File:Great War Roll of Honour- S A Crown Lands Department(GN01994).jpg

From 1915 on, as the horrors of Gallipoli emerged and the war continued, schools, churches, municipalities, government departments and associations in South Australia erected honour rolls listing their members who had volunteered for service with the AIF, including those who had 'paid the supreme sacrifice'. Their unveilings were significant opportunities for remembrance and quiet expressions of patriotic fervour. This honour roll named civil servants in the Crown Lands Department who had enlisted in the AIF and served abroad. It made no distinction between officers and other ranks. It listed two men who had died, whereas a later version of the roll (GN02000) listed eight. The later roll hung in the corridor of the Crown Lands Department offices, where it was unveiled on 3 July 1918 by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (the Hon E A Anstey) in the presence of the Premier, along with a roll listing members of the Attorney General's Department (GN01998). The Commissioner noted that the 74 men who had enlisted constituted 38% of the department's employees, and that eight had paid the supreme sacrifice (Register, 4 July 1918, p8).

The roll appears to be an updated version of an earlier roll (GN01994) which listed only two men who had died .