Other memorials
Honour boards to Departmental non-teaching staff
There are two memorials to non-teaching staff from the Department.
Few details are known about the history of these memorials. The first is a memorial in honour of officers who “have gone forward to fight for the Empire”. The board includes officers from a variety of branches within the Department, including officers from the Department’s workshops, public libraries, medical branch and the art gallery.
There are 85 names listed on the memorial, including three women who served as nurses. Ten officers were killed in action with a further four officers dying as a result of wounds received in battle. The memorial indicates that a further fourteen officers were wounded.
Above the names of the officers on the honour board is the following inscription:
For freedom’s battle, once begun bequeathed by bleeding sire to son though baffled oft, is ever won
Lord Byron, “The Giaour” (1813)
A full list of officers’ names appearing on the honour board is located in Appendix C.
The second memorial honours non-teaching officers of the Department who served in World War II and particularly the nine officers who gave their lives.
The inscription on the bronze plaque reads as follows:
In honour of the members of the head office and painting and repair staffs of the Department of Education who served in the armed forces and to perpetuate the memory of the following officers who gave their lives
A full list of officers’ names appearing on the plaque is located in Appendix G.
World War II, the original memorials & additional World War 1 remembrance