to England. He is holding a riding crop. Later promoted to Captain, he was killed in action on 6 April 1918 and was posthumously awarded a Military Cross. He is buried in Blangy-Tronville Communal Cemetery, Somme ..

BUSHELLE, John Edward Sydney, New South Wales (36th?) Battalion, D Company


410. Major Brent Rodd, 39 y.o from Nth.Sydney, commander B. Co. under Milne. ditto
RODD, Brent Burnell 8 Terrace Street, Newcastle, New South Wales 35th Battalion, D Company

410. Tedder (not in index), commander C Co. under Milne.ditto
Possibly Oscar James O'Neill TEDDER,executor,(son?), of Colonel JAMES GEORGE TEDDER,whose service record gives his occupation as Lieutenant and no further detail after his embarkation (see why below*), or more likely*the Colonel himself who fought in three wars.
TEDDER, Oscar James O'Neill Glenora, Kingston Road, Kingston, New South Wales 2nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
TEDDER, James George Phillip Street, Belmore, New South Wales Divisional Train, No 3 Company

*FROM THE ARTICLE ABOUT THE COLONEL: Oscar James Tedder – Captain
Born 1887 and enlisted in 1914 returning to Australia on 20 October 1918. He served at Gallipoli, re-taking Lone Pine and later joining the Flying Corps in Europe.

431. Brigade Major Thomas Louch, 12th Brigade.
923 LOUCH, Thomas Steane The Rectory, Albany, Western Australia 11th Battalion, H Company

432. Tasmanian, Col.John Whitham's 52nd Batt.
WHITHAM, John Lawrence Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria 12th Battalion, D Company
John is in the same photo as Captain ALEXANDER Fraser below.

433.Capt. Albert (sic, ALEXANDER) Fraser, 52nd Batt.
None of the 13 service records for FRASER with a given name of ALBERT seem to match.
A google search produced the right man in a Wikipedia article but no given name.
The photo of the officers of the 52nd Battalion names him as Capt Alexander Fraser MC. This is the most likely service record.
FRASER, Alexander Hugh Forestville, South Australia 12th Battalion, E Company

439. Private Eddie Lynch, 21 y.o. from Bourke of 45th Batt (says 48th Batt. on page 448.)
2207 LYNCH, Edward Francis Perthville, New South Wales 45th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement


439. Lt. Charles Aherne, (in the front line WITH the 16 Batt.)
There was only one Charles Aherne on the Anzac Project, Frederick Charles Aherne, but as he was said to have "Returned to Australia 31 August 1916" only nine months after he enlisted, with no further details, it was hard to confirm that he was on the Western Front in 1918, even though he was in the 52nd Battalion on the Nominal Roll. Frederick Charles Aherne died in 1948 AS DID HARRY ERNEST AHERNE (A CORPORAL IN THE 52ND BATTALION WHO "Returned to Australia 22 February 1917" AND DIED ON 18 March 1948. I believe the date of Frederick Charles Aherne's return to Australia is wrong. His wedding notice* shows that he would have been known by his comrades as CHARLES.As his siblings were the only other AHERNES listed in the Anzac Project (SEE BELOW), I must assume that he was the Lieutnant mentioned on page 439.
FUNERAL NOTICES
AHERNE.-Friends of the late Mr Frederick Charles Aherne are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, which will move from his late residence, 16 Thomas St., North Hobart, on Wednesday (This Day), at 2.15 pm, for Cornelian Bay Cemetery.

HOBART SUB-BRANCH, RSSAILA.
Members of the above and 12th and 52nd Battalion Associations are invited to attend the funeral of their late comrade, Frederick Charles Aherne, 12th and 52nd Battalion, AIF, which will arrive at Cornelian Bay Cemetery, This Day (Wednesday), at 2.30 pm, E. W. LACY, Secretary.(P.8, The Mercury, 7-4-1948.)

*AHERNE-WOODRUFF.— On July 22, at Hobart, Charles Frederick Aherne,- son (of) James and Helena Louisa Aherne, of Hobart, to Ethel Amelia Woodruff, daughter of Alfred and Emily Woodruff, late of New Norfolk now of Hobart. (The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times (Tas.) Tuesday 15 September 1903 p 2)

Immediate Family of Charles Frederick Aherne
Birthdate: October 06, 1882
Birthplace: Hobart, TAS, Australia
Death: April 1948 (65)
Hobart, TAS, Australia

Helen Louisa Grant,mother; James Ahern, father; Arthur Leslie James Aherne,brother; Harry Ernest Aherne,brother; Reginald Percy Aherne, brother; James Harold Ahern, brother; Helen Maud Mary Aherne, sister; Evelyn Lucy Aherne,sister; Cecil Roy Aherne, brother.

AHERNE RESULTS ON THE ANZAC PROJECT.
4440 AHERNE, Frederick Charles (as in the link below);
2676 AHERNE, Harry Ernest 282 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania 12th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
1637 AHERNE, Reginald Percy 282 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania 15th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
1942 AHERNE, Roy Cecil 282 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania Field Artillery Brigade 3, Battery 9

4440 AHERNE, Frederick Charles 5 Bernard Street, North Hobart, Tasmania 12th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement




440. Capt. Daniel Aarons (16th Batt?)
AARONS, Daniel Sidney Vacuum Oil Co., Fremantle, Western Australia 16th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


444. Lance-Corporal William James Connaughton and his trusty Lewis gun stall a German advance.(48th Batt?)
4776 CONNAUGHTON, William James Lion Mill, Western Australia 16th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


456. Capt. Clarence Wallach, B.Company, 19th Batt.
706 WALLACH, Clarence Pinkivil Street, Bondi, New South Wales 19th Battalion, B Company


456. Lt, Percy Storkey, Kiwi native who joined A.I.F. days after the Gallipoli landing was reported.
STORKEY, Percy Valentine University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 19th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement

484.Major John McDowell is wounded and blinded.
His sight may have improved because he was an industrian officer during the construction of Canberra later on but his wounding was reported less than a month later.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 9 May 1918 p 8 Detailed Lists, Results, Guides
... . WOUNDED. Major JOHN AMBROSE McDOWELL, Katoomba.
McDOWELL, John Ambrose Mostyn Hamilton Street, Coogee, New South Wales 18th Battalion, B Company


484. Digger, Sydney Young's poem about the death of Colonel Milne and two of his staff.Probably:
1433 YOUNG, Sydney Bond Sydney, New South Wales 36th Battalion, Headquarters


487. A platoon from A.I.F.'s 8th Batt.led by Lt. Ivan (Ivon) Murdoch, younger brother of Keith,is dug in just east of Hazelbrouck Forest.
3184 MURDOCH, Ivon George Riversdale Road, Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria 24th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
EXTRACT: "Next of kin Father, Patrick J Murdoch, The Manse, Riversdale Road, Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria"
KEITH MURDOCH-WIKIPEDIA
EXTRACT: "Parent(s) Patrick John Murdoch, Annie Brown. Relatives...Ivon Murdoch (brother)......."



488. Corp.Percival Turvey of 3rd Batt., 1st Brigade, a 26 y.o. Gallipoli vet. and son of the publican of Wagga Wagga's Bridge Hotel, moves forward to a small rise.
2693 TURVEY, Percival Rylstone, New South Wales 3rd Battalion, 8th Reinforcement


493. Jackie Hayes (1st Batt, 1st Brigade?) takes his seriously wounded mate,Archie Barwick, to an regimental aid post.
948 HAYES, Jack Charles 24 Margaret Street, Enmore, Sydney, New South Wales 1st Battalion, H Company


495. 2nd Lt. Tom Richards, 1st Battalion, vet. of Gallipoli, who played rugby for both the Wallabies and British Lions between 1908 and 1912 is capable and calm amidst widespread panic.
Wallaby Warrior: Australia, British Lions hero Tom ...
https://www.espn.com/rugby/story/_/id/15328523/australia-british-lions...

Thomas James Richards wrote one of the most amazing rugby stories in history, the New South Welshman being the only Australian-born player in history to play for Australia and the British...
RICHARDS, Thomas James
TOM RICHARDS OBITUARY in 1935.
THOMAS JAMES RICHARDS BIOGRAPHY which indicates that there is another service record for Tom.
25 RICHARDS, Thomas James * 11 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales 1st Field Ambulance, A Squadron


496. Private Norman Gill, Tom Richard's close friend is shot in the head and killed and is buried by Tom after nightfall.
None of the four service records found with a GILL, Norman search indicates a death on about 17 April 1918.
Frederick Norman Gill, whose record was not one of those four, and found with a google search, died from pneumonia in 1916.


496. Private Alfred Lucas, Tom Richards' batman, is killed shortly after Norman Gill was shot.
No service record was found with a date of death on about 17 April 1918.


500. Sapper, Henry William Dadswell describes the effect of gas.
6868 DADSWELL, Henry William Warrak P.O., via Ararat, Victoria 2nd Divisional Signal Company, 10th Reinforcement

506. Col. John Scanlan of 59th Batt.and his 600 men holding a key spot near Bois L'Abbe when a platoon of 40 British trench diggers is sent to relieve them.
JOHN SCANLAN, 59th BATT.-WIKIPEDIA
Two service records:
SCANLAN, John Joseph 270 Richardson Street, Middle Park, Victoria 7th Battalion, D Company
SCANLAN, John Joseph * Middle Park, Victoria 57th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement


507. General (Talbot in index) Hobbs, commanding officer of 5th division.
HOBBS, Joseph John Talbot The Bungalow, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia Divisional Artillery Headquarters


519. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APART FROM GUNNER FRANK WORMALD (A WITNESS), MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE SHOOTING DOWN OF THE RED BARON'S PLANE.
GUNNER ROBERT BUIE, oyster farmer from Brooklyn (Brookland in service record), north of Sydney, Lewis gun.
SERGEANT CEDRIC POPKIN of Aust. 24th Gun Company, Vickers machine gun;
PRIVATE RUPERT WESTON, Vickers;
GUNNER "SNOWY" EVANS, Lewis.

3801 Buie, Robert Maclean, New South Wales 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
424 POPKIN, Cedric Bassett Palmwood, North Coast Line, Queensland Machine Gun Company 7, Reinforcement 6*
600 WESTON, Rupert Falkiner Randwick, New South Wales Machine Gun Company 9, Reinforcement 9

*Detailed article about Cedric with his photo.

The service record and Wikipedia entry match for SNOWY.
Snowy Evans - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Evans
Willy John "Snowy" Evans (c.  1891 –1925) was a Lewis machine gunner in the Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) during World War I. (Also see Wormald's account below, crediting both Buie and Evans with hitting the plane.)
598 EVANS, William John Hughenden, Queensland 5th Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron


520.GUNNER FRANK WORMAND confirmed that Buie had hit the plane and plainly saw the Red Baron's reaction.
3530 WORMALD, Francis Cudgee, Victoria 8th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
WORMALD WAS BUIE'S NEPHEW.



521. Lt. ALEC. S. PATERSON, observer in Aust. reconnaissance plane.
8431 PATERSON, Alex Stewart South Terrace, East Adelaide, South Australia Field Artillery Brigade 6, Battery 18
EXTRACT. Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll Australian Flying Corps



523. Corp. Noel Keating of 13 Batt.
7575 KEATING, Noel Michael Centennial Park, New South Wales 13th Battalion, 25th Reinforcement




526.Major David Blake, commanding officer of Aust. Flying Corps No. 3 Squadron, organised the full military funeral for the Red Baron.
David Valentine Jardine Blake
Born 10 November 1887
Parramatta, New South Wales
Died 6 March 1965 (aged 77)[1]
Newtown, New South Wales
Allegiance Australia
Service/branch Australian Army
Years of service 1911–1947
Rank Major General
Commands held 7th Military District (1941–42)
Australian Flying Corps Training Depot (1919)
No. 3 Squadron AFC (1916–18)
Battles/wars First World War
Second World War

Bombing of Darwin

Awards Mentioned in Despatches (2)
Distinguished Service Medal (United States)

BLAKE, David Valentine Jardine Victoria Barracks, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales Australian Flying Corps, No 1 Squadron, Headquarters


526. Corporal Mechanic, Joe Porter of No.3 Squadron, put his own boots on the dead pilot, who wouldn't need his own (which ended up in Morningside, Brisbane.)
THE RED BARON'S BOOTS
THE RED BARON'S BOOT
On page 675, it is stated that Joe had felt guilty about the boots "as detailed in the Independent of Deniliquin of New South Wales, 6 April 1934." The article, on page 4, has been found. See below. It gives Joe's name as A.J.Porter.
RICHTOFEN
JOE MUST HAVE BEEN HIS NICKNAME! No wonder I hadn't found his service record.
735 PORTER, Aubrey James * Brixton Villa, Morningside, Brisbane, Queensland Australian Flying Corps, No 2 Squadron, C Flight
Joe (Aubrey James) died in May 1944. ( The Telegraph,Brisbane,Thu 11 May 1944,Page 6)



535.Corp. Herbert Harris of 55th Batt., once a lift operator at Grace Bros. Department Store indicated that
wearing masks did not provide complete protection against gas which lingered for about 2 hours.
3077 HARRIS, Herbert Henry 183 Walker Street, Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales 17th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
EXTRACTS:Occupation-Lift controller, Rank from Nominal Roll-Corporal, Unit from Nominal Roll-55th Battalion



565.Captain Billy Harburn, 24 y.o. bank clerk and newly promoted Lt. Cliff Sadlier of C. Company of the 51st Batt. provided calm, capable leadership to the younger, inexperienced members of the company.
"BILLY"- 961 HARBURN, Roy National Bank, Kellerberrin, Western Australia 11th Battalion, D Company.
Roy and his brother, Jack, the only two Harburns listed, started in the 11th Battalion and had moved to the 51st before Jack died in August 1916.

CLIFF, (Victoria Cross.) 2858 SADLIER, Clifford William King Subiaco, Western Australia 51st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement


571 Private Walter Kennedy witnessed the world's first battle between two tanks.
In the original journal I had provided my best guess regarding the correct service record based on flimsy evidence in the narrative, the index, the footnote and the many service records, on the basis that mortars might have been used against the German tank. I have just found the CORRECT service record due to Walter Kennedy's full name being provided in the book's bibliography.
COPIED FROM THE FIRST JOURNAL.
P.234. Private Walter Kennedy. Based on page 571 detail:
3069 KENNEDY, Walter Bede Oakhampton Road, West Maitland, New South Wales 4th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
However, the above is being amended based on the footnote provided for his comment and then the discovery of the following on page 749 of the book under DIARIES, LETTERS, PAPERS AND REPORTS.
Kennedy, Walter Scott, Private Record, Memoir (handwritten and transcribed), 'From Anzac Cove to Villers-Bretonneux: The Story of a Soldier in the Fifteenth Battalion 1st A.I.F. (Dedicated to Alf Stein Killed at Gallipoli, 2 May 1915'), AWM, PR02032, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR02032/

It's a pity that the second given name was not provided in the index.
1204 KENNEDY, Walter Scott 87 Jersey Road, Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales 15th Battalion, H Company


574 Colonel Robert Christie, commander of W.A.'s 51st Batt.,a mere private at Gallipoli three years earlier.
The Colonel was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1883.
The following service record is in agreement with the above biography except for the date of birth, given as 24 August 1890in the service record.
662 CHRISTIE, Robert Targo Street, Bundaberg, Queensland 5th Light Horse Regiment, Headquarters



586. Col. John Peck, one of Gen. Hobbs' 5th Div. staff officers.
John Henry Peck biography
PECK, John Henry Headquarters, 5th Military District, Perth, Western Australia 11th Battalion, Headquarters


598.18 y.o. Bertie Denman, a mill hand from Perth about to undergo a baptism of fire and vets such as Cecil Burt and Reg Helyar, country boys from Solomontown S.A. and Nanup, W.A.
BERTIE.3735 DENMAN, Albert Edwards 69 Murray Street, Perth, Western Australia 51st Battalion, 10th Reinforcement

CECIL. 22 BURT, Cecil Elijah Roy Solomontown, South Australia 3rd Divisional Cyclist Company

REG.4525 HELYAR, Reginald Nannup, Western Australia 11th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement

599. Col. Norman Marshall, C.O. of 60th Batt., 15th Brig., one time welterweight boxing champ of Victoria.
BIOGRAPHY
562 MARSHALL, Norman Pemenria, Avondale Road, Armadale, Victoria 5th Battalion, F Company


601-3. 13th Batt. Sgt. Charlie Stokessuggests to Lt. Sadlier, most of whose platoon has been shot with machine guns from the woods, that they do the job that was supposed to have been done by the Brits and with the assistance of some unnamed privates and Bombers,Wilfred GuthrieandJohn Collins, (good mates who'd met aboard HMAT Aeneas when the sailed out of Fremantle in April 1916 as part of the 2nd reinforcements for 51st Batt.) this small band took out all the machine gun nests, allowing the 13th Brigade to advance without being wiped out as Sadlier's platoon had been.
CHARLIE:2253 STOKES, Charles Albert 193 York Street, Subiaco, Western Australia 51st Battalion, 4th Reinforcement

WILFRED:1656 GUTHRIE, Wilfred George Perth, Western Australia 51st Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement Embarkation details as for John.

JOHN:1638 COLLINS, John Augustine 'St Clair', Ainslie Road, North Fremantle, Western Australia 51st Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
EXTRACT:Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 17 April 1916


605.While the 15th Brig. waits on Colonel Marshall's order for another battalion to arrive, Edward Need and Ted Wiley patrol ahead of the start line to detect any hidden German presence.
2010 WYLIE, Edward William North Melbourne, Victoria 46th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement


607.Captain Robert Forsyth, a doctor from Melbourne and medical officer for the 52nd Batt.set up an advanced aid post in the Cachy Switch.
FORSYTH, Robert Leslie Surrey Hills, Victoria Medical Officers



611.(13th Brigade)Lieutenant Rogers. Not enough evidence to identify the right service record from about 400 possibilities.



619. Major William Craies, who has come up with the reserve company of 52nd Batt., reaches a decision.
A BRAVE QUEENSLANDER
CRAIES, William Alexander Townsville, Queensland 52nd Battalion 9th Reinforcement Also:
CRAIES, William Alexander Alexandra Street, North Ward, Townsville, Queensland 25th Battalion B Company


621 Colonel John McArthur, 29th Batt. (British? No Aussie!)
BIOGRAPHY
McARTHUR, John 2 Howe Crescent, South Melbourne, Victoria 29th Battalion, Headquarters Staff


625. Lt.Alison O'Brien 59th Batt.
O'BRIEN, Alison Stewart Melbourne, Victoria 59th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement Also:
323 O'BRIEN, Alison Stewart 171 Burke Road, Camberwell, Victoria 4th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron


631. Sgt. John Naylor of the 59th Batt. No service record can be identified from the 18 possible results.
As far as my weary mind can remember, none of these mention 59th battalion or a sergeant.


635. Private Len Doody (15th Brigade?)
2529 DOODY, Leonard Boundary Street, Kerang, Victoria 59th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement



645. Lt. Dave Fair running about on top from one post to another with orders and handing out rum in big doses, heedless of shells...
Possibly 3575 FAIR, David Fryers Street, Shepparton, Victoria 7th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement because the other David Fair was recorded as "Wounded in action (gas shell), 17 April 1918; rejoined unit, 14 July 1918" thus missing the Anzac Day action if he had been near Villers-Bretonneux. No Dave Fair was listed.



646. Lt.James Falconer, one of the 57th Battalion's finest officers....
29 FALCONER, James Allan Nairnville, Barkly Avenue, Malvern, Victoria 5th Battalion, A Company
EXTRACT: Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll 57th Battalion
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)

Military Cross

Recommendation date: 13 March 1918

Fate Killed in Action 25 April 1918
Age at death from cemetery records 23



647. The Diggers are dominating, in no small part due to Lewis gunner, Corporal Water Patten.
There are only two men with this name and one of them could not have been securing VILLERS-BRETONNEUX on Anzac Day 1918 because, although his rank was GUNNER, his "Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board SS Feldmarschall on 19 June 1918".
This one, a corporal, was in the 57th Battalion, as was James Falconer, and they held the bridge together with their men.
3914 PATTEN, Walter State Savings Bank, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria 23rd Battalion, 9th Reinforcement



648. Col John McColl of the 5th Div. HQ staff.
Probably Lt.-Col. John Thomas McColl* who may have been British as he is not listed on the Anzac Project.
*Papers relating to Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, September ...
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2628796
Battle Instructions, Series 'E', No. 6 by Lieutenant-Colonel J.T. [John Thomas] McColl, 25 September 1918 [diagram for 'Areas of Assembly for Y/Z Night' attached]; Battle Instructions, Series 'E', No. 7 by Lieutenant-Colonel J.T. [John Thomas] McColl, 25 September 1918


652. General Grogan of the 23rd Brigade.
George Grogan, British VC winner-Wikipedia.



EPILOGUE.
All those mentioned have aleady been detailed.
675. The piece about Joe Porter claims that he returned the boots to the Baroness, who "gratefully received him and her late son's "high-topped boots" (39) The footnotes for the chapter only go to 38!

FINIS.

I'm not a great fan of books, especially documentaries, about war but FitzSimons has amazed me as he did with his Mutiny on the Bounty. His historical novels are better documented than most histories and the way he incorporates quotations (found by his researchers) from real historical characters' letters, diaries etc. into his narrative, really brings the story to life. Descendants of those diggers are probably unaware that members of their families have been mentioned in the book (something to boast about in a family history!)so my aim is to list those mentioned (in most cases quoted)and find their service record. Having done that, I will list all references to that person in the index.
(N.B. Post-War in the index seems to indicate a brief biography of half a page or more.)

Many of the more prominent members of the 1st A.I.F., MENTIONED AND QUOTED EXTENSIVELY IN THE BOOK, are recalled by place and street names in Melbourne. Melbourne's second university was named after Sir John Monash and the road through Royal Park past the zoo was named after Pompey Elliott. Two estates which recall places and people involved in W.W.1 are the Ascot Housing Estate across Epsom Rd from the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, formerly John Wren's Ascot Racecourse, and the Victory Estate across Langs Rd from the showgrounds.)

Wikipedia was needed in some cases to determine whether senior officers mentioned were in the Australian army (or as in the cases of Sir Walter Congreve and General Rawlinson, the British army.)

A SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY (including one red herring re Lieutenant Potts.)
Group portrait of officers of the 48th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Geoffrey Paul Leane MC; Lt Robert Scott Rafferty MM; Lt Reginald Charles Bleechmore; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Charles William Stoerkel MC and Bar; Lt George Dean Mitchell MC DCM; Lt Joseph Arthur Bingley; Lt Edward Gordon Holton; Lt (later Captain) Harry Downes MC MM; Lt Angus Salier Ferguson French Croix de Guerre (killed in action 3 May 1918); Lt Archibald Robert Allen; Lt Wallace Douglas Pritchard; Lt (later Captain) Robert Eldred Potts*. Middle row: Lt Alfred Percy Ford MM; Lt Arthur John Gelston MC; Lt Leslie St.John Brown; Lt Hurtle John Burnett MC; Lt Alfred Henry Lawrence; Lt Douglas Harold Clarke; Lt Henry William James; Lt William Bosward Carr MC DCM; Captain (Capt) Gordon Augustus Pavy; Lt Richard Nicholas Fletcher; Lt John Whittle (killed in action 29 March 1918); Capt Norman George Imlay MC; Lt Percy Ernest Nimmo. Front row: Lt Leslie George Challen MC; Capt Thomas Hampton Elliot (killed in action 28 March 1918); Capt Frederick Anderson MC; Major Alban George Moyes MC; Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Raymond Lionel Leane CMG DSO MC; Capt David Austral Twining MC MM French Croix de Guerre; Lt Lavington Lewis Carter MC; Capt Derwas Goring Charles Cumming MC and Bar (killed in action 3 may 1918) Capt Vernon Carlisle Brown MC and bar (Medical Officer); Capt John Cyril Flood (Chaplain).

(*Roy Edred Potts. Thank you to Professor Peter Dennis.
You shouldn't believe everything you read in popular war books or indeed what is on the various War Memorial sites.

Your man's name was Roy Edred POTTS MC & Bar. He is on the AIF Project database at https://aif.adfa.edu.au/aif/showPerson?pid=244234. His service file on the National Archives website is at https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8021367.

Peter Dennis, AM
Emeritus Professor of History
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
The University of New South Wales, Canberra

THOSE MENTIONED IN THE BOOK.
(Listed alphabetically by surnames):
P.100. LIEUTENANT ALBERT ADAMS (PILOT.)
515ADAMS, Albert Ward 34 Black Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australian Flying Corps, No 2 Squadron, Head-Quarters;
LISTED TWICE, ALSO:515 ADAMS, Albert Ward, *34 Black Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australian Flying Corps, No 2 Squadron, Head-Quarters

Major Garnet Adcock, a 23 year old mining engineer from Geelong, of the 2nd Australian Tunneling Company,
ADCOCK, Garnet Ingamells, Rutherglen, Victoria, No 4 Tunnelling Company and 1st Reinforcements (May 1916)
P.25, 193, 207.

Corporal Louis Avery, now in training with his 3rd Field Company,
55, AVERY, Louis Willyama, c/o Silverton Tramway, Broken Hill, New South Wales, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Headquarters, Section 1, Section 2 and Section 4
P.33, 38.


ARCHIE BARWICK CLUES. Index-Sergeant P.8 Late January, 1917,Sergeant Archie Barwick, a 27 year old farmer originally from the Tassie sticks.P.492 Talking to cousin, Bill, and hears shelling.Hurrying to his mates of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division dug in around Strazeele, the country boy from Tassie reaches his men, held in reserve, and on 23 April, 1918, orders themto get down into the sunken road for safety. P.493.Archie suffers a large gash, exposing several ribs, a "Blighty", a wound bad enough to require treatment in England.
29 Barwicks Among the 29 Barwicks, there was one Archie and one Archibald, both from N.S.W. Archibald was "Killed in Action 8 October 1917" so he was not the sergeant who issued the order on 23-4-1918.
914 BARWICK, Archie Albert,Surveyors Creek, Walch Road, New England, New South Wales, 1st Battalion, H Company,however was originally from Tasmania, having been born in Hobart, was in the 1st Battalion, having enlisted and embarked (aged 24) in 1914, which would have made him 27 by late January 1917. He was injured on 23-4-1918 and "Returned to Australia 3 December 1918" so they obviously were not able to patch him up for continued service.
INDEX-P.8,55,106,191,219-20,351,453,460,477,479-80,482,485-6,492-3.
ARCHIE'S COUSIN, BILL, may have been 6547,BARWICK, William, Claremont, Tasmania,12th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement, the only one of the 29 Barwicks with William as a given name.

CAPTAIN CHARLES BEAN-WAR CORRESPONDENT.
Captain Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) BeanRanks Held Captain, Press Representative
Birth Date 18 November 1879
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Bathurst
Death Date 30 August 1968
Death Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Concord
Final Rank Captain
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units

Staff
Australian Imperial Force

Places

Bathurst
Concord

Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Gazettes Worth Family Papers - Papers of Joan Worth in
Published in London Gazette in 1916-07-13
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1916-11-30
Description

Charles Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remainder. Before this, however, he was Australia's official correspondent to the war. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial. Bean was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales and his family moved to England when he was ten. He completed his education there, eventually studying classics and law at Oxford.

Bean returned to Australia in 1904 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. He travelled widely in New South Wales as a barrister's assistant and, struck by the outback way of life, wrote and illustrated a book, The impressions of a new chum. The book was never published but in mid-1907 much of its content appeared in a series of Sydney Morning Herald articles under the by-line 'CW'. In these articles Bean introduced a view of Australia, particularly its men, which foreshadowed much of what he would write about the AIF.

Having dabbled in journalism, Bean joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a junior reporter in January 1908. He published several books before being posted to London in 1910. In 1913 he returned to Sydney as the Herald's leader writer. When the First World War began, Bean won an Australian Journalists Association ballot and became official correspondent to the AIF. He accompanied the first convoy to Egypt, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and began to make his name as a tireless, thorough and brave correspondent. He was wounded in August but remained on Gallipoli for most of the campaign, leaving just a few days before the last troops.

He then reported on the Australians on the Western Front where his admiration of the AIF crystallised into a desire to memorialise their sacrifice and achievements. In addition to his journalism, Bean filled hundreds of diaries and notebooks, all with a view to writing a history of the AIF when the war ended. In early 1919 he led a historical mission to Gallipoli before returning to Australia and beginning work on the official history series that would consume the next two decades of his life.

Along with his written work, Bean worked tirelessly on creating the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He was present when the building opened on 11 November 1941 and became Chairman of the Memorial's board in 1952. He maintained a close association with the institution for the rest of his life.

During the Second World War, Bean liaised between the Chiefs of Staff and the press for the Department of Information. He became Chairman of the Commonwealth Archives Committee and was instrumental in creating the Commonwealth Archives. Between 1947 and 1958 he was Chairman of the Promotion Appeals Board of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and continued to write - a history of Australia's independent schools and finally a book on two senior AIF figures, Two men I knew.

Bean received a number of honorary degrees and declined a knighthood. He had married Ethel Young in 1921 and the couple adopted a daughter. Bean, one of the most admired Australians of his generation, died after a long illness in Concord Repatriation Hospital in 1968.

P. 94. MARCH 1918. LIEUTENANT FRANK (F.P.) BETHUNE, one-time parson, now officer from Tasmania.
BETHUNE, Frank Pogson,Lindisfarne, Tasmania 12th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


P. 89. PRIVATE BERT BISHOP,55th Battalion. 7 March, 1918. Almost impossible to ascertain the service record as no Albert or Herbert was described as being in the 55th Battalion.


P.225. 42nd Battalion soldier, Private Vivian Brahms.
1879 BRAHMS, Vivian Valley, Brisbane, Queensland 47th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement


P.209. As ever, when the best of the best is required, he (Gen. Maclaglan) is inclined to go to his 4th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier Charles Brand- a Boer War and Gallipoli veteran from* Queensland, so trusted and liked by his troops that they have given him the ultimate accolade, the nickname of "Digger". (* born in)
BRAND, Charles Henry 'Wendouree', 2nd Avenue, East Adelaide, South Australia 3rd Infantry Brigade, Headquarters



Robert Buie from Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River.
3801 Buie, Robert Maclean, New South Wales 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
Gunner Robert Buie. P. 1, 3,519-21; post war 674-5


P.219. Captain Lionel Carter
CARTER, Lionel Lewin Dumbleyung, Western Australia 16th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement


P.166. Lieutenant Ben Champion of 1st Battalion, 1st brigade, 1st Division.
2481 CHAMPION, Ben William Jura, Stuart Street, Wahroonga, New South Wales 1st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
As Ben is only mentioned once in the book, a comment from his diary (w.w.w.awm.gov.au/images/collection/bundled/RDCIG000977.pdf.)stating how highly the AIF must be thought of, when they are used to stem the flood in the north as well as in the south, and the service record has no information about his injuries,only that he "Returned to Australia 30 June 1918", it was just as well that I consulted Trove.

Lieut. B. CHAMPION.— Mr. T. S. Champion.
Wahroonga, has been notified that his son,
Lieut. Ben. Champion, has been wounded for
the third time, and has had half his left leg
amputated. He was previously wounded in
Gallipoli and at Passchendaele. He enlisted
in May, 1915, and received his commission on
the field after the battle of Pozieres. (P.6, The Daily Telegraph, 8-6-1918.)

Harry Cobby, mild-mannered bank clerk from Melbourne
COBBY, Arthur Henry Rosedale Avenue, Glenhuntly, Victoria Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, A Flight
P.2, 3, 47-51, 65-8, 82, 93, 101, 112, 132-6, 166; post war 664-5.
(N.B.10822, COBBY, Cecil Roy, Rosedale avenue, Glenhuntly, Victoria, 3rd Divisional Train, 22nd Company, Army Service Corps, lived in the same street and may have been his brother.)

P.133. Lieutenant John Courtney (pilot.)
Flight Lieut.John Glasson Courtney Glasson(photo)
1006 COURTNEY, John Classon Avondale, Victoria Parade, Manly, New South Wales Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, B Flight

P.218. Chaplain William Devine
DEVINE, William * St Pauls, Coburg, Victoria Chaplains' Corps


Walter "Jimmy"Downing a Scotch College boy from Melbourne, law student, cricket and Lacrosse player.
4473 DOWNING, Walter Herbert Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, Victoria 7th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
P.2,3,21,39,79-81,158,273,300,303,316,321, 554,562,595,621,623,628-30,639.

Brigadier Harold Pompey Elliott.
Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD (19 June 1878 – 23 March 1931) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. After the war he served as a Senator for Victoria in the Australian parliament.
ELLIOTT, Harold Edward, Dalriada, Darebin Road, Northcote, Victoria, 7th Battalion, Headquarters
Harold was nicknamed Pompey after a Carlton footballer: Fred Elliott.

P.100. March 1918.
(NO SERVICE RECORD FOR LT. GEORGE MALLEY-PERHAPS BRITISH.)

LIEUTENANT CECIL FEEZ. The service record mentions the Australian Flying Corps.
31938 FEEZ, Cecil Molle,Yeronga, Brisbane, Queensland Field Artillery Brigade 3, Reinforcement 24

P.232. Brigadier John Gellibrand.
GELLIBRAND, John 'Greenhill', East Risdon, Tasmania Head Quarters 1st Australian Division


In Brigadier Bill Glasgow's 13th Brigade, Brigadier Sir William Glasgow in index.
SIR WILLIAM GLASGOW
GLASGOW, D.S.O., Thomas William, 'Sanders', Dingo, Central Queensland, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Headquarters Two entries; the first one has his date of death and other details not included in this one.
P.34,75-6,367,561,565,576-83,589,592,647,650,; post-war 662.


P.222. Colonel Henry Goddard, English born, to Brisbane at 21,as officer had performed well at Gallipoli, now 49 and in temporary command of 9th Brigade.
GODDARD, Henry Arthur Stock Exchange, Melbourne, Victoria 17th Battalion, Headquarters


P. 341. Major General Harold Grimwade, Commander of the 3rd Division.
I finally came across one involved on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
GRIMWADE Harold William, Death
mother: Jessie, nee STRUNT
father: GRIMWADE Frederick Sheppard*
Place of birth:CAULFIELD
Place of death:MOUNT ELIZA
Age, year, reg. no. (79, 1949, 16685/1949)

GRIMWADE, Harold William 'Waveney', Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria Field Artillery Brigade 4, Head-Quarters

Good to see that PENINSULA ESSENCE acknowledged ILMA HACKETT as the author of this article (which it failed to do regarding another article.) F.S.Grimwade* was Harold's dad.
COOLART


Harold's obituary.


Photo of Harold's "Marathon" at Mt Eliza.

P.99. HARRY HAWKER'S TECHNIQUE. (Harry also appears to have been the first person to perform an intentional spin and recovery, demonstrating in 1914 one method (though generally not the one used today) to return to level flight from this unusual attitude.[6] Because spins had killed several pilots, this was a major advance in aviation safety. (From Wikipedia entry for Harry Hawker.)

P.158. Private John Hardie, a young farrier from Grong Grong, 9th brigade of 3rd division.
3842 HARDIE, John Grong Grong, New South Wales 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcement

P. 190. As to General Joseph Hobbs' 5th Division, ....
HOBBS, Joseph John Talbot The Bungalow, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia Divisional Artillery Headquarters

Colonel Alexander Imlay, commanding officer of the 4th Division's 47th Battalion.
IMLAY, Alexander Peter Inverwrie Marion Place, Prospect, South Australia 16th Battalion, H Company

P.158. Colonel Carl Jess, chief of Staff for General John Monash.
JESS, Carl Herman 'Montalto', Miller Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters


P.90 MARCH, 1918. WILLIAM JOYNT, 8TH BATTALION. (Winner of the Victoria Cross.)
JOYNT, William Donovan St Elmo, 18 Long Street, Elsternwick, Victoria 8th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


P.234. Private Walter Kennedy. Based on page 571 detail:
3069 KENNEDY, Walter Bede Oakhampton Road, West Maitland, New South Wales 4th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
However, the above is being amended based on the footnote provided for his comment and then the discovery of the following on page 749 of the book under DIARIES, LETTERS, PAPERS AND REPORTS.
Kennedy, Walter Scott, Private Record, Memoir (handwritten and transcribed), 'From Anzac Cove to Villers-Bretonneux: The Story of a Soldier in the Fifteenth Battalion 1st A.I.F. (Dedicated to Alf Stein Killed at Gallipoli, 2 May 1915'), AWM, PR02032, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR02032/

It's a pity that the second given name was not provided in the index.
1204 KENNEDY, Walter Scott 87 Jersey Road, Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales 15th Battalion, H Company



P.231. Lieutenant Colonel John Lavarack.
LAVARACK, John Dudley


P.37.Colonel "Bull" Leane, 48th Battalion.
Brigadier General Sir Raymond Lionel Leane
LEANE, Raymond Lionel 243 Burt Street, Boulder, Western Australia 11th Battalion, F Company

P. 106. 4th Division under General Ewen McLaglan.
Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Sinclair-Maclagan


PRIVATE JIM MAGEE of 51st Battalion does his sensual woman dance on a table top.
6430 MAGEE, Thomas James, Paddington, New South Wales,17th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
As Jim is only mentioned once (on page 41) and Thomas James Magee is the only Magee with Jim or James as a given name, and was a private, he would be the most likely match.

P. 201. The (10th) brigade's Commanding Officer, General Walter McNicholl,a distinguished Gallipoli veteran known by his admiring men as Fire-eater McNicholl, ...
No service record in the ANZAC PROJECT.
SIR WALTER RAMSAY McNICHOLL

P.56 (Shortly after the New Year of 1918.)One of the more canny Australian officers, COLONEL DAVID McCONAGHY,the distinguished Gallipoli and Fromelles veteran quietly wonders to Bean if there might be a hidden reason why the Germans are putting so little pressure on them.
There were only two men with this name, the other one having "disembarked Melbourne, 24 September 1917; discharged, 29 October 1917 (medically unfit. Rheumatism and overage)."
McCONAGHY, David Box 1140, G.P.O. Sydney, New South Wales, 3rd Battalion, A Company


P.235. The 13th Battalion's commander, Colonel Douglas Marks -the youngest Battalion commander in the whole Australian Corps at just 23 years old,
MARKS, Douglas Gray Sundridge, Lindsay Street, Neutral Bay, Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales 13th Battalion, G Company


Lieutenant George Deane Mitchell from Caltowie in S.A.
1014 MITCHELL, George Deane Talus Road, Thebarton, South Australia 10th Battalion, H Company
pages 2, 3, 24, 37-9, 183, 195, 200-1, 205, 218-19, 242-3, 248, 254, 275, 281-2, 294-5, 366-7, 434, 442-5.

Sir John Monash.
MONASH,John, 36 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters

P.171. Colonel Morshead, whose 33rd Division was drawn from places such as Armidale, Tamworth and Tenterfield.
There are two service records, the other one giving his date of death.
MORSHEAD, Leslie James * 32 Tress Street, Mt Pleasant, Ballarat, Victoria 33rd Battalion, Headquarters

Leslie Morshead - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Morshead

Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (18 September 1889 – 26 September 1959) was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, whose military career spanned both world wars.

P.231. Colonel Harry Murray-37 years old, born in Tasmania (but latterly a proud Western Australian?)-
HENRY WILLIAM MURRAY
315 MURRAY, Henry William 16th Battalion, D Company

P.183. Private Edwin Need. Diary quoted extensively. Biog. on P.668.
5180 NEED, Edwin Henry 8 Yarra Street, South Yarra, Victoria 8th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement


P.99. March 1918.LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HURTLE NICHOLLS.
[url=https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=223347]1590 NICHOLLS, William Hurtle, Snowtown, South Australia, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement
The service record make no mention of him becoming a pilot.
A.I.F. PROMOTIONS. The latest issue of The Commonwealth Gazette contains the following list of South Australian promotions in the A.I.F.--- Second-Lieut. W. H. Nicholls,Australian Flying Corps, to be lieutenant.August 15;
The following confirms that the service record is that of the pilot.


RED CROSS FILES

William Hurtle Nicholls. Rank: Second Lieutenant. Service number: 1590. Unit: Australian Flying Corps. Location: Prisoner of war camp, Karlsruhe, Germany. Enquirer: Sophia Nicholls. Packet number: 5324. Date range: 1918. SLSA record number: SRG 76/1/5324 . Prisoner of war . Upload a photo. Packet content 21 documents. See all documents . Download File as a PDF


P.238. Lieutenant Morven Nolan, fatally wounded, remained cheerful and gave valuable information before going west.
7293 NOLAN, Morven Kelynack Potts Point, New South Wales 13th Battalion, 24th Reinforcement


P.135 Lieutenant Tab Pflaum (pilot.)
1591 PFLAUM, Elliott Frederick Blumberg, South Australia 9th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement

P.244. The sleepwalking Lieutenant Potts of the 48th Battalion.
PHOTO OF OFFICERS OF THE 48TH BATTALIONincluding:
Lt (later Captain) Robert[sic*] Eldred Potts.
(*Roy Edred Potts. Thank you to Professor Peter Dennis.
You shouldn't believe everything you read in popular war books or indeed what is on the various War Memorial sites.

Your man's name was Roy Edred POTTS MC & Bar. He is on the AIF Project database at https://aif.adfa.edu.au/aif/showPerson?pid=244234. His service file on the National Archives website is at https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8021367.

Peter Dennis, AM
Emeritus Professor of History
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
The University of New South Wales, Canberra


Roy Edred POTTS

Date of birth 24 October 1889
Place of birth Aldgate, South Australia
Occupation School teacher
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, Rev George Potts, Irvine Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia
Previous military service Nil (previously rejected for AIF enlistment on account of chest)
Enlistment date 18 November 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 17 November 1915
Place of enlistment Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment 2nd Lieutenant
Unit name 48th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT Port Melbourne on 30 October 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Captain
Unit from Nominal Roll 48th Battalion
Fate Returned to Australia 1 November 1919
Medals

Military Cross
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. By skilful leadership led two platoons through a heavy barrage without casualties, to reinforce a front line company. Later, when all communication with the left flank was broken this officer volunteered to cross the open under intense fire in full view of the enemy, and succeeded in delivering a message.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 185
Date: 27 November 1918

Bar to Military Cross

Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31
Date: 4 March 1919

'For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. He worked his company skilfully round a strong enemy position and cut off the garrison, capturing fifty four prisoners and four machine guns. He then consolidated the position. Later, he led a party against an enemy machine gun post, capturing six prisoners and a machine gun. He showed marked courage and devotion to duty.

Discharge date 19 February 1920
Other details

War service: Western Front

Commenced return to Australia, 1 November 1919; appointment terminated (discharged), 19 February 1920.
Medals: Military Cross & Bar, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Date of death 12 October 1943
Sources NAA: B2455, POTTS Roy Edred

Having doubts about Roy's second given name, I found ample confirmation on trove, and also much information about his post-war teaching career and prominent role in the SOLDIERS' INSTITUTE, the latter with an R.E.POTTS search.

P.167. Brigadier Charles Rosenthal,architect, commander of the 9th.
ROSENTHAL, Charles 68 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales Field Artillery Brigade 3, Head-Quarters

P. 189. Captain Paul Simonson, valued aide-de-camp to Colonel Jess.
2247 SIMONSON, Paul William 52 Auburn Road, Auburn, Victoria 22nd Battalion, 4th Reinforcement

P.99. March 1918. Lieutenant Percival Straker (Pilot.)
No service record, the only Percival or Percy was "Killed in Action 5 August 1916".

P.107. General Brudenell White.
Brudenell White - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brudenell_White
WHITE, Cyril Brudenell Bingham Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria Head Quarters 1st Australian Division

P.192. (Apparently 24 March 1918) ..one of the official Australian war photographers, Lieutenant Hubert Wilkins, passes by.
WILKINS, George Hubert Dulwich, South Australia March 1917 Reinforcements


SURNAMES LIST.
As the surnames list is full (some surnames entered having disappeared)this will continue in another journal which will allow more surnames to be listed.

I will leave it up to readers to research the use of Wolfdene by the military during W.W.2 and as a tourist destination, as there is little genealogy involved.
Links will have to be copied and pasted into your search bar to get maps and articles because I am just plain exhausted. This journal arose from a history that I compiled about the Village Glen sites at Rosebud West and between Strachans and Wilsons Rds at Mornington.

