Paynesville RSL

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Location: Paynesville, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australlia
Surnames/tags: Australia Victoria

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Location 1.2 Coordinates 1.3 How to get there 2 Details of memorials

Introduction

The Returned Services League (RSL) at Paynesville, Victoria, Australia memorialises a number of local people who served in the Boer War, First World War, Second World War, Korean War and Vietnam War.

Location

Address: 57 Main St Paynesville Victoria, Australia 3880

Coordinates

37°54.848 South, 147°43.134 East

How to get there

Entering the town of Bairnsdale in a North-Easterly direction, either turn right at a large roundabout signposted 'Forge Creek Road' or continue on through the town and turn left at a road signposted 'Paynesville'. Both roads lead to Paynesville, about 18 Km from Bairnsdale. Approaching Paynesville there is a roundabout signposted 'Main Rd' to the right, and the Returned Services League buildings are a few hundred metres on the right, with oparking available.

Details of memorials

Name		Conflict	Notes
Addis	HH	World War 1	Military Medal
Ah Yee	James	World War 1
Ah Yee	ARL	World War 2
Ah Yee	Christina	World War 2
Ah Yee	RJ	World War 2
Alexander	Andrew Ernest	World War 1	Born Paynesville. Occupation: Farm labourer. Service: enlisted 11 Feb 1916, 16th Reinforcements for 16 Battalion. Served Etaples, France. Died 1 Nov 1916.
Alexander	WJ	World War 1
Anderson	KJ	World War 2
Bedggood	Thomas Henry	World War 1	Born abt 1894 Stratford, Victoria, Australia, one of seven brothers and two sisters. Occupation: fisherman. Service: enlisted 29 Jan 1916; posted to 37th Battalion, A Company. Arrived in France via England, transferred to 5th Battalion, wounded in action in Somme. Died of gangrene 7 Nov 1916 at St John's Brigade Hospital, Etaples, France.
Bird	HJ	World War 1
Birrell	DFJ	World War 1
Birrell	Joseph Henry (Joe)	World War 1	Born abt 1889 Carlsruhe, Victoria, Australia. Service: Enlisted 22 Jul 1915, Private, 29 th Battalion, B Company. 13th Black Sea Rotational Force course; France; promoted to Corporal, operated Lewis gun. Died 24 Nov 1916 and interred London Cemetery Extension, High Wood, Longueval, France.
Birrell	GD	World War 2
Birrell	JH	World War 2
Bishop	Thomas Charles	World War 1
Blackie	Ian Donald	World War 2	Born abt 1924. Service: Flight Sargent, RAAF Died Lake Corringle, Victoria, Australia 13 Jan 1945
Blake	Thomas John	World War 1	Born abt 1889 to James and Sarah Blake at Rushworth, Colony of Victoria, and moved to Paynesville. Occupation: labourer. Service: enlisted as private (service number 1976) in 1916 with British Expeditionary Force to France. Killed in action on 26 or 27 Sep 1917 at Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium and has no known grave. Memorialised Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (panel 23), Belgium.
Blake	CP	World War 2
Boyd	WT	World War 1
Bull	JC	World War 1
Byrne	GC	World War 1
Byrne	H	World War 1
Byrne	HF	World War 1
Campbell	JJ	World War 1
Campbell	J	World War 1
Chatwood	BJ	Vietnam
Cliff	AJB	World War 2	Order of Australia Medal (OAM)
Culhane	Maurice Michael	World War 2	Born abt 1926. Service: Flight Sargent RAAF Died Lake Corringle, Victoria, Australia 13 Jan 1945
Day	HD	World War 1
Day	CO	World War 2
Day	EG	World War 2
Day	Henry R	World War 2
Day	KF	World War 2
Day	VG	World War 2
Day	I	Vietnam
Dewsbury	T	World War 1
Dinse	JW	World War 1
Dinse	Matthew W	World War 1
Duffy	Clarence DL	World War 1
Duncan	HC	World War 1
Field	R	World War 1
Fleischer	AJB	World War 2
Fleischer	Linda	World War 2
Fleischer	Rita	World War 2
Gettens	AG	World War 1
Gettens	RL	World War 1
Gilsenan	AE	World War 1
Gronheit	William John	World War 1	1888: Born in Paynesville, Colony of Victoria, to William and Marion Gronheit. Occupation: fisherman. Service: enlisted as Private 19 Feb 1916 (service number 2650); posted to 29th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement. Embarked from Melbourne to France on HMAT Anchises 14 Mar 1916. 30 Jul 1918: died of wounds at the Casualty Clearing Station, France. Interred at Vignacourt British Cemetery, France, plot IV, row D grave number 12.
Hamilton	TI	World War 1
Haylock	FC	World War 1
Haylock	Thomas Enoch	World War 1	Born abt 1885 in Bairnsdale, Colony of Victoria. Occupation: labourer and fisherman, Raymond Island. Sibling: Frederick. Service: enlisted as Private (service number 866) 25 Jan 1915, posted to 21st Battalion, D Company. 12 Oct 1915: died at Gallipoli. Interred in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, about 400 yards south-east of Anzac Cove (PlotII, Row D, grave number 48.
Haylock	Frederick (Fred) V	World War 2
Haylock	Norman	World War 2	Servcice: Private, 2/3 Field Ambulance, New Guinea
Hogan	PC	World War 1
Holmes	AC	World War 2
Holmes	RF	World War 2
