Centenary of The Great War

Newcastle was very thorough in the welcome it accorded the Wallabies on Saturday. Business houses and shops were profusely decorated. At night many were illuminated, and from midday crowds poured into the city and remained until late at night. On all sides there was pronounced appreciation of the men who had accomplished the march of approximately 300 miles. The journey commenced on December 8, finishing on the 32nd day out. Many shopkeepers decked their windows in violet, the colour adopted by the Wallabies. The Master Builders' Association erected an arch across Charlton Street, at the western boundary of the city, surmounted with flags and greenery, and bearing the words: "Welcome to Newcastle," and , "Through here to Berlin." The crowd was computed as the largest that has ever lined Newcastle streets. From the city boundary at Stewart Street, where there was a dense assemblage, to the Post Office, a distance of a good deal over a mile, the footways were crowded, and each balcony carried a large number of spectators. They joined in cheering the Wallabies, while the tram whistles cock-a-doodle-doo'd with vigour. 

List 131: two killed in action, 10 died of wounds and 12 of illness, 46 reported wounded, 11 missing, 235 ill, 66 seriously ill, 22 dangerously ill, 9 injured, 4 seriously injured, 4 prisoners of war. List 132: three killed in action, 4 died of wounds, 8 of illness, one from cause unknown, 416 reported ill, 36 seriously ill, 7 dangerously ill, 51 wounded, one severely wounded, one missing, 11 injured, one seriously injured, and one prisoner of war.

Edwin Apthorpe, Abernethy; Ernest Abbott, Wallsend; Randolph Adamson, Glen Oak; Harry Adshead, Singleton; Alexander Anderson, Seahampton; James Anderson, Seahampton; Charles Anderson, Pelaw Main; Robert Anderson, Newcastle; John Anderson, Cessnock; Leslie Andrews, Bellbird; Archibald Arbuckle, Cessnock; James Archibald, Kurri Kurri; William Armour, Cooks Hill; George Armstrong, Broadmeadow; Henry Ashford, Satur; Allan Avard, Thornton; James Barclay, Cessnock; Edward Barlow, New Lambton; Hartley Bartlett, Stewarts Brook; John Bates, Weston; George Beck, West Wallsend; Charles Blackett, Young Wallsend; Ralph Blackett, Cooks Hill; George Bloomfield, Kurri Kurri; Matthew Bonnyman, Stockton; William Bozeat, Waratah; Henry Bradley, West Maitland; John Brady, Newcastle; George Breakwell, Boolaroo; Henry Brien, Wickham; Walter Bright, Cooks Hill; Henry Brooks, Dudley; Robert Brown, South Cessnock; Alexander Brownley, Cessnock; Thomas Bubbins, Newcastle; Daniel Budden, Scone; Charles Byrne, West Maitland; Victor Caban, Cessnock; James Caird, Newcastle; Edward Cameron, Weston; Arthur Cartwright, Holmesville; Theodore Chambers, Williamtown; Stanley Chapman, Stockton; Wilfred Chapman, Stroud Road; Robert Charlton, Cessnock; Alfred Charlton, Lambton; James Cheers, Topi Topi; Fraustine Chiarelli, Cessnock; Herbert Chilvers, Stockton; Leonard Chippindall, Newcastle; Burnie Clapham, West Wallsend; John Coles, Newcastle; Charles Colquhoun, Minmi; Thomas Colquhoun, Cessnock; John Connell, Waratah; Thomas Connor, Salt Ash;  Robert Convery, Holmesville; David Cook, Aberdare; Cecil Coombs, Carrington; Arthur Cooper, Dudley; Rupert Cousins, Hilldale; Charles Cowan, Plattsburg; Alexandra Cowie, West Wallsend; Trevor