In short, Wolfdene began as the Mornington Hotel on crown allotment 46, parish of Moorooduc, between Brewery road (now Nunns Rd)and Adelaide St houseblocks, in the late 1850's. In mid December 1867, the licensee applied to transfer the licence to a house he was leasing in Main St, Mornington and a week later the building and 26.5 acres of land were offered for sale. Professor Wilson, after whom Wilsons Rd was named, may have bought it then and in 1874 he observed the transit of Venus, possibly from Venice Reserve, and died shortly afterwards. The property was leased by Mr Backhouse who ran the Mornington Grammar School on the Wolfdene property, which was sold by the Wilson trustees in 1882. The property was subdivided in 1920 and Naples St was first mentioned in 1929 in a family notice.

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.
WP Wilson: an Australian casualty of the 1874 transit of ...
https://maas.museum/.../09/wp-wilson-an-australian-casualty-of-the-1874-transit-of-venus
May 9, 2012
By Nick Lomb

Woldene as it looks today. Thanks to the care of past and present owners, its appearance is almost unchanged from the time when Professor William Parkinson Wilson lived in this house at Mornington, Victoria, Australia, in the 1870s. Image and copyright Nick Lomb ©, all rights reserved
Yesterday (8 May 2012) I visited Mornington, a small town about 50 km south of Melbourne that is beautifully situated on the shore of Port Phillip Bay, to talk about the transit of Venus to the Mornington & District Historical Society. Of course, I began with William Parkinson Wilson, professor of mathematics at Melbourne University, who observed the 1874 transit from Mornington.
Wilson was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England. The exact date does not appear to be known, but he was baptised on 1 February 1826. After attending a local grammar school, he went on to Cambridge as a sizar (a student who does some work in lieu of fees). There he was most successful, completing the Mathematical Tripos as Senior Wrangler. The Senior Wrangler was the top student in mathematics at the end of the third year undergraduate degree. They were highly celebrated and their names reported in the newspapers. Other Senior Wranglers include some of the best known people in the history of science such as John Herschel, Lord Rayleigh and Arthur Eddington.
In 1854 he was offered the position of professor of mathematics at the newly established University of Melbourne. He arrived at the end of January in the following year and gave the very first lecture at the university on 13 April. As well as mathematics Wilson taught physics including astronomy and set up a course in engineering.
Professor Wilson lived in rooms at the university, but he also maintained a house at Mornington. The house, named Wolfdene, had been built in 1858 and during its long history has had various uses including as a hotel and as a boarding school. In Wilson’s time access to Mornington was not easy, as it was only on horseback or by water, so he would normally only have stayed there out of university term.
On the day of the transit, like at Melbourne, the weather was poor at Mornington as there were ‘Dense clouds, with thunder and lightning.’ Though Wilson ‘had given up all hope’, he still set up the equipment in readiness at his observing site. He pointed the 4½ -inch (11.5-cm) Troughton & Simms telescope to where he expected the Sun to be and waited. Eventually, the clouds cleared sufficiently so that he could make out one edge of the Sun. Five minutes before internal contact he noted that the part of Venus off the Sun was outlined ‘by a narrow luminous arc.’ Three and a half hours later, just before egress or Venus moving off the Sun, the sky cleared though the clarity of view was not as good as previously.
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Nick Lomb at Mornington’s Venice Reserve, a possible site for Professor Wilson’s observations of the 9 December 1874 transit of Venus. Image and copyright Nick Lomb ©, all rights reserved
Strangely, the location of Professor Wilson’s observing site is unclear. It would be logical to assume that he observed from his home, which at that time had extensive associated grounds. However, as has been pointed out to me by Ian Sullivan of the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society, the coordinates that Wilson gave in the report of his observations, centre on a small and little-known park in Mornington, called Venice Reserve. Prior to modern GPS receivers, determining longitude was notoriously difficult and the difference between the longitudes of Wolfdene and the reserve could well be within the errors. Latitude should have been easier to measure, yet the difference in latitude between Wolfdene and the park seems too great to be explained by measurement errors. So maybe, for unknown reasons, he decided to make his observations from Venice Reserve or its vicinity.
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The gravestone of Professor William Parkinson Wilson in Mornington Cemetery. Image and copyright Nick Lomb ©, all rights reserved
Professor Wilson’s observations of the transit had a tragic ending. He had been in ill health for some time and after the transit complained about the heat and about being fatigued. Two days later his doctor was called by telegram to his Mornington home. Sadly, he died of a cerebral haemorrhage, a type of stroke, two hours before the doctor could reach him. Although what caused the stroke can never be known, it is reasonable to assume that the stress, excitement and exertion associated with the transit observations had contributed to the sad event. Like Chappe d’Auteroche in Mexico in the previous century, we can regard William Parkinson Wilson as a casualty of the transit of Venus.

HOW BIG WAS THE WOLFDENE ESTATE AT MORNINGTON?

Messrs. Byrne, Vale, and Co. report having sold

today, by public auction, at their rooms, Collins

street east, the following properties in the estate of

the late Professor Wilson, viz -Schnapper Point -

Marine family residence known as Wolfdene, together

with 26.5* acres of land, £900, allotment of land imme-

diately opposite the above, and facing Esplanade and

bay, containing 6a 1r 5p** , at £22 per acre, £138 3s.9d , Crown allotment 5 of section 23***. containing 74.5 acres, at £1 17s 6d. per acre. (P.6, Argus, 16-2-1882.)

*This is specified in the next advertisement as being c/a 46.

** See the earlier advertisement below. Opposite means across Nunns Rd. C/A 39 was 688 links (69 mm on Melway) along Nunns Rd from Wilsons Rd with a frontage of another 500 links. It can be stated emphatically that c/a 39 is now occupied by View St house blocks.

*** C/A 5, SECTION 23 indeed consisted of 74 acres 2 roods and was 1555 links (311 metres) south of Bentons Rd, and extending 1475 links (295 metres) farther south between Racecourse Rd and Balcombe Creek. Chateux Close and Jillian Way house blocks are just within the north and south boundaries.

MOOROODUC MAP:

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232502739/view

THIS EARLIER ADVERTISEMENT IS WORTH INCLUDING because it confirms my belief that Wolfdene was crown allotment 46 between Alf Downward's Redwood and Nunns Rd., and it specifies the use of each room.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15.

At Two O'Clock.

SCHNAPPER POINT.

BEAUTIFUL MARINE RESIDENCE and GROUNDS

known as " WOLFDENE,"

Formerly occupied by the late Professor Wilson.

Also,

TWO BLOCKS OF LAND,

Containing 6.5 Acres and 74.5 Acres respectively.

To persons on the lookout for a Seaside Residence,

Squatters, Retired Gentlemen, and others.

BYRNE, VALE, and Co. have received instructions

from the trustees in the estate of the late

Professor Wilson to SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION,

at their rooms, 64 and 66 Collins street east, on

Wednesday, 16th February, 1882, at two o'clock.

Lot 1.-All that piece of land comprising Crown

Allotment 46, Parish of Moorooduc, county of Mornlngton, containing 26.5 ACRES 2 ROODS,

CLOSE to the Schnapper Point steamboat pier and

the bay,

The land is laid out in lawn and flower garden,

kitchen garden, orchard, and paddocks ; the residence,

with verandah all round, contains dining and drawing

rooms, library, hall, 5? bedrooms, linen room, bath-

room, lumber room, kitchen, 2 pantries, servant's-

room, scullery; also detached kitchen, servant's room,

sitting room, billiard room, coachhouse, stable, harness-

room, and outbuildings.

Lot 2 comprises 6 a. 1 r. 5p.,being Crown Allotment 39, immediately opposite the residence, facing the Esplanade and bay.

Lot 3 contains 74a. 2r. being crown Allotment 5 of section 23.

Professor Wilson may have bought the Mornington Hotel in 1867 BUT HISTORY HAS TO MAKE SENSE!
If Professor Wilson had owned it from 1867 till 1882, how could Henry Howard's wife be running it in 1875 when Henry became a murderer.*
The only explanation would have to be that the licence had been transferred to new premises. AND IT WAS.

TO THE BENCH of MAGISTRATES, Mornington.
-I, HENRY HOWARD, the holder of a pub-
lican's licence for the house and premises known as
the Mornington Hotel, situated at Mornington, do
hereby give notlce that it is my intention to APPLY
to the justices, sitting at the Petty Sessions to be
holden at Mornington on Saturday, December 21, to
REMOVE the LICENCE and SIGN to a house now
rented by me, containing two slttingrooms and two
bedrooms, lately occupied by Mr. Cahill, bootmaker,
and situated in Main-street, Mornington.
Given under my hand, this seventh day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
HENRY HOWARD. (P.8, Argus, 11-12-1867.)
The hotel was sold for 600 pounds about a week later.
*Henry Howard’s journey – from Mornington to Frankston to ...
peninsulaessence.com.au/henry-howards...to-frankston-to-the-gallows

I HAD A DREAM that Christopher Smith had told me that a Mr Wolfdene had bought the hotel and then my subconscious used the information that sons of Mr Kirk, barman at the Mornington Hotel had drowned to produce a sequel in which a Mr Wolfdene and his sons had perished in similar circumstances. That was why I sprang out of bed to search for a gentleman with this surname, Wolfdene being the only trove search term. My dreams are rubbish but always result in an amazing discovery when my curiosity is aroused. And here it is. I wonder if Mr Backhouse had been an acquaintance of the late Professor Wilson.
M0RNINGT0N GRAMMAR SCHOOL,
Wolfdene, Schnapper Point.
Principal
B. T. P. BACKHOUSE (Cornell University),
Assisted by a competent staff.
Special Advantages.-A spacious residence, com-
manding beautiful land and sea views; extensive play-
grounds (25 acres), unrivalled salubrity of climate,
home comforts, private dormitories.
Pupils are carefully prepared for the University
and public schools.
Reference is kindly permitted to the Hon. Mrs.
Bright*, Beleura, and to other parents of pupils.
Terms moderate.
Prospectus on application to principal, or Messrs.
Mullen and Robertson.
DUTIES RESUMED JULY 28.
(P.28, The Australasian, 19-7-1879.)
*Mrs Charles Bright was the daughter of Sir John Manners- Sutton, the Governor of Victoria, after whom Sidney Smith Crispo named his private village (in today's Blairgowrie) just west of Canterbury Jetty Rd, MANNERS-SUTTON, later renaming it Canterbury when Sir John became Viscount Canterbury. Sir John often visited his daughter and that is why Beleura blurbs and guides refer to Beleura having been a Vice Regal residence.

1920 SUBDIVISION OF WOLFDENE.
The subdivision of the property was probably the result of this expected death.
ZICHY-WOINARSKI.-On the 5th April, at Wood's Point, Slanislaus K. A. Zichy-Woinarski, formerly
of Ballarat, loved husband of Mrs. F. D.Zichy-Woinarski, "Wolfdene," Mornington.
(P., Argus, 7-4-1920.)

THIS SATURDAY (MARCH l8).
On the Property. At Half-past Two O'Clock.
In a Seated Marquee.
MORNINGTON, Close Fishermen's
MOHNINGTON Beach,
WOLFDENE ESTATE. WOLFDENE ESTATE
69 CHOICE ALLOTMENTS. 69,
69 CHOICE ALLOTMENTS 69.
WILSON'S ROAD, BREWERY ROAD, NAPLES,VENICE*, and NEPTUNE STREETS.
Also.
SUPERIOR W.B. VILLA, "WOLFDENE,"
About 10 Rooms, Bathroom, Return Verandah, W.B.Garage, Stables, Workshop, Laundry, Man's Room, &c.; Asphalt Tennis-court, in Perfect Order. Well Supplied with Water. Numerous Tanks and Underground Well, LAND, About 2.5 Acres .
Also,
WILSON'S ROAD (on Lot 7),-. "NANYLTA,"
Newly Erected W'.B. Cottage, All Lined with 3-ply Wood, Containing 5 Rooms, Verandah, Gas
Laid On, Gas-stove. LAND about 07 x 200. A Really Nice Seaside Cottage, in Thorough Order.
At the SAME TIME Will be SOLD for REMOVAL, A QUAINT JAPANESE TEAHOUSE,Imported from Japan, and Erected in Sections, with Shingle Roof; Cane Tables and Chairs.
Most Suitable for the Grounds of a Seaside Home, and is Quite Unique,
Also will be Offered at the Same Time (as it doesn't state "on the same account" or where on Pt Nepean Rd the almost 20 acres were, I have not bothered correcting the text.)
(P.2, Argus, 10-3-1920.)

*The Zichy-Woinarski family which had owned the Wolfdene property since 1901** was proud of its aristocratic Polish/Hungarian ancestry which had led to a relative's farm between Elizabeth Avenue and Truemans Rd, Rosebud West being given the noble name of Woyna, but even though they may have heard Alfred Downward, (of "Redwood" between Wolfdene and Pt Nepean Rd) speak about Venus, they might have thought he meant Venice and adopted a Mediterranean theme for their street names.
**Mr Stookes, of Mornington, has disposed of his handsome property "Wolfdene" to Dr Wionarski of Ballarat, at a very satisfactory price. It is Mr Stookes intention to remove to Melbourne.
(P.2, Mornington Standard, 10-10-1901.)

Postscript, 7-3-2020.
NEIL BROCK, A DESCENDANT OF THE EARLY PIONEER AND ELDER BROTHER OF PETER GEOFFREY BROCK, THE KING OF BATHURST, IS WORKING ON A FAMILY HISTORY AND HAS SUPPLIED ME WITH GENEALOGICAL FILES, STARTING WITH THE BROCK ANCESTRY FROM THE 1600'S, COMMISSIONED BY A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TREE AND COMPILED BY A GENEALOGIST IN EDINBURG IN 1913. USING THIS NEIL HAD DETAILED GENEALOGICAL DETAILS ABOUT THE EARLY VICTORIAN SETTLER'S DESCENDANTS TO THE FIFTH GENERATION. NEIL WAS ASKED TO CHECK WHAT I HAD WRITTEN IN THE JOURNAL TO THAT STAGE AND HAS GRACIOUSLY DONE SO.
His comments are added to my journal in bold italics.

John Brock was one of Victoria's earliest pioneers but seems to have been only mentioned in passing on the PASTORAL PIONEERS OF PORT PHILLIP website. The VICTORIAN PLACES pages for JANEFIELD and BUNDOORA seem to have genealogical errors concerning the origin of the naming of Janefield. Both say it was named after the wife of James Brock in 1847 (Janefield page)and 1851 (re Janefield on the Bundoora page.) The only Victorian BDM marriage record for James Brock between 1835 and 1851 states that James married Charlotte French in 1845. Jane Brock, supposedly the wife of John's son James, (according to the BUNDOORA page) who died in 1851 was the wife of William Thomas Brock and died at Beveridge.
James Millar Brock was John Brock’s youngest son. He married
Jane Hill – details in info I sent you. Jane Hill’s aunt (Catherine) married
John Brock following the death of his wife Jean (Jane).

BROCK James, Marriage, FRENCH, Charlotte, 1845, 1870/1845 (also 34150/1845.)
# (nothing to do with us)

BROCK Jane, Death, parents' names:Unknown, place of death:MERCERS VALE (i.e. Beveridge)
spouse at death:BROCK, William Thomas
# It is just “Thomas” Brock, (John
Brock’s younger brother) first married Jane Mathews - details in info Isent you
age, year, 2nd reg. no. (28, 1851, 33651/1851)


Janefield was so named in 1848!
It is assumed that John Brock had been forced off his run near Mt Macedon in 1850 by W.J.T.Clarke's special survey but he may have moved to Janefield by 1848. John moved close by still in the Romsey
vicinity -never to Janefield. He did have property there as well as a Flour mill (Coulstock’s) on the Plenty River.
If not, Janefield was thus not named after his late wife, Jane. # I have no evidence that Janefield was named after any Jane Brock.John Brock’s wife Jean Simpson was also known as Jane. Her death Cert. says Jane. Her tombstone says Jean and her wedding Cert says Jean. One granddaughter was Jean Simpson Brock whereas a second granddaughter was named Jane Simpson Brock. Clearly she was referred to as both. I
have Jean as preeminent and Jane as “aka”.

Jane's death notice* in 1847 states that her given names were Jane Simpson and that she died at Bolanda Vale.# Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip, Billis and Kenyon refers to Bullanda Vale and Bolinda Vale as one and the same.I have wondered whether their home was referred to as “Bolanda Vale” whereas the pastoral run was “Bullanda Vale”. But to confuse things further the family bible(hand written) states that the Brock-Clarke marriage took place at Bullanda Vale, Victoria
Her death was registered twice, take 2 changing the place of death from this to Bolinda Vale.

On the 16th ... at Bolanda Vale, Jane Simpson, wife of John Brock, Esq.

BROCK Jane, Death, names of parents:Unknown
place of death:BOLINDA VALE MOUNT MACEDON
spouse at death: BROCK, Unknown
age , year, 2nd reg.no. (51, 1847, 33584/1847)

It is ironic that one of John and Jane Brock's sons married a daughter of Lewis Clarke, brother of William John Turner "Big" Clarke whose special survey swallowed Bolinda Vale.

Obituary - Lewis Clarke - Obituaries Australia
oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/clarke-lewis-15073
Clarke, Lewis (?–1858)

On the 22nd inst., at his residence, Roseneath House, Essendon, Lewis Clarke, Esq., brother of the Honorable W. J. T. Clarke, an old colonist, much respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, leaving a widow and family to mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate father.
Original publication
Argus (Melbourne), 23 December 1858, p 4 (view original)

MARRIED.
By special license, at the residence of the bride's father, on the 28th inst, by the Rev. Irving Hetherington, Alex. Brock, third son of John Brock, Esq., of Melbourne, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lewis Clarke, Esq., of Bolinda-vale. (P.8, Argus, 1-7-1853.)

John and Jane's eldest son,Henry, was married in 1847, shortly before Jane's death.
Family Notices
The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (Vic. : 1845 - 1848) Saturday 1 May 1847 p 2 Family Notices
... son of John Brock, Esq., of Ballanda Vale, Mount Macedon, to Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Reid . # .Ballanda Vale -yet another spelling!



I AM EXPECTING TO SOON RECEIVE BROCK GENEALOGY BACK TO SCOTLAND IN THE 1600'S.
LOOK OUT FOR MORE!

with fair confidence, I've just added GAMBLE to the surnames list.

AITKEN COLLEGE
Aitken College opened in Term 1 of 1999, and has remained steadfast in maintaining its historic and agricultural links.

The College name (Aitken) has links to John* Aitken, who immigrated to Van Diemans Land from Scotland in about 1825. He sailed across the Tasman to the Port Phillip district in 1836, bringing his sheep across to graze on pasture land in the outer limits of the area north of Melbourne. Up until the purchase of the College property from the Gambles in late 1998, the property was still a working farm.

*The history of the school, of which the above is the start, was copied from the internet before it was removed, possibly because I had contacted the school to cast doubt on the school having been named after JOHN Aitken. My journalabout the school contains more of the history, evidence that the names of the school,the hill on the historic Dunhelen property and the reserve and creek near Craigieburn, actually honour David Scott Aitken, and genealogical information about Desmond Gamble.

The farm purchased in 1998 was named BROCKLANDS by Desmond Gamble. It was the northern half of a farm called Springfield between Mickleham Rd and today's Greenvale reservoir (roughly Melway 178 K 3,4 and 179 A 3,4.) The southern half of Springfield became Wal French's dairy farm, hence the name of French Rd.

I had taught Timothy Gamble at Gladstone Primary School and his mother Merna, who was aware of my research into the area's history, told me that it was named after John Brock of Janefield. Then she put me in contact with a relative who was researching the Gamble history and supplied the following information.

Springfield became Springfield North and Wally French's dairy farm ON THE SOUTH HALF. Desmond Gamble's wife was a descendant of early squatter, John Brock who, like the Jacksons, Headlam, George Evans and many others,was dispossessed by Big Clarke's special survey circa 1850 and became a pioneer of the area near Latrobe University. When he bought Springvale North, he renamed it BROCKLANDS. In 1933, Edward and Jean Gamble were pupils of Greenvale State School 890 at the Section Rd corner.Did not know about “Brocklands”

Desmond Gamble, the second youngest in his family, was raised at Barfold near Kyneton and went to Dookie College where his brother, Willie from Berwick was principal and then managed a farm in Plenty Rd, South Morang. In 1915 at the age of 28, he married May Isobel Brock. Desmond died at the age of 57 and was buried at the Fawkner Cemetery. His sons, Bill and Ted carried on the milking of 100 cows to supply Cheffers and Collings' dairy at the corner of Scott and Buckley St, Essendon. They also supplied Butterworth's dairy at the corner of Winifred and Glass St in Essendon. Jean Gamble married Jack Simmie of Harpsdale after they'd shouted love* at each other during many sets at the Greenvale Tennis Club (*the score meaning the egg shaped 0 of course!) Nine years later Ted Gamble married Joy Simmie. Helen Gamble who supplied much of this biography in about 1990 married Ken Souter* at the outbreak of W.W.2 ON 2-9-1939. Ken was Principal of Parklands Primary School in Airport West when he retired. The Souters were farming John McKerchar's "Greenvale" which Robert Millar renamed as "The Elms" circa 1990.

All information about locations of farms and the Gambles comes from the G volume of my DICTIONARY HISTORY OF TULLAMARINE AND MILES AROUND.

DESMOND'S MARRIAGE REPORT. (EXTRACTS.)
Family Notices
Evelyn Observer and Bourke East Record (Vic. : 1902 - 1917) Friday 3 September 1915 p 3
WEDDING.
MR. DESMOND GAMBLE TO MISS
MAY ISABEL BROCK.
" Two souls with but one thought,
Two hearts that beat as one."
A quiet but very pretty wedding was celebrated on Wednesday, August 11th,at "Green Hills," Bundoora, the commodious and well-appointed residence of Mr and Mrs William Clarke Brock,the bride being Miss May Isabel
Brock, Mr and Mrs Brock's only daughter, and the bridegroom, Mr Desmond Gamble, of" Myee," Epping,son of Mrs Edward Gamble, and the late Mr Edward Gamble, of Barfold,near Kyneton. The wedding was semi private, only the more intimate relatives being present. The Rev.Douglas Bruce, Presbyterian Minister,of Whittlesea, to whose congregation at Janefield both young people belonged, was the officiating clergyman.

