Mystery honour boards
Can you crack a case like Sherlock Holmes? Do you have a keen eye for clues?
Well, for any budding sleuths, there’s a mystery waiting to be solved.
Two honour boards comemmorating Australian veterans of the First and Second World Wars have found their way to Trafalgar, Victoria, and we need your help to get them home.
The honour boards were found bubble-wrapped on a shipping pallet mistakenly delivered to a local hardware store, without an address or any documentation to identify their point of origin or final destination.
Curiously, many of the 106 veterans listed on these honour boards were born in NSW and enlisted in metropolitan Sydney, which begs the question of how the boards have ended up in regional Victoria.
The honour boards have been turned over to the Trafalgar-Thorpdale RSL Sub-branch. It's committee and members is keen to see them returned to their rightful owners.
‘It’s all a bit of a mystery, but we’re committed to solving it and seeing these honour boards returned returned to their home location so that their community can continue to remember and honour those locals who served our nation in time of war,' said Secretary Paul Altamore.
If you want to join the hunt, a good place to start is DVA’s Nominal Rolls: nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au.
If you crack the case or have any helpful information, you can contact Paul at trafrsl@bigpond.com.