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Thomas Ivon Ward Kelly was one of five children,the eldest child, followed by Reginald John Kelly, born in 1899, but only survived two months,Olive, Violet and Rose Julia Kelly, b.1903.When he enlisted on 15 February, 1917, Tim Kelly was just off 22 years old, single, and working...
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Albert Victor Kempson was 21 and 4 months old when he enlisted on 19 July 1915. He was the son of George Kempson and his wife, Amelia, nee Knowles. One of seven children, he had two brothers, Thomas Henry Kempson, b.1889, who would also go to war, and Reginald Knowles Kempson, b....
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Thomas Kempson was one of a family of seven children of whom three died at birth, William in 1891, Gerald in 1892, and Norman in 1894. There were four living children, Thomas b. 1889, his brothers Albert b.1894, and Reginald b.1897, and sister Constance Amelia b.1886. Thomas was...
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Eleanor Jane Kendall (1880–1957) was the only daughter among the seven children born to William Tyson Kendall (1851–1936) and his first wife, Elizabeth (nee Park) (c1853–1904). Eleanor’s father William was a pioneer of veterinary science in Australia (Harold E. Albiston, 'Kendall...
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KENNEDY - Captain Malcolm Stuart, 1st Division Staff, son of Mr and Mrs R Kenndy, Eastern House, George Street, East Melbourne, died of wounds on January 2. Was wounded at Lone Pine. Assisted to train the first tank crews that left England. Was Duntroon Cadet, and in his fourth y...
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John Morris Kent was born in Brighton, England in December, 1890. He was the son of George Kent and Elizabeth Kate, nee Ellison, known as Kate, at the time he enlisted was living with his father at 96 Hotham St. East Melbourne. He was then one month off twenty-five years of age,...
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Beatrice Emma Keppel (1890–1932) Beatrice Emma Keppel is named on the honour board at St Peter’s Church, Eastern Hill, East Melbourne commemorating parishioners who served as nurses in the Great War of 1914–1918. Keppel was born into a pioneering North Queensland family with prop...
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Alic Oscar Kerr was the son of Thomas Kerr (1862-1895) and his wife Hannah Ethlean, nee Millard(1870-1898). He also had a half brotherr, whom he named as next-of-kin, Kenneth Kerr (1897-1968). ALic was 23 and ten months old when he enlisted on 10 February, 1915. He was a clerk by...
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Son of John and Ada (Ratcliff) Kerr. Born 1893 at Mornington. He was the fifth son in a family of eight sons and three daughters. The family moved to 12 Simpson Street, East Melbourne about 1900 which was to become their home for many years. Donald enlisted in Melbourne on 17 Aug...
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In late 1914, two brothers enlisted for the war. The elder, George Ernest Kerr signed up on 29 September, 1914, and his younger brother, Hedley Vernon George Kitchin, on 19 October, 1914. They were the sons of John Henry Kitchin Kerr and his wife, Charlotte Gladstone Clarke. The...
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Son of John and Ada (Ratcliff) Kerr. He was the sixth son and ninth child in a family eight sons and three daughters. The family moved to 12 Simpson Street, East Melbourne about 1900 which was to become their home for many years. George enlisted in Melbourne on 26 February 1917....
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Son of John and Ada (nee Ratcliff) Kerr. Born c. 1891 at Mornington. He was the fourth son in a family of eight sons and three daughters. The family moved to 12 Simpson Street, East Melbourne about 1900 which was to become their home for many years. Malcolm enlisted on 8 October...
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Robert Augustus Kerrigan was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, in May, 1874. His father, John Kerrigan (1834-1907) was then 40 years old, his mother, Mary, nee Kilgar/Kilgour (1842-1878) was then thirty two years old. Robert was one of nine children: William b.1861, Helena b.1866...
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When Gilbert Kibblewhite arrived in Australia, he was removing himself from a disgrace and a marriage failed through violence. Gilbert Kibblewhite married Ethel Curtis at Westminster, London on 30 April, 1900. She was the elder daughter of Thomas Figgis Curtis, a stained glass ma...
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Little is known about the personal life of James Kiernan, other than that he was born in Wollongong, NSW, to Mrs. Catherine Tiernan and her husband, Patrick, who had been dead for six years before James enlisted for World War 1. James was a metal worker, 20 years and 8 months old...
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Arthur Frederick Kimberley was one of five children born to Frederick Theodore Kimberley and his wife Jessie, nee Bonney. He was born 20 June, 1885, at Devonport, Tasmania, and at the time of his enlistment in 1917 was a married man, working as a saddler and harness maker in Clif...
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Agnes Wotherspoon King (1884-1942) was the second daughter and fourth child of Robert King (1843–1919) and his wife Frances (or ‘Fanny’, nee Craig) (1854–1926). Robert her father was the son of a farmer in Bothwell, Lanarkshire in Scotland. He appears to have travelled to the Uni...
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Killed in action 27 June 1915 Charles Trethowan King was born in December 1894 and enlisted on 15 October 1914 at the age of 29 years and 10 months. His mother, Janet King, resided at 88 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. She was a widow, her husband Charles Whitewood King having die...
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Gordon Alexander King's story is a sad one. He was born in Warrnambool in 1896, the second son of Thomas King and his wife, Elizabeth Smith. He had an elder brother, John Peter King, who enlisted and was to die from Malaria in Cairo, Egypt, in 1918. After Gordon as born, more chi...
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Walter King spent only a small time before he enlisted at East Melbourne. He was born at Rushworth, Victoria, in 1895 and was the youngest of four children, the other three being girls. By the time he enlisted on 26 February, 1916, both parents were dead, and his eldest sister, M...
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John Knight was the son of Ernest Knight and his wife, Madge (Margaret), nee Hughes. He enlisted in his home town, Perth, and his only connection with East Melbourne seems to have been his father, who lived in Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. John Knight was 21 years and 11 month...
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Victor Ernest Knight was a printer by trade and was just under twenty years old when he enlisted. He had as his next of kin his mother, Margaret, living at 13 Edmund St., Northcote, but gave as his own address as the Salvation Army Federal Training College in Victoria Parade, Eas...
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Born in East Melbourne, John Valentine Knowles died of wounds 27 March 18, aged 25. He was buried at Outtersteine Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, Nord pas de Calais, France. His Red Cross file tells the story, with Acting Corporal Smith 3458 recalling: At Dranoutse on 25th...
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Born Sophia de Montmollin, in Neuchâtel, a French speaking town in Switzerland, Sophie was the eighth of sixteen children. Sophie grew up in an imposing town house and M. Montmollin was active in public affairs as befitted his noble birth, the family having been prominent citizen...