Hi Richard,
I'd try two places.
1 Education History Unit, Department of Education, Employment and Training (Victoria).
Want to identify two WW1 diggersSounds like another needle in a haystack - not impossible perhaps, but very difficult. Suppose it depends on how much time and...
Oh dear, it looks like the History Unit has been disbanded and the records sent to the Public Record Office of Victoria, as per the following webpage:
"Advice on the history of education in Victoria and on the availability of key related documents is available to Department of Education and Training staff and stakeholders through the Research and Development
The following historical records on Victorian government schools, staffing (to 1953) are now located at the Public Record Office (PROV):
* Correspondence and building files (primary, secondary and technical schools, former Education Department, teachersŐ colleges etc.); * School history files and publications; * Historical teacher, staffing and establishment registers; * Pupil registers and rolls (only a limited collection); * Scholarship registers; * Textbooks; and * Education photographs.
School history researchers and other education researchers requiring access to this material should contact the PROV, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne 3051; ph: (03) 9348 5600; tollfree: 1800 657 452;
The Education Department teacher records are worth having - they give details of qualifications, if any, inspection reports, which schools they were appointed to, etc.
2 Woady Yalloak Historical Society, which covers Scarsdale (a goldfields town).
Someone else on the newsgroup with the BDM indexes handy will probably tell you when John Lamont died, though it would help if you could mention his year of birth and parents' names, in case there are several John Lamonts from which to choose.
Best wishes
Lenore Frost Essendon, Vic
Richard Lamont
