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Albert Francis Gellatly served in both World Wars and in the Citizens Military Service. His name appears on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial, Panel 91, Supplementary Panel 10. He died of an unspecified illness, and his record of service in World War 2 has not yet...
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Jessie Ross Gemmell was one of nine children born to William Gemmell (1834–1903) and his wife Annie née Fenwick (c1839–1878). Both William and Annie were Scottish immigrants to the colony of Victoria in the gold rush decade of the 1850s. Annie likely came with her brother Peter,...
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James Rankin Gibb was born in Avoca and grew up on a farm in Wycheproof. He was born in 1873, the eldest child of James Rankin Gibb and his wife, Christina May Wedster, and was followed by five other children: John Gavin Gibb b. 1875; Mary Agmes Gibb, b. 1878; William McMinn Gibb...
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The son of James Henry Gibson and his wife, Rosetta Priscilla Overan, George Stormonth Gibson was 27 years old when he enlisted on 17 August, 1914. He was a fitter by trade and, at the time of enlistment, was a single man living with his mother and sister Jean at 92 Gipps Street,...
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Introduction Ethel Giddings came from a large family in Maryborough, Victoria. After training at Clunes Hospital, she worked in various hospitals, large and small, city and country, in three states. Highly experienced, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1916,...
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John Gilbert was born in October, 1882, and was a New Zealander by birth, the son of Thomas and Ellen Gilbert. He had at least one sibling, a brother, Thomas Gilbert, living at Puheohahu, New Zealand. He enlisted in Melbourne on 9 February, 1915, giving his address as 198 Albert...
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William George Gilbert was born in East Melbourne and on enlisting, gave his address as 115 Erskine Street, Middle Park. He have his mother, Annie Taylor as his next of kin, advising that she lived at 55 Munro Street, East Melbourne. Her address, in fact, was 56 Munro Street, Wes...
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Charles William Giles was the son of William Henry Giles of Cassilis, near Omeo, Victoria and his wife, Elizabeth Jane, nee Fulton. He was aged thirty and three months when he enlisted and described his occupation as Engineer/ Driver (Engine Driver). Although he was passed as fit...
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Born in East Melbourne December 7th, 1896 to George and Florence Maud Gilliman (nee Deane), George was educated at Christian Brother's College, East St. Kilda, then St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The eldest of three brothers, the next son Bernard Joseph enlisted for WW1, a...
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Born Bernard Joseph Gilliman in East Melbourne 22 May 1898 to George and Florence Maud Gilliman (nee Dean), Joseph was educated at Christian Brothers College, East St. Kilda then St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The middle son of three brothers, his eldest brother George Pat...
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Stanley Gardner Gilmour was twenty-six and a half when he enlisted on 5 August, 1914. He already had considerable military service, having been in the Victorian Scottish Regiment, which he had joined in 1906 at the age of eighteen. He had served with them for four years, then had...
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Norman Robert Glass was born in 1893 at Albert Park Victoria. He was the eldest of two sons to Robert William Glass and his wife, Adelaide, nee Modral. He also nominated his elder sister Gladys Glass on his enlistment form,whose address he gave as the State Savings Bank, Elizabet...
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Henry George Gleed was 26 years old and working as a farmer when he enlisted at Hamilton Victoria on 18 August 1916. He was the son of Eleanor Jane,' Helena' Gleed, nee Gilding and Richard Thomas Gleed, a grazier of Casterton. George, as he was known, was one of six children, Ada...
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Richrd Arthur Godfrey enlisted on 23 August, 1915. He was 26 years old, single and worked as a contractor, and gave his home address as 121 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. His next of kin was his father, Alfred Godfrey, living at 63 Queen Margaret Grove, Mildmay, London. Richard...
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Born on 25 April 1891 in Richmond, Victoria. He was the only child of Charles Chillingworth De Britton Godfrey (d.1902) and his wife Elizabeth Amelia (nee Gaynor). Educated at Xavier College, Kew. At the time of enlistment, 28 April 1915, he gave his occupation as accountant. He...
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Born in Glasgow, Scotland and enlisted in the AIF on the 6th July 1917 being 21 years and 9 months old. His sister Nancy Miller of Aldgate, London was nominated as his next of kin. Training at Broadmeadows Camp before embarkation on the 'Persic"on the 21st March 1918 with the 1st...
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John Samuel Goldsbury was 18 years and 8 months old when he enlisted on 17 January, 1916. He was, by occupation, a civil servant, single and with some military training: 4 years in the Senior Cadets and six months in the 64th Citizens Forces. He was the son of John Marriott Golds...
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Ambrose was 6' tall, weighed 12 stone 7 lbs and was 39 years old when he signed his attestation papers on 25 September 1916 at Enoggera in Queensland, although his file says his service dated from 2 February 1916. He had been a labourer in Cloncurry, Queensland, and his enlistmen...
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James Goodall enlisted on 11 January, 1915, at the Drill Hall in Powlett St., East Melbourne, following an earlier attempt in Tasmania. He claimed to be nineteen years old and described his occupation as 'gardener and baker'. In fact, he was only seventeen, born in Magnet, near W...
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Richard Harry Goold was born on 12 December, 1880 in Kyneton to James Crosbie Goold and Ann Martha Goold (nee Gutheridge). He completed Year 6 at State School before attending South Melboutne College to sub-matriculaton level. He then qualified as an engineer. Richard signed up t...
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John James Gorrie was one of the three children of John James Gorrie (d. 25/8/1888) and his wife, Norah (d. 15/12/1918). From these dates, we might guess that the younger John James was the youngest child, as his father died in the year following his birth. On his enlistment form...
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Rex Elmo Gotts was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1889, the son of Isaiah Alfred Gotts and his wife, Margaret Josephine, nee Riley. He was one of twelve children, eight boys and four girls, and the youngest of the three brothers who volunteered for World War 1: Rex Elmo, Roy Stanle...
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Sydney Hartley Graham was a married man, an accountant and aged 36 when he enlisted at Adelaide on 7 March 1917. He had married his wife, Christina Jane, nee Macrae, on 11 January, 1911. The couple had no children and were living at 6 berkshire Street, Glenelg, South Australia. H...
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Tom Graham was born in Inverness, Scotland, in April 1897. When he enlisted at Seymour on 24 March, 1916, he was eighteen and eleven months old and working as a crockery packer. He have his address as 36 Berry Street, East Melbourne, and appears to have had no family in Australia...