Coningsby State School Honour Board

Location: Coningsby State School Library, Coningsby via Mackay.
Local Government Authority: Mackay City Council.
Year Constructed: post 1918
Type of Construction:   Hammered Copper
War: 1914-1918
Names: 43 (8 Killed in Action; 1 Died of Wounds; 3 Invalided Home; 1 wounded; 3 Sisters)
History:  This honour board list the names of past students from the school who served during the Great War.
Information Sources:  

Advertisement for Hammered Copper Honor Roll from the North Queensland Register, Monday, November 27, 1916.  This is the same type of Honour Board as the Coningsby School. Coningsby School Honour Roll, 1994.
(Glen Hall Collection)

ROLL OF HONOUR

PAST SCHOLARS

CONINGSBY

STATE SCHOOL

(DW) Died of Wounds
(IH) Invalided Home
(K) Killed

Name recorded Identified as  
J. AVERY (I.H.) AVERY, John Goodall, Surgeon, 1 Australian General Hospital, enlisted 30 July 1915, Returned to Australia 12 May 1918.  
R. AVERY (K) AVERY, Reginald Edgar, Private, 1870, 49th Battalion / 59th Battalion, enlisted 31 January 1916, Killed in Action 4 April 1918, Bouzencourt, France.   
T. BANNAN (K) (not positively identified)  
A. BROOKS (I.H.) BROOKS, Alfred, Private, 6299, 26th Battalion, enlisted 21 October 1916, Returned to Australia 24 January 1918.  
E. BROOKS (not positively identified)  
C. CRACKENBURY (not positively identified)  
C. DUNCAN (K) DUNCAN, Charles, Private, 44, 14th Light Horse Regiment / 52nd Battalion, enlisted 6 December 1915, Killed in Action 23 September 1917, Ypres Sector, Belgium.  
J. DONNELLY DONNELLY, John Joseph, Private, 2159, 47th Battalion, enlisted 11 March 1916, Returned to Australia 20 November 1918.  
G. DREW DREW, George, Private, 4295, 31st Battalion, enlisted 7 October 1916, Returned to Australia 16 March 1918.  
J. DUNCAN DUNCAN, James, Corporal, 2134, 25th Battalion, enlisted 17 June 1915, Returned to Australia 20 December 1917.  
W. DUNCAN DUNCAN, William, Private, 2163, 47th Battalion, enlisted 20 March 1916, Returned to Australia 5 April 1919.  
W. FLOOD (not positively identified)  
L. GARNER GARNER, Leonard Victor, Private, 2658, 49th Battalion / 2nd Division Traffic Control Detachment, enlisted 5 June 1916, Returned to Australia 13 July 1919.  
V. GARNER GARNER, Valentine Horace, Corporal, 3174, 49th Battalion / Australian Army Medical Corps, enlisted 5 October 1916, Returned to Australia 22 September 1919.  
G. GAYLARD GAYLARD, Robert Graham, Gunner, 25473, Howitzer Brigade 21 / 1st Divisional Amunition Column, enlisted 30 November 1915, Returned to Australia 9 February 1919, died 18 September 1965, aged 70 years, buried Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mackay.  
W. HUNTER (I.H.) HUNTER, William, Private, 4414, 1st Pioneer Battalion, enlisted 14 February 1917, Fate Unknown.  
R. JOHNSTONE JOHNSTONE, Robert Philip, Private, 1676, 25th Battalion, enlisted 12 May 1915, Returned to Australia 25 January 1919.   
W. KEMP (K) KEMP, William Henry, Private, 629, 5th Light Horse Regiment, enlisted 12 November 1914, Killed in Action 28 June 1915, Gallipoli, Turkey.   
A. KIPPEN (not positively identified)  
R. KIPPEN (K) KIPPEN, Robert, Private, 458, 41st Battalion, enlisted 18 January 1916, Killed in Action, 7 January 1917, Armentieres, France.   
W. KOCH KOCH, William France Joseph (M.I.D.), Major, enlisted 20 March 1915, Returned to Australia 29 June 1919.  
R. LONERGAN (not positively identified)  
G. MARTIN MARTIN, Gilbert, Private, 2424, 4th Pioneer Battalion, enlisted 3 April 1916, Returned to Australia 17 March 1919.  
R. MARTIN (D.W.) MARTIN, Robert, Trooper, 495, 5th Light Horse Regiment, enlisted 5 November 1914, Died of Illness, 27 August 1915, Gallipoli, Turkey. 
R. McCULLOCH (not positively identified)  
L. McGOWN McGOWN, Leslie Gordon, Gunner, 878, 2nd Light Horse Regiment / 11th Field Artillery Brigade, enlisted 16 December 1914, Returned to Australia 28 February 1919.  
C. MILLER (W) MILLER, Charles William, Private, 5943, 26th Battalion, enlisted 6 March 1916, Returned to Australia 23 March 1919.  
H. MULHERIN MULHERIN, Henry Gratton, Sergeant, 457, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, enlisted 26 August 1914, Returned to Australia 15 November 1918, died 12 January 1962, aged 66 years, buried Mackay Cemetery.  
T. MULHERIN MULHERIN, Thomas Griffin, Lieutenant, 544, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, enlisted 26 August 1914, Returned to Australia 13 March 1918, died 1 June 1971, aged 77 years, buried Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mackay.
W. PEELE (K) PEELE, Wesley William (M.M and Bar), Private, 1720, 47th Battalion / 15th Battalion, enlisted 14 February 1916, Returned to Australia 23 July 1919, died 18 October 1973, aged 83 years, buried Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mackay.
 (Note: incorrectly listed on Honour board as Killed)
 
R. PITMAN (not positively identified)  
G. SHAW SHAW, Gilbert Rolland, Private, 6382, 26th Battalion, enlisted 16 October 1916, Returned to Australia 24 August 1918.  
W. SHAW (K) SHAW, William Ernest, Private, 665, 9th Battalion/26th Battalion, enlisted 29 August 1914, Killed in Action, 5 October 1917, Passchendale, Belgium.   
J. SMITH (not positively identified)  
R. SMITH (not positively identified)  
W. SYMONS (K) SYMONS, Charles Willie, Private, 2256, 47th Battalion, enlisted 21 February 1916, Killed in Action, 12 August 1917, Wytschaete, Belgium.   
E. WICKS WICKS, Albert Ernest, Private, 5964, 26th Battalion, enlisted 22 April 1916, Returned to Australia 6 November 1918.  
T. WHITE (not positively identified)  
J. WILSON (not positively identified)  
T. WILSON (not positively identified)  
SISTERS  
F. BARRY BARRY, Florence Beatrice, Staff Nurse  
M. BARRY BARRY, Mary Ellen, Staff Nurse  
B. KEMP (not positively identified)  

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