Book Launched at Caulfield Grammar School on 28th October 2019
Photograph File
All photographs are taken from the Buntine Collection held in the Caulfield Grammar School Archives and are displayed with their kind permission.
Lyle Buntine as a young Caulfield Grammarian 
Lyle Buntine (seated in the middle row, second from left) as a member of the 1913 CGS Champion Football team. This teams contains three of the four Buntine brothers as well as their cousin Jack Gibbs and their future brother-in-law, Alan Wilson. Of this team Lyle Buntine, John Gardiner, Cecil Linton and Jack Gibbs died on active service. This team’s win in 1913 began an unbroken sequence of 18 football consecutive premierships until 1930. 
Walter Murray Buntine. Principal and Owner of Caulfield Grammar School from 1896 – 1931 and the father of Walter Horace Carlyle (Lyle) Buntine. 
Cpl Lyle Buntine in the uniform of a medic in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC)
Lyle (seated third from left) at camp at Seymour in the months just before his embarkation 
Lyle with his sister Mary (L) and mother Bertha (R) 
The Buntine family and friends on a hired motor boat farewelling Lyle as he departed Melbourne on board the Orsova in July 1915 
Family and friends at Troon, Scotland at Easter 1916. Left to right, Jessie Buntine, Murray Richardson, Sheila Richardson, Noelle Buntine, Cousin Mima Frame 
Lyle (extreme left) and fellow British Army officer trainees making a raft 
Lyle’s hand signed portrait gift to his parents 
Lyle (third from left) with fellow 11 Squadron members, ‘somewhere in France.’ 
Lyle (standing at the front) with his observer and aeroplane on active duty with 11 Squadron in France. 
Photograph of Lyle flying on active service at the Battle of the Somme 
Lyle (seated) with his Observer, Irishman, Lt Archibald Cathie 
An artists’ impression in the publication ‘Deeds That Thrill The Empire’ of the aerial battle in which Lyle won his MC and was badly wounded 
The German machine gun bullet that wounded Lyle is still held in the CGS Archives 
Lyle in a happy mood. Pictured here at home in East St Kilda at Christmas 1916 after his repatriation to Australia having been wounded in aerial combat 
Most likely the last photograph taken of Lyle upon his return to duty in Scotland. Note his worn expression and MC ribbon 
The telegram that brought the tragic news of Lyle’s death to the Buntine family 
Lyle’s original marked grave at Girvan in Scotland 
Lyle’s grave in Scotland marked with the headstone erected by his family 
Lt ‘Mac’ Gibbs MC and Lyle’s cousin. KIA at the Battle of Fromelles in 1916 
Cpl Jack Gibbs, Lyle’s cousin and brother of ‘Mac,’ who died of tuberculosis at Colac in September 1917 
Dr Robert Buntine, Lyle’s uncle and Walter Buntine’s brother who drowned in the torpedoing of the Galway Castle in September 1918 
Jessie Buntine , the daughter of Robert Buntine, was Lyle’s cousin who drowned with her father in the torpedoing of the Galway Castle 
Dr Richard Gibbs, father of ‘Mac’ and Jack, brother in law of Walter Buntine and Lyle’s uncle who died after falling from a Melbourne cable-car in 1919
The propellor tip from Lyle’s aeroplane which was damaged by enemy machine gun fire in the aerial action in which he won his MC in September 1916.
Daryl Moran 