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12-February-2017
12-February-2017
Photographs supplied by Arthur Garland

The plaque commemorates Major Arthur Justin Sandford Hutchinson, a former prefect of the school who was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles in 1916 during World War One.

 

Location

Address:36 Button Street, Launceston Church Grammar School , Mowbray, 7248
State:TAS
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -41.407914
Long: 147.127834
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Plaque
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Military
Actual Event Start Date:19-July-1916
Actual Event End Date:19-July-1916

Dedication

Actual Monument Dedication Date:Friday 11th November, 2016
Front Inscription

Major Arthur Justin Sandford Hutchinson (Justin)

b. 24th August 1894  d. 19th July 1916
Killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles

A Gallant leader aged 21 years

A prefect and one of the most promising senior boys (class of 1911)

         We honour his life
and remember his sacrfice, on this day and evermore

From the Prefects, 11th November 2016

`As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain`.  
Robert Laurence Binyon, 'For the Fallen`

 

Source: MA
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