Cox, Whittingham; Albert Crawford, Kurri Kurri; Thomas Croese, Mayfield; Cornelius Croese, Mayfield; Edward Crossingham, West Maitland; James Curran, West Maitland; Henry Curwen, South Cessnock; Robert Daly, Greta; Lewis Daniels, West Maitland; Joseph Danks, Maryville; Clifford Davies, Cessnock; Evan Davies, West Maitland; James Davis, Wickham; Jonathon Davis, Greta; James Davis, South Cessnock; Edward Davison, Pelaw Main; David Dawson, Stockton; David Deeprose, The Junction; Henry Dempsey, Mosquito Island; Michael Desmond, Kurri Kurri; Thomas William Dial, Estelville; Albert Diemar, Nelson Bay; Maurice Doherty, West Maitland; Patrick Donaldson, Argenton; Herbert Donnelly, West Maitland; Matthew Downie, Wickham; Frederick Dudley, Teralba; Simon Duncan, Newcastle; Edward Eade, Cessnock; Thomas Eaton, Adamstown; Samuel Eggenton, Carrington; Ernest Elbourne, Clarencetown; William Evans, Islington; Reginald Everitt, West Wallsend; Robert Fallins, Kahibah; Matthew Farley, Wickham; Francis Farmer, North Rothbury; William Faulds, Cessnock; William Fiedler, Sand Hills; William Finch, Merewether; Walter Fleming, Hamilton; James Forrest, Kearsley; Arthur Forster, Bandon Grove; Adam Frew, Cessnock; Anton Frisk, Merewether; Henry Fullick, West Wallsend; John Gall, Cessnock; Leslie Gane, Waratah; Herbert Gardiner, Wattagan Creek; Claude Gardiner, Boolaroo; Thomas Gardiner, Boolaroo; George Garlick, Cessnock; Austin Garven, Merewether; George Geary, Young Wallsend; William Gilbert, Merwether; William Gilmour, Abderdare; David Gilpin, Adamstown; George Glover, Lambton; William Godwin, Aberdare; Frederick Goldsmith, Killingworth; Harry Goodsir, Toronto; Charles Gould, Mayfield; Erick Green, Gundy; John Grievson, Kurri Kurri; George Gross, Newcastle; Robert Haggerston, Adamstown; Ambrose Halpin, Abermain; George Hardy, Glen William; Leslie Harrigan, Branxton; John Harris, Cardiff; Arthur Harrison, Scone; Walter Harvey, Dungog; Herbert Harvey, Fullerton Cove; Thomas Hatcher, Branxton; Aaron Hayes, Islington; Charles Henry, Hamilton; Richard Hill, Aberdare; George Hodges, Cessnock; Adam Hogg, Adamstown; Kenneth Holstein, Wards River; James Horn, West Wallsend; James Hoskins, West Maitland; John Hotchkiss, Newcastle; Esmond Hough, Tea Gardens; Ernest Howell, Cessnock; Stanley Hughes, Mayfield; James Husband, Aberdare; Donald Imrie, Merewether; James  Ireland, East Maitland; Alexander Irwin, Bandon Grove; Albert Jackson, Lochinvar; Wilfred Jaeger, Weston; Henry Johnson, Pitt Town; Benjamin Johnson, Cessnock; Robert Jones, Aberdare; Jeffrey Jurd, Wollombi; Daniel Kavanagh, West Maitland; Joseph Kay, Mayfield; Michael Keane, West Wallsend; Stanley Keevers, Islington; John Kerr, Broadmeadow; Richard Kessell, Kurri Kurri; George Kimber, Adamstown; Richard King, Aberdare; George King, West Maitland; Walter Kingston, Bandon Grove; Thomas Kinneaird, Abermain; Raymond Kirkaldy, Tighes Hill; Stanley Kirkham, Newcastle; Frederick Knight, Newcastle; Carl Knudsen, West Wallsend; Thomas Laidler, Kurri Kurri; James Laing, East Greta; Walter Laman, Nelson Bay; Harold Lambkin, Singleton; Arthur Lane, Smedmore; Richard Lathlean, New Lambton; George Laverick, West Wallsend; William Lawton, Waratah; John Lee, West Maitland; John Lehtonen, Bellbird; Alfred Lennon, Cessnock; Henry Liversage, Kurri Kurri; William Lloyd, New