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WORLD WAR 1 SOLDIERS & REDHEAD PUBLIC SCHOOL
History is all around us and War Memorials are graphic reminders of
troubled times in history and personal sacrifice. By examining the
everyday lives of our ancestors in periods of war we can learn a lot about
World War 1 and the hardships and tests of courage they endured.
Imagine sending your son away for a war that people were told would
only last for a couple of months. Then not seeing him, and for him to
come home, if you are lucky, a long five years later, a broken and
troubled man.
Our local War Memorial includes a number of soldiers whose war service
we can inspect and in that way, we can improve our understanding of the
conditions they faced and the battles they fought in. According to the
Redhead War Memorial’s two World War 1 plaques, seventeen men with
an association to Redhead served in the AIF during the ‘Great War’.
It is important to realise that a number of our ex-students were killed in
action during the Great War. The records also show us that many of the
men were roughly the same age as many of our student’s older siblings,
which is thought provoking.
Students at Redhead Public School assisted the Redhead War Memorial
Committee to design the memorial that shows all wartime soldiers, and
includes the two World War 1 plaques which list the following seventeen
soldiers. (shown here in alphabetical order):
Names on World War 1 Redhead Rolls of Honour
Corp.
Edward Ardron
Vet. Sgt.
Frederick
Barley
Pte.
Enoch Blek
Pte,
Herbert Bradley
(KIA)
Pte.
Robert Croker
(KIA)
Pte.
William Croker
Pte.
Harrie Durham
Pte.
William Gilchrist
Pte.
John Griffiths
(KIA)
Pte.
Harold Moore
(KIA)
Pte
Samuel Newton
Pte.
George Noble
Pte.
Ernest Robson
Pte.
Henry Smith
Pte.
William Taylor
Pte.
L. Wood
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