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From Susan Lawrence: Arthur Robert BRAGG was the publican of the Central Hotel, Beaconsfield,Victoria. He was married to my great-grandmother's sister, Emily (maiden name Culverwell). I believe Emily moved to East Melbourne after Arthur enlisted in 1915, as she was possibly not a...
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Mary (May) Hannah Brahe (née Dickson) was born at 23 George Street, East Melbourne (now part of Georgian Court B & B) on 6 November 1884. Her father was Richard Dickson, a Melbourne-born cordial manufacturer. Her mother died when May was 12 years old. She had, however already tau...
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Thomas William Brain originally trained as a bootmaker, but in 1914, with his wife Effie and mother, Maria Constance Brain, nee Murnane, was working as a hotel keeper in the Western District. On his enlistment he gave his address as 95 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, btu he may...
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Albert enlisted in the AIF on the 17 June 1916. He was married to Ivy Violet. A small man 5'3'' tall and occupation listed as Plasterer. He embarked on the 28 July 1916 ex Melbourne on A 32 HMT Themistocles arriving at Plymouth in October 1916. His service record is a series of H...
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Parents at 437 Wellington St., Clifton Hill; b. at Carlton, Jan. 23, 1890; educ. Christian Brothers; wool worker; enlisted Eastern Hill, East Melbourne, Aug. 12, 1914. War service: Egypt; Gallipoli (wounded in Krithia advance, May 8, 1915. invalided to England; discharged medical...
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In 1915, when he enlisted on 27 July, 1915, William Bride, as he signed himself, was forty years old, born in 1874. Both his parents appear to have been dead and he lived with his sisters, Edith, Frances, Eleanor and Mary at 175 George St., East melbourne. He was working as a cle...
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Arthur Oswald Briese's story is an interesting one: he was the grandson of Johann Ludwig Briese, born in Posen, Prussia, who migrated to South Australia in 1855 as part of a group of German farmers funded by the South Australia Corporation. Johann, a blacksmith by trade, first wo...
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Carl Albert Broberg was born in Richmond, Victoria on 2nd November to Carl Niels Johann Broberg and Eda Margaret Broberg (nee Frees). Carl Senior was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, attending the Grammar School in Copenhagen before qualifying as a Manufacturing Chemist. He came to M...
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Lilla Brockebank, cricketer and architect, was the fifth of the six daughters of Duncan Brockelbank, actuary and accountant, and his wife Bessy Jemima, née Westmore .[1] Lilla was born in Hackney, London in 1883.[2] The family left London for Australia in August 1885 aboard the M...
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Katie (Kate) Winifred Brooke (1876-1939) Introduction Katie Brooke served in India from 1917 until 1919 after training at the Homeopathic Hospital in Melbourne. Following the war, she was matron and/or owner of several private hospitals around Victoria. She also spent fours years...
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Chassie Winton Brooks was born in 1884 at Williamstown, Victoria. He was the brother of Constance Jessie Brooks. (see separate biography on Master List) His father was Yates Brooks and his mother was Emma Brooks, nee Mullen. He was living with his mother at 144 Clarendon Street E...
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Constance Jessie Brooks (1888–1966), who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India from 1917 to 1919, was the daughter of Yates and Emma Brooks (nee Mullen). Constance’s father Yates had come to Victoria at the age of 13 with his parents John and Eliza and five sib...
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Robert Brownlee was born in Glasgow in 1886. He was an apprentice at Harvey Engineering in Glasgow for five years, listed as an Engineer. He left the UK on SS Dorset from Liverpool on 3 August 1912 and arrived in Melbourne on the 21 September 1912, where he is listed as living at...
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Archie was born Parhran in 1894, son of William Brunt and Sarah Buckland nee Brunt Enlisted on the 11 Jan 1915 in Melbourne, aged 21 and listed as a farmer Spent several month 11 Jan 1915 to29 March 1915 at the 13th Light Horse Training depot at Broadmedows Embarked on A34 ss Per...
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Arthur Alexander Brunton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in December 1878. He was from a family of 5 brothers and 5 sisters. His father, Thomas Brunton, was in the British Army and possibly fought at the relief of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny in 1858. He is listed as a private i...
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Frederick Buddon was 36 years old, 5' 9", 11 stone, 8 lbs., with fair hair and blue eyes when he enlisted on 27/1/1915. He listed his occupation as Commercial Traveller and gave his next of kin as his sister, Sister Laura Buddon, 150 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. He had had...
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Lionel de Vere Burford was born in Moonee Ponds on 25 June 1894,the second of two sons. His parents, Aubrey John Burford and Annie (nee Edwards) had married in 1892. Annie had been married previously and had a small daughter. Her husband died soon after and Annie took on life as...
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Patrick Thomas Burke was born in Launceston, Tasmania, the son of Patrick Burke and his wife Ellen, nee Vaughan. At the time he enlisted he was working as a salesman at Dimmeys Model Stores, 150-162 Swan St., Richmond. he must have been well-liked, because, hearing that he had be...
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Rexford Burley or Burleigh was born in Stanley, Tasmania. He was the son of Louisa Agnes Burley. b.1881,but no father is listed on the certificate of birth. On his death certificate, his grandparents are listed as his parents, William Matthew Burley, while the mother was recorded...
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William Thomas Burley was born in Tasmania, but by 1914, his father had retired from farming and both parents were living in Warnambool, Victoria. William was nearby, working as a rabbiter in Dunkeld at the foot of the Grampians. By 1916, however, the family structure had changed...
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The son of Richard George Burn and Eliza Jane Atkins, Cecil Burns was a 21 year old mechanic at the time he enlisted on 21 January, 1916. Before he left for the war, he married his sweetheart, Isobelle Childe Myrtle Kilminster and ,after training at Broadmeadows, embarked with hi...
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Frederick Burnell was a clerk, living in East Melbourne. He was 36 years old, widowed, with two sons, Francis Joseph and Frederick Thomas Burnell, whom he left in the care of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. E. Hall. He enlisted on 17 August, 1914, and after training at Broadmead...
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1697 Henry Malache (Denny) Carroll 2031A Stanley Henry Burns alias Henry Malache Carroll alias Dennis Martin Carroll Henry Malache Carroll was born on 31 October 1889 in Waratah, Tasmania to Thomas and Charlotte Mary (Pullen) Carroll. He was the fifth child and second son, and wa...
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Hubert was born in Sandhurst, Bendigo on 6 July 1876 to Albert Bush and Jane Dalton. He was the second youngest of 11 children. His early life was spent in Sandhurst where he attended St. Andrew's College, Bendigo before entering Trinity College, University of Melbourne in 1898 t...