One speaker, playing on the bridegroom's surname, remarked that,although marriage was regarded by most people as a gamble, with love as the thrower of the dice, in this case the happiness of both was a dead certainty. (This does not contribute to my confidence that the Gambles belong in the early squatter's family tree but I couldn't resist its inclusion because that's the type of corny joke I specialise in!)

Gifts.
Mr. and Mrs Lewis Brock-cheque.
Mr Alec Brock#(younger brother of William Clarke Brock)-silver candlesticks.
(A fair indication of the bride being a descendant of Alexander Brock and Elizabeth nee Clarke, daughter of Lewis Clarke, who married in 1853, as is the name of the bride's father, William Clarke Brock.)

WAS THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE THE SON OF ALEXANDER BROCK AND ELIZABETH, NEE CLARKE? Yes!

BROCK William Joseph Clark*, Birth
mother: Elizabeth, nee CLARKE
father: Alexander
place of birth:PRESTON
year, reg. no.(1866, 17162/1866)
(* Should be Clarke.#)

And this would be his elder brother who gave the happy couple a cheque.

BROCK, Lewis Clarke, Birth
mother: Elizabeth, nee CLARKE
father: Alexander
place of birth:DAREBIN CK
year, reg.no. (1858, 10322/1858)

MAY ISABEL BROCK who married Desmond Gamble was therefore:
the daughter of William Clarke Brock and Elizabeth Fowler, nee Warner* who married in 1886;
the grand daughter of Alexander Brock and Elizabeth, nee Clarke;
the great grand daughter of John and Jane Simpson (nee?) Brock.

*MARRIAGE OF MAY ISABEL'S PARENTS.

BROCK William Joseph Clark, Marriage, WARNER, Elizabeth Fowler, 1886, 5051/1886

THERE WERE APPARENTLY MANY PIONEERS NAMED JOHN BROCK AND I AM NOT PREPARED TO GAMBLE THAT I HAVE IDENTIFIED THE RIGHT ONE. It would be best to wait for the email from John Brock, a fellow member of the HISTORY OF FLINDERS-CRIB POINT Facebook group, who is sending the Brock genealogy compiled by his cousin.

One died # This John is ours in 1856 at 14 Stephen St,# (Stephen Street is
now Exhibition St) Melbourne after having married Catherine Murray (nee
Hill) in 1849 (2239/1849), two years after the death of Jane Simpson Brock at Bolinda Vale.His widow later remarried. # Joseph Donaldson

Unless the squatter had a son named John (of Janefield) who stood for the seat of North Bourke in 1856 (highly unlikely as his eldest son, Henry, did not marry until 1847), I am prepared to gamble that the former squatter did not die in 1856.# John Brock (1796-1856) died 6 th Nov 1856 (have D Cert)
Just as well nobody asked me to put my money where my mouth was, because I was wrong. See SORTING OUT THE JOHN BROCKS, No.1, The Squatter, below.

John Pascoe Fawkner was a crusader, especially against the squattocracy. It has been often stated that he had a run himself in the Pascoe Vale-Coburg area but this seems to be as wrong as claims that the Camerons had a run in the Glenroy area. Fawkner obtained many grants in the area but no proof of a run has been found. However Richard Broome, a great and trustworthy historian, revealed in his BETWEEN TWO CREEKS, a history of the City of Coburg, that the slightly hypocritical J.F.P. (who started land cooperatives so his beloved yoeman farmers could buy small farms) had actually been a squatter. Richard stated that little Johnnie's run was near the present town of Monegeetta whose name was a corruption of the run's name.

There were often quarrels between squatters because of vague boundaries between runs and such disputes would be settled by land commissioners, one of whom was Major St John, the grantee of section 23 Doutta Galla (today's Strathmore Heights to Strathmore North)directly south across the Moonee Ponds Creek from J.F.P.'s Belle Vue Park. St John was amenable to bribes and Fawkner slammed his corruption. Having been found guilty of libel, Fawkner was fined a few shilling and St John left the colony in disgrace.

Richard Broome gave me the impression that the depression of 1843, which almost ruined Fawkner, signalled the end of his occupancy of his run which must have adjoined John Brock's Bolinda Vale.

N.B. The name of the WESTERNPORT squatting district is very confusing. It included runs as far north as Mt Alexander near Castlemaine and all properties in between.

CROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS

See WESTERNPORT, Nos.19, 47, 48, 192.
Fawkner was still on MOONEEJETTA and John Brock was still on BULLANDA VALE. Caveats may have been lodged because of boundary disputes, because the applicant was not occupying the run or because the person lodging the caveat considered that he had a right to claim the run. Steele*, after whom Steele Creek (running from Annandale Rd, Tullamarine to the Maribyrnong at Melway 27J4) was named, was along with Big Clarke, a major grantee of land near John Brock and Fawkner's runs, where he'd established a run by 1840.

*From my review Of Christine Laskowski's STEELE CREEK AND THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
M.Steel was living at Steel Creek (near Tullamarine) in 1841. In 1840, Richard Cooke had a depasturing licence for Mr Steele's Horse Station, b]Westernport on the Deep Creek in the parish of Darraweit Guim.

DARRAWEIT GUIM PARISH. To inspect the map, google DARRAWEIT GUIM, COUNTY OF BOURKE.
Michael Steel was the grantee of sections 26-29, a total of 1877 acres on the west side of Saltwater River (Deep Creek)and at the north west corner of the parish. W.J.T.(Big) Clarke was the grantee of about three quarters of the parish.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH AT JANEFIELD, IN WHICH DESMOND GAMBLE AND ISABEL MAY BROCK WERE MARRIED IN 1915, PROBABLY SAT ON TWO ACRES DONATED BY JOHN BROCK SIXTY YEARS EARLIER.
JANEFIELD.—On Friday last a meeting was held, in the Scotch School, for the purpose of electing trustees to manage the property of a church and school intended to be erected at Janefield. Subscription lists were opened for the immediate erection of a new schoolhouse, and £126 was at once subscribed by five of the
gentlemen present. John Brock, Esq., proprietor of the estate, has liberally and gratuitously granted two acres of ground for the above purposes.(P.5, Argus, 3-5-1855.)

SORTING OUT THE JOHN BROCKS.
1.THE SQUATTER.
No 25 April 1980 - State Library of Victoria
www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-25/t1-g-t4.html

John Brock arrived in Victoria in 1835 and settled near what is now Romsey (Bolinda)* Diggers’ Rest. In 1837 he took the Bullanda Vale Run, and by his death in 1856 had added several other properties to his holdings. These papers relate mainly to his estate and to the family and business affairs of his son Alexander, in particular his many properties around ...
* N.B. It is likely that John had copied my journal when I was having difficulties with accessing trove and adding information to the journal and had not seen Isaac Batey's 1892 article (which I eventually managed to post as a comment.)Redstone Hill, John's first squat (see end of journal re the attached image)is nearest Sunbury but could be fairly vaguely described as being near Diggers Rest, or even Keilor as Neil has done in his file about the 180th Anniversary of John Brock's arrival in Australia.

This is the only death record for a JOHN BROCK in 1856.

BROCK John, Death
mother:
father:, Henry
place of birth: LIN # Linlithgow, Scotland
spouse at death:MURRAY, Catherine
age, year, reg.no. (60, 1856, 4714/1856)

John's first wife # Jean Jane Simpson Brock died in 1847 at Bolinda Vale aged 51, indicating that she had been born in about 1896. John's details reveal the same making it likely that the death notice is that of the former squatter. John stood for parliament in 1856 but suddenly disappeared in a puff of smoke. # He died in 1856!
I doubted that somebody with the energy to stand for election could be the man who died in the same year but it looks as if I was wrong. The Janefield news made no mention of his death. Was there a family estrangement when he married Catherine Murray in 1949, two years after Jane's death.# No Evidence of estrangement _ Catherine was well known to the family as she was an aunt of James Millar Brock’s wife Jane Hill. No Knowledge of John standing for Parliament!


BROCK John, Marriage, MURRAY, Catherine, 1849, 2239/1849

Catherine remarried about a decade after John's death. My internet's on the blink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
POSTSCRIPT.
DONALDSON--BROCK.—On the 17th inst., at All Saints' Church, East St. Kilda, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Melbourne, assisted by the Rev. J. Watson, the Rev. J. M. Donaldson, incumbent of Mortlake, to Catherine, relict of John Brock, Esq., late of Bullandavale Station, Mount Macedon. No cards. (P.4, Argus, 20-11-1866.

As Trove is still unavailable I tried a JOHN BROCK, SQUATTER Google search.
the squatter era in victoria 1835-1847
Despite a careless* start, the information supplied seems to be reliable.
(* introduction

in March 1826, three squatters, David Fisher, James Strachan and George Russell arrived on the Caledonia and settled in the Geelong area - it was named Geelong in 1827 and surveyed in 1838 by which time it had a population of 545.)

1836.
John Brock (-1856), his wife and 3 sons left Van Dieman's Land and settled on grazing land west of Romsey - the small soda trachyte volcanic hill (1 of 3 such geologic forms including Camel's Hump and Hanging Rock), was named after him as Brock's Monument - now still on private land.
1844.
Patrick and Agnes Reid settle in Doreen. (This is significant in regard to the marriage of Frederick not Frederick it was Henry (eldest son of John) Brock to Margaret Reid in 1847.(See in No.3.) Perhaps John Brock was involved at Mill Park (early name for Janefield)from 1842 as claimed in one source already included in the journal.)# He was involved but never lived there

BROCK'S MONUMENT.
Several maps pinpoint the location of Brock's Monument.

PAGE 22.
Map 3 shows the significant landscapes in the declared area. The Macedon Ranges and Hanging Rock are the defining landscape features of the Shire and are exemplary and significant in a state context. At just over 1000 metres in elevation, Mt Macedon (and Camels Hump immediately to its north-east) are visible from far away, and they are among the highest points in Victoria west of Melbourne.The unique geological formation of Hanging Rock is of particular significance — scientific, aesthetic, cultural, social and spiritual. It is a rare and dramatic example of a volcanic mamelon, which formed six million years ago when high-viscosity lava squeezed through a narrow vent in the Earth’s crust. Camels Hump and Brock Monument formed in the same way. Weathering and erosion have contributed to the shape of these striking and unusual rock formations. Brock Monument — between Hesket and Romsey — is also of geological and landscape significance, as is the Jim Jim, a volcanic eruption point north of Hanging Rock.

2.JOHN ALEXANDER BROCK, ELDEST SON OF THE LATE ALEXANDER BROCK AND ELIZABETH BROCK

PARENTS' MARRIAGE

BROCK John Alexander, Birth
mother: Elizabeth, nee CLARKE
father: Alexander
Place of birth: RING (A farm called) "Ringwood" (between) Essendon (and Raleigh's Punt at today's Maribyrnong.) THE WORDS IN BRACKETS AND QUOTATION MARKS ARE MINE!
year, reg. no. (1854, 2057/1854)



3. MR. JOHN BROCK. #This John Brock is the eldest son of Henry Brock,and John Brock’s grandson – a very prominent resident in Benalla.
The announcement is made in the Melbourne papers of the death of Mr. John Brock, formerly a well-known resident of Benalla. The death took place in the Melbourne Hospital, and the news will be read with regret by his numerous friends in this district.# He was first Captain of the Benalla Fire Brigade and occupied that position for some years. For many years deceased was connected with the Colonial Bank at Benalla, and was appointed manager of the branch about the year 1873. During his residence here Mr.Brock was a live citizen, and took a leading part in many movements for the benefit of the town and district. About 1884 Mr. Brook left Benalla, and entered into business with his brother as an auctioneer.

When the electorate of Moira was cut up into four districts Mr. Brock stood for Benalla and Yarrawonga, and was elected by an absolute majority over his four other opponents, two of whom lost their deposits. With the bursting of the land boom Mr. Brock had to resign his seat, and since then he has lived in Western
Australia and other states. (P.3, Benalla Standard, 15-11-1912.)
JOHN BROCK M.L.A.

PARENTS' MARRIAGE.
John and Jane Brock's eldest son,Henry, was married in 1847, shortly before Jane's death.
Family Notices
The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser (Vic. : 1845 - 1848) Saturday 1 May 1847 p 2 Family Notices
... son of John Brock, Esq., of Ballanda Vale, Mount Macedon, to Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Reid .

JOHN'S MARRIAGE.
MARRIED.
Brock— M'eachern.- On the 19th. inst., at the residence of the bride's father,- by the Rev. Boyd
M' Cay, John (manager of the Colonial Bank, Benalla), eldest son of the late Henry Brock, Janefield, to Christina, youngest daughter of Malcolm Stuart M'Eachern, Castlemaine.
(P.2, Mount Alexander Mail-Castlemaine-, 23-5-1876.) Christina died at Benalla in 1877.

Two brothers of John Brock 1, Thomas and Henry, came to Australia according to the Brock Pedigree. It was discovered that the former married the daughter of William Dods of Brunswick, spent much of his life at Brunswick and died at Heidelberg. He was not the one who had died at Castlemaine after running a business there for many decades. However as John Brock 3 had found his bride in Castlemaine, the Brocks of Janefield and Castlemaine were probably closely connected.

BROCK Jno, Death
mother: Margt REID
father: Brock Hy
place of DEATH:Rmond
age, year , reg.no. (62, 1912, 15983/1912)

"BROCK" "JANEFIELD" SEARCH ON TROVE.
I had tried this search before my aforementioned computer problems started but had limited the search to Victorian newspapers. Having seen mention of John and Jane coming to the Port Phillip District from Van Diemen's Land, I thought I'd try Tasmanian papers.

BROCK - On the 3rd November, at his residence Rathdowne
street Carlton, Melbourne, Henry Brock Esq., late of
Janefield, River Plenty, Victoria aged fifty three years.
(P.1, The Mercury, Hobart, 14-11-1871.)

THURSDAY, January 28.
At 12 o'clock.
To Capitalists, Stock Owners, Farmers, Graziers,
Speculators, Trustees, and Others.
IMPORTANT SALE OF VALUABLE
FREEHOLD PROPERTIES,
Known as the
JANEFIELD ESTATE,
Parish of Keilbundora, Nillumbik, Fronting the
River Plenty and Yan Yean Road, about 10
miles from the City. By order of the Trustées
of the late HENRY BROCK, Esq.
CONSISTING OF 1,073 ACRES
Of the Best Agricultural and Pastoral Land
within 20 miles of the City.
C. J. & T. HAM '
Have been favoured with instructions from
Messrs. Patrick and William Reed (Reid? I think so), trustees
under the will of the late Henry Brock, Esq.,
to sell by public auction, at their rooms, 45
Swanston-street, on THURSDAY, 28th Jan-
uary,* at 12 o'clock,
THE VALUABLE FARMS
known as
JANEFIELD,
On the Yan Yean road, close to the Janefield
toll, and extending from the main road to both
sides of the River Plenty, with the residence
and farm-houses as now in the occupation of
several first class tenants.
The whole of the estate, comprising 1,073
acres, securely fenced in and subdivided into
farms and paddocks, will be sold in
ONE LOT,
1st.-520 acres first-class agricultural land,
together with the large, substantial, and com-
fortable
BLUESTONE FAMILY RESIDENCE,
With extensive outbuildings, formerly occupied
by the late Mr. Brock, and now in the occupa-
tion of Mr. Wyatt. About 120 acres of the
farm is under cultivation, the remainder being
used as grazing paddocks.
2nd.-237 acres very superior agricultural
land, with bluestone cottage residence, now and
for many years past in the occupation of Mr.
Slassar. About 115 acres are under cultivation..
3rd.-108 acres splendid land, occupied by
Mr. Jones and Mr. Peacock, about 40 acres of
which are under cultivation.
4th.-214 acres east of the River Plenty,
with cottage, occupied by Mr. Hooper, about
30 acres being under cultivation.
The whole of the above tenancies expire 1st
March, 1876.
The above valuable properties form an estate
of exceptional value, having the advantage of
being in one block, and a great portion of the
land is the best in the colony. One of the best
kept roads out of the city extends along the
whole of the western boundary, and the River
Plenty meanders through the estate.
The land under cultivation is unsurpassed in
quality and capability of sustaining large and
continuous crops. The back land is well
grassed, and sufficiently timbered to afford good
shelter for cattle.
The whole of the property was acquired by
the late Mr. Brock during the past 35 years.
Such blocks of land near the city could only be
obtained in the early days of the colony.
The auctioneers would call the especial atten-
tion of capitalists, stockowners, and others to
the sale of this estate, affording as it does an
opportunity of securing an improving property,
possessing the advantages of good soil, per-
manent water, splondid road, and contiguity to
the metropolis.
Title Certificate.
Terms-One-fifth cash ; balance 0,12,24, and
30 months, bearing interest at 6 per cent.
(P.4, The Mercury, Hobart, 6-1-1875)

NOW BACK TO VICTORIAN PAPERS.
I WONDER IF THE BRAND WAS ACTUALLY "JB".
CAUTION -This is to give notice to the
public and Charles C. S Anning that
no person has any right to claim or dispose of
Cattle branded IB* near rump without our
authority, such brand being the sole property
of the undersigned, registered since 1836.
H. and J. M. BROCK, Gisborne.
ALEX. BROCK, Janefield.
(P.7, Argus, 18-8-1856.)
*IT IS PROBABLE THAT THIS IS A TYPO AND SHOULD BE JB FOR JOHN BROCK.

There are two conficting claims about the year of John's arrival in Victoria which I included earlier in the journal: 1835 and 1837. The registration of the brand in 1836 would make it almost certain that 1837 is wrong.
John Brock came to Port Phillip in 1835 to recce the area for grazing purposes. He and his family appear on the first Port Phillip census in (1836) I HAVE A SCAN.Obviously finding it suitable he returned the next year in 1836 with his family, stock and squatting plant and from that time remained in Port Phillip.

AS WELL AS THE FILE IN WHICH NEIL COPIED MY JOURNAL AND ADDED THE ABOVE COMMENTS, HE SENT ME ANOTHER FILE ABOUT THE 180 ANNIVERARY OF JOHN AND JANE'S ARRIVAL IN VICTORIA.
It contains a description of the location of John's run, as described in the 1836 census,which Isaac Batey, writing as RAMROD IN 1892, stated emphatically was "REDSTONE HILL". Redstone Rd, Sunbury is 41.1 km from Melbourne BY ROAD, far greater than 13 miles as stated in the census, but of course there were no roads so John would have taken the shortest possible route heading towards Mt Macedon following a stream if possible when walking his flock to the land where he had decided to squat.

John could have taken two routes to reach Redstone Hill requiring not much more than a 13 mile journey.

Firstly up a rough track created by such as John Aitken and George Evans, up Flemington Hill,continuing towards Mt Macedon, left into the road (Buckley St) to Solomon's Ford at Melway 27 C9 (not Clancy's later ford at 27 B8) and then following the ruts of Aitken's dray along the west side of the Saltwater River to a ford just south of Redstone Hill which Hume and Hovell were thought to have used en route from (the cairn at Melway 177 J8) to (the cairn at the future) St Albans.
DISTANCE FROM MELBOURNE?

Secondly a fairly direct route Epsom Rd,Buckley St veering a bit north to cross Steele Ck at 27J2 and then North Pole (Milleara) Rd?) along the west side of the Saltwater River through the parish of Doutta Galla to Melway 15B2 and into the parish of Tullamarine, staying west of Steele Creek and Arundel Creek to the Junction of Deep and Jacksons Creeks at 4 B4 and then heading north east through the land which James Robb bought from John Pascoe Fawkner fifteen years later, reaching the ford in the middle of 4 B3 that later linked Mansfield Rd (now closed for airport expansion)to Loemans Rd on Tullamarine Island. Probably following roughly the course of Loemans Rd northward to 176G4, it would then be westward ho along the northern escarpment of Jacksons Creek for about a mile and a half to a perfect look out (at 382 K12)to survey the available land east of the Jackson Brothers' Koorakooracup run on which the town of Sunbury was established. (It was Jackson and his brother, Samuel, who named the township Sunbury, after Sunbury-on-Thames, in Middlesex, England when it was established in 1857. From Wikipedia.)
DISTANCE FROM MELBOURNE? 16 miles to the Holden Flora and Fauna Reserve just across Jackson Creek from Redstone Hill.

See the description of the location of John Brock's 1836 run under the dotted line re the attached image.
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ATTACHED IMAGE SHOWS THE VIEW OF MELBOURNE FROM JOHN BROCK'S FIRST RUN, REDSTONE HILL AT MELWAY 382K12.
John Brock and his family did not remain in Melbourne but made their way along Saltwater River (Maribrynong
River). At the time of the census (November 1836) it states they were located at the "first junction"(Jackson's Creek),around "13 miles" from Melbourne, which would have been in the vicinity of Keilor.

While reading Jenny Barden's historical novel, THE LOST DUCHESS,her tremendous research about the latter 1500's aroused my curiosity. I checked all of her details and found that the fate of the early English colonists in South Carolina was unknown and she even explained that by having Queen Elizabeth 1 instructing the hero and heroine, and others who had returned to England, not to reveal any information about the failure of Raleigh's city of Raleigh. She even used the vocabulary of the time and I looked up some of the words, such as wherry and quay, online. The latter led to Torquay and my discovery that the name of the Victorian town was coined by a former resident of Torquay, Devon. I think you'll be able to put two and two together.

A James Follett, if he was the same man, seems to have been a very naughty boy as the Monty Python crew would have said, but as I said in the title, there was something special about him which will give his descendants something to brag about in a family history.

I believe this would be the death record of the man who gave Spring Creek, Victoria, its new name,Torquay.

FOLLETT Jas, Death
mother: Hannah, nee MION
father: Follett Jas
place of death:Glong
age, year, reg. no. (61, 1899,13822/1899)

Torquay, VIC., Aussie Towns
"Origin of Name
When the district was first settled in the 1880s the town was known simply as Spring Creek but by 1892 it had been renamed Torquay after the famous English holiday resort town of Devon. It is now accepted that one of the district's earliest settlers, James Follett, was responsible for the name change. He had grown up atTorquay, Devon."

FROM WIKIPEDIA.
History
Wathaurong Aborigines lived in the area before British settlement. From the 1860s, picnickers began to frequent the location, which was originally known as Spring Creek, after the watercourse along its south-western edge,[2] but it was named Puebla in the 1882 Victorian Municipal Directory. James Follett, who settled there in 1871, came from Torquay, the seaside town in Devon, England, and at his suggestion the name Torquay was officially adopted in 1892.

