Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Honour Rolls
Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Memorial.
The memorial is located in Victory Park, Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale. The catchment for the area referred to as "Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill" included the streets between Epsom Road and the Maribyrnong River. It was clearly a very close-knit community, and soon gave rise to an organisation called the Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Welcome Home Committee which raised funds to give receptions, often concerts, to welcome home their local boys. Later on this committee raised funds to erect the Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Memorial.
(Photos: Lenore Frost, 2010)
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Erected by the Residents of Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill in Honour of their Men who served in the Great War 1914-1919. Unveiled by Brigadier General H E Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, 30th Apr 1922. Geo. Loudon, Chairman, J E Higginbotham, Hon Secy.
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The Argus, 31 July 1919
A NEW RESERVE.
The new Reserve purchased by the Essendon City Council, comprising six acres in Langs road, Ascot-vale West, has been named "Victory" Park, and was planted with trees on Peace Day. A strip of land has been purchased in Charles street to allow of an entrance from that thoroughfare to the reserve.
A NEW RESERVE. (1919, July 31). The Argus, p. 8.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4710566
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Persistent link: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/300642
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