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Ernest Cambridge enlisted in June, 1914. He was then just over 18 and an assistant in the Mail Branch of the Melbourne GPO. He had some previous experience, having served with the Senior Cadets 51 Battalion at Albert Park for two years. Following initial training, he embarked on...
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For many of the Great War nurses linked with East Melbourne, the connection was primarily a professional one, that is they trained or nursed in one of the suburb's hospitals. Some, however, were brought up and/or lived in East Melbourne for a number of years. Edith Clare Cameron...
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Henry Gervais Cameron was the son of Verney Lovett Cameron, a solicitor practising at 30 Collins St.East, Melbourne, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, nee Fraser. He was born in Kew and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. In 1915, when he enlisted, Henry Lovett Cameron was 35 y...
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John Cameron was one of a family of eight boys and one girl, of whom three brothers had died before John Cameron. He gave as his next of kin his sister, Violet May Cameron, living in Vale St. East Melbourne. He himself lived at 46 Hocking St. Footscray, while his elder brother, W...
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ROBERT EWEN CAMERON Born 27 October 1890 at Portarlington Victoria, the son of a Presbyterian Minister Educated at Geelong College, University of Melbourne and Adelaide, Graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree Teacher at St Peter's College in 1912 in the Prep School then transfer...
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John Campbell's origins would have remained a mystery, were it not for his descendents. Although he claimed as his address C% James O'Grady at Grant St., East Melbourne, there is no Grant Street in East Melbourne. Luckily, in 2020 and 2021, two connections, one of John O'Grady an...
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John Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1897. His father was the Victorian Manager of the London Bank, based at 90 Bourke Street, Melbourne, and John lived at this address. He enlisted on the 30 September 1914 and entered his age as 19 years, six months. He was in fact only 17. It...
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Philip Sylvester Cantwell was born at Ballan in country Victoria on the 15th January 1882. His father was Philip Cantwell and his mother was Alice Leahey. Phillip Snr and Alice were married in 1880 and Phillip Jnr was the first child. HIs brother, John Patrick Cantwell was born i...
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James Cardwell was born at Blackpool on the 1st March 1877. He was living with his parents in Blackpool in 1891 according to the 1891 census. He marries Elizabeth Hannah Duxbury at the Holy Trinity Church south Shore Blackpool in 1897 His first child Margaret Ellen Knoles Cardwel...
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John William Carnie embarked from Melbourne in October 1917, however there is no service record available.
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John Patrick Carmody was born on 19 January, 1890 in Carlton to John Joseph Carmody and Elizabeth Culhane who was born in Limerick Ireland. His sister Jane Marguerite was born in 1895 in Carlton. At the time of enlistment on 15 october, 1917, John was working as an Electrician ha...
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Service record is not available.
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Mr William Carroll, 139 Simpson Street, East Melbourne (late of the Customs Department), has been notified that his only son, Sergeant William E. Carroll, who enlisted in Febuary, 1915, and served in Gallipoli, and France has been wounded in France. William Edward Carroll enliste...
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Henry Carson was a surgical bootmaker, aged 27 years old when he enlisted on 12 July, 1915. He was a married man and he and his wife, Susan, lived at 23 George Street, East Melbourne. He had some previous experience, having been in the Cadets at school. He was attached to the 6th...
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Eric Carter was born in Spotswood Victoria on the 15 March 1893. His father was Herbert James Carter and his mother was Louise Carter. In 1914, he was living with his mother and father at 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.He enlisted in Melbourne on the 6 July 1915. He was by o...
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Henry Norman Carver was born in 1893 in Yea, Victoria to Henry Garret Carver, a grazier in Flowerdale, and Florence (nee Johnstone). His parents had moved to East Melbourne by 1902 where his father passed away at 79 Hotham Street. Little is known about Henry's early life apart fo...
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Frederick Cass was born in 1892 in Balmain, Sydney to Thomas and Harriet Cass. He had 2 brothers, George and Thomas, and a sister Ruth, all born in the Sydney area. Frederick enlisted for service on 15 August, 1914. He was working as a clerk and living in East Melbourne. As next...
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Harry Cathie was born at Queenscliff in Victoria on the 15 Jan 1892. His mother was Kate and his father, John Cathie. John Cathie worked with the Postal Department and died in 1895. Harry was working at the State Saving Bank of Victoria as a clerk when he signed up in 1915 and li...
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Adam Smith Cattanach was not named after the great economic thinker, but after his mother, Sarah Cattanach, nee Smith. He was the son of Henry James Goodriche Cattanach (b.18/9/1833), a land agent, who had migrated to Australia from Scotland. Adam Cattanach was the seventh child,...
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Harry Cattanach was the son of Henry James Goodrich Cattanach (1833-1911) and his wife, Sarah, nee Smith. He was one of nine children born to the couple: Christina (b.1864), Sarah (b.1865), Jane (b.1967), Harriet (b.1871), Victoria (b.1873), Harry (b.1875), Adam (b.1877), Anne (b...
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Edith Ruth Cecil was born in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1888, second youngest in the large family of Thomas William Cecil (c1840-1912) and his wife Mary (nee Roach) (1849-1908). Thomas had come to Victoria in 1853 on the 'Great Britain' aged 13 with his father and y...
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Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller. He had married in 1916, when he was 21, to Elsie Kent Wade, but they did not appear to...
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Sir Henry George (Harry) Chauvel (1865-1945), soldier, was born on 16 April 1865 at Tabulam, New South Wales, second son of Charles Henry Edward Chauvel, grazier and cattle-breeder, and his wife Fanny Ada Mary, née James. Chauvel was educated at Sydney Grammar School but had a fi...
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Emily Childers (1827-1875), Diarist Emily Childers lived the conventional life of a woman of her background and class. She married at 23, emigrated with her husband to find a new life in Australia, had children, ran her household and led a busy social life. Her claim to fame rest...