Citation
World War One and Tasman Peninsula: Peter MacFie (1986), Tasman Peninsula Chronicle No 1, Nubeena.
Tasman Peninsula Historical Society
Outline
A summary of the War Memorials of the Tasman Peninsula and the stories of the men (and one woman) from the area who served in World War 1 as well as the effect it had on the people left behind.
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Excerpt
The dramatic impact of WWI on the Tasman peninsula is evident in the number of memorials listing names of men (and one woman, V.C. Jenkins) who volunteered. More men from the Peninsula joined and were killed in WWI than in WWII. Memorials varied in type and their original location illustrates the number of self-contained communities which existed on the Peninsula. With renewed interest in Australian history the effects of the war can be fully understood for the first time, using records from the Australian War Memorial, Tasmanian newspapers, local memories and memorabilia (including photos and diaries). The war affected soldiers who went away – many of whom returned – and a community of families and businesses left behind.
Where are the Peninsula memorials?
- Nubeena Area-Schoolground and once near the wharf.
- Oakwood-CarnarvonCouncil Chambers, and once at Port Arthur Council Chambers.
- Memorial Avenue – Pine Trees, Port Arthur; George Street, Nubeenaand Taranna.
- Full Honour Roll – Council Chambers, Nubeena.
- Church Plaques e.g. Koonya.
- Taranna Plaque – Ex-servicemen’s Club, Nubeena
The complete “Roll of Honour” lists 31 soldiers who died and 88 who returned. These were compiled form names submitted to Council. Council contracted Mr G.W.E. Garnett to make the board including £2.5.0 for the blackwood used, £7 for “carving and scroll”, and £6.15.0 for “making and polishing” [1]
Members of the public insisted that ranks not be included on the honour roll; by contrast the interesting Carnarvon-Oakwood plaque, painted on a walnut table-top does include the rank of soldiers. The dead on the Nubeena Memorial (on which most research has been complied), omits rank also, but adds battalion joined.
[1] Council Minutes 5-3-1919
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Index
12th Battalion, 2, 3
26th Battalion, 2
40th Battalion, 2, 4
49th Battalion, 3
4th Field Artillery, 2
Allan, Ivey, 4
Allen family, 3, 5
Allen, Leslie, 5
Armentiere, 2
Auckland Btn, 2
Bailleul, 2
Batchelor, Vernon, 2
Belgium, 2, 3
Benjafield, Eric, 5
Beryl of Kooya, 4
Brighton, 3
Cahill, Alfred, 4
Cahill, Helen (Mrs Alfred), 4
Cahill, John, 4
Cahill, Lila (Mrs John), 4
Calvert, Christopher, 2
Calvert, Horace, 2, 3
Calvert, Margaret (Mrs Christopher), 2
Carlton, 2
Carnarvon, 1, 3
Cassie, 4
Cerebral Meningitis, 2
Chuingnolles, 2
Colebrook,, 2
Coppington, 2
Curran, Albert, 2, 3
Curran, J., 3
Curran, Margaret (Mrs Peter), 2
Curran, Peter, 2
Davis, W., 3
diary, 2
Dodge, Cassie, 4
Eaglehawk Neck),, 4
France,, 2
Free Town, Sierra Leone, 2
Free, Isabel (Mrs W.G.), 2
Free, W.G., 2
Free, William, 2, 3
Gallipoli, 2, 3
Garnett, G.W.E., 1
Godetia, 4, 5
Greatbatch, James, 2
Greatbatch, Lottie (Mrs James), 2
Greatbatch, Norman, 2
Harbonnierres, 2
Hawkins, Leonard, 3
HMAS Seang Bee, 3
influenza, 5
Jenkins, Sister V.C., 1
Joseph, Emily (Mrs Walter), 2
Joseph, Lynn, 2
Joseph, Walter, 2
Koonya, 1, 4
Lacey’s cheese factory, 4
Locke, Elsie (Mrs Thomas), 3
Locke, Sidney, 3
Locke, Thomas, 3
Lone Pine, 2, 3
McGuiness, Frederick, 3
McGuiness, Katherine (Mrs William), 3
McGuiness, William, 3
Menin Gate, 3
Messines, 2
Moss Rose, 4
New Zealand, 2, 3
Nubeena, 1, 2
Nubeena Area-School, 1
Nubeena Lassie, 4
Nuroo, Alice, 4
Nuroo, Leah, 4
Oakwood, 1
Parade for Peace, 5
Port Arthur, 1
Pozieres, 4
Premaydena, 3, 4
Price’s saw-mill, 4
properties
Highcroft, 2
Luffra, 4
Rabbit of Taranna, 4
Red Cross, 3
Returned Servicemen’s Club, 5
Richards, G.S., 3
Richardson, Ellen (Mrs James), 2
Richardson, James, 2
Richardson, Mark, 2, 3
Rokeby, 2
Roseneath Hospital, 3
Rumney, Harold, 1, 2
Salter. F.M., 3
Saltwater River,, 2
Sandy Bay, 2
Sierra Leone, 3
Spaulding, Eva (Mrs), 2
Stacey family, 3
Stacey, Davis, 2
Stacey, Hennitta (Mrs Robert), 2
Stacey, John, 3
Stacey, Robert, 2
Stacey, William, 2, 3
stretcher-bearers, 3
Taranna, 1, 4, 5
war memorials, 1
Westeoak Ridge, 2
Ypres, 2, 3
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