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Anthony Rogers was the son of Anthony Rogers and his wife, Eliza Walsh (or Welsh). He was born on 16 April 1879. His enlistment papers state that he was born in East Melbourne but no confirmation has been found. His birth certificate has not been viewed but the index states simpl...
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROGERS Given names Horace Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 1 Simpson Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 39005 Rank Gnr Military units 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
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Willian Rohen was 25 years and three months old when he enlisted at East Melbourne on 29/6/1915. He was employed as a coaler and gave his next of kin as his mother, then living in Abbotsford St. North Melbourne. he was sent to France with the 58th Battalion. His military record i...
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John Rohrs was born at St. Helliers in the Channel Islands, probably in December 1882. He was educated at King's School, London where he received two books as prizes, which are still in the possession of his family. He was a keen sportsman, playing both cricket and soccer. His pa...
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Alister Ross was one of the earliest volunteers to join the AIF. He enlisted on 19 August, 1914 and was called up a week later. The youngest child of Jane and Alexander Ross, he had grown up in Gippsland, being born at Maffra and later living at Sale. He was a blacksmith by trade...
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Clara Louisa Ross Clara Louisa Ross (1874–1952) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt, France and England. Well qualified and highly experienced when she enlisted in 1914, she was promoted from sister to head sister and then matron, and decorated with the Royal...
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Alexander Lee Rowan enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW, where he was working as a miner. He was forty-six, was relatively old to enlist, but lied about his age, using his brother William's or sister Hnerietta's birth date . He claimed to be a widower, but this was a falsehood: he had m...
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Andrew Rowan was 38 years old, 6' 1" tall and single. He described himself as a grazier, living at Meredin, Western Australia, but had previously worked with his father, also Andrew Rowan, a wine merchant, living in Brighton Rd., St Kilda. He already had substantial military expe...
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Clement Rowan was born on 28 July, 1881, one of the sons of Lee and Margaret (Davis) Rowan. He was a miner, like his brother Alexander. He enlisted on 26 May, 1917 and began his service on 22 June, 1917, at Sydney. At this time, he was two months off the age 0f 36, separated from...
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Eliza Rowan (1885-1970) was born at Nagambie in 1885 to Lee Rowan (1847-1899) and Margaret Jane Davies (1851-1931). Both her parents had been born in the early days of colonial Melbourne. Lee's parents, a baker and a laundress, came from Armagh in Northern Ireland, arriving in Po...
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Dexter Brigham Rowe was born in 1888 at 53 Agnes Street, Jolimont. He was the son of John Rowe, contractor, and Mary, nee Pillow. Close by, on the corner of Jolimont Road and Wellington Parade South, lived Dexter Brigham. There appears to be no blood relationship between the two...
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A biography of Francis Harry Rowe appears in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, see link belo: Francis Harry Rowe (1895-1958), public servant, was born on 20 October 1895 at Bright, Victoria, son of Richard Harry Rowe (d.1906), mine-manager, and his wife Thomasina, née Rodda...
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Ernest Rowles was born in East Melbourne in 1894. He was the third son of Joseph and Catherine Ellen Rowles. In the 1909 electoral rolls Joseph was described as a foreman, by 1914 he was a tram employee and at the time of his death in 1922 he was superintendent assistant of the T...
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Ada Sophia Rundell was in the first contingent of masseuses (physiotherapists) sent overseas with the AIF. From 1915–1918, she worked in hospitals in England, France and England. Ada returned to Australia in 1919, working in Queensland where she married a terminally ill ex soldie...
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Walter Henry Rundle was the only son of Henry Philip Rundle and Jessie Maria Honeyman. He ahd an elder sister, Florence, born in 1891. The family lived in Launceston, Tasmania, where his father was an engine driver. Walter Rundle was a carpenter by trade, Single, aged 22 years an...
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Allan Russell was amongst the first volunteers to enlist, as his military number, 296, testifies. Ond of two sons and three daughter born to James Dickson Allen and his wife, Margaret Ann, nee Johnson, he was born in Hawthorn, but was living at 24 Jolimont Terrace, East Melbourne...
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Richard Saker was born on 8 November 1877 in Liverpool, England. He was the son of Edward 'Ted' Sloman Saker and Emily Mary Kate OBrien. He was privately educated. He served in the Boer War with the Rough Riders, a yeomanry regiment of the British Territorial Army. Later he joine...
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photo, wounded in action, see p 45 of Greek Australians in the Australian Armed Forces World War I & II by Steve Kyritsis Pte Salikis enlisted on 19 February 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor on 11 October 1915. He returned to Australia on 8 April 1917. Note tha...
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Subjects WW1 Family name SALLOWS Given names Tasman Thomas Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 13 Bank Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5442 Rank Pte Military units 7th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement
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Charles Joshua Salter was born on 8 September 1879 in Brunswick. He was the eldest son of Charles James Salter and his wife, Josephine, nee Le Sueur. He had nine younger siblings. He married Carol Beatrice Brenchley (subsequently known as Beatrice Caroline) in 1902. Beatrice was...
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Eric James Samson was the son of Henry Augustus Samson and his wife, Helen/Ellen Mary or Mary Helen/Ellen nee Savage. Henry was a doctor, graduating from Melbourne University in 1880. In 1883 he was appointed health officer for the Shire of Omeo. Eric was born at Beechworth in 18...