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Pte Edwin O. Moseley (1894) Lt Geoffrey D. Orchard (1897)

16th Battalion 16th Battalion
Killed in Action : Somme Valley Died of Wounds: Rouen France
8 August 1918. Age 36. 15 October 1918. Aged 31.
Private Edwin Moseley lived in Cottesloe. He, too, joined Lieutenant Geoffrey Orchard was the son of a Perth
up quite late and embarked for Europe in November 1917. clergyman. He subsequently joined the 16th Battalion in
He was posted to the Western Australian 16th Battalion 1914 and served on Gallipoli. Promoted from Sergeant WORLD WAR II
and was killed in action in the drive eastward down the to Lieutenant, he served right through the Western Front
Somme Valley. campaign until he was wounded in the final phases of the
war. He died in Rouen, France just three weeks before the
Dedicated by Hale School. end of the war. Old Haleians who lost their lives serving with the Royal Air Force and the
Placed by Hale School Board of Governors member, Royal Australian Air Force during the course of the Second World War, in the
Mr Jeff Broun (1968-73), assisted by son Tyson (1997-04). Dedicated by Hale School. European Theatre of Operations.
Placed by his niece, Mrs Penelope Buxton and the then
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Isaachsen (1964-68).
Percy R. T. Lovegrove (1900-02) John Astley Cooper (1934)

British Army Engineers Astley Cooper lived in Albany and attended Hale School in the mid-1930s.
Died Of Disease: Derby, England After leaving school he joined the Union (Commonwealth) Bank and worked
1918. Age 30. there until he was recruited as a cadet in 1937 by the British Royal Air Force.

Percy Lovegrove was the son of Charles Lovegrove, the He travelled to England in company with Wally Kyle and Hughie Edwards (both
local doctor at Pinjarra. After leaving school he went to later to become governors of Western Australia) and began pilot training in
England, trained as an engineer in Glasgow, Scotland 1938, just prior to the commencement of World War II hostilities.
and then travelled the world and was involved in many
adventures while engaged in his professional work. Tragically Astley was killed in a training accident over Wales in that same year.
He was 20 years of age.
On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Engineers in
the British Army. While serving in the trenches, however, Placed by his cousin, Mrs Kathleen Rigg,
he contracted pneumonia, was repatriated to England but assisted by her sons John and Peter Rigg.
died in a Derbyshire hospital.

Dedicated by Hale School.
Placed by a great-nephew, Mr Gordon McLarty,
representing the McLarty family of Pinjarra.