Capt.Hugo Throssell,V.C.
this small shelter built of granite blocks with tile roof is located at the junction of Great Eastern Highway and Old York Rd. halfway up the Greenmount escarpment some four kilometres from Midland P.O., a polished granite slab let into one of the outer walls reads;
To The Memory of
Captain Hugo Throssell V.C.
1914 - 1918
Hugo Vincent Throssell came from a farming family in the Northam area and,with his brother,joined the 10th.Light Horse Cavalary in 1914. As a Lieutenant he fought at Gallipoli where he won his Victoria Cross and was badly wounded;as was his brother.Whilst recuperating from his wounds in London he was introduced to Katharine Pritchard,an Australian aspiring to be an author. Upon his return to active service he re-joined the 10th.Light Horse in the Middle East and fought in a number of engagements,in one of which his brother was killed. Returning Home in 1918 he courted and eventually married Katharine Pritchard who was beginning to make her name as an author and socialist. During the years that followed his pronouncements on the futility of the war outraged and shocked many people,particularly those in Government.Badly in debt and depressed he committed suicide in November 1933 in his house on Greenmount whilst his wife was on a visit to the Soviet Union.