These are the 138 Victoria Police officers who left policing to join military forces to serve in World War I.* Alexander, Edward Allan, James Allen, Frank Anstee, David Rich Ballantyne, Thomas James Barnden, Albert Edwin Barnett, George William Barret, Alfred Bassett, Edwin Leslie Batt, Thomas Henry Beagley, Eric Edward Filday Bear, James William Belcher, Charles Bell, Leslie Bennett, Edward John Beyers, Henry Hector Bird, David Black, David Gordon Boyd, John Brennan, Richard Prior Brough, William Thomas Bunting, George Ernest Campbell, Roderick MacLennan Carstens, Joseph Francis Caspar, Frederick Cassidy, John Chamberlain, John Robert Chanter, James William Clapham, Henry John Clinnick, Richard James Collins, William George Considine, Joseph Coonerty, James Joseph Cornwall, Edmund McIntyre
Crisfield, Henry Francis Crole, Sydney Ronald Cross, William John Davern, Gerald James Denham, John Henry Donaldson, Arthur John Duffy, Charles Gavan Dunse, Leslie Edgerton, Arthur Ernest Elliget, Walter Francis Evans, Walter Francis Fenton, Henry Clarke Fleming, John Fletcher, John Hamlyn Ford, William Fowles, Herbert Arthur George Foyle, Arthur Herbert Fulton, William Caryl Gillespie, David Francis Gillies, Angus Alex Gorman, John Peter Green, Sydney Frank William Harold Gunn, Thomas Clinton Hall, John Leslie Harrington, Abraham Harrison, Edward Hartley, James Hellings, David Harrison Henderson, John Lynn Heron, Keith Edward Garnett Hibberd, Reginald Joshua Highland, Charles Hill, Thomas Frederick Hogben, Harrold David Hollow, William James
Hope, Richard Armstrong James, Frederick Walter Johnson, William Sutherland Jones, Oscar Anglesey Lawton, Francis James Leech, Ernest Edward Lewis, Albert Caesar MacPhie, Angus Marchbank, William Martin, James Mathieson, Angus McCasker, Frederick John McCulloch, William Joseph McDonald, Frederick Leslie McDonald, Hector Norman Ross McDowell, Athol Halliday McInnes, Stephen McMurray, Norman Miles, Thomas William Milne, Peter Adam Moncur, Percy Douglas Morley, Edwin Joseph Moss, Richard George Moulton, William Musgrave Moyle, William Ormsby Mudie, Stanley Robert Nelms, Joseph Leo Newland, Herbert Leslie O’Donnell, John Thomas Oliver, David William O’Neill, Phillip Ottaway, Sydney Charles Pape, John Pawley, Henry Pawley, William Taylor
Penna, Reuben Pierce Penrose, Reginald Arthur Potton, Walter John King Rawlinson, Thomas Ritter, Herbert Oscar Robertson, William Thomas Robinson, Albert George Russell, Albert Arthur Seton, Thomas Sharpe, Edward William Smith, Charles Hartop Smith, Sydney Smith, William Snowdon, David Leslie Speed, Standley James Stanbury, Charles Henry Stearnes, Harold Campbell Stewart, John Stynes, Robert William Taylor, Charles Alfred Thompson, Peter Trewin, Charles Lester Gordon Vincent, Leslie Moore Walker, John Archibold Watt, Thomas Owen Watts, William James Waugh, George William Weatherhead, George Arinson Webster, Isaac Oswald Williams, Samuel James Williamson, William Willman, Thomas Leslie Wilson, James Jerald Wright, Arthur * Source: They served in blue, khaki & blue by M.Grant
Anzac Day is on 25 April. To find out how you can commemorate those who served in war, visit shrine.org.au