James Follett applied to lease or purchase land at the north-west corner of allotment 66, Puebla, near Spring Creek. Recommended for sale at £3.(P.4, Geelong Advertiser, 14 March 1877.)

This would almost certainly be him.
SELLING ALE BY THE SEASHORE AT SPRING CREEK

There is no birth record for the birth of Louisa, the eldest daughter of James who became Mrs Ashmore in 1883 (marriage notice) but the death record of his eldest son, Charles Andrew, reveals that James had married Anna Baensch.

FOLLETT, Chas Andw, Death
mother: Anna, nee BAENSCH
father: Follett Jas
place of death:Glong
age, year, reg.no. (37, 1904,8794/1904)

FOLLETT.-On 14th July, at Geelong,
Charles Andrew Follett, eldest beloved son
of Anna and the late James Follett, late of
Torquay, aged 37 years.
The funeral will leave the residence of his
mother, Colac-road, Belmont, for the Geelong
Eastern Cemetery, on Saturday, 16th inst., at
2 o'clock p.m.
Friends are respectfully invited. (P.1, Geelong Advertiser,16-7-1904.)

James Follett wasn't really that much of a naughty boy. He got a publican's licence soon after being sprung selling ale by the seashore and most visitors to Puebla stayed at his hotel. James Follett, possibly his son or grandson, was sprung selling fish without holding a fisherman's licence.

The James Follett who was a very very naughty boy was the market gardener of Boundary Rd, Heatherton/ Braeside, who horsewhipped his third wife. I'd thought he might have been the man who gave our Torquay its name. However he was the son of a Joseph Follett, born at Heatherton in about 1860 (whichever one of the two possibilities he was.)

PASTE LINKS IN YOUR SEARCH BAR.

A PIONEER OF McCRAE WHEN IT WAS CALLED DROMANA WEST.

My post on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook page about young Melbourne Brindle seeing a Rolls Royce for the first time when Sol Green drove through Dromana on the way to Sorrento had me wondering if the bookmaker was associated with the owner of Green's Bush. It seems not.

I found the death notice of a woman who may have been living in the Coburn's original "Springbank" when it was burnt down one Friday night (2-2-1912.)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11651290

GREEN Isobel Mary, Death
mother:Green, Clotilde Eugenie Leona, nee Allsop
father: Green, Frederick Richard
Place of death: Camberwell
age, year, reg.no. (93 Years,1989, 22828/1989.

Isobel shared my belief that those who work tirelessly for the community should be rewarded instead of the captains of industry and other big-wigs, as her letter illustrates:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26584363

Isobel seemed to be the only person in the world to know what Wannaeue meant.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12099414

Unfortunately there is no Fingal parish map so you'll just have to take my word. At the north east corner of the parish is Green's Bush. Apart from E.Russell (probably Edward Russell who was granted almost 80 acres at about Melway 253 J6), the grantees were M.E.Green 626 acres, c/a's 5, 9, 9A; E.C.Green (of Williamstown?) c/a 9B of 108 acres and c/a 8A of 532 acres; and F.R.Green c/a 9C of 145 acres.

Could F.R.Green be Isobel's father?

William Henry Peatey married Sarah Ellen Coe on 23-2-1916 with Ted Green of Main Ridge as his best man.
(Pine Trees and Box Thorns, Rosalind Peatey.)

I reckon this would be the death record of Ted Green who would seem to be Isobel's brother.

GREEN, Edward Carlton, Death
mother: Clothald Eugena Leonie, nee ALSOPP
father: GREEN Frederick Richard
places of birth and death:Camberwell, Mount Eliza
age, year, reg. no. (84, 1978, 18104/1978)

EDWARD CARLTON GREEN, GRAZIER OF MAIN RIDGE.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244530097

Believe it or not, there isn't any history of Green's Bush on the internet. They reckon you can find out anything on the internet but forget to add "if somebody has put it there."

THE TERRIFIC WOODEN STATUES THAT TELL THE HISTORY OF ROSEBUD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

TO BE INSERTED HERE:THE TEXT, VERBATIM, FROM EACH PLAQUE IN ORDER OF THE STATUES' LOCATIONS FROM MURRAY ANDERSON RD TO THE ROSEBUD HOTEL.

I'll modify that statement somewhat. When first installed, the statues had plaques which provided information about some of the characters of Rosebud's past. The plaques are missing and have been for some time and this journal is a wake up call to myself to get them reinstated. The statues are still serving the function of giving tourists a reason to love Rosebud however; I'm sure they appear in countless selfies taken by visitors!

This email was received on February 8, 2019.
Hi ---,

Re: Redeeming Rosebud's image - restoration of carvings

I am new to the role, however, I apologise if no one responded to your previous enquiry. Thank you for reaching out again.

Interesting timing that you should write this email….

Only yesterday did I meet with local artist Drew Gregory to review the current state of the wooden carvings in Rosebud's main street.

Drew has generously offered to personally restore the carvings to a high standard at a very reduced rate to our Chamber of Commerce.

The project will take approximately 60 days.

I have submitted the proposal to our committee and will hear back within 5 days with conformation of the committee's decision to approve the works and associated costs.

If approved, Drew can commence work immediately and we will have all carving completed by Easter - with plaques and QR codes that will provide detailed information linking back to our new website and mobile app, for all to learn and share the rich history of Rosebud.

If you would please forward me your phone number I would very much like to speak with you about what we are doing to redeem Rosebud’s image.

Kindest, Belinda
Belinda Healey
Marketing & Development Township Liaison Co-ordinator
Rosebud Chamber of Commerce

My intention was to write this journal long ago, including information from the plaques, so the historical significance of the statues would be available if the plaques were stolen or were removed during repainting. I will be sending this journal to Belinda to remind her that the reinstallation of the plaques is well and truly overdue.

All the statues are on the inland side of Pt Nepean Rd from the west corner of Murray Anderson Rd to the Rosebud Hotel, being depictions of the following at work: Mitch Lacco, Jack Jennings, Frank Whitaker, Norm Clark, Fred Gregory and (Syd?) Baker.

MITCH LACCO. (East corner of Murray Anderson Rd.)

LACCO Patrick Mitchell, Death, mother: Elizabeth, nee KING, father:LACCO Fort: place of birth:Melbourne,
place of death:Dromana, age, year, register number: 90,1974,3408/1974

Mitch was the son of Elizabeth Lacco (nee King), sister of Emily Durham, the great grandmother of Judith Mavis Cock (Judith Durham of The Seekers.) Judith spent her first six summers holidaying in the timber house in the middle of crown allotment 20, Rosebud Fishing Village (fronting the west side of Durham Place), granted to Fort Lacco (Mitch's dad) on 16-8-1872 and occupied by Fort's sister in law, Emily from about 1900.
(By the way, Mitch's relationship to Judith Mavis Cock was not mentioned on the plaque.)

Mitch established what a heritage study ridiculously called Rosebud's ship building industry. The boats that he built were a bit bigger than the one depicted in the statue but hardly SHIPS! Mitch was the founder of a boat- building dynasty. If you google LACCO, WOODEN BOATS, you'll get some idea of the family's prominence in this industry.

The Lacco family must have built Pier Cottage on the east side of the Jetty Rd access to the jetty by 1900 when Emily Durham occupied Fort Lacco's grant. Pier Cottage burnt down in (1937?)despite the efforts of the Rosebud footballers, returning from a function, to quell the fire. It was replaced with a two-storey building by Edward Campbell, a Melbourne councillor and Lord Mayor who had bought the property (c/a's 12 and 11) before the fire, and this building was demolished a few years ago for the construction of the Banksia Point cafe/apartment complex which now covers both blocks.

Mitch, who married Lucy Marie Wickham in 1907, built his first boat on the foreshore (probably c/a 11, the eastern part of the complex)and named it the SURPRISE. To enhance his expertise, he moved to Queenscliff in about 1916 at about the same time as William John Ferrier, the hero of the La Bella wreck at Warrnambool, and his choice of name for his boat was probably intended to convey how his existing expertise would be perceived. Fort Lacco had recently died but his widow, Elizabeth, would have enjoyed baby sitting her grandchildren and the Ferrier children at Queenscliff.

According to the Rosebud Historical Society's 2002 display (now archived at the Dromana Museum), Mitch returned in 1929 and bought a HEART OF ROSEBUD ESTATE block fronting the EAST side of Murray Anderson Rd. He built a house fronting Pt Nepean Rd and a boat building shed behind it fronting Mitchell* St. Mitch's statue is on the other side of Murray Anderson Rd, directly above the undergrounded Peatey's Creek which flowed to the bay between George Fountain's THE PINES and the Peateys' BEACHSIDE.
*I thought that Mitchell St may have been named after Mitch but De Garis probably named it after a Rosebud family with that surname BEFORE 1929.


JACK JENNINGS. (East corner of Rosebud Parade outside the MODEL DAIRY, now a real estate office.)
The first thing that needs to be stated, in order to prevent confusion, is that Jack and his father were totally unrelated to Walter Jennings, the renowned tenor and member of the instructional staff at Langwarrin Army Camp during W.W.1, whose widow bought land in the Hindhope Estate near the north east corner of the Rosebud Plaza car park and became a Rosebud resident.

Dod Jennings was born in Drysdale near Geelong and married a Wiffen girl from that area. After share- farming in various places including Flinders (where one of his sons married a Tuck gal) and Camperdown, Dod took his family to "Kariah" between Weeroona St (once called Jennings Rd)and Dundas St.

I believe this is Jack's marriage notice.
Miss Ruth Ferris, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Ferris, was recently married to Mr. Jack Jennings, youngest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, of Rosebud. The ceremony took place at the Church of England. The wedding breakfast was held at the home of the bride's grand-parents. The honeymoon is being spent at Healesville.
(P.3, Standard, Frankston, 5-10-1944.)

Jack's given names were Arthur John and he was born in 1915. His marriage record.

JENNINGS Arthur John Marriage FERRIS, Ruth Evelyn 1944 11651/1944

His birth record.

JENNINGS Arth Jno, Birth, mother: Mary Jane, nee WHIFFEN, father:Geo Ernt
place of birth,year , register number: DROMANA*, 1915, 11790/1915

* In the 1919-20 assessment for the central riding, Jennings Bros. were listed as those to be assessed on lots 18 and 19 of Clarkes' Special Survey, a total of 280 acres. These lots were bounded by the Nepean Highway (w), Wallaces Rd east to the first bend on the right hand side of Melway 162 B3 on the south and a line east from McKenzie's Junction to the top middle of 151 C12. Their names were crossed out, which indicates that they occupied the land until about mid 1919. They had probably been leasing the land from Ralph Godfrey Patterson, purchaser of lots 18 and 19 in (1907?)when Arthur John was born in 1915, either on the farm or at one of at least two private hospitals in Dromana at the time. (The Dromana Bush Hospital did not open on Karadoc until about 1930.)

Jack was the grandson of "George (Dod) Jennings and Hannah (nee Wiffen) who married in 1879."
Jack's father George Ernest (Ern)was born in 1880, register number 6577/1880. The place of birth was recorded as Bellarine (i.e. Peninsula)and probably took place at Drysdale where Dodd and Hannah (written as Anna in the birth record) resided until 1894.

Dodd (sic, DOD) was listed as a new insolvent in May 1894 "and the family moved* between Flinders, Cranbourne and Camperdown as itinerant farmers before settling in 1914 on 212** acres at Rye" (crown allotments 20 and 21, parish of Nepean of 107 a. 1 r. 9 p and 114.1.4 respectively, a total of 221 acres 2 roods 13 perches.

* There was no notice or record of the marriage of Ern and Mary Jane, perhaps due to such movement from one place to another.
**The 212 acres was probably found in a rate record. Once made, an error such as this was likely to be repeated for years.
See the NEPEAN PARISH MAP

"On arrival at Rye Ern farmed the part of Kariah (named by Dod* after an area near Camperdown)fronting Weeroona St (probably c/a 21) while his brother Cecil, his wife Catherine (nee Tuck) and their nine children, with Dod* and Hannah farmed the land nearest Dundas St. After the failure of onion growing, the families changed to dairying, establishing a large jersey herd. Ern later bought a milk round from Bob Rowley and later expanded into Rosebud, selling his share of Kariah to his brother, Cecil."
* SEE LINDA BERNDT'S CORRECTION BELOW.

RYE PARK AND THE MODEL DAIRY.
"Ern then leased (450? acres of the Tootgarook pre-emptive right called Rye Park)around the Leonard St area of Tootgarook, purely for the production of milk. His daughter, Hannah would do a daily milk run. Ern's sons Jack, Bill and Claude took over the dairy at Rye which was located on the site of the present newsagency. It was eventually run by Claude and his sons , Ernest and Dennis.The Rye Dairy was sold in 1974 to Claude's brother, Jack, who also ran the Rosebud dairy. Ern (George Ernest)died in 1958."

All quoted passages above are from JENNINGS: A PIONEERING FAMILY by Linda Berndt nee Jennings on page 32 of
RYE TOWNSHIP 150TH ANNIVERSARY, 2011.

1-7-1937 MILK BAR AT ROSEBUD (Architects Forsyth & Dyson, Collins Street, Melbourne.)

DAIRY EXTENSIONS
Standard (Frankston, Vic. : 1939 - 1949) Thursday 28 February 1946 p 6 Article
... DAIRY EXTENSIONS Mr. G. E. Jennings, who conducts the dairy at Rosebud, and serves Rye area ... , contemplates carrying out extensions to his business premises in Rosebud, in the near future.

The plaque records that the dairy was later moved to the Rosebud Industrial Estate (recalled by the name of Jennings St at Melway 169 K7.)

CONTRIBUTED BY LINDA BERNDT WHEN I ASKED HER TO CHECK THE ADDITIONS IN ITALICS ABOVE.
Jack's full name is Arthur John and Dod is just one d. George Ernest, Ern, and Mary Jane Wiffen were married 10 May 1899 at the office of the registrar of marriage (Joshua Charles Bennett), Gheringhap street, Geelong. Ern was 5 days short of his 19th birthday and Mary was 17. Married with permission from his father Dod (George) and her mother... Eliza Jennings, (Widowed Wiffen) , nee Prentice. rego number 4162. Eliza was married to Dod's brother, Johnathan (Duck).
In regards to the farm 221 acres is recorded by the family. This was farmed for 4 years as a family. The separation of the farm only occurred after the death of Dod in 1918. Cec farming the Dundas st side and Ern and Mary the Jennings Rd (now Weeroona St) part.
George Ernest (Ern) was born at Mannerim on the Bellarine Peninsula.


FRANK WHITAKER.
Following email conversations with Paul Whitaker some time ago, I concluded that the current generation of the family doesn't know much about its past. William John Whitaker and his wife seem to have led the move to the Peninsula.
WHITTAKER.—On February 10, at Dromana, William John, husband of the late Wilhelmina Spalding, and loving father of Bertha (Mrs. Engels), Lance, Frederick, and Frank, aged 77 years. –At rest. (P.2, Argus, 11-2-1948.) He was buried at Dromana after a service at the historic St Mark's at Dromana (which is now surrounded and dwarfed by hideous apartments/shop complexes because the area was zoned commercial! Jesus saves but he couldn't save the church from such disregard for heritage.

WHITAKER. - On November 2, at her daughter's home, 53 Clonaig street, Brighton, Wilhelmina Spalding, dearly loved wife of William Whitaker, of Point Nepean road, Dromana, loving mother of Bertha(Mrs. Ingles), Lance (Mount Eliza), Fred (Hawthorn), Frank (Rosebud), and Nellie(Mrs. Brown), aged 77 years. -Dearly loved.
After a service at Elsternwick the funeral proceeded to the Dromana Cemetery.(P.9,Argus, 3-11-1947.)

I could find no death record for Wilhelmina but her maiden name was supplied in their marriage record.

WHITAKER Wm Jno Marriage STOCK, Wina Spalding 1890 5836/1890

A marriage notice "WHITAKER, STOCK" would be likely to indicate where William and Wlhelmina were living at the time of their marriage but there wasn't one. There wasn't even a golden wedding notice in 1940.

Let's get down to business!
On page 51 of A DREAMTIME OF DROMANA, Colin McLear included a photo of Whitaker's bus with nine passengers alongside it and one woman almost as tall as the bus. On page 53, Colin states that Fred Whitaker Senior established his garage at Dromana in the early 1920's and ran a bus from Rosebud.On page 164, Colin stated that in the 'tween wars era drags were replaced by buses and Whitakers ran an eight seater bus to away football matches. This eight seater* was probably the one shown on page 53. (*Licensed to carry 8 passengers and as it wouldn't be going anywhere without a driver, this would explain the nine people in the photo.)

Now I have a confession to make! When Keith McGregor and his brother moved to Stawell to grow wheat, I assumed that Keith had transferred his bus run licence to his brother in law, Billy Adams. WRONG!
DROMANA.-Messrs. McGregor Bros. have disposed of their motoring business and cars to Messrs. Whitaker and Son, and intend to try wheat growing. McGregor Bros. practically introduced the motor service in this district. (P.11, Argus,11-5-1922.)

WHITAKER'S PENINSULA MOTORS PTY. LTD.,to take over from William John Whitaker his interest in motor garage and motor tränsport service at Dromana. Capital £3000.
8ubscribers--William John Whitaker, Frank Whitaker. ((P.6, Argus, 13-7-1936.)


LUCK'S BEING A LADY TONIGHT.
As I pulled out my transparent container of historic newspaper articles, what should be on top but Stephen Taylor's CURTAINS DRAWN ON CINEMATIC PIECE OF ROSEBUD'S HISTORY (P.27,Southern Peninsula News, 6-11-2019.)
Paul Whitaker stated that his father Frank had acquired the Broadway in 1928 "with the proceeds of the first screening being donated to the widow's of local fishermen* who died in a storm at that time."
*- DETAILS OF THE VICTIMS, THE SEARCHERS etc.

Frank might have been a partner with W.Watts (and perhaps Tom Chadwick) by the time of the first screening but it was W.Watts,the builder of the Broadway, who seems to have decided that the proceeds of the first screening would go to the appeal.

Mr. T. W. Chadwick (Rosebud) announced that Mr. W. Watt, who was building a new picture theatre at Rosebud,
offered the proceeds from the opening night towards the fund, and the workmen on the building (i.e. Rosebud Pictures) had contributed £15. Mr.McFarlan (Sorrento*) and Mr. Ambler(Dromana*) offered a picture night for the funds.(P.10, The Age, 23-11-1928.)
* David McFarlan built a theatre in Sorrento's main street which still screens movies. (Historic cinema three-screen cinema, which began life as the Sorrento Athenaeum Hall theatre built in 1894.)
The second Mechanics' Institute at Dromana doubled as that town's theatre as shown on Melbourne Brindle's sensational pre 1919 map of Dromana (which you can buy from me at the Dromana Museum on Sunday January 5, 2020 between 2 and 4 p.m.for $2.)

Because of overwhelming competition from television, the Broadway closed at the end of 1962 with the projection equipment being moved to the Dromana Drive-in which had recently been opened by the Whitaker family; this equipment was later moved to the Leongatha drive-in. A photo of Paul and Lloyd Whitaker with the wooden statue appears in the article. Entertainment still continued at the Broadway with John Farnham and Denise Drysdale often performing.

NORM CLARK.
The full text of the plaque will be given verbatim at the start of the journal as soon as it becomes available. Norm seems to have been almost a fixture outside the bank on the east side of Norm Clark Walk collecting for charity. He must have been considered a very important part of Rosebud's history for the Rosebud Chamber of Commerce to erect a statue in his honour. Fittingly, the walkway itself was a vital part of Rosebud's history, indicating the western boundary of crown allotment 17, parish of Wannaeue where it adjoined the 1909 Clacton on Sea Estate (c/a's 16 and 15 extending 816 metres to First Avenue and previously a mystery in the ratebooks.)

Between The Avenue at McCrae and Boneo Rd, the only early buildings of note not on c/a 17 before 1900 on the inland side of Pt Nepean Rd were Hopetoun House on the McCrae car wash site, Albert Holloway's Parkmore at the north east corner of c/a 19, the store built in circa 1884-5 by Jack Jones on lot 86 at the north west corner of c/a 18 (the FJ's corner)a homestead on the remaining 150 acres of c/a 18 (possibly at 19 Mitchell St) that was called Menstries Hill when Robert White Senior died in 1881, and two homesteads on c/a 14, Hindhope Villa at 50 First Avenue and The Thicket whose driveway off Boneo Rd is appropriately named THE DRIVE.

It was on c/a 17, between Jetty Rd and Norm Clark Walk, that the first successful subdivision of a grant occurred. It had earlier been a working farm before R.R.Woolcott bought it prior to the first Kangerong Road Board assessment in 1864. William Gomm, grantee of the Rosebud Fishing Village on which Jetty's Cafe and town houses stand, may have been leasing 50 of c/a 17's 129 acres in 1876 before he moved to Hastings and the subdivision must have taken place before 1878 when George and Susan Peatey bought lot 76, two acres at the south corner of Jetty Rd and McDowell St, now surrounded by the Netherby estate.

A two acre school site was sold in the 1880's as the original Mechanics' Institute over the beach road (burnt down in 1928) was unsuitable, and teacher Joseph William Hazledine opened a hole in the wall post office at the new school. Louis Anderson operated the post office on lot 42 from 1891 till 1897 but sold his store to John Roberts and left so the P.O. was again operated at the school by teacher, Mr Green.

By 1900, the retired John Roberts had become postmaster on lots 41, 42. His son in law, John McConchie built or extended the P.O.which was run for some time by John Roberts' daughter Rosa who married John Brady. After one of the Ditchburns ran this P.O. in 1919, the licence was transferred to Ernie Rudduck's store 75 yards west and also on c/a 17. This was burnt down in 1923 and replaced very quickly by a complex with a much longer frontage soon bought by Edwin Wheeler who sold much of the building which became known as Websters Stores but retained the post office at number 1045.

A new P.O. was later built at number 1047, immediately east of the complex and also on c/a 17. Edwin and later his son operated the P.O. there until 1951 when the Postmaster General's Department opened the post office just east of the model dairy,which operated until Port Phillip Plaza (now Rosebud Plaza) was built.That's why the last mentioned post office became known as the G.P.O. PUB. It is now called McDaid's.

