Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Heywood Phillip Harriman Capt Manchester Regiment grazier
Address: Ascot Vale, Epsom Rd, "Kanowna"
Next of Kin: Heywood, P. T. Mr, father, Orleigh Park, Dandenong and Kanowna, Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale.
Enlisted: 22 Aug 1916
Embarked:
Mr. P. T. Heywood, of Orleigh Park, Dandenong, and Kanowna, Ascot Vale, has received communication that his only son, Captain P. H. Heywood, has been reported missing in France. Captain Heywood received his commission in a British regiment.
OUR SOLDIERS. (1918, April 18). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning. Retrieved June 9, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74605642
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Phillip Harriman Heywood, grazier, first appears in the Australian electoral rolls at "Hawksburn", via Albury, NSW, in 1930. His father, grazier Phillip Thomas Heywood, has his main address before the war at Orleigh Park, Dandenong, with another property, "Kanowna" at Ascot Vale. A young fellow named Sydney Wood, a jockey, enlisted in the AIF in 1916, giving his postal address as "c/- P T Heywood, Ascot Vale", with his next of kin being his mother residing in England. Wood became ill while on overseas service and was returned to Australia in 1917, being discharged from the AIF in early 1918. He made an application for a pension for himself, giving his address as "c/- P T Heywood, Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale".
It seems possible that Wood had been employed as a jockey before the war by P T Heywood, and that the Ascot Vale property, possibly "Kanowna" in Epsom Rd, was Heywood's racing stable. The fact that P H Heywood was commemorated on both the Essendon Town Hall honour boards, and the Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Memorial in Victory Park, Ascot Vale, and that Heywood was presented with a gold medal at a Welcome Home by the Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Returned Soldiers' Committee shows that he was considered to be a member of the local community.
Mentioned in this publication:
Newspaper clipping ad Presentation evening at the Showgrounds 27 Aug 1919
British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 Record
Captain in the Manchester Regiment, joined 22 Aug 1916. Address, Hawksview, Albury, New South Wales.
War Service Commemorated
Essendon Town Hall F-L
Maribyrnong-Bagotville Hill Returned Soldiers' Memorial
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