Mail - Mt Evelyn Mail - 12th February 2019

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Mount Evelyn

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“A summary then uses this information to create tables and lists to uncover further interesting facts.” Mount Evelyn, Montrose and Silvan are among the suburbs covered in the site, alongside Lilydale, Coldstream, Yering, Gruyere, Wandin, Seville, Mooroolbark, Kilsyth, Kalorama, Mount Dandenong and Olinda. Mount Evelyn produced the youngest enlistee, Frank Larkins. He was 14 years old when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy on 31 December 1912 and was 15 when he went into active service on 4 August 1914.

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William Aicher was the first Mount Evelyn man to enlist, on 17 August 1914, and the first killed, in Cape Helles on 8 May 1915. Mount Evelyn's Private Horace Allen was the first local soldier to be hospitalised. He was admitted to hospital in Egypt suffering from synovitis of the right knee on 3 January 1915. Private Lindsay Yeaman has the unenviable title of the local wounded and hospitalised the most times, with four separate admissions. Visit www.lillydalewardiary.com for more.

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nity,” he said. The Lillydale War Diary details the moments locals enlisted, when they sailed, the brave deeds they performed to receive awards, when they were wounded or hospitalised, and when and how they died on active service. Items on the chronology also link to letters and diary entries from the servicemen and women, tying personal accounts to the events. “It is a fascinating story that uses facts and their letters and diaries to piece together what happened to them all,” Mr McAleer said.

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A day-by-day account of the district’s 672 World War I servicemen and women is now online. Lilydale RSL received a Federal Government Centenary of Armistice program grant and commissioned local military historian Anthony McAleer to create a project to highlight the service of the district’s men and women during The Great War. Mr McAleer said it was initially going to be a publication, but a website was easier to navigate and could reach more people. “It’s a great gift they’ve given to the commu-


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