St Jude’s World War One Honour Roll
Honour Roll: Background
Image source: © Grimwade Conservation Services, 2024, Used with permission.
The conflict that became known as the First World War began in Europe in 1914. St Jude’s parishioners, like those in other Church of England parishes, were generally caught up in support for the war effort.
By early 1917, many local men had enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces and already 33 soldiers associated with the parish had been killed. The parish planned an Honour Roll within the church building to commemorate their service. In April 1918 attendees at the Annual General Meeting agreed that only volunteers who were connected with the church or who had been baptized at St Jude’s, and who had embarked for overseas service, could be included on the Roll. This allowed the vicar and his advisors to limit the listing to people who had a clear connection to the congregation.
When at last the war ended, St Jude’s commissioned Melbourne furniture makers F. K. Cox & Company to construct the Honour Roll. The simply-designed board is made of varnished hardwood, and the volunteers’ names are written in gold paint. The motto of the Protestant Federation, proclaiming that the war was fought ‘For God, King and Empire’, heads the roll, along with the legend ‘Their Names Shall Be Held in Everlasting Remembrance’. There are five columns of names in all, listing the names of 184 people: 181 members of the AIF and three nurses. The central column, headed ‘Faithful Unto Death’, lists the names of 39 men who died on active service.
The St Jude’s Honour Roll reflects the pride of the congregation in its contribution to the War, their sense that the war was a noble cause, and their grief at so much suffering.
On February 22 1920, ‘a very large congregation’ watched as the Honour Roll was unveiled by General Charles Brand and dedicated by Canon Henry Thomas Langley, formerly a Chaplain in the Australian Military Forces. The Honour Roll was initially mounted on the south wall of the church. Many years later it was re-hung upstairs in the gallery.
The Honour Roll was damaged in the fire in the church in 2014. It was restored in 2023 by The University of Melbourne’s Grimwade Centre with a grant from the Victorian Government’s Program ‘Restoring Community War Memorials and Avenues of Honour’.
Accessing the Honour Roll
Here is the list of names as inscribed on the St Jude’s Honour Roll. Each individual has been carefully researched by volunteers using the World War I Service Records held by the National Archives of Australia (NAA); information compiled by the AIF Project, UNSW Canberra; records held by the State Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages; contemporary newspaper accounts sourced through Trove, National Library of Australia (NLA), as well as various street directories and electoral rolls.
Click on a name to discover more about that individual and their World War I service.
In several cases, the names on the Roll differ in their initials or spelling to the official Service Records. However research of the records shows that this is indeed the person recorded on the Honour Roll. There are also some names where we have not been able to identify the person and find their service record.
If you have any questions or further information about any person on the Honour Roll, please get in contact with us at: office@stjudes.org.au
Blatchford, G. (M.M.)
Bolitho, L. (M.C.)
Bowers, L. G.
Bowes, L.
Butterworth, A
Callander, J.
Canavan, J. S. J.
Cannell, W.
Chisholm, W. L.
Clark, B.
Clark, Boswell
Clark, H.
Coghlan, C. R.
Coles, E.
Crowther, H.
Daly, D. B.
Daly, E. H.
Daly, R. D.
Davie, R.
Dawe, F. G.
Dawe, G. H.
Dwyer, A.
Dwyer, J. W.
Elliott, R. C. C.
Field, T. F.
Fincher, W.
Fletcher, W.
Froggitt, D. H.
Froggitt, F. W.
Fynmore, F. A. C.
Fynmore, J.
Fynmore, T. F. R.
Garland, A. W.
Gatliff, C. E.
Gatliff, T. W.
Gatliff, V. H. (D.S.O.)
Gatliff, W. E.
Gerdes, A. H.
Gibbons, W.
Gibbons, Walter
Godfrey, A.
Good, J. B.
Goodwin, T .
Graves, H.
Gray, R. G.
Green, A.
Guest, S.
Hall, A. H.
Harris, F.
Hawking, E. V. (M.M.)
Herron, A. W.
Herron, R.
Herron, S. A.
Hill, F.
Hobden, R. W.
Hornby, J. R.
Hughes, P .
James, A.
Jones, A. A.
Jones, E. R.
Jones, G. R.
Joy, G.
Keeley, L. E.
Knowles, W. K.
Latross, A.
Lawson, L.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
Anderson, L. W.
Appleyard, C. C.
Appleyard, G. W.
Ashman, A.
Barnes, H.
Beckensall, W. A.
Busch, C. A.
Christensen, C. H.
Deidrich, H.