James	Edwin H	World War 1	Military Cross
James	Robert Henry	World War 1	Abt 1892: Born at 'Ridgeway', Bairnsdale, Colony of Victoria, educated in Melbourne, attended Dookie Agricultural College and became a farmer. Sibling: edwin James. Service: enlisted as Private 2 May 1917 (service number 7509) and posted as Gunner, 7th Battalion. Embarked from Melbourne on HMAT A32 Themistocles 4 Aug 1917 to Glascow, Scotland, arriving 2 Oct 1917. Transferred to the 4th Division Ammunition Column as a Gunner, posted to France. Wouonded in action at Ronssoy and died 29 Sep 1918 at the 11th Australian Field Ambulance. Interred at Templeux-le-Geurard British Cemetery, France, plot II, row F, grave number 37.
Jones	LF	World War 1
Jones	NF	World War 1
Jordan	HG	World War 2
Klemtz	AO	World War 2
Klemtz	FC	World War 2
Lake	ARJ	World War 1
Leatham	Christina	World War 2
Lett	Robert William	World War 1, Boer War
Lett	Nathaniel Charles (Charlie)	World War 2
Lett	Robert Harry (Bert)	World War 2
Lett	Sydney Addis	World War 2	1915: Born at Bairnsdale, Colony of Victoria. Father: Sydney Lett. Sibling: Bert Lett. Educated at Eagle Point School. Service: 1933: enlisted in 13th Light Horse and transferred to Australian Imperial Force in 1939. Embarked from Melbourne on HMT Katoomba for Rabaul, arriving 3 May 1941. Listed as Missing in Action following Japanese invasion Dec 1941 and thought to have died 1 Jul 1942 in the sinking of the POW ship Montevideo Maru. Place of death listed as South China Sea. Memorialised on the Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New guinea.
Lewis	RG	World War 1
Lewis	TG	World War 1
Lindemann	HR	World War 1	Military Medal
Lindemann	MR	World War 1
Lindemann	NE	World War 1
Marsh	GW	World War 2
Matthews	CC	Vietnam
May	AS	World War 1
McEwan	FE	World War 1
McKellar	N	World War 1
McTaggart	A	World War 1
McTaggart	WC	World War 2
Medling	AH	World War 2
Medling	RF	World War 2
Mentiplay	TA	World War 1	Distinguished Conduct Medal
Meredith	ES	World War 1
Mooney	John Peter	World War 1	Born 1884 Maffra, Victoria, Australia to William and Annie Moonie. Sibling: Joseph Mooney. Spouse: Jane. Service: Enlisted 19 Jan 1916, posted to 22nd Battalion, 11th Reinforcement. Died in France 3 May 1917. Interred Tillow British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines, plt V, row B, grave number 23.
Neale	Robert (Bob)	World War 2	Born 28 Dec 1924; died 27 Jul 2018. Service:22nd squadron RAAF, Borneo – Morotai
Oakley	William Walter	World War 1	Born abt 1886 at Briagolong, Colony of Victoria. Occupation: fisherman; residence: Paynesville. Service: enlisted Feb 1916.as Private to 37th Battalion, C Company. Died 18 Jun 1918. Interred Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France, plot I, row A, grave number 6.
Oakley	CC	World War 2
Oakley	CW	World War 2
Oakley	GA	World War 2
Oakley	JH	World War 2
Oakley	JM	World War 2
Oakley	William Walter	World War 2
Parkinson		Vietnam
Patterson	EJ	World War 1
Peeck	RO	World War 2
Ray	RR	World War 1
Ray	EG	World War 2
Ray	RR	World War 2
Raymond	Elaine Heather		Born 8 Dec 1935; died 123 Apr 2012
Reid	RJ	World War 1
Renowden	JH	Vietnam
Roberts	H	World War 1
Roberts	LA	World War 1	Military Medal
Roberts	PA	World War 1
Simon	David James Blythman	World War 2	Born abt 1917. Service: Flight Sargent RAAF Died Lake Corringle, Victoria, Australia 13 Jan 1945
Simpson	R	World War 1
Simpson	FR	World War 2
Smith	A	World War 1	Military Medal
Smith	J	World War 1
Smith	JL	World War 2
Smith	WJ	World War 2
Starr	LV	World War 1
Stone	RJF	World War 1
Sullivan	Roger Edwin	World War 2	Born abt 1926. Service: Flight Sargent RAAF Died Lake Corringle, Victoria, Australia 13 Jan 1945
Sumpter	HJ	World War 1
Tait	Charles David	World War 1	1891: Born in Bairnsdale, Colony of Victoria, ; attended Eagle point School. Service: enlisted 5 Oct 1914 (service number 363); posted as Private to 7th Light Horse Regiment, boarded HMAT A33 Ayrshire 20 Dec 1914, arrived Gallipoli 15 May 1915; died 25 Jan 1916. Interred Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, row D, grave 279.
Tait	R	World War 2
Twomey	James Robert	World War 1	Born Newport, Colony of Victoria to Tom and Bridget Twomey and moved to Paynesville. Sibling: Francis Twomey. Occupation: Iron moulder. Service: enlisted as Private and posted to 38th Battalion. Promoted to Lance Corporal 23 Dec 1916. Reported missing in action 13 Oct 1917 and pronounced dead as of that date. Memorialised at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Vichman	J	World War 1
Vinicombe	J	World War 1
Walker	CJ	World War 1
Whitchurch	PN	World War 2
White	William Henry	World War 1	Born 1893 in Sale, Colony of Victoria. Occupation: fisherman. Service: Enlisted 17 Apr 1916. 13 Oct 1917: posted as missing in action in Belgium. 12 Oct 1917: death officially recorded. Interred Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium plot XX, row H, grave number 4.
White	AH	World War 2
Woodman	AE	World War 2