Box
40 St Arnaud, 3478
Phone: (03)5495 1811
Fax: (03)5495 2308
Principal:
Ian Peel
Assistant
Principal:
Rebecca Montgomery
At the school, students are arranged into three 'School Houses'. They are Holmes, Morshead and Willmott. All three are named after casualties of The Great War that had connections with the school.
Holmes
Edgar Holmes' grandfather came to Australia in September 1856. He was
born in 1891 and attended school in Stanford, becoming a junior teacher.
In 1909 he entered Teacher's College. He taught at Mokepilly, St Arnaud
HS and Essendon HS. Afterwards, he completed a Bachelor of Arts and was
studying for a Bachelor of Science when he enlisted in the A.I.F. on 16th
July 1915. After one year and three days in the army, he was Killed In
Action at Frommelle, in France, with the rank of Lance Corporal while
serving with the 59th Battalion. He is commemerated at VC Corner in the
Australian Cemetery, France.
More
Information on his family.
59th Australian Infantry
Battalion
Morshead
Ernest Darcy Morshead was the son of William and
Mary Eliza Morshead, of 32 Tress St., Mount Pleasant, Ballarat born in
1893 and enlisted in July 1915. A teacher before the war, he was killed
on the same day as Edgar Holmes while serving with the 29th Australian
Infantry Battalion with the rank of Sergeant. He was killed during the
Third Battle of Ypres ( Battle of Passchaendaele). He now lies buried
at Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, France.
Details
of the battle.
29th Australian
Infantry Battalion
Willmont
After leaving the high school, Cyril Samuel Willmott became an apprentice
baker while living in St. Arnaud before the war. He lied about his age,
enlisted and sailed for France on the 16th of July 1915 aboard the HMAT
Demosthenes. He was wounded on the Somme Battlefield and spent several
days in no-mans-land where he contracted pneumonia and died on 5th of
February, 1917, at the age of 17. A Private, he was serving with the 60th
Infantry Battalion at the time of his death. He is buried at Dernancourt
Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
His
Roll of Honour Listing.
60th Australian Infantry
Battalion
Further Research:
Australian
War Memorial
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