The post office was for a century situated on c/a 17 Wannaeue, whose western boundary was NORM CLARK WALK!
The Mechanic's Institute and Methodist Church were in the Rosebud Fishing Village on the foreshore. The Presbyterian Church, built in a day, was however on the inland side of the road and you'll never guess where. You did! Crown allotment 17 Wannaeue, between Jetty Rd and Norm Clark Walk.

In 1888, the height of the land boom, Woolcott's executors called the subdivision of unsold blocks on c/a 17 ROSEBUD BY THE BAY but soon the depression started. In 1909, W.F.Vale advertised the still unsold land. His plan shows Jack Jones' store across Jetty Rd from the school but the post office was never on the west corner of Rosebud Parade as shown. In about 1923, De Garis had the cheek to call his subdivision of c/a 18,between Adams Avenue and Jetty Rd, the Heart of Rosebud Estate.
VALE'S PLAN
PHOTO OF NORM CLARK WALK



FRED GREGORY (west corner of Ninth Avenue.)

GREGORY
Fred James,Death ,mother:Ethel, nee STRINGER, father: GREGORY James
places of birth and death:Geelong,Rosebud
Age, year, register number: 67, 1982, 3235/1982

Fred's mother was not a member of the Stringer family of Sorrento.
GREGORY— STRINGER.— On the 24th March, at the residence of the bride's parents, "Brocklesby West" Melbourne-road, Geelong West, by Rev. G. Flockart, James Gregory, only son of Mr.Arthur Gregory, Derby, England, to Ethel, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Stringer, late of Camperdown.(P.1, The Age, 26-5-1913.)


The statue has been removed recently, hopefully for maintenance.

At first glance, the statue could be assumed to be of a local carpenter, but Fred was a chemist after whom a pathetic excuse for a garden near the entrance of the Rosebud Memorial Hall was named, supposedly in his honour, but it does little to honour the service that he rendered to the Rosebud community. His wife also served the community,Mrs F.J.Gregory being assistant secretary of the Infant Welfare and Pre-School
Committee in 1954.PHOTO UNDER HEADLINE

The impression I got from the plaque was that Fred loved to show that he could do more with his hands that make up prescriptions and if maintenance or construction of a public building was required, Fred would be there at every opportunity, his white coat exchanged for his overalls with his pockets stuffed with every tool of his trade (hobby)that would fit within them that might be needed for his pro bono contribution.

I thought that Beaconsfield was named because of beacons, either those lit to celebrate the separation of Victoria (Port Phillip District)from the colony of New South Wales in 1850, or those lit by John Gardiner's stockmen during the previous decade when ships had strayed into Westernport instead of Port Phillip. The fires had nothing to do with the name of Beaconsfield. It was so-named soon after the death of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord, or Earl Beaconsfield in 1851.

The area near the Cardinia Creek was considered at the time to be entrance to Gippland, thus the hotel built by the lessee of five square miles there in early days was named the Gippland Hotel. The article about Beaconsfield pioneers in 1950 stated that Cardinia was a corruption of Karr-din-yarrh (looking to the rising sun).

Amazingly, Alexander Thompson, one of the earliest settlers to use Mt Macedon Rd (Mt Alexander Rd)and Braybrook Rd (Buckley St) heading west from the future Essendon to Solomons Ford (not on the west end of Canning St but south of Rhonda St, in today's Avondale Heights) used the same name* for his homestead at Geelong, accidentally published in the 1840's starting with C but correctly starting with K re Kardinia Ward (of the Geelong Council) in the same decade.
* " Kardinia is an indigenous word meaning sunrise." WHAT'S IN A NAME


The first Australians living on the Mornington Peninsula were the Boon-wurrung. Their territory included land east to Bunyeep (Bunyip) and Port Phillip Bay (Nerm, a dry plain through which the Yarra and Werribee river flowed, combining to feed a lake, the stream continuing into the dry Bass Strait where it joined the Tamar River. When Nerm flooded about 6000 years ago, they retained the northern coast line (south of the Yarra) and the western coastline as far south as the Werribee River. Thus they were the neighbours of the Wurundjeri (north of the Yarra) and the mobs in Gippsland and near Geelong. Whether the Boon-wurrung or the Gippland mob named Cardinia near Beaconfield or not, the Peninsula mob was almost certainly responsible for two places so far apart sharing the same name with the same meaning. There is no evidence that Dr Alexander Thompson had been in contact with the Boonwurung or the fierce Gippsland Tribe. He settled in Melbourne in 1836 near the present St Paul's Cathedral and was appointed as medical officer for the settlement but soon afterwards set off to Kardinia.

The origins of the names of many places near Geelong are given in Jo Mitchell's excellent WHAT'S IN A NAME. (See link above.) Surnames of people after whom places have been named are in the surnames list.

EMAIL TO GEELONG HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Hi, I'm a local historian living in Rosebud and in the course of reviewing a book about golf clubs affiliated with the Peninsula District Golf Association, now Peninsula Golf Vic, discovered the origin of the name of Cardinia, near Beaconsfield. By chance, I came across an early reference to early Geelong pioneer, Dr Alexander Thompson with his property wrongly written in the same way, rather than starting with a K.

In researching Kardinia I found a blog about the origins of street and place names in the Geelong area which revealed that Cardinia and Kardinia had basically the same origin despite the First Australians who coined the descriptive names being separated by a vast body of water for some 6000 years.

I provided the surnames of people after whom places etc. had been named and a link to the blog in my itellya journal:
https://www.familytreecircles.com/was-a-place-in-or-near-geelong-vic-aust-named-after-one-of-your-ancestors-also-aboriginal-vocabulary-70803.html


A few hours later, I felt some readers might be disappointed as there were only 10 surnames of much use to family historians, really only 9 because most people would know all about John Landy.

Feeling compelled to provide a little more information in my journal, I decided to see if there was something interesting about the origin of Highton. There was. It was named because of early settler, John Highett, who'd probably come from Tasmania because that was where he married in 1946, after having spent several years living at Highton House, Barabool Hills.

The Mornington Peninsula Shire has recently started a project to provide origins of street and place names and I thought there might be a similar effort made for the Geelong area. There was, on the Geelong and District Database* but I had no luck in using the fields. Is there an actual link to the index?
*http://www.zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/databases/potpourri/ppindexes/499-ppgdstreets

A LITTLE EXTRA.
FROM THE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY FOR HIGHTON.
History
Grazier John Highett set up a farm and finished building his house on a hill overlooking the Barwon River in 1837. Later his property became the Montpellier vineyard, hotel and picnic ground. Highton was named after an abbreviation of his name.

MARRIED,
On Tuesday, the 1st September, at St. John's Church, New Town, Van Diemen's Land, by the Rev. Mr Foster, John Highett, Esq., of Geelong, Port Phillip, to Sarah, fourth daughter of Thomas Moore, Esq., of Preston Bagytt, Warwickshire. (Geelong Advertiser and Squatters' Advocate (Vic. : 1845 - 1847) Wednesday 23 September 1846 p 3)

HIGHETT.— On the 16th January, at his residence, Queenscliff, John Highett, Esq., of Highton House, Barrabool Hills, aged fifty-eight years. (P.2, The Herald, 21-1-1867.)

HIGHETT—RYAN.—On the 29th March, at the residence of S. C. Craig, Esq.,Corack Station, by the Rev. H. Swan, Joseph, second son* of the late John Highett, Esq., of Barrabool-hills, Geelong, and nephew of the late Hon. William Highett* , M.L.C., to Emma J., eldest daughter of the late Captain John Ryan, of Liverpool.
(The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (Melbourne, Vic. : 1873 - 1889) Saturday 23 April 1881 p 130)

*At a guess, the eldest son of John and Sarah Highett, would have been John Moore Highett.
FACT CHECK, AS THEY SAY IN Q and A:
Highett—Payne—On the 30th ult., at Christ Church, South Yarra, by the Rev. H.Tucker, assisted by the Rev. C, T. Perks,John M. Highett, eldest son of the late John Highett, of Highton, Geelong, to Annie Josephine, eldest daughter of Captain Chas.Payne, R.N., of Osmington, South Yarra. (P.2, Geelong Advertiser, 10-10-1882.)
John Moore Highett became a member of parliament like his uncle William.

William Highett came to Victoria to manage the Union Bank and is known to have been the grantee of 65 acres in Melbourne's north west (my first research area), being crown allotment 20 of section 2, parish of Doutta Galla, on the east corner of today's Kensington and Dynon Rds, extending north to Macaulay Rd. That was probably just one of many investments in land. The Melbourne suburb of Highett was named after him.

From the Wikipedia page for Highett, Victoria.
History
The name comes from William Highett, a parliamentarian and local land owner in the 1850s.

Australian Dictionary of Biography page for William Highett.

Highett, William (1807–1880)

by J. Ann Hone

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, (MUP), 1972

This is a shared entry with John Highett

William Highett (1807-1880), businessman and politician, and John Highett (1810-1867), pastoralist, were born at Weymouth, Dorset, England, sons of Joseph Highett and his wife Elizabeth, née Harding. In February 1830 the brothers arrived at Hobart Town in the Elizabeth. Though bound for Sydney, they stayed in Van Diemen's Land and applied for land. With highly respectable testimonials and a combined capital of £507, they were granted 500 acres (202 ha) which they located at George Town. Later they acquired much land at Launceston and Campbell Town. John managed these properties while William became accountant of the new branch of the Van Diemen's Land Bank at Launceston in May 1832. When it closed he joined the Tamar Banking Co. as cashier in January 1835. By 1859 the brothers had sold all their Tasmanian land.

In partnership with his cousin, William Harding, John took up Mount Hesse station in the Port Phillip District in 1837. In 1842-46 his partner was William Haines. John later bought much suburban land at Geelong. On a commanding site above the River Barwon he built a large residence, Highton House. He was a successful farmer and flour-miller and well known as a horseman and breeder. He died at Queenscliff on 16 January 1867, survived by his wife Sarah, née Moore, whom he had married in Tasmania on 1 September 1846, and by five sons and one daughter.

In 1838 William became first Melbourne manager of the Union Bank of Australia and in 1840 a local director with the title of managing director. He resigned in 1842 to visit Europe but on his return in 1845 was reinstated as a local director. He was a founder and director of the Bank of Victoria, the Melbourne Banking Corporation Ltd and the Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Co. and had many shares in the Hobson's Bay Railway Co. He also helped to found the Melbourne Mechanics' Institute. An early member and trustee of the Melbourne Club, he shared in negotiations for its new site although his role was difficult because the Bank of Victoria wanted to buy the old property.

Highett was active in the separation movement and in 1853 was a government nominee in the Legislative Council. In 1856 he failed to win a seat in the new council but was elected for the Eastern Province in May 1857. He supported state aid, National schools, railway extension and the opening of crown land with moderate compensation for the squatters. A conservative and industrious councillor, he retired in 1880. In 1847-66 he held a squatting lease, Maindample. He was also an early landowner in Moorabbin Shire, part of which was named for him, and by the late 1870s had 6117 acres (2475 ha), valued at £15,292, in addition to land in Richmond and other suburban areas. For years he was a trustee of St Stephen's Anglican Church, Richmond. In his last years he suffered from gout but continued to play whist on Saturday evenings at his club. He died on 29 November 1880, unmarried and intestate.

Whoever invented the word hacker must have been watching a golfer whose efforts on the golf course were similar to mine. But I loved the game despite my disability because each round had resulted in a nice walk. On the courses where I played, each fairway was like a lovely wide green path through a forest, not quite wide enough for a golfer who displayed more hooks than a fisherman and more slices than a baker. For a bloke who loved running through the Wombat State Forest at Blackwood, it was heaven! The author of this book likes another type of course and dropped the Dromana Historical Society's copy into me on the way home after a round at The Dunes. This is a links course, the first of several of this type designed on the ideally-suited Peninsula, and ever curious, I asked what Links meant in golf. I found a Wikipedia article with an aerial photo of the famed Links course at St Andrews in Scotland.
Links (Golf)

For those who have already seen the aerial photo, here's the summary of the article.
"A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland. The word "links" comes via the Scots language from the Old English word hlinc: "rising ground, ridge"[1] and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes and sometimes to open parkland. It can be treated as singular even though it has an "s" at the end and occurs in place names that precede the development of golf, for example Lundin Links, Fife.[2] It also retains this more general meaning in standard Scottish English. Links land is typically characterised by dunes, an undulating surface, and a sandy soil unsuitable for arable farming but which readily supports various indigenous browntop bent and red fescue grasses. Together, the soil and grasses result in the firm turf associated with links courses and the 'running' game. The hard surface typical of the links-style course allows balls to "run" out much farther than on softer turf course after a fairway landing. Often players will land the ball well before the green and allow it to run up onto the green rather than landing it on the green in the more targeted-landing style used on softer surfaces."

A pitch and run shot onto the green at The Dunes would require great accuracy judging by the green pictured in that Links' history (surrounded by so many bunkers that the approach reminded me of a crumpet!)

This book, entitled FROM COAST TO COUNTRY, has been a three year labour of love for its author, Trevor Roberts, the Golf Peninsula Vic* historian. My review's aim is to examine its value to historians wishing to write a history of the peninsula and family historians. HOWEVER, my focus has also turned to making sense of some confusing histories provided to the author by clubs such as Montuna. If Trevor had tried to do this, it would have involved a 30 year labour of frustration!
(*Golf Peninsula Vic was the result of a merger of the Peninsula District Golf Association and Mornington Peninsula District Women's Golf in mid 2015.)

The names index shows references to approximately 352 people many of whom have been champions. Apart from the history of the various clubs, the recording in one place of winners of various competitions is a main focus of the book. It is absolutely packed with photos of courses and winners. Rather than reproduce the index, I will describe photos-abbreviated as P (and those named in them) and lists, and note any information that tickles my fancy as a local historian.

Title page P Iconic ancient Moonah trees at the National Golf Club.
Table of Contents:
P.5 History of Golf on the Peninsula (P.10-14) History of Golf Clubs (P. 16-74) 25 clubs, courses.
P.6.Women's Golf 1949-2018: the organisation(P.78-82), champions 1968-2018 (P.89-90), events, women's pennant (P.103-132.)
P.7. Men's Golf 157-206: P.D.G.A , executives, life members,district champions, country teams, mid-week cup, masters' pennant, other men's events. Junior Golf (P. 241-258.)
P.8.BIBLIOGRAPHY P.271-2, APPENDIX 1 DROMANA GOLF CLUB P.274, APPENDIX 2 RYE GOLF LINKS P.276, APPENDIX 3 MT. ELIZA GOLF CLUB P.277, APPENDIX 4 CARRINGTON PARK GOLF CLUB P.278, NAME INDEX 281-299, SPECIAL THANKS 300.

P.10.Discovery of trophies and a scrapbook that inspired the history and sources of information,
P.11. Early private courses that became housing estates. PFlinders Golf Clubhouse circa 1948-54 that is now part of the clubrooms at Balnarring Race Course.

The statement that the Dromana Golf Club near the Dromana Primary School site was built in the 1930's is wrong. The course shown on Melbourne Brindle's map of Dromana in appendix 1 was drawn from his memories of Dromana before he left for America in 1918 at the age of about 14. The map was drawn in America decades later, showing his incredible visual recall that made him a famous illustrator. The course that was built in the 1930's was the DROMANA COUNTRY GOLF CLUB at Safety Beach. See DROMANA COUNTRY GOLF CLUB
P.12. P Early golfers, men and women, playing on the Flinders course, and players in front of the clubhouse at the Beaconshill course at Warburton.
P.13. The year of affiliation of each district club is given, Flinders, Mornington, Sorrento and Portsea being the Foundation clubs with the last two apparently having been a combined club from 1907 until 1925. One of the Growth clubs, Warburton became affiliated in 1952 and would have had lengthy trips to every away fixture until Beaconhills affiliated in 1964. Rosebud was affiliated in 1960 and Rosebud Country Club in 1962, the former's affiliation year previously not in my memory bank. Due to the end of the war, the end of petrol rationing and increased ownership of cars, the Peninsula experienced a huge upsurge of tourism, whole colonies of suburbanites camping together at Rosebud. Many of these were golfers!

In 1929, a new reserve for Rosebud had been obtained by Alfred Downward of Mornington, the local state member of parliament. A public course had been established on it in about 1951 if I recall correctly, but it was so popular with holiday-makers that the locals found it hard to slot in a round. Charles Coleman's BOGIES AND BIRDIES explained that this was the reason for the establishment of the Rosebud Country Club. Don Farquhar, blinded during the war, would not have been game to try his first go at blind golf on such a busy course, and did so at Mildura with the encouragement and assistance of Charles Coleman.

Other GROWTH CLUBS on the Peninsula to become affiliated were H.M.A.S CERBERUS, Carrington Park (formerly Rosebud) and Devilbend (in 1975.)The NEW ERA clubs, affiliated between 1976 and 2006, include Dromana's third club, Mount Martha Valley Country Club (now Safety Beach Golf Club) in 1991, and The Dunes (originally Limestone Valley Golf links) in 1994.
P.14. maps showing locations of Foundation, Growth and New Era clubs.
P.16. Flinders Golf Club. P David Myles Maxwell.
It is stated the David saw four roughly carved out holes at Flinders when he arrived to manage an onion-growing farm*, and that the imagination of the inaugural champion at the Melbourne Golf Club was stirred. In 1902, David set about forming the Flinders Golf Links on two pieces of land owned privately and by the Union Bank and within twelve months boasted a full eighteen holes. By the end of 1905, the club, affiliated with the V.G.A. since 1903, had 155 members.

I think this information about a bloke named MAXWELL, a name I'd thought to be of little importance in the history of Flinders, demonstrates that Trevor's book will be of great value to both local historians and family historians!

*MAXWELTON. The Barker Estate (portions of their run they had purchased as grants circa 1860) was subdivided in the early 1900's, one of the purchasers being a Mr Maxwell, who intended to grow onions on his farm, as did many of the other purchasers such as Mr Levien. If Mr Maxwell was not David, he was almost certainly a relative and possibly his father. If it was David, he might have been managing a neighbour's farm too. As far as can be worked out from the following article and the parish of Flinders map, Levien and Maxwell's blocks were near the south end of Punchbowl Road not too far south west of Flinders Township, Henry Tuck's Manton's Creek pre-emptive right, and of course the Flinders Golf Course.

AROUND FLINDERS,P.2, Mornington Standard, 13-9-1902.)
EXTRACT.
" LEVIEN'S.
Continuing some two miles or so along the road to Flinders we come to the land (also a portion of the Cape Schanck estate) recently purchased by some enterprising gentlemen for purposes of onion growing. Of these blocks the one in the best condition is about 94 acres, owned by Mr Levien, M.L.A. As regards the soil on the holding, Levien, who is acknowledged one of the best authorities on onion growing in the State speaks highly. The principal drawback is, in his opinion, the fresh briny breezes which blow from the Southern Ocean and are the delight of the jaded city visitors in the summer time. Most of the block is laid down in onions, and Mr Jennings, who is managing the place; has the land ploughed and worked until it was in a very friable condition and made an excellent seed bed. There are now a good many weeders and onion thinners on this and the adjacent properties, and the place has a much busier appearance than it had 12 months ago, when the land was used for grazing purposes only.

MAXWELL'S .
Adjoining is about75 acres recently purchased by Mr Maxwell. On this property stands "The Grange," which was Mr Barker's first homestead after he took up the Cape Schanck run. In spite of the eloquent request in verse,written by a local poet*, who is a true disciple of "bard Robbie," and printed in these columns some time ago, this place is still known by the old title and has not been re christened "Maxwellton". Mr Maxwell is working his onion crop on the share system with Mr Nicholls, who is also a new arrival in the district. The hay crop at "The Grange," alias Maxwellton," is also looking very well."

*HENRY TUCK JNR'S POEM.
MAXWELL'S BONNIE BRAES.
[By Henry Tuck, Flinders.)
The Spring returns again, Maggie*,
With bud and bloom to cheer,
And memory bears us backwards
To the spot we both revere.
Ah! there 'mid Nature's sunshine
We spent our brightest days,
And called it New Maxwelton,
Ere Maxwell saw the braes.
Again I twine a garland
To wreathe your bonnie face,
And view the landscape o'er
From yonder lofty place.
The arrowy shafts of sunlight
Shoot forth in golden rays,
And bathe the oaks and hill-tops
Of Maxwell's bonnie braes.
And we built our airy castle
In glowing colours set,
And through misfortune dark and fell
It has not crumbled yet.
Once more in fancy, Maggie,
We hand in hand do stray
And call it still Maxwelton
And love the dear old braes.
(P.4, Mornington Standard, 27-9-1902.)
*Henry Tuck Junior who was born on Arthurs Seat while his father was building the historic McCrae Cottage, married Margaret Dowling, daughter of Flinders pioneers, in 1877.

DAVID MYLES MAXWELL'S WEDDING NOTICE.
MAXWELL—VALANTINE.—On the 10th May, at Invergowrie, Rose-street, Armadale, by the Rev. D. S. Maxwell, David Myles, third son of the Rev. D. S. Maxwell, to Rebecca, third daughter of the late David H. Valantine (Messrs. M'Clure, Valantine, and Co.), Melbourne.(P.1, Argus, 28-6-1898.)

Trevor Roberts mentioned that David Maxwell hailed from St Andrews in Scotland. He obviously remained at Flinders for many decades. You'll never guess the name of his property!
MAXWELL.-On August 31, at private hospital, Melbourne, Rebecca, dearly beloved wife of the late David Miles (sic) Maxwell, of St. Andrew's, Flinders, loving sister of Margaret (Mrs. R. B. Mair) and Mary (Mrs.J. A. Shaw). (Privately cremated September 1.) P.2, ARGUS, 2-9-1942.)
REBECCA'S DEATH RECORD.

MAXWELL Rebecca, Death
mother: Rebecca, nee MCCLURE
father: VALANTINE David Hood
places of birth and death: MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE EAST
age, year, register number: 75, 1942, 9467/1942

Mr. D .M. MAXWELL.
Mr.David Myles Maxwell, 77 years,of St Andrews guest house, Flinders,died in a Melbourne private hospital on Saturday. A son of the late Rev. David Skinner Maxwell, a Presbyterian minister,Mr. Maxwell was a native of Montrose*
(Scotland). He was a brother of the late Mr. George Maxwell, M.P., who for many years represented the Fawkner
seat. Mr. Maxwell is survived by a widow. Rev. John Mackenzie conducted the service when the cremation took place on Saturday afternoon. (P.12, The Age, 24-1-1938.)
*Montrose is 69 km north along Scotland's east coast from St Andrews, via Dundee.


