World War 1, Australia Western Australia, 51 Battalion, 1955
1955Three Battalion veterans holding the Villers Bretonneux Cross
The inscription reads: R.I.P. to the memory of officers. N.C.O.'s & Men of the 51st Battn A.I.F. who fell in the counter attack on Villers Brettonnaux (sic) 24/25/4/18.
The cross had been erected on the battlefield by Sergeant Joe Tunnecliffe of Yanchep. Shells were roaring overhead as a memorial service was conducted by the chaplain of the 13th Brigade Padre Donald Blackwood.
The cross was returned by the memorial authorities to Australia after World War One and was handed over to the 51st Militia Battalion at Ryde New South Wales. Because the 51st Battalion was largely a West Australian Unit, The State Executive of the RSL sought a transfer of the cross to St George`s Cathedral in Perth. In 1949, the parishioners at Ryde voted against a transfer. In 1956, by mutual agreement between the parishioners of the church and the 51st Battalion AIF Association, the cross was transferred to St George`s Cathedral in Perth
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- Post 1970, Australia Western Australia Perth, 51 Battalion, 1985 (0km away)
- Interwar, Australia Western Australia, Perth, St George's Cathedral. HOBBS, Funeral, 1938 (0.02km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - WF94550 HUGHAN (married CHESTER) (nee JONES) (0.02km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 3440 O'CONNELL, 10 Light Horse (0.04km away)
- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1943 (0.06km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - W45404 BRISBANE (0.08km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - W45288 FORSYTH (married CHAPPELL) (0.09km away)
- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1942 (0.1km away)
- World War 2, Australia Western Australia Perth, 1942 (0.1km away)
- World War 2, Australia Western Australia, 1939 (0.1km away)
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