Hinchinbrook Shire Digital Honour Roll
By Marg Powell, Specialist Library Technician, Metadata Services | 7 January 2019
The Hinchinbrook Shire Council was the proud recipient of a Queensland Anzac Centenary Spirit of Service grant which facilitated the creation of the first Digital Honour Roll in Queensland which has taken just a little over two years to come to fruition.
Digital Honour Roll, Hinchinbrook Shire
Inspired by the servicemen who originated from the Hinchinbrook Shire it commemorates those who marched off to World War 1, exhibiting the values of courage, integrity, resilience, mateship, duty and sacrifice.
Left to right: Hector Harrison Anderson, #578 41st Infantry Battalion; Frederick John Barnes, #3250 9th Infantry Battalion; David Russell Baxter, #21 25th Infantry Battalion. Images published in The Queenslander Pictorial, 1915-1916
The project was overseen by a committee, and supported by others from the Gilroy Santa Maria College World War 1 Project Link Club, 31st Royal Queensland Regiment Battalion Association, Rotary Club of Hinchinbrook, Herbert River RSL, Hinchinbrook Shire Library and Council, and representatives from GP One.
Left to right: John Ellenduff Beatts, #3122 49th Infantry Battalion; Arthur Reginald Cummins, 2701 42nd Infantry Battalion; William Markey #373, 26th Infantry Battalion. Images published in The Queenslander Pictorial, 1915-1917
The Gilroy Santa Maria College World War 1 Project Link Club researched the 39 Soldiers and interviewed local descendants of the deceased WW1 Soldiers, working collaboratively with GP One to transfer the research data to a touchscreen format.
The Digital Honour Roll will have a legacy far beyond 2018 and has galvanized the local residents of the Hinchinbrook Shire as they commemorate the Anzac Centenary.
Left to right: Harry Mercer-Smith, #795 9th Infantry Battalion; Percy William Ross, #727 41st Infantry Battalion; George Roderick Skinner, #739 42st Infantry Battalion. Images published in The Queenslander Pictorial, 1915-1917
You can view Queensland’s first Digital Honour Roll located in the 31st Battalion - The Kennedy Regiment mini Military Museum at the Hinchinbrook Shire Library, or online via a link at:
https://www.tyto.com.au/culture/hinchinbrook-shire-digital-honour-roll/
Soldier portraits digitised from The Queenslander Pictorial, courtesy State Library of Queensland
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