An article found last night stated that the mysterious Mr Maxwell of Flinders was the brother of a lawyer who was tough on witnesses. This application for probate of a South Australian, obviously a relative, shows that in 1913 David had already named his guest house as "St Andrews".

PAGE 5, ARGUS, 5-12-1913, COLUMN 6.
ALEXANDRINA ARNOT MACPHERSON
EXTRACT. CREDITORS WERE ASKED TO SEND PARTICULARS TO "George Arnot Maxwell, of Selborne Chambers, Bourke street, Melbourne, Victoria, barrister at law, and David Miles Maxwell, of St. Andrew's, Flinders, Victoria, householder, the executors therein named" etc.

TRUSTEES OF "BASS PARK" IN 1914
Bass Park was the private land purchased by the golf land company given to the government in exchange for the crown land that had become part of the course.



P.17. David, honorary secretary of the club since its inception,and the committee worked to secure the site, a company formed to buy the private land and some of this land being exchanged to the government for the part of the course that had been set up on crown land.
P MODERN VIEW OF THE CLUBHOUSE AND PART OF THE COURSE IN THE BACKGROUND.
THE ORIGINAL LINKS. I knew that one of the holes had been named after Bill Darley, handicapped from childhood when he was gored by a pig. There were some other fascinating names for holes, such as Niagara (3rd) and Spion Kop (4th.) Niagara was of course down hill and Spion Kop back up to the top of the cliff with any shot that fell short classed as out of bounds. It is likely that the 4th hole was named by a member recently returned from the Boer War. The Boers were obviously fortified on the top of a hill of that name, 38 km west south west of Ladysmith and the British forces faced the seemingly impossible task of making the top of Spion Kop (Dutch: Slag bij Spionkop; Afrikaans: Slag van Spioenkop) to relieve Ladysmith. It was more than seemingly impossible, the battle resulting in a Boer victory, and perfectly described the chances of hitting the ball up to the top of the cliff on the fourth when a south westerly was likely to blow the ball back to the tee near the high water mark.
P. 18. The ladies played alternate holes instead of these 3rd and 4th holes. Other colourful names for features on the course were the Coffin and Purgatory Ravines and Aunt Sally.

I've read plenty of trove articles about horse racing on the peninsula, including at Flinders. Never once did I see the location of the Flinders racecourse mentioned. It was on the golf course and last used in 1926. The finishing post was near the end of Wood St.
P Dr Alister Mackenzie, famed course architect, was brought to Australia to design the Royal Melbourne Golf Club's new links at Sandringham in 1926 and to spread the expense, Flinders and nine other clubs were invited to avail themselves of his services, Flinders contribution to be 100 pounds which was raised with ease, oversubscribed by 14 pounds. He recommended the closure of the 3rd and 4th holes.
P.19. The Flinders members must have thought that golf wasn't meant to be easy. They enjoyed the battle with Niagara and Spion Kop. The recommended closure of these two holes was rejected and immediate carrying out of the other recommendations was beyond the clubs resources at the time. However The Coffin where both the Coffin and Purgatory ravines were poised to swallow any less than perfectly hit shots has become the club's signature hole.

P.20. Mornington Golf Club.
P map and layout of course in 1904 and circa 1930 respectively. Modern photo of bunker and green with bay and harbour in the background.
The club celebrated its centenary in 2004.The club's activities started on Grover's, Barrett's and Cook's paddocks behind the Tanti Hotel.Mr W.S.Cook, a solicitor became the club president in the years before the first world war. After no sign of activity between 1915 and 1925, because the above-mentioned paddocks had been subdivided, a new course of nine holes was established at the racecourse, mainly inside the track but with some tees outside it. With the military occupying the track in 1940, the committee negotiated use by members of the 9 hole private course of the Dava Lodge Guesthouse.
P.21.
P Dava Lodge course circa 1947, map of the Mornington course, presumably as leased from Sir George Tallis in 1946, modern photo of part of the course with the bay and Sunnyside beach in the background.
The first nine holes were opened on 29-4-1950 and the other nine were opened not long afterwards. The site was later purchased from the Tallis family.

Without local knowledge, Trevor could only work with information supplied by the various golf clubs. He's found more than has been posted by the club on its website, such as the course lay-outs and maps, from Ian Gatliff's ROUND ON THE HILL:THE HISTORY OF MORNINGTON GOLF CLUB 1904-2004. I felt duty-bound to add something more. I wonder if Ian found this achievement.

COUNTRY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
At the country meeting at Fishermen's Bend, on Wednesday Mr. S. P.Townsend, of Mornington, gained the
distinction of being the first country champion of Victoria. (Much detail of the contest.)
P.4, KYNETON GUARDIAN, 19-9-1914.

Good ol' S.P. was still starring when his only son, Richard Denis (Hare?) Townsend became engaged* to Dorothy in 1935. From the son's birth record, I was able to establish that Victoria's first Country Champion was Samuel Phillip Townsend.
*Richard married Muriel Dorothy Dawborn in 1937.

TOWNSEND
Richd Denis (Hart?), Birth
mother: Isabella, nee RICHARDSON
father: Saml Philip
place of birth, year, reg. no. SCHNAPPER POINT, 1909 6249/1909

YA GOTTA LAUGH. Whether the champ's son was a hart or a hare, he would have had to be wary of hunt clubs!


P.22.Sorrento Golf Club.
P drawing of the (1912?) clubhouse, wrongly captioned as the original clubhouse, the first clubhouse leased from November 1907 till 1912.
As was the case at Flinders, the members of the golf club, established at a meeting held at the Conti on 30-3-1907, formed a golf lands company to purchase the site for a course which the golf club would lease. The owner of the site, James Wright, was an original shareholder of the company, as were Henry Bellingham, Howard Smith, Isaac Edward Bensilum, Augustus Frederick Hiskens (see SORRENTO SCHOOL HISTORY below) and John Winterburn Kemp (the teacher after Hiskens at the Sorrento State School), which was situated on the Nepean Highway near the club's present 17th green.
Portsea children had previously been taught by the teacher at the Quarantine Station, with lessons conducted across the fence, which was a most unsatisfactory situation, and the Sorrento school was built on this site between the two townships*. It was possibly because of this combined school that the golf club was originally named Sorrento-Portsea. *See SORRENTO SCHOOL HISTORY
P.23.
P Clubhouse opening in 1927, current clubhouse.
The original course consisted of nine holes and was accessed via lanes now known as Greenwood Avenue and Booroondara Road. In November 1907, the weatherboard cottage which served as the clubhouse until 1912 was rented for 8 shillings per week. The club's land was declared a sanctuary for native game. In 1909, Portsea was dropped from the club's name for reasons not explained in the minutes.
P.24-25. Double-page photo of the course in early times looking towards the clubhouse with 1st green and 2nd tee in foreground. Plenty of holes in the ground (bunkers) but not a sign of the many lime quarries which had been filled in!

The discovery of the death of James Scott, a Sorrento resident for many years, in 1907 (in a par after the one about the Sorrento-Portsea links), led to another discovery, an amusing tale about J.D.A.Scott, the Sorrento Golf Club architect and professional, who was in demand in either capacity from clubs as far afield as Sale and Colac, but disappointed the Sorrento members who were champions in business affairs but chumps on the course.
CHUMPS, NOT CHAMPS

THE ABOVE GIVES SOME INDICATION OF THE DETAIL THAT WILL BE FOUND FOR EACH COURSE DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK. SO I DO NOT INFRINGE COPYRIGHT, I WILL CONFINE MYSELF TO PROVIDING NAMES OF PEOPLE INVOLVED AND DESCRIBING PHOTOS AND LISTS FROM NOW ON.

P.26-7.THE DUNES GOLF LINKS.
In January 1994, Duncan Andrews P bought a partially built golf course (Limestone Valley)designed by Colin Campbell from butcher Vin Jervis. There was hardly a tree on the property.
Whether Andrews was a saint or not, his decision, perhaps inspired by his own surname, may have made him think of the type of golf courses famed in Scotland, the birthplace of the game, such as St Andrews.
He decided to take a punt that golfers in Australia might like a course that had no trees. The course superintendent, Simon Muller, who moved to The Dunes in 1912 after 12 years at Old Melbourne commented,"It started a bit of a renaissance here in Australia of links golf courses."
The secret to the course's continued relevance is that it allows scratch markers and hackers to derive satisfaction from a round of golf. Andrews worked closely with designer Tony CashmoreP to ensure there was none of the intellectual snobbery in the design which would see the ordinary golfer who strays marginally off the fairway at times losing heaps of balls in ridiculously high rough. Sullivan's* lime kiln P, lovingly restored, would be of great interest to the historically-interested golfer, or even Mark Twain who considered that golf was a waste of a good walk!

In about 1843 the elderly Dennis and Honora Sullivan moved to Point Nepean to start lime burning, as did James Ford, the founder and namer of Portsea, who married their daughter, Hannah in 1841. In 1852 the Ticonderoga arrived at the heads, with so many passengers fever-stricken that the authorities did not dare let the vessel proceed to quarantine facilities near Melbourne (Elwood?)in case some of the inmates escaped. The Sullivans' land was quickly taken over with compensation being paid. Patrick Sullivan, by now head of the family, moved it to Rye and continued lime burning there. After Patrick's death, his son James concentrated on the Gracefield hotel in Rye and establishment of a firewood business, and placed Antonio Albress in charge of the kiln, which remains on the links. Albress was a Cape Verde Islander, whose name sounded like Albas in Portugese, and the author of LIME LAND LEISURE speculated that Antonio Albas was Tony Salvas (another Cape Verde Islander.) That sort of error is what convinced me to extend my local history research to the Mornington Peninsula in 2010.

P.28-9. THE DUNES GOLF CLUB.
At Melway 157 E 10, we see Links Rd. I think it had something to do with the Sorrento Downs Golf Club.
Amazingly the location of the course is still on the internet.
"Sorrento Downs Golf Course
Sorrento Downs Golf Course is a golf course in Victoria and has an elevation of 10 metres. Sorrento Downs Golf Course is situated southeast of Sorrento and is close to Tuckey Track Reserve."

Trevor described its location in this way."The area in question included a 12 hole golf course and adjoining undeveloped land bounded by Melbourne Rd and houses facing (fronting)Tarakan Ave, Petrel Ave.,Westmore Ave., Lister Ave. and Collins Parade, for which general approval for subdivision of 360 building blocks had been previously obtained."

In July 1994, members of the club were informed that the whole property had been sold by David Deague to a company headed by M.Steel. The course remained open until December 1994. As the V.G.A. would recognise only one club per course, sharing another course with an existing club was out of the question and discussions with Steve Montgomerie, manager of the Dunes Golf Links, revealed that this was the only local course with no V.G.A. affiliations.

After discussions with Dan Andrews, the owner of the Dunes Links, it was agreed that the club would transfer to its new home on 1-2-1995.

The club's history was compiled and written by John Fitzgerald and George Richards with further details written by club secretary Trevor Roberts (1999-2003) and other members.

Mr Andrews allowed the club to use the storeroom under the original building as temporary clubrooms until the completio of the new clubhouse in 2000. P.Presumably both adjacent buildings are shown on page 29.

The club was incorporated in June 1995. Some of the Limestone Valley golfers had joined with the Sorrento Downs members when they moved to the Dunes Links. I hadn't mentioned it earlier because I couldn't recall where Limestone Valley was. The penny finally drops! That's what The Dunes was called when it was owned by Vin Jervis*. (See the previous chapter.)
* A BIT ABOUT VIN JERVIS

Garth Jacoby was the inaugural Pennant Captain in 1999, guiding one team. Under John Cotter's Captaincy from 2000 to 2004, with expert tuition from the club professional, David Hogben (2001-2004)some success was experienced. The club's highlight has been the Division 1 team , under the management of Denis Oliver, winning a threepeat of Pennant finals from 2014, a feat achieved by only two clubs in the district, Portsea and Rosebud Country Club.

P.30-35. WARBURTON GOLF CLUB.
P FIVE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF THE COURSE, THREE FROM EARLY DAYS.
In the 1930's, several local businessmen persuaded Phil Mayer, proprietor of the Warburton Chalet and St Andrews Guest House, to allow them to lay out a few holes on 20 acres of grazing land, a mile on the Melbourne side of the town, on which the guest house was located. The game became so popular that Phil engaged the services of course architect Hedley Vernon Morcom to design a course on Chalet land. Despite depression difficulties in 1932, Phil engaged local workers who constructed a nine hole course using horse and scoop, pick and shovel.

Those using the original course realised that the Chalet course offered a challenge to the finest golfers, and in 1935, Phil agreed to the proposed club using his course. It affiliated with the ruling body as the Upper Yarra Golf Club and changed its name to the Warburton Golf Club in July 1951.

CRISIS. Following the death of Phil in the early 50's, the course was managed by his widow, Winnie, and his brother Julius, but after Winnie's death in the mid 60's there was pressure from the family to realise assets. You'll have to read the book to find how the club's loss of its home was averted. (You won't find out on the internet!)
People involved were: Bill Hester, Peter Bartlett, Ivan Weinert,Harry Levy, Orm Singer and Ken Ireland (sub-committee to investigate purchase); Malcolm and Peter Walker, locals who purchased the course and advised that it would be enlarged to 18 holes, (designed by Jack Watson and opened by V.G.A.President, Jack Lovett on 10-5-1970); Messrs Hester, Singer, Peter Bartlett Jnr, R.Eddy, Jack Coulson and C. Middleway (sub committee in 1972 appointed to consider an offer from the owners to lease or purchase); R.Leith, O.Singer, Ross Eddy*, P.Bartlett Jnr. (trustees. *Ross Eddy resigned in 1973 due to his transfer to W.A.); Jack Coulson (headed a sub committee to plan extensions to the clubhouse.)
AFFILIATION WITH DISTRICT CLUBS. Upper Yarra Golf Club, as it was then known, together with the Mornington Peninsula clubs, was allocated to the West Gippsland District Association; (I think this means in regard to country week.)

John Beckwith (Ranelagh) and A.A.B.Webster (Long Island) called a meeting, held at the Grand Hotel, Frankston because the West Gippland District was too large in area. Warburton was represented by the President, Harry Martyr, and captain Peter Bartlett Snr. It was 1952 and Warburton became a foundation* member of the Peninsula District Golf Association.
* This puzzled me because I presumed that the FOUNDATION CLUBS, (see page 13), had been members of the Peninsula DISTRICT Golf Association but apparently the body's name was PENINSULA GOLF ASSOCIATION.
Gippsland Golf Association.
Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932) Tuesday 20 April 1926 p 2 Article
On the motion of Messrs Wall and Heath, the secretary was instructed to write to the V.G.A. re Country Golf Week, asking them to reconsider their decision to include the Peninsula Golf Association in our section.

I was apparently wrong earlier, while discussing Warburton on page 13, in assuming the northern clubs had to travel to the Peninsula for pennant matches.
"The Association (P.D.G.A.) was divided into North and South Zones due to the considerable distance between the clubs. The north consisted of Beaconhills, Montuna, Emerald and Warburton. Emerald later withdrew from the Association."

In 1962, Peter Bartlett, Warburton's captain, was elected Vice-President of P.D.G.A. and continued in that position until 1971, when on the retirement of Mornington's Jack Watson, he became President. Peter became the third life member of P.D.G.A. in 1972.

P.36-7. DEVILBEND GOLF CLUB.
The article provided by the club is also posted verbatim on the internet. Situated at Melway 146 J-K 12 to 152 J-K1 and fronting Loders Rd, the 141 acre site was obviously obtained with the help of the Shire of Hastings after Cr Cyril Fox had moved at a public meeting attended by 80 people on 28-2-1973: "That this meeting resolve to form a Golf Club in the Shire of Hastings." At a further meeting on 18-4-1973, the club was formed and the draft constitution was
accepted. A co-op was formed and the take-up of memberships was excellent. The dams, which obviously provide water hazards as well as providing a picturesque setting, were constructed as well as nine holes so that the course could be used and a year later the course had been extended to 18 holes. Finally on 20-12-1975, Club President, Kevin Phyland, hit off from the 1st tee to declare the course open. In October 1995 a new lease for the next 21* years was signed, providing security and the capacity to add another nine holes.(*Internet.)

I don't like loose ends so I've asked Rick Warren, the Devilbend Pro., if a new lease has been obtained and for how many years.

EMAIL RECEIVED 17-12-2019.
Hi ---,
This has been passed onto me by our Pro Rick.
---, the Club signed a new 21-year lease in 2017.
I hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Tim O'Sullivan
General Manager
Devilbend Golf Club

P. 38. PORTSEA GOLF CLUB.
Arthur Relph? Ive never seen him mentioned in regard to Portsea. Was he Arthur J.Relph, the keen photographer of the bush? No![

"What a magnificent golf links this country would make!" thought Arthur William Relph as he surveyed the land between the Quarantine Station and the ocean. Eventually about 90 acres were set aside by the Portsea Land Company on 18-6-1923 and the nine hole links first opened for play from December 1924 to Easter 1925, the club's committee first meeting on the last day of 1925. A tenth hole was added in 1926, an 11th late in the decade, 12th and 13th in 1930, a 14th in 1934, 15th and 16th in 1955, and 17th and 18th in 1965. It seems that, like at Flinders, some of the holes have special names such as "Delgany" P, the par 3 13th hole.
P The clubhouse from Delgany Hill, c.1960, Juniors showing the Way at Portsea (Adam Cervi, Ryan Grant, Craig Scott, Louise MacDonald.)


As mentioned earlier, the club histories were mainly provided by the clubs themselves. This one, apart from demonstrating how the number of holes was increased in several stages, is frankly disappointing. Who were the people involved? What was the relationship between the Portsea Land Company and the members of the golf club? Who designed the course? Exactly what did Arthur William Relph do to establish the club? Why does the history state that Relph set out to acquire the land and later state that the club leased it from a land company?

Perhaps the club may wish to add the following to its history on the internet which added nothing to what it provided to Trevor. The land company obviously consisted of members of the club, as at Flinders, Sorrento etc.

THE PORTSEA GOLF LINKS,
The laying-out of the Portsea Golf Links
has been proceeding steadily during the
winter, Mr. Jock Young, the Riversdale
professional, directing the work. The
course is already taking shape, a con-
siderable amount of ti-tree scrub has been
cleared from the fairways, nine tees and
greens have been formed, and are now
being planted with grass, and a water
supply is being installed, several large
tanks and many thousand feet of piping
having been purchased for this purpose.

The Portsea Lands Company Pty. Ltd.
which controls the property, and is laying
out the links, has been registered, and
the following directors have been elected:
Messrs. A. W. Ralph (Relph) (chairman); Harold
Armytage, E. G. Brooke, W.W.Gudgeon
W. L. Davidson, H. J. Manson, .and J. B.
Young.

For the ensuing summer months a tem-
porary nine-hole course is being laid out
for the use of visitors. Next year the
fairways will be ploughed and planted
with suitable grasses, and the club house
will be erected.(P.14, Table Talk, 11-10-1923.)

These links will need to be pasted into your search bar to discover more about people involved in the club.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/182548128
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146583740

And let us not forget that there was earlier a combined Sorrento-Portsea club (until 1909, as pointed out in the Sorrento history.) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65828572


P.40-41. MONTUNA GOLF CLUB (1922-80); BERWICK MONTUNA (1980-2016.) Melway 212 B4.
THE MONTUNA GOLF COURSE OCCUPIES THE SITE OF THE HOMESTEAD OF ONE OF THE FIRST OVERLANDERS

LOTS OF BIRDIES AT MONTUNA

It is difficult to establish the size of the Montuna property on trove because the Luke family remained in ownership and there were no advertisements for its sale. Edmund Lake (a retired artist and photographer) died in 1938 but his widow, Ida Florence was probably still living on Montuna until her death in 1960. She celebrated her 90th birthday there in 1952* and was probably the Mrs Luke mentioned in her daughter's death notice in 1953.
LUKE.— On March 12 (suddenly), at his residence, "Montuna," Beaconsfield, Edmund Thomas, loved husband of Ida Florence, Monte, Ernest, Una, Vic, Bert (Lill (Mrs. Ashcroft), Kelvey and Vera (Mrs. Dennis), aged 74 years.
(P.1, The Age, 14-3-1938.)

* Reunion for 90th Birthday
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Saturday 17 May 1952 p 3 Article

LUKE Ida Florence, Death, mother's surname: MASON, father:PEARSON Charles Kelney
places of birth and death: AVOCA, BEACONSFIELD
Age, year, registration number: 98, 1960, 22330/1960

It is difficult to understand what 1922 signifies in 1922-1980. The courses, both at The Lakes and on Montuna seem to have been constructed in about 1928. As correctly stated in the history, the Montuna course was closed (because of the ill-health of Ernie and Bert.)

The earliest and only report of the Montuna Golf Club before 1946 was in 1932 when the word, club, may have been wrongly used instead of "course". "Members of the Pakenham Golf Club will pay a visit to the Montuna Golf Club next Saturday." (P.4, The Dandenong Journal, 13-10-1932.)

The same error may exist in this 1946 report of the revival of the Montuna golf "club" ,which provides great detail about the people involved. It will be interesting to see if the former players at the Lakes Golf Club (Ernie Dennis etc) are mentioned. (SOME WERE. TOM BLACK WAS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT.)

The course was built by Ernie and Bert at the suggestion of their father, Edmund Lake, who'd brought the Upper Beaconsfield property in 1907 and named it Montuna (after the two children whose names I've put in bold type in Edmund's death notice above and would not appear to be the two youngest children as claimed.)

The course opened for public use in November 1929. The history does not say when it was closed due to ill health BUT IT WAS SOME YEARS BEFORE THE 1946 MEETING.

The formation of the club came about through a number of locals who used to play at the Lakes Golf Club (now Beacon Hills.) The persons concerned were Ernie Dennis, Ossie Williams, George Bould, Vic Barlow,, Fred Black and Tom Black.

The Lakes, at the time was owned by a company whose manager, Herbie B.Falconer, suggested that we form a golf club but the company had decided to sell the land which became Beaconhills. AT WHAT TIME? The year mentioned previous to the use of these three words in the fourth paragraph was 1941 (at the end of the first paragraph) when Lilly Luke's store became a post office. (No year is mentioned in relation to THE FORMATION OF THE CLUB.)

