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Bunyan Drive, Emmett Drive, Foskett Drive and Tanner Drive, Kelso

In October 2019 Council approved Development Application 2018/350 for a 122 residential lot subdivision for land at Kelso.

The initial stages of the approved subdivision are currently under construction and the developers have nominated the four road names in the table below.

Name	Origin
Bunyan Drive	Named after Lieutenant Commander Andrew Veitch Bunyan RANR(S) who was the first Commander of HMAS Bathurst which took to the water for the first time at Cockatoo Island on 1 August 1940. HMAS Bathurst was commissioned in Sydney on 6 December 1940 under the command of Lieutenant Commander A V Bunyan RANR(S). The Bathurst’s were popularly referred to as Corvettes. HMAS Bathurst was the first of sixty vessels built in Australia for WWII. Fifty-six regional towns and cities of Australia had their names on the Corvettes. The towns helped finance them through War time community fund raising. Born: 17 February 1902, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, UK Retired: 16 February 1952 Died: Unavailable Father and Mother: John Hume Bunyan & Annie Veitch
Emmett Drive	Named after Robert Emmett. Born: 16 November 1890 at Hill End Schooling: Hill End Public School Occupation: With the Railway Department as a goods shed porter and sheet metal worker Service No: 2901 Enlisted: 3 April 1916 at Bathurst Rank: Private Embarkation: 3 November 1916, Sydney, HMAT Africa Unit: 57th Australian Infantry Battalion, Service in the Australian Imperial Force, WWI Died: 30 August 1918, aged 27 years, killed in action at La Chapelette near Peronne, France Cemetery: Re-interred at Assevillers New British Cemetery, Assevillers, Picardie, France Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour. Hill End Public School Honor Board for Ex-pupils and others who served in the Great War which has the wording “For King, For Country” with the Rising Sun badge in the middle, being the Third Pattern – May 1904 Rising Sun badge and the words “Australian Commonwealth Military Forces”. Robert Emmett’s name is located at panel 163 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. His name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on, 15 November 2023 at 9:05pm, 31 January 2024 at 11:09pm, Wednesday 7 May 2024 at 2:18am.
Foskett Drive	Named after the Foskett family from Sofala. The following five Foskett’s were Veterans. George Samuel Foskett, Hamilton James Foskett, L J Foskett, M J Foskett and M S Foskett. All five names are displayed on the Sofala Memorial Hall and Honour Roll. The Foskett name is listed on the Bathurst Regional Council Database of names, Centenary of Anzac 1915- 2015 with the nomination from “The Gregory Photographic Collection” and with the note “Bathurst thanks you ….”. FOSKETT, George Samuel Born: 18 June 1887, Sofala, NSW Schooling: Sofala Public School Occupation: Coal Miner Service No: 3175 Enlisted: 1 March 1917, Bathurst NSW after receiving a “white flower” Embarkation: 10 May 1917, Melbourne, aboard HMAT Boorara A42 Last Rank: Trooper Last Unit: 1st Light Horse Regiment, Service in the Australian Imperial Force, WWI Died: of wounds, Ottoman Empire, Jordan Valley, Palestine, 20 June 1918 aged 31 years Cemetery: Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel. Ref H33 Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sofala Honour Roll Samuel was the eldest of the children of John William and Mary Jane Foskett. George Samuel Foskett’s name is located at panel 2 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. His name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on 16 November 2023 at 4:47am, 20 January 2024 at 10:24pm and 15 May 2024. FOSKETT, Hamilton James (Ham) Born: 29 November 1889, Sofala, NSW Schooling: Sofala Public School Service No: 2896 Enlisted: 19 June 1916, Bathurst NSW Embarkation: 25 October 1916, Sydney, aboard HMAT Ascanius A11 Last Rank: Lance Corporal Last Unit: 54th Infantry Battalion – 6th to 9th Reinforcements (October 1916 – January 1917) Service in the Australian Imperial Force, WWI Occupation: Railway Porter Married: Ethel Cole on 5 March 1924 in Bathurst, Ethel died 22 December 1946 aged 45 years Died: Natural causes, Bathurst, NSW, 22 August 1973 aged 83 years Cemetery: Sofala General Cemetery, Family plot Memorials: Sofala Honour Roll Hamilton James Foskett was wounded in action on the Western front on 12 May 1917, convalesced in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, England and returned home after the War concluded. Discharged on 12 September 1919. Hamilton was the eldest of child of John William and Mary Foskett (Walker) and the brother of George Samuel Foskett.
Tanner Drive	Named after Arthur Basil Tanner. Born: 1896 at Cobar Schooling: Hill End Public School Occupation: Railway Employee at Bathurst Service No: 393 Enlisted: 18 August 1914 aged 18 years in Sydney Embarkation: 20 October 1914, Sydney, aboard HMAT Euripides Initial Rank: Private Last Rank: Sergeant Last Unit: 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, Service in the Australian Imperial Force, WWI Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 Died: 20 September 1917 of wounds whist being carried from the battlefield to the dressing station aged 21 years at Westhoek, Belgium. Cemetery: Menin Road, South Military Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. Ref II A1 6 Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour. Hill End Public School Honor Board for Ex-pupils & others who served in the Great War which has the wording “For King, For Country” with the Rising Sun badge in he middle, being the Third Pattern – May 1904 Rising Sun badge and the words “Australian Commonwealth Military Forces”. Arthur was the son of William Thomas and Ada Tanner who were married in Sofala in 1895. Arthur Basil Tanner’s name is located at panel 38 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. His name will be projected onto the exterior of the Hall of Memory on 7 August 2023 at 9:23pm, 2 November 2023 at 1:34am, 11 February 2024 at 4:01am, Wednesday 8 May 2024 at 5:30am.

A location plan and annotated plan of subdivision are available in the document library.

The names all have historical association with the area or district and comply with Bathurst Regional Council's Guidelines for the Naming of Roads.