Tree 3591, Private Roy Huggins, The Avenue of Honour, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

The Ballarat Avenue of Honour is significant as the earliest known memorial avenue to have been planted in Victoria, Australia. The trees were planted in order of the soldiers enlistment ( from Ballarat and surrounds) , and stretched some 22km along the Western Highway, consisting of 3,771 trees.? On 3 June 1917, the first 1,000 trees in the Avenue were planted by staff from the local textile mill E. Lucas & Co. Just over two years later the final planting took place on 16 August 1919, with a total of 3,771 trees.


Private Roy Huggins 6522
8th Battalion A.I.F.

Enlisted: Aged 20 years 7 months: 4th July 1916 (No enquiry, K 12.2.17)
“He was killed by the same shell that wounded Simpkins, and was buried in the same cemetery. Some of the boys saw it in the paper in England about 7 or 8 weeks ago that he had been accidently killed.”

Informant, Pte. A.N.S. Aikman, 6458
8th Australians, C. Coy. H. St Grantully Castle
20th May 1917 / Australian War Memorial Archives

12.2.17: Wounded in Action France
Admitted: Fract. Skull & Compound Fract. R/Leg, France
12.2.17: Died of wounds received in Action, France
Casualty Form – Active service/National Archives of Australia