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WORLD WAR I: PLAQUE NO 17: PLAQUE NO 18:

The Western Front Capt A. Barr Montgomery m.i.d. (1903-11) Cpl Lance H. Hester

(1906-10)
Worcester Regiment British Army
Killed in Action: Mouquet Farm, close to Pozieres
17 August 1916. Age 25
51st Battalion
PLAQUE NO 16: Captain Montgomery had been Captain of School in 1911 and was also the Killed in Action:

first player to take a hundred wickets in Darlot Cup cricket. A promising career, Mouquet Farm, Pozieres
Capt Cecil M. Foss MC (1907) both on the sporting field and in business lay ahead of him when he finished 3 September 1916. Age 23.
his education. Corporal Hester, from a farming family
28th Battalion At the outbreak of war in 1914, however, he left university and joined the in Bridgetown, entered Hale School in
Killed in Action: Pozieres Worcester Regiment of the British Army and was posted to the Western Front 1906 and later was a member of the 1910
11 August 1916. Age 24 Battalion Cup shooting team which won the
where he was mentioned in despatches for his efforts in the front line. state schoolboy's title.
Captain Foss was from a farming family at Babakin. His nickname at school was "Nurse".
Dedicated by Hale School. Dedicated by his family.
Placed by the then Captain of School, Clancy Rudeforth (1996-00).
He joined the Western Australian 28th Battalion in 1915 and subsequently fought in the Gallipoli Placed by his sister-in-law Mrs Dorothy
campaign. Later, in France, he led the first assault by Australian troops at Armentieres in April 1916 Hester and assisted by his niece, Mrs Anne
and was awarded the Military Cross for valour in action. Harse.

Australian forces then became involved in the August, Somme Valley offensive. Over twenty The Perth High School Cadet Squad - 1910: Lance Hester pictured, front right.
thousand young Australians were to subsequently lose their lives in the Pozieres/Mouquet Farm
sector of the line.

Cecil Foss was the first Haleian killed in action in France at Pozieres village, in the push to control
the heights overlooking the German lines.

Dedicated by Hale School.
Placed by Ms Nadine Fraize who had recently resigned from her post as Head of Languages
at Hale School to return to her native country of France.

Ms Fraize expressed her pleasure at being asked to lay this plaque as an expression of the
strong bond, even today, between the French and Australian people, a lasting legacy of the
involvement of Australians in France during the Great War.