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\u201cThe fact that only two of those 24 men have a known grave gives some indication of the carnage on that battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spencer Day was one of those soldiers; the second son of Ballarat East\u2019s George and Mary Day to die in the war. His brother, William was killed in action four months prior.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames Peasnell, a former Queen Street State School boy, died of wounds on October 17th.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1912, he had been awarded the Albert Silver Medal for his bravery in trying to rescue fellow miners at the Mount Lyell Mine disaster in Tasmania,\u201d Mr Snowden said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCourage on the battlefield had already earned high level bravery awards for Joseph Pearce, Harry Holgate, Lewis Mudie and Henry Williams, who all lost their lives in October.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only 23 of the 64 local men who died in this period of 1917 have a known grave.<\/p>\n
The remaining 41 have their names recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir tree and plaque in our Avenue of Honour affords each of them an individual memorial,\u201d Mr Snowden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IT is one hundred and three years this month since sixty-four of the region\u2019s men died fighting near Passchendaele, Belgium during World War One. Thirty-three of those soldiers died within the first week of October, 1917. Arch of Victory \u2013 Avenue of Honour Committee president, Garry Snowden said the first of those killed was Ernest […]<\/p>\n