Project updates

The Mosman Football Club (Rugby Union) Roll of Honour has been added to our database. Named are 123 members of the Mosman Football Club (Rugby Union) 1914-1918 who answered the call.

The details were kindly provided by Michael Flude, President, Mosman Rugby Club.

The honour roll, he says, was severely damaged in the clubhouse fire at Rawson Oval in 2006. A reproduction will be mounted in the clubhouse when renovations are complete.

Eleven members of the club gave their lives in the First World War:

• ASHDOWN C.P.
• BURKE G.H.
• BRYANT K.H.
• CARNEY W.G.
• CROSS J.
• DOYLE S.
• FAZIO J.
• HENDERSON D.
• McDOUGALL W.
• REEVE H.M.
• YOUNGHUSBAND A.

View all names: Mosman Football Club (Rugby Union) Roll of Honour

We received this email from Christelle Hilz.

I’m the author of an historical novel, which I expect to be published before the end of the year. I mention Allan Allsop – 8th Australian Field Ambulance in my novel. I was wondering if his son, John, was still alive. If so, I would love to get in touch with him to see if “My Allan Allsop” ‘s personality matches the original one. He’s not a main character in my novel – he just meets one of my characters and appears in one chapter. “My Allan’s” personality was based on what shows through his diaries and a study of his handwriting.

The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust is applying for an ANZAC Grant for the erection of an interpretation sign outside the 1913 Drill Hall beside Rawson Oval as well as signs for the World War 1 Hospital at Georges Heights.

Australian gunners, stripped to the waist, serving a 9.2-inch heavy howitzer as it fires on Pozieres. During 1916, artillery came to be seen as the dominating factor on the battlefield. It caused more casualties than any other weapon and no advance could succeed without increasing quantities of shells. © IWM.

Mosman Library has joined the First World War Centenary Partnership led by the British Imperial War Museums, and your group might like to join too.

Two framed honour boards with 62 photographic portraits and a set of index cards with information on about 1,800 Mosman WWI servicemen were acquired last week from a researcher in Canberra.