1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "Colonel (B)".
2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: NA; POB: N/A: POE: N/A; NOK: Brother: H.F. Rutledge "Gidley" (Gidleigh), Bungendore.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Major; Unit: 7 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] (December 1914); Age: 25 10/12; Occupation: Grazier; DOE: 14.11.1914; Embarked: 20.12.1914. Sydney. HMAT Ayrshire. A33.
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Lieutenant Colonel; Unit: 7 Light Horse; RTA: 23.10.1918.
5. See Gidleigh Lost WW1 Memorial Trees on the Register of War Memorials website.
6. Obituaries Australia (http://oa.anu.edu/obituary/rutledge-thomas-lloyd-forster-tom-887) includes the following details: An ANZAC veteran and MID. Wounded and invalided to England. There he was transferred to the Pioneer Division and at one time was in command of the 4 Pioneer Battalion. In WW2 he commanded the 7 Light Horse Regiment from July 1940 to May 1942.He was a NSW Parliamentarian. He died in Sydney in 1958 aged 69.
7. Gidleigh and Sorrow ("See Canberra" Autumn 2012 .Douglas Fry) provides background material on the Rutledge Family and "Gidleigh” contribution to the Great War. Article notes that, "Jean (Rutledge) arranged the planting of 14 trees along the main road into Gidleigh, a flowering chestnut for each of the boys who served-pink for those who returned, white for Harry Rutledge and the McKay brothers....” The original trees were lost due to the unforgiving climate of Bungendore but have since been replaced. See NSW Register "Gidleigh 'Lost' WW1 Memorial Trees".13 of those Diggers commemorated are listed on the Bungendore & District War Memorial. "S.Parker" is the Digger not listed on the Memorial ROH.
8. Colonel Rutledge played a prominent role in the establisment of the Bungendore & District War Memorial in the 1920's. See link to Our Soldiers. Glenda Ellis 2007 on the Bungendore Register home page.
9. Socks from Bungendore is a collection of letters from the front, written by Thomas Rutledge. ISBN 9780994232328.01 March 2015.
10. Listed on the Military Forces of the Commonwealth Attendance Roll for the 11th Light Horse Bungendore Troop for period ending December 1913 as Lieutenant.
11. Commemorated on a brass plaque in St Philip's Church, Bungendore.
12. Last updated January 2016.
