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Employees of H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd Roll of HonourPrint Page 
The wooden honour roll commemorates employees who were killed while on their way to England to service agricultural machinery during World War Two.
In 1930 the H. V. McKay Company was granted exclusive Australian distribution of Massey-Harris machinery as part of a merger with Massey Harris. The company was then renamed H. V. McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd.
Throughout World War Two H. V. McKay Massey Harris exported over 20,000 Sunshine drills, disc harrows and binders to England to facilitate the increase in food production.
Location
| Address: | Guildford Road & Eighth Avenue, Maylands Hall, Maylands, 6051 |
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| State: | WA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -31.930259 Long: 115.894194 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Honour Roll |
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| Monument Theme: | Conflict |
| Sub-Theme: | WW2 |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 03-September-1939 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 15-August-1945 |
Dedication
1939 1945
These laid the world away, poured out the red sweet wine of youth: gave up the years to be of work and joy, and that unhoped serene that men call age: and those who would have been their sons, they gave their immortality.
Rupert Brooke.
[ Names ]
Killed by enemy action while on the way to England to service agricultural machinery.
Employees of H V McKay Massey Harris Pty Ltd who paid the supreme sacrifice.
