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YEAR IN REVIEW
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Our heroes bakers, groAROLD Tulloch and George Hol- return to their jobs as butchers, ford were used to having printer’s cers, farmers or printers. They would never marry; never father chilink on their hands, not human blood. dren and never be comforted by the warm emThe Dandenong lads worked together as brace of their mother’s arms. printers at the Journal before they signed up The Journal and its rival newspaper at the for war in 1914. time, the Dandenong Advertiser, remain prehell the in thoughts voices, themselves men’s found those soon of Both cious conduits that was Gallipoli. and feelings. Harold and George survived to tell the tale Through letters, diaries and messages - as we know and remember this Anzac Day, home we have a graphic and moving account many did not. of the extraordinary as well as the more munThe carnage at Gallipoli, which was repli- dane moments of life as a soldier during the cated across Europe between 1914 and 1918, Great War. tore the heart out of many country towns. One hundred years after the historic landTownsfolk farewelled their young men ing at Anzac Cove, this week’s Journal is deas they embarked to fight in far-off foreign voted to honouring and remembering the lands surely knowing that many would never locals who gave so much. return That they would never again pull on
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INSIDE: A LOOK BACK AT WHAT MADE NEWS IN 2015
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Centenary spirit Dandenong Journal compositor Harrold Tulloch.
2015 PEOPLE OF THE YEAR A picture of the Kent family. Norman and Alfred, who were killed in World War 1, are in the back of the carriage with their governess. Their brother Charles, is in the front, with sisters Mary and Ada. enteric fever (typhoid). In December of the same year he was declared unfit for service and invalided home to Australia. His daughter Barbara, who now lives in a Pakenham retirement village, said her dad never talked about the war and described him as a “very quiet man, very reserved”. After recovering his health, Harry returned to his job at the Journal and at age 39 he married Doveton girl Elsie Grahame, who was just 20. They had two children, Murray, now deceased, and Barbara. Harry volunteered with the Dandenong Fire Brigade for 37 years. The family lived at the Dandenong Fire Station for many years as a stipend for Harry’s role as station master. When he died in 1963 staff lined up outside the old Scott Street office as Harold’s casket was driven past on the back of a fire truck. Another outstanding local story was that of the baker boys – eight young
men employed by local Narre Warren baker Donald Hartley Rowe who all enlisted to fight in the Great War. A November 1915 edition of the Berwick Star News listed them as Harry McGuire, Alf Rooney, Harold Johnstone, Jack Lyons, Fred Lewis, Vic Chitts, Reg Currie and Geo Forrester. Then there were the Kent brothers, two Narre Warren siblings whose lives were both claimed in the war. The first of the siblings to perish in battle was Alfred Kent, killed in action on 5 May 1916, four weeks after the lance-corporal had sailed from Alexandria to Marseilles. He was 41. Alfred’s younger brother, Norman, died from a gunshot wound on 12 April and died a day later from his injuries. 2015 was a year to remember their sacrifice and service. Lest we forget. For more people and events who made news in 2015, turn to page 6.
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THE Journal News’s people of the year are long dead, but age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. In April 2015, on the eve of the Anzac Centenary, the News paid tribute to the local men and women who served in Australia’s defining battle of World War I. Many of them never returned to their homes in Endeavour Hills, Hallam, Doveton and Dandenong. One who did live to tell the tale was Harold Tulloch who was a 24 year old compositor at the Dandenong Journal when he signed on for war. Harold’s story featured in April’s special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and also in the bumper August edition of the Dandenong Journal, the News’s sister paper, marking that publication’s 150th anniversary. While many other lads from the Greater Dandenong area fought on far off shores, it was Harold’s voice which spoke loudest during research for the Gallipoli edition, not muffled by the intervening century thanks to the simple yet beautifully observed letters the sergeant dispatched to his work mates back in Australia. Writing in June 1915, the then Corporal Tulloch described his boat being pelted with shrapnel as it was towed towards the peninsula’s fatal shore on 25 April. “We kept the boat till it grounded, then sprung ashore, or rather into water up to our waists, holding our rifles well out of the water and waded ashore,” he wrote. “Just as we got ashore shrapnel whistled over the boat following us, causing about a dozen casualties.” Harry survived the war. In September 1915 he was transferred to Malta with dysentery and