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RSL seeks families of Koonoomoo WWI honour board

By Abby Green

Mar 3, 2026

The Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch is searching for the relatives of servicemen listed on the World War I Koonoomoo honour board. Photo by Supplied

The Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch recently discovered an honour board commemorating men from the Koonoomoo area of Northern Victoria who served in World War I.

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Sub-branch committee member Heather Hosie said the committee was trying to contact the relatives of the servicemen listed on the honour board for a rededication ceremony.

“We were cleaning up the back room of the Cobram Barooga sub-branch and we came across this Koonoomoo honour board,” she said.

“I don't know how long it's been there ... the Men's Shed repaired it for us, gave it a polish and we're going to put it up in the Yarroweyah Memorial Hall.”

The rededication of the honour board will be held at the hall on May 16, and Mrs Hosie said it was important to them that all the families were invited.

“The families that I have been able to contact are thrilled about it,” she said.

“I've had calls from Mackay in Queensland, Deniliquin and Melbourne.”

Mrs Hosie has been a member of the Cobram Barooga RSL for more than four years and said it was something that was close to her heart.

“My father served in World War II and my son served over in Timor,” she said.

The names listed on the Koonoomoo World War I honour board:

Evelyn Denison Bourchier
Murray W.J. Bourchier
Norman Gerald Bourchier
W.E. Blomeley
William Joseph Blows
Samuel Herbert Blows
W.G. De Abel
George Norman Davenport
Daniel P. Houlihan
R.S. Hutson
V. Jones
W. Viles
Robert Ian Jordan
D.N. Lawler
Victor Levings
Clarence James Lambert
T.E. Lambert
Francis George Rowe
A. Rowe
F.J. Scott
C.H. Thomas Woods
N Woods

Relatives of the service personnel listed are urged to contact the Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch on 0417 101 219 or via email at cobrambarooga.rsl@gmail.com.