Those interested in forming a local club held a meeting in the Beaconsfield Hall at which it was decided to approach the Lukes with a view to making Montuna their home club.

It was decided to take up the option of purchase. To raise a deposit, seven members each put up one hundred pounds free of interest. J.S.Loveridge, W.Johnston and T.F.Black were appointed trustees.

In 1946* they started operations......all the work done by members.... The late Sid Thewlis brought his field mowers and hay rake to do the fairways, the greens were cut by hand mowers.

* At last some indication of the meaning of AT THAT TIME is given. It does not mean 1922, the year that a headline reader would assume marked the formation of the Montuna Golf Club, 1928, the year Ernie and Bert finished constructing their course, 1929, the year the course was first used. It is possible that Ernie and Bert had taken six years to complete their golf course and had started in 1922. The purchase of the golf course obviously did not take place until after the death of Ida Luke's daughter in 1953 or Ida in 1960 unless they only purchased part of the Montuna property. Note that the operations mainly involved restoring the course which had not been used for several years (as reported in the 1946 revival of the Montuna golf "club" article.)
Once again an important date is not given, that of the purchase.

Before purchasing from the Lukes, the water supply was limited to what could be obtained from the dam between the third and fifth fairways. After the purchase a lease was obtained to pump water from the Cardinia Creek (the lease had been held by the Lukes.)

A clubhouse was constructed in 1946 and demolished for a second building adjacent to the first tee which is still in use re green fee players etc. A new clubhouse to provide better facilities for members was planned in 1964, completed in 1969 with the latest extension completed in 1979. (A pity that such clear timelines were not given earlier in the history!)

Montuna was originally in the West Gippsland Country District, with headquarters at Warragul. Sid Thewlis and Tom Black were the delegates, continuing in this role after the club was transferred to the Peninsula District Golf Association (in 1964,as stated on page 13 of the book-another important date missing from the club's history.)

No detail is given about why the club was renamed as Berwick Montuna Golf Club, apparently in 1980. The most recent refurbishment to the clubhouse was completed in 2007.

PTwo shots of the course (beautiful parkland!)and a recent one of the clubhouse.

As this journal is approaching capacity and further information may be lost if I exceed it, I will now concentrate on naming names of people who have contributed to, or excelled in Peninsula District Golf.

P.42. THE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB. First launched in Feb. 1885 and was claimed to be the first new golf club in Melbourne for approximately 60 years. I was going to state that testing the veracity of the claim would be an interesting piece of research but I thought about William Allison Blair Senior's former farm at Braybrook and the claim was shot down in flames within seconds. They bragged about their four courses and their designers but gave no indication of where they are. The only part of the WE LOVE US piece that is of interest to me is that the Long Island Course is not actually on LONG ISLAND. I can remember some years ago searching on Melway for such an island in the bay near Frankston. No such thing! The island was bounded by water sure enough; the bay on the west and Kananook Creek from the Carrum Creek (renamed Patterson River after a politician)to its mouth in Frankston near the hotel that Mark Young established. The course is on the east side of Kannanook Creek at Melway 99 G10 near the site of the former Frankston Drive-In Theatre.

P. 44-53 GOLF AT ROSEBUD INCLUDING CARRINGTON PARK GOLF CLUB ON P.51-2 AND BAY VIEW PUBLICITY ON P.53.

ROSEBUD COUNTRY CLUB
THE CLUB ON THE HILL.
The title is misleading because the country club course (2 x 18 holes) is on the former Wannaeue Estate on the Boneo plain (roughly Melway 170 B-E 7) and the club or course on the hill was The Rosebud Park Public Golf Course (Now Bay View) on the north side of Elizabeth Drive at Melway 170 J4.

The article about the origins of golf in Rosebud contributed by the country club (Dorothy Mortlock and the author of THE STORY OF ROSEBUD COUNTRY CLUB 1962-2012, Bill Hitchins) explains that information is scarce because most of those involved had passed away and any records that had been kept were destroyed in a clubhouse fire in 1965.

The article states in regard to the group of golfers inspired by Scotland-born solicitor Straun Wright- Smith who had a practice at Rosebud, that they formed the Rosebud Park Golf Club. But government regulations and the terms of the lease meant the golf club could not deal directly with the Lands Department and instead had to FORM a Park Trust to do so on its behalf. Wrong as this assumption was, it is based on a strong connection between the club and trust memberships. Whenever land was set aside from crown land, for a church, reserve etc. trustees were appointed. By circa 1950, shire councillors were often acting as trustees of such land, (as representatives of the Land Department. Crs.Bert Herman, Reg. Henderson and Ray Baker were successively elected to Chair the Trust in the mid 1950's. All three were strong supporters of both Rosebud Park and later Rosebud Country Club. P.46) However the Rosebud Park Trust had existed for decades, ever since Alf Downward had obtained the land for a recreation reserve (with H.M.Clemenger of "Parkmore" being one of the original trustees, as stated in the 1929 article.)
The funniest thing and strongest evidence for the wrong assumption was that Fred Bishop was the secretary of both the club and the trust, frequently firing off angry letters to HIMSELF.

The above assumption was apparently in Charles Coleman's BOGIES AND BIRDIES. Another account of Rosebud Park Golf Club's formation mentioned in the history stated that the trust started the golf club which is highly unlikely too.
What is stated in the history (whose author was unaware of the Lands Minister, Alf Downward's achievement of having Rosebud Park reserved for public recreation)was that Straun Wright- Smith, who was a Flinders Shire Councillor, had seen (probably in correspondence to the council)that the Lands Department wanted something done to increase use of Rosebud Park; it being too far from Rosebud and lacking attractions offered by the summit views and Kings Falls on Arthurs Seat, to which picnic parties often walked. (Ethel and Laura Fountain's memoirs.). It was the Lands Department's ultimatum to the shire to USE IT OR LOSE IT that led to the formation of the club. (P.44.)

I will repeat what I have written on page 13 about Alf's achievement and why some Rosebud Park golfers decided to purchase their own course, and present evidence that interest in obtaining a course had been generated in 1946 (three years before 1949 as claimed in the history) and strongly supported by Cr Forrest Edmund (Joe) Wood, who was also pushing to solve overcrowding at Rosebud State School and get a High School so that Southern Peninsula students weren't spending countless hours travelling to and from Frankston High.

In 1929, a new reserve for Rosebud had been obtained by Alfred Downward of Mornington, the local state member of parliament.. A public course had been established on it in about 1951 if I recall correctly, but it was so popular with holiday-makers that the locals found it hard to slot in a round. Charles Coleman's BOGIES AND BIRDIES explained that this was the reason for the establishment of the Rosebud Country Club. Don Farquhar, blinded during the war, would not have been game to try his first go at blind golf on such a busy course, and did so at Mildura with the encouragement and assistance of Charles Coleman.

Re Don Farquhar at Mildura. I tried to find the article when I was discussing page 13. This is not the version that I've included in the Rosebud Sea Scouts History which mentioned that Charles Coleman was a member at Rye (the McDonalds' course south of the cemetery.)
BLIND MAN GOLF STAR
A BLIND man played golf at Mildura this week and drove a ball 250 yards. Donald Farquhar, of Rosebud, Victoria, was
blinded in 1942 when in the nose of a Flying Fortress hit by ground-fire in a raid on Jap-held Rabaul. At Mildura on holiday, Farquhar and his wife were caddying for friends, Charles Coleman and his wife, of Rosebud.

Farquhar, who played golf before the war, had a few swings with a club, then played 18 holes, the last four in par.
He teed-up each ball on the fairway. On the green Coleman rattled the pin in the hole to give him direction and
distance when putting.

Farquhar conducts a boat-hire business, does engine repairs, painting, and other maintenance himself.
(P.3, The Sun, Sydney, 8-7-1951.)


PROPOSED GOLF LINKS AT ROSEBUD.
Flinders Shire will give all help possible towards establishing a golf course on a recreation reserve of 150 acres at the rear of Rosebud.
Cr. F. Wood speaking on the proposal, said if a links could be established, it would be a tremendous asset to the whole shire. Several folk were keen to see links established, and council help would be appreciated.
The enterprise, he felt sure, would be a splendid proposition.(P.6, Standard, Frankston, 21-3-1946.)

SOME OTHER CONTRIBUTORS (to one club or the other) MENTIONED IN THE HISTORY BUT NOT YET NAMED, OR A BIT MORE DETAIL.
Pages 45, 47,48,51,279. Pat McLaren, (owner of "Carrington", the mansion across Elizabeth Drive from the Rosebud Park golf course entrance built and named by the Moran family)who was elected as a life member of Rosebud Park Golf Club. He provided two tractors and other machinery worked on the course for two years at no charge.

P.46. Ossie "Jock" Bishop, no relation to Fred, who was employed by the club to collect green fees and controlled the order in which players started their rounds. It was because of his moral scruples that prevented him from allowing Rosebud Park club members to jump the queue that the idea of the formation of the Rosebud Country Club was born.

P.46. Cr Bert Herman has been mentioned in my commentary, but he helped in essential ways to construct the course, driving his tractor and seed drill at no cost.

P.46. Ray Baker, a shire president and successor to the Bacchli family as licensee (AND OWNER)of the Rosebud Hotel, was also a member of both clubs (Rosebud Park and Country Club)and frequently hosted club meetings. His hotel was virtually the de facto headquarters for both clubs in their early years.

P. 47.Ray Mentiplay, Bob Grant. Ray was a baker at Rosebud, as his brother was at Rye. The first member of the Mentiplay family to set foot in Rosebud did so in 1867, near The Rosebud, as a survivor of the Prize Fight disaster. In 1962, Ray became president of the Rosebud Park club, succeeding Bob Grant who had led the transition to the country club. Ray became the founding president of the Country Club when it came into existence at the annual meeting in November that year, but he never got to see the new course. He died on 30 December 1962.

P.47. Straun Wright-Smith was the first president of Rosebud Park Golf Club.

Members of Pat Mclaren's family.

Local businessman, Alec Webster (See Peter Wilson's ON THE ROSEBUD for extensive detail about Alec.)

George Williams (one of the first four life members shown in the page 48 photo) and later his son, Alex.
Colin Wright-country club captain 1964-7 secretary 1968-70, life member 1973.

Jack Hiscock, club treasurer for 15years from 1964.

Bob McMahon, honorary solicitor 1962-1985.

Reg. Kilborn, honorary auditor from the beginning (1962?) until he died in 1966.

Tom Gallagher, his wife, Barbara and her father Keith Ditchburn. {i]Well there's a bit of Rosebud family history that I didn't know! I believe Tom was a racehorse trainer at Rosebud and the brother of Fred Gallagher who played footy for Essendon. The Ditchburns arrived in Rosebud straight after W.W.1 and were the last to run the post office established by John Roberts before the licence was taken over by Ernie Rudduck's store in 1920.
GALLAGHER Thomas Sheperd Marriage DITCHBURN, Barbara Lillian 1950 17016/1950
Barbara was the Country Club's ladies' champion in 1966 and 1968 and Tom is a life member.

Arthur Norris, Bob Grant; Ray Bolle; Jack Heil and his golf professional son, Alan;as well as the Rosebud Hotel's Doug Bachli* and his successor and shire councillor, Ray Baker.

* Doug Bachli probably caused the need for the creation of the country club. He was stressing the need for a golf course by 1946 when he became the Victorian Country Champion. I wonder how many Rosebud golfers used to watch him practising on the foreshore footy ground 20 metres away over the road from the pub(the remains of which became today's village Green) and how many golfers holidayed at Rosebud with the hope of seeing the young champ in action. For the first time articles about Rosebud focused on golf as well as camping. No wonder Rosebud Park became too busy for the members! For further detail about the Bachli family see:NO TIME TO PRACTISE ON A COURSE

P.48. Tom Maw was Rosebud Park's first Captain in 1956 and so significant was his contribution to the formation of the courses at Rosebud Park and the country club that the entrance to the latter is named Tom Maw Drive. His machinery, his staff and expertise greatly assisted the members to clear (no easy task at Rosebud Park as indicated by the aerial photo on page 52) and shape the fairways at both clubs. His son, Alan recalled that bills to be sent to the club disappeared into his father's drawer. Tom was elected as one of the club's first four life members and the club's oldest tournament is named after him.

P. 49. Nell Burley was the first female champion at Rosebud Park in 1959.


T.M.NICHOLSON,[/url], ANZ Bank manager who was treasurer of the Rosebud Park Golf Club in its start-up phase before moving to Sunshine.

Cr.F.E.(Joe)Wood, as shown by the 21-3-1946 article above, was right behind the golfers three years before the Lands Department ultimatum, and obviously had the backing of his council colleagues. The first suggestion of the need for a golf course for Rosebud probably came at a meeting of the ROSEBUD AND DISTRICT CITIZENS' LEAGUE soon after its establishment at a 1945 meeting chaired, and probably convened, by Cr Wood.

Charles Coleman is only mentioned as the author of Bogies and Birdies, but the fact that he was one of the country club's first four members* indicates that he played a prominent part. (* The photo on page 48 was reversed on the country club's website until I posted a link to it on the HISTORY OF DROMANA TO PORTSEA Facebook page and was informed that the caption did not match the photo. The manager of the club remedied the mistake very promptly after I informed him.

P.51-2. CARRINGTON PARK (Originally at Rosebud Park Public Golf Course, now at Eagle Ridge Golf Course.)Liz
Article and the three photos on p.52 provided by Carrington Park life member, Liz MacDonald.

The club evolved in 1960 when Phillip (Pat) McLaren P was going to sell Carrington P, his private residence at Elizabeth Drive, Rosebud. In 1964 the club was incorporated with the first directors being Julius (Judy) Lockington Patching, Phillip Patrick McLaren, David Lloyd Lewis, Kenneth Lyons Greer, and Quentin George McLaren.

As early as 1966, the Carrington Park mens' and ladies's golf members commenced play. An agreement of allocated tee times had been arranged with the Rosebud Park golf course. The Rosebud Country Club may never have been born if this concession to members had been achieved a decade earlier!

In 2009, financial restraints caused by falling memberships and expensive costs to run and maintain "Carrington" were being felt. In 2013 Carrington was sold to developers and the club accepted the invitation of Eagle Ridge Golf Course to become its "In House Golf Club.
POriginal booking shed at Rosebud Park; panorama of Rosebud Park course c. 1960 from an elevated position -probably the closed portion of Hove Rd; aerial photo of Rosebud Park indicating how many trees and shrubs had needed to be removed from proposed fairways-"house" near the entrance is "Carrington". Fairways indicated in the third photo show that the course consisted of only 9 holes and did not extend north across Hove Rd into the northern 66 acres 2 roods 17 perches of the PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION RESERVE gazetted in 1927 from the southern part of the 158 acre reserve from which 7 acres, now occupied by the Rosebud Tennis Club, had been reserved for a cemetery, never used despite funeral notices for Sidney Smith Crispo and a lady (whose name I've forgotten) stating that they would be buried at the Rosebud Cemetery; Crispo was buried at Rye!

P.53. BAY VIEWS GOLF COURSE.
Ex Rosebud Park public golf course and Carrington Park golf Club.
Nothing but an advertisement with two nice photos.

P. 54. Safety Beach Country Club. (Originally Mt Martha Valley Country Club.)
Article and photos provided by Jenny Dovosan of the Country Club.
Property Developer, David Deague, planned an estate of 400 homes intertwined with 9 hole golf course and boasting a spectacular clubhouse and function centre now known as The Atrium with five floodlit tennis courts and a swimming pool between The Atrium and course. The plan was inspired by the Gold Coast's Sanctuary Cove, probably the reason more than 1000 palm trees were planted on the site. The Mt Martha Valley Country Club was for the use of residents and landowners who were contracted to pay yearly maintenance fees.

Slow land sales meant there was not enough income to support, maintain and enhance the course so a group of residents and estate landowners formed a company named Mt Martha Estates Limited,which purchased the sporting facilities and function centre from the developers. To become viable the club needed to open all facilities to the public.The course was extended to 18 holes during the next two years. Following completion the name was changed to Safety Beach Country Club to be geographically correct. An old rumour that Safety Beach was originally referred to as Shark Bay due to effluent from a whaling station flowing down Dunns Creek is then mentioned. True locals knew the name well but Shark Bay is not once mentioned on trove and the derogatory name was coined when the Wilsons opened their abattoir near Moats Corner in 1954, twenty seven years after Safety Beach acquired its name.

No stalwarts of the club or timelines are mentioned here or on the country club's website. On page 13, 1991 is written in association with the Mount Martha Valley Golf Club, which I take to be the year of its affiliation with the Peninsula District Golf Association.

P. 56. CAPE COUNTRY CLUB. (Now RACV Cape Schanck Resort and Cape Schanck Golf Club.
Doug Clayton, who with his son became a member of the country club, sold this land to Bill Thomas who was convinced by Colin Campbell [bP to form Cape Country Pty Ltd to develop a resort. Colin started work on the course in 1969 with the help of Benito Grasso, an Italian bulldozer and Tractor driver, finishing the first 9 holes in late 1972 after working ten hours a day, seven days a week and finishing the other nine holes EVENTUALLY!
Green fees were collected by the starter in Colin's Mercedes. EVENTUALLY a small log cabin was built. EVENTUALLY a number of people became interested in forming a club. Colin wanted men and women to have equal playing rights. A women's club was soon affiliated with the VLGU and(and probably because of the V.G.A. policy of one club per course mentioned earlier the men's section waited another year before becoming affiliated with the V.G.A.

The Cape Country Club Golf Club held its first club championship in 1978 and a members only area was added to the log cabin.The Men's teams were affiliated with the P.D.G.A. (in 1978.p. 13)and the women's teams with the Mornington Peninsula Women's Golf Association. The men won the B Grade pennant in 1983 and the A Grade Pennant in 1984 but due to insufficient income from green fees, the said company was struggling and was eventually sold to the developers of the adjacent, current, National Golf Course. Harry Huxtable bought shares in the company from Bill Thomas and secret negotiations about developing the site began with David Inglis who took over a year to discover Laurie Curtis and his group. Laurie's team included Len Stone (site manager), Tony Cashmore (architect) and Peter Speedie (surveyor.) Colin Campbell had second thoughts about the sale but his majority shares were in the name of his estranged wife who agreed to sell to the developers.

Article sourced from Ian Collins P in association with John Meadows P, Trevor Main and Sandy Johnson, who are compiling a history of the Cape Country Club. Photo of Colin Campbell courtesy of Nepean Historical Society.

P. 58. RACV CAPE SCHANCK RESORT.(home of the Cape Schanck Golf Club
Colin Campbell's course was acquired by developers in the mid 80's and the National and Cape Schanck courses were built simultaneously; the latter, redesigned by renowned course architect, Robert Trent-Jones, to be a public course and the National to be a private club.

P. 60. BEACONHILLS COUNTRY GOLF CLUB (NOW CARDINIA-BEACONHILLS COUNTRY GOLF LINKS.)
William Schlipalius was Sorrento's famed ice cream man*. Charles Schlipalius,who was in 1878 the first owner* (grantee) of the land now occupied by the Cardinia-Beaconsfield Golf Links (Melway 210 H 6,7 to 211 B 6,7) was his father.

* SCHLIPALIUS HOUSE

**As Charles selected the 309 acres the grant may have been issued some years later. In 1910, Charles sold 289 acres and retained 20 acres.

Here are the birth and death records and death notice of Sorrento's William Schlipalius.

SCHLIPALIUS William Henry Birth

mother: Jessie Ann, nee MAWHAN

father: Charles Leopol

Place of birth, year, reg. no. FITZ, 1879, 23227/1879


SCHLIPALIUS William Henry Death

mother: Jessie Ann, nee MARSHALL

father: SCHLIPALIUS Charles Leopold

places of birth and death:FITZROY, MELBOURNE

age, year, reg. no. 67,1947, 4648/1947

SCHLIPALIUS. - On May 6, at Alfred Hospital, William Henry Schlipalius, of Hotham road, Sorrento, beloved husband of
Lucy, and loving father of Roy, Rose (Mrs.Seedsman), Walter, Reuben, and Albert, aged 67 years.
SCHLIPALIUS. - On May 6, William Henry, loving son of the late Jessie and Charles Schlipalius, late of William street,Malvern, loved brother of Charlie, Jessie(Mrs. Hopkins), Alfred, Edith, and Harold.
-At rest. (P.2, Argus, 7-5-1947.)


WAS WILLIAM'S FATHER, CHARLES LEONARD SCHLIPALIUS, THE BEACONSFIELD PIONEER?
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF DANDENONG.-BERWICK DIVISION.
THE Ratepayers and General List for the above division are now printed,and copies may be inspected, free of charge,
until the day appointed for revision, at any office, at every post office within the division,and at the offices of my deputies, as under.
Patrick Keogh, Pakenham.
Charles L. Schlipalius, Upper Beaconsfield
Arthur S. H. Smartt, Gembrook.
Edward S. Hill, Bunyip South.
Amelia Piggott, Bunyip,
William 0. Ryan, Narnargoon.
Robert W.-Graham, Sheerbrooke.
JOHN BROWN,
Registrar at Berwick. (South Bourke and Mornington Journal, Wednesday 24 January 1906, P.2.)

The Beaconhills Country Golf Club history states that Charles (Leonard) Schlipalius was "son of a noted plant collector". Charles Leonard Schlipalius's golden wedding notice (re his marriage in 1870) confirms that this is the death notice of his father, whose place of origin is revealed.
SCHLIPALIUS.—On the 13th May, at his son-in-law's residence, 2 Macquarie-street, Prahran,Charles Gustave Schlipalius, late foreman, Melbourne Botanical-gardens, aged 73 years. Dresden and Saxony papers please copy. (P.1, Argus, 14-5-1897.)

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The above information is enough to convince me that Trevor Roberts' FROM COAST TO COAST (A HISTORY OF DISTRICT GOLF ON THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA) will be of great value to family and local historians. Those who have been involved in Peninsula Golf will have a different reason for appreciating Trevor's efforts to compile details of those who founded the clubs, those who continued their efforts and those who gained distinction by success in pennant, country golf teams and so on. While expensive, the book will be a great coffee table book, especially if post-it notes are used so that visitors will look at the right pages and see the names of the purchasers, their family members and friends first. I need say no more.