Penrith City Local History - Memories of war - We remember - Emu Plains Public School
Emu Plains Public School Honour Roll
In March 1916, the Parents and Citizens Association at Emu Plains Public School met to discuss the erection of an honour roll for their past students. The Empire Day celebrations in June 1917 saw the unveiling of a Roll of Honour, ‘upon which 30 names figured’. The ceremony was performed by Henry Biddon, War Chest Commissioner. Local dignitaries attended including Cr S H Walker from Blue Mountains Shire and Ald. David Fitch (Mayor of Penrith).
This honour roll was housed in the old Emu Plains primary school and was relocated to the new primary school site in 1977. In 2016, the school and Penrith RSL received Federal Government funding to restore the honour roll.
The World War 1 roll is inscribed with the following:
“For God, King and Country”
*killed during war
| G A Black | *George Love |
| Ronald Stuart Bransdon | Victor Aubert Magrath |
| *Edwin Bunyan | *Robert William McGuinness |
| *Irwin Bunyan | *Reginald Donald Joshua McLean |
| R L Burton | A T Mullen |
| Reginald Cattell | *William Hiram Mullen |
| *Charles Albert Clissold | S W Murdoch |
| *George Albert Clissold | *H L Parkes |
| Frank Colless | C Paul |
| *Charles Henry Day | W E Penfold |
| Leslie Claude Dole | S B Porter |
| James Thomas Errington Donald | Vincent G M Shepard |
| Alfred Lawrence Dukes | Francis M Shepard |
| Percivalle Alfred Thomas (Pat) Dukes | Harold Leslie Stieme |
| W H Ellison | W A Temple |
| Bertie King Evans | Keith Walmsley |
| Sydney Albert Evans | A Waters |
| L V Hall | A Willis |
| A M Hunt | *J Winters |
| N Jones | A G Wood |
| W W Jones |