WW1 VR Roll of Honour

Victorian Railways

- WW1 Rolls of Honour and Obituaries Lists

Victorian Railways - WW1 Rolls of Honour and Obituaries Lists

Rolls of Honour and Obituaries lists Published in Victorian Railways Commissioners Reports

1915 - 1920.

For each of the war years 1915 -1919 the Commissioner's Annual Report included the following

• A summary statement report on the railway employees at the war
• An Honour Roll which was list of railway employees who had enlisted in the past year
• An Obituary list of railway employees killed while serving at the war

The 1920 Commissioner's Annual Report did not included a summary statement or Honour Roll enlistment list but it did include a final complete Honour Roll Obituary List of Railway employees killed while serving at the war.

• 4509 Victorian Railway's employees enlisted in WW1
• 437 Victorian Railway's employees were killed in action.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

......... Lest We Forget

Victorian Railways WW1 Obituary - Honour Roll

This is a work was complied by a progress of cross checking the 1914 Victorian Railways employees Gazette against the 1920's Obituary list and AIF Project and other War Records to get all the details Railway Soldiers

References used to create this database of info on each soldier are

1. The Victorian Railways Obituary lists ( see above images)
2. The 1914 Victorian Gazette of Railway Employees http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/other/vic_gazette/1914/115.pdf

Soldier Service records summary -

1. The AIF Project https://aif.adfa.edu.au/aif/
2. The Virtual RSL War Memorial https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au

Soldier Photos From -

1. The AWM - The Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au
2. Sons of Williamstown - The Great War Honour Board http://www.sonsofwilliamstown.com.au/portfolio-masonry-3/

Summary of Info:

4509 Victorian Railway's employees enlisted in WW1

437 Victorian Railway's employees died while in Service

Victorian Railways Commissioners Reports

1915

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1915

GP V 1915 no. 37 (4.9 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1915No37.pdf

• Page 23 Summary statement report
  • Page 33 - 47 Roll of Honour - V.R Enlistment List - Month by Month from Aug 1914 - Oct 1915
  • Page 48 Obituary

1916

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1916

GP V 1916 no. 25 (3.3 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1916No25.pdf

• Page 22 Summary statement report
  • Page 27 - 70 Roll of Honour - V.R Enlistment List - Alphabetical
  • Page 71 Obituary

1917

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1917

GP V 1917 no. 26 (3.6 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1917No26.pdf

• Page 32 Summary statement report
  • Page 35 - 46 Roll of Honour - V.R Enlistment List - Alphabetical
  • Page 47 Obituary

1918

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1918

GP V 1918 no. 17 (3.8 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1918No17.pdf

• Page 28 Summary statement report
  • Page 30 - 34 Roll of Honour - V.R Enlistment List - Alphabetical
  • Page 35 - 36 Obituary

1919

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1919

GP V 1919 no. 14 (2.3 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1919No14.pdf

• Page 29 Summary statement report
  • Page 31 - 33 Roll of Honour - V.R Enlistment List - Alphabetical
  • Page 34 - 35 Obituary

1920

Victorian Railways : report of the Victorian Railways Commissioners for the year ending 30th June, 1920

GP V 1920 no. 8 (3.7 MB)

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1920No8.pdf

• Page 30 - 31 Roll of Honour Obituary

The Victorian Government Gazettes.

The Gazette published a list of railway employees every three years between 1880 and 1929

Information given in the lists is:

• Name
• their employee number,
• date of birth,
• branch they worked in,
• position,
• date of entry (that is date on which they were permanently employed) and sometimes date of leaving
• and rate of pay.
• sometimes station allocated to

Where to find the Triennial List of Railway Employees in the Government Gazette (1880 – 1929)

Sorted versions

Victorian Railways took part in WW1 in a number of ways

• Recruitment Trains
• Troop transportation to and from the Military Training Camps and to Port Melbourne for boarding on to ships going overseas
• Advertisement of War Loans
• Manufacturing of Motor repair workshops, Ambulances and Mobile Operating Theatres for the AIF
• The Victorian Railways Unit
• Transportation of Returning to Home Troops

1st Published : 12th Apr 2016 Page Updated: 13 Sept 2020 © Looking for the Evidence : Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )