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Commemorating Berowra's Great War Serviceman
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DescriptionIn 2015 Berowra Living History wanted to take the opportunity to commemorate the men of Berowra and district who bravely fought in the Great War, as it was then known. Many Berowra boys went bravely to serve in foreign theatres of war, including at Gallipoli where Richard Joseph Kelly, Herbert Francis Kennedy, Ernest Howard Jefferys, Victor Hubert Springhall, and Leslie James Talbot served.
Berowra was lucky as most of our men returned from their war service. However, like so many small communities, lives were lost. Perhaps most tragic is the story of William Milner Anderson who is not listed on the Berowra War Memorial as killed in action. Anderson joined up in 1915 and only returned to Australia in 1918 after his father appealed for him to be exempted from munitions work in England. By then he had been blinded in his right eye and wounded in the back with shrapnel. He did not live to see the Armistace, dying of his wounds in Berowra in April 1918.
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Berowra was lucky as most of our men returned from their war service. However, like so many small communities, lives were lost. Perhaps most tragic is the story of William Milner Anderson who is not listed on the Berowra War Memorial as killed in action. Anderson joined up in 1915 and only returned to Australia in 1918 after his father appealed for him to be exempted from munitions work in England. By then he had been blinded in his right eye and wounded in the back with shrapnel. He did not live to see the Armistace, dying of his wounds in Berowra in April 1918.
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Commemorating Berowra's Great War Serviceman. Hornsby Shire, accessed 26/07/2026, https://hornsbyshire.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/3587