People & biographies

Subjects WW1 Family name McVEAN Given names Armstrong Poliah Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 102 Grey Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5424 Rank Pte Military units 7th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement

The 14th Battalion was formed in the last weeks of September, 1914. Its headquarters initially was at 178 Collins St., Melbourne, but on 1 October, the battalion was relocated to Broadmeadows, where the recruits were trained. Ernest Meadows enlisted on 8 October and would have sp...

Henry Francis Meehan was born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of John Meehan and Mary Maize. He had four brothers, James, Joseph, Patrick and John, and two sisters Mary and Sarah Meehan. Of these, James, Mary and Joseph, all died young, while his father, John,died...

Born in Colac, Victoria, Michael Meehan was the son of John and Ellen Corbett. When he enlisted on 6 May, 1916, he was already 36 years and three months old, a single man, working as a labourer. He was not a big man, only 5' 4" in height, with blue eyes and brown hair. By religio...

Subjects WW1 Family name MIDDLETON Given names Jack Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 1027 Punt Road , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number R6384 Rank Pte Military units 5th Battalion

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MILLER, Edith Caroline Munckton

Edith Miller's connection with East Melbourne was as a parishioner of St Peter's Church, Eastern hill, East Melbourne. Her name appears on an Honour Board there commemorating parishioners who served overseas in the Great War. Before the war Edith Caroline Munckton Miller was the...

Claude William Mills was the only son of William Bothwell Mills and Emily Jane Mills, nee Bienvenu. He hasd two sisters, May Louise Mills, born in 1883, died 1894 and Isabella May Dimond Mills, born in 1897 and died 1992. Claude Mills born on 4 November, 1892 in South Yarra and e...

Herman Edwin Briese Milne was born in Fitzroy, either in 1897, as listed on his official record of birth, or November 1895, as he wrote on his application to join the army. He was one of nine children born to Alfred Frank Milne and his wife Elizabeth Augusta Briese. All the child...

Russell Mitchelhill was born in East Melbourne on 19 September, 1899. He was one of four children, three bys and a girl, of David Cade Mitchelhill (1861-1931) and his wife Amy Ethel, nee Wade. Russell Mitchelhill was still a student when he enlisted on 20 November, 1917. He had s...

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James Moar was born in 1891 in Newcastle, New South Wales to James and Robina Moar. In 1898, his mother passed away in St .Kilda leavng his father with seven surviving children. His father James who arrived as a four year old with his parents from Orkney, Scotland, passed away in...

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MOFFAT, John

John Moffat was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1885, but when he was six months old, his parents migrated to New Zealand. He was brought up in Dunedin and had three brothers, two of whom, Robert and William, also enlisted. William was also a casualty. In 1915, John Moffat lived wit...

Subjects WW1 Author Sylvia Black Family name MOFFAT Given names Robert Edgar Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1916 1916 179 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 37° 48' 29.5452" S , 144° 58' 51.8304" E Military service WW1 Regimental number 1619 Rank Pte...

Educated Yarra Park Primary and Scotch. Lived 118 Gipps Street c.1899-c.1902. Biography in ADB.

Harold Albert Montgomery was born at Ballarat in 1894 and at the time he enlisted was living at 212 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, more well known as Clarendon Terrace. He enlisted on 8 September, 1916. He was twenty two years old, 5' 8" in height, with brown hair and blue eyes,...

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MOORE, Alfred Edward

Alfred Edward Moore was the son of Charles William Moore and his wife, Mary, and was born at Allendale, Victoria c August 1896. When he enlisted on 12 July 1915 Alfred stated that he was a van driver; he nominated his father, then living at 165 Wellington Parade, Jolimont, as his...

Charles William Moore was the son of Charles William Moore and his wife, Mary, and was born at Allendale, Victoria c Jan 1892. When he enlisted on 10 February 1916 Charles stated that he was a labourer; he nominated his father, then living at 165 Wellington Parade, Jolimont, as h...

Subjects WW1 Family name MOORE Given names Harry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 18 Jolimont Road , Jolimont, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 6848A Rank Pte Military units 21st Battalion, 20th Reinforcement

Joseph John Moore was the son of Charles William Moore and his wife, Mary, and was born at Allendale, Victoria c February 1890. When he enlisted at Toowomba, Queensland, on 26 August 1914 John stated that he was a cutter; he nominated his brother, Charles William Moore, then livi...

Subjects WW1 Family name MOORE Given names Robert Leslie Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Rosebank Clarendon Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2183 Rank Pte Military units 23rd Battalion

Subjects WW1 Family name MOORE Given names Tom Harold Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 21 George Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 3584 Rank Pte Military units 29th Battalion

Subjects WW1 Family name MOORE Given names William Byron O'Mara Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 19 Simpson Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5144 Rank Pte Military units 59th Battalion

William Edwin Moore was born in Islington, London on 8 May 1888. When he enlisted on 23 October 1917 he stated that he was a mess manager. He gave his permanent address as 96 Hotham Street, and nominated his wife, Edith Moore, of the same address, as his next of kin. He had had f...

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