Lambton; Oliver Luke, Weston; Mark Lynn, Adamstown; Joseph Lythgoe, Minmi; McGill Mackie, Hebburn; Arthur Manbrey, Boolaroo; David Marr, Cessnock; Stanley Matthews, Cooks Hill; George McCann, Kurri Kurri; Richie McCormack, Abermain; Louis McCosker, Greta; Kenneth McDonald, Abermain; Thomas McEvoy, Merewether; Peter McEwan, Aberdare; Peter McFarlane, The Junction; Samuel McGarvie, Aberdare; George McLeod, Cessnock; William McLeod, Pelaw Main; Laurence McMahon, Greta; Westley McNeill, Stroud; John Metcalfe, Scone; Herbert Mitchell, Boolaroo; Alfred Mitchell, New Lambton; James Moore, Kurri Kurri; George Morgan, Kurri Kurri; James Morris, West Wallsend; Frank Morris, Singleton; Walter Morrow, Morpeth; Hugh Morse, Boolaroo; William Muir, Pelaw Main; Dudley Mumford, Newcastle; John Munton, Cessnock; Henry Murray, Cessnock; David Neave, Newcastle; Thomas Neilson, Gloucester; David Nesbitt, Kurri Kurri; James Newell, Hamilton; Emil Newman, Carrington; Alfred Olsen, Cessnock; Charles Omodei, West Maitland; Dennis O'Neill, Murrurundi; Bertie Osland, Seahampton; Ernest Outhwaite, Keinbah; Jesse Outteridge, Hamilton; John Palmer, Weston; Percy Parkinson, Stockton; Albert Parrott, West Hamilton; Robert Paterson, Hebburn; Warren Payne, East Maitland; William Pearce, Stanford Merthyr; Meredith Pomeroy, Abermain; Burton Powell, Cessnock; Francis Prior, West Maitland; Thomas Read, Wickham; Francis Richards, Kurri Kurri; William Ridley, Young Wallsend; John Ridley, Wallsend; Alvin Robbins, Newcastle; John Roberts, Newcastle; Alexander Robertson, Wickham; Ernest Robinson, Anna Bay; George Robinson, Cessnock; William Ross, Smedmore; Alister Ross, Muswellbrook; James Ross, Hebburn; Charles Ross, Mosquito Island; George Rossiter, Kurri Kurri; Edwin Rowe, Cardiff; William Sargeant, Kurri Kurri; Phillip Schubert, Greta; Alexander Scott, Abermain; Charles Scott, Scone; Samuel Seinor, Kurri Kurri; Thomas Sharpe, Cessnock; Edmond Slater, Tighes Hill; Charles Smith, Stockton; George Smith, Cooks Hill; John Smith, Hebburn; Sidney Smith, Scone; Leslie Sneddon, Minmi; Charles Sneddon, Weston; Alexander Sneddon, Cessnock; Harold Sneddon, Cessnock; Oliver Solly, Kurri Kurri; Harry Standing, West Wallsend; Richard Stokes, Cessnock; David Stokes, West Maitland; William Stott, West Wallsend; Robert Stubbs, Hamilton; Edward Taylor, Cessnock; Henry Taylor, Kurri Kurri; Charles Taylor, West Maitland; Henry Thompson, Catherine Hill Bay; Harold Thompson, Hamilton; John Thompson, Dudley; JamesThomson, West Wallsend; William Thomson, West Wallsend; Albert Tremain, West Maitland; Lambert Truscott, Wallsend; Tom Turner, Georgetown; William Turner, Pelaw Main; Joseph Veitch, Hamilton; Albert Wailes, Abermain; William Walmsley, Newcastle; Joseph Walton, Holmesville; John Waring, Holmesville; Francis Warner, Maryville; Victor Watson, East Maitland; Ernest Weeks, Carrington; Alexander Wells, South Cessnock; Charles White, Newcastle; Walter Wilkinson, East Greta; Arthur Willetts, Kurri Kurri; William Williams, Abermain; Richard Williams, New Lambton; Edward Williams, West Maitland; George Williams, Muswellbrook; William Williams, Waratah; John Wilson, Cessnock; Thomas Wilson, West Wallsend; James Wilson, Adamstown; William Woods, Cessnock; George Youll, Abermain; William Young, Newcastle.

Pte Clarence Henry Stair, Gungal.