Dwyer, A. V.
Elliott, P . N.
Fletcher, H.
Gatliff, F. E.
Griffiths, H.
Harton, H. C.
Heggie, A. D.
Hornby, H. W.
Jago, G.
Johnston, W.
Katterns, J.
Keegan, W.
Kluglein, C. H.
Lousada, C. (D.C.M.,M.S.M.)
Maitland, L. G.
Mason, W.
Rainsbury, G.
Read, W.
Regan, C.
Rickard, James
Sheldon, F.
Smith, H. M.
Smith, S.
Stiles, S.
Wake, J. D.
Waters, R.
Watson, Murray
West, S.
Wilson, L. E.
Oliver, C. S.
Lloyd, R. Mc.
Lousada, A.
Loveday, E.
Manning, C.
Matthews, C. B.
Matthews, H.
Marshall, A. L.
Marshall, P. H.
Mason, R. P.
Michel, A. E.
Michel, H.
Michel, L. A.
Michel, P.W.
Mooney, A.
Mooney, W.
Morrison, C. S.
Mounsey, E. T.
McInnes, A. N.
McNeil, J. A.
McNeil, H. K.
McNeil, N. J.
Nesbitt, W.
Oliver, F.
Pender, T.
Penrice, F. W.
Rawlins, A.
Rawlins, F.
Rayner, J.
Regan, F.
Rickard, John
Roach, W.
Rowe, D.
Sallows, A. W.
Sallows, E. H.
Sallows, T. T.
Simpson, A.
Simpson, D.
Sissons, H.
Smith, C. G.
Smith, F. W. D.
Smith, H. G.
Smith, K. A.
Smith, L.
Smith, R. M.
Stock, J.
Stokes, J.
Stokoe, R.
Sturrock, J. (M.M.)
Thompson, L. A.
Thwaites, B. M.
Tocknell, E.
Townsend, J.
Townsend, W. E.
Tozer, A.
Tozer, E.
Wakefield, J.
Waldron, H.
Walkerdon, J.
Waters, L.
Watts, G.
Williams, A.
Willmore, F.
Wilson, C.
Wilson, T. B.
Wilson, W. G.
Winchester, E.
Wood, F. J.
Woodgate, J. H.
Restoration of the Honour Roll
In 2014, an extensive fire in the church significantly damaged the World War 1 Honour Roll, which, at that time, was displayed on the church balcony. The front surface of the board was covered in soot, with the gilt lettering extremely blistered, heat-damaged and friable to the touch. Many of the names were difficult to decipher.
In 2023, Grimwade Conservation Services, The University of Melbourne, was engaged to conserve the board’s historical and visual integrity and to stabilise the significantly damaged gold text. The painstaking treatment was completed in March 2024. The work was funded by the Victorian Government’s Program ‘Restoring Community War Memorials and Avenues of Honour 2022-23’. The conserved board was unveiled in the church hall at a service attended by Military Chaplain, Rev. Glenn Buijs, on 11 May 2024.
Below is an extract from the executive summary of the final report prepared by Grimwade Conservation Services, together with some of their images.
The timber structure of the Honour Roll was in an overall stable condition. The varnish and text, however, were significantly damaged, with a thickened layer of soot and fine debris covering the front and back surfaces. The varnish and gold paint on the main banner (including the row of text below) and the five panels commemorating those who bravely served were all heavily blistered with pustules and bubbles noted throughout.
The gold paint was lost in numerous areas, with bubbling, pitting (craters) and pockets present in all of thetext. This is due to the nature of the damage sustained during the fire, specifically the exposure to extremely high temperatures. Remedial conservation treatment was paramount to stabilise each letter and number to retain and preserve the gold paint. This was a methodical and painstaking process. At the microscopic level, the wrinkled, blistered and pitted lettering means that all letters and numbers are no longer straight. In three dimensions, each number and letter create non-uniform micro shadows. Thus, the gold text adorning the main banner (including the row of text below) and the five name panels retain a somewhat creased and cockled appearance as a marker or physical reminder of its history and survival from the 2014 fire.
The stabilisation and preservation of the gold text on the Honour Roll was the key focus of this conservation project. The conservator’s goal was to retain the artistic hand of the signwriter, and to retain the artistic hand of the signwriter and ensure that those named on the Honour Roll continue to be honoured and remembered by current and future generations to come.
Conservation Condition Assessment and Treatment Report
St Jude’s Church WW1 Honour Roll
Grimwade Conservation Services, The University of Melbourne, 26 April 2024. p. 3.