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10th Light Horse | 16th Battalion | Gallipoli | Syria . . .












             PLAQUE NO 12:                                                     PLAQUE NO. 14:                                       PLAQUE NO 15:

            Capt H. Phillip Fry (1895-98)                                     Cpl Harold A.                                        Tpr Raymond T. Cowan (1910-14)


            10th Light Horse Regiment                                         Campbell (1885-86)                                   10th Light Horse Regiment
            Killed In Action: Hill 60 Gallipoli                                                                                    Died of Disease:
            29 August 1915. Age 33                                                                                                 Damascus, Syria
                                                                              16th Battalion
                                                                              Killed In Action: Gallipoli                          24 October 1918. Age 20
            Cpt Fry was killed at Hill 60, only weeks after the action at     19 November 1915. Age 43
            The Nek. It was in this engagement that another Western                                                                Another Western Australian 10th Light Horseman who survived the campaigns in the deserts of
            Australian 10th Light Horseman, Hugo Throssell, a farmer          Dedicated by Hale School.                            Palestine and Syria to die of disease in Damascus, just days after the taking of the city.
            from Northam, won a Victoria Cross.                               Placed by Mr John Costigan a
                                                                              former Hale School father and Mr                     Dedicated by the Cowan Family.
            Dedicated by Hale School.                                         Don Meredith, a former Hale School                   Placed by 92 year old, Miss Isobelle Cowan, sister of Raymond, assisted by three of Raymond's
            Placed by Mr Tom Hoar, formerly the Deputy Headmaster at          grandfather.                                         Haleian descendants, Bill (1967-71), Peter (1995-99) and Jim Cowan (1999-03).
            Hale School.
                                                                              Mr Costigan and Mr Meredith
            PLAQUE NO 13:                                                     represented Mr Ray Hepworth
                                                                              and others of the Honour Avenue
            2nd Lt George A. Leake (1897-98)                                  Committee of the Highgate Returned
                                                                              Servicemen's League. It is this body
                                                                              that manufactures and maintains the
            10th Light Horse Regiment                                         many plaques commemorating fallen
            Killed In Action: Hill 60 Gallipoli                               servicemen in Kings Park. They have
            29 August 1915. Age 28                                            also involved themselves in the Hale
                                                                              School project.
            2nd Lt Leake was killed at Hill 60, several weeks after the
            action at The Nek.

            Dedicated by the Leake Family.
            Placed by family members, Mrs Jennifer Bagshaw
            and Mrs Anne Clark.
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