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Leslie Henry Charles Clark was the second son of Samuel Clark, a railway employee, and his wife Charlotte. He enlisted at age 18 years 6 months on 8 April 1916 at Melbourne, making his birth date around November, 1897. His brother, Percy Victor Clark, enlisted the same year, on 1...
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Percy Victor Clark was the eldest son of Charlotte and Samuel Clark and brother to Leslie Henry Charles Clark. Like his borther he was born in Balmain Street, Richmond, and went to school at Brighton St. State School, Richmond. He served in the Senior Cadets and had continued his...
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William Clark was 34 years old when he enlisted on 28 July, 1915. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, but living in Melbourne and was a draper by trade. He appears to have had only a sister,who was still living in Scotland, because he nominates her as his next of kin, Mrs Anne T...
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Son of Archbishop Henry Lowther Clarke of Bishopscourt, Melbourne. At the outbreak of the war he had a medical practice in Peterborough, SA and was married to Constance Anderson, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Anderson of Riverina. He enlisted on 16 August 1916 and left on SS Karool...
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Herbert Clifford Clarke was born on 23 May, 1879, to William Clarke and Jane Teresa Clarke, nee Jordan. He enlisted on 24 July, 1917, aged 38 years and two months. He was , at the time, a pastry cook and was to go on to become a master baker. He had married Daisy Rachel Gifford i...
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Janet Marion Clarke was born on 4 June 1851 at Doogallook Station on the Goulburn River, Victoria, the eldest of nine children of the affluent landowner Peter Snodgrass and his wife Charlotte. In 1869 Janet became governess to the four children of the Hon. William Clarke the land...
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Sydney Clement was born on the 4 March 1873 at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He was the second son of Reynold Clement of Snarestone Lodge in Snarestone, Leicestershire. The Clement family has an extraordinary history, Sydney's grandfather, Hampden Clement was the owner of several l...
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Frederic Toon Cleverdon was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, but spent much of his life both before and after the war as a Methodist clergyman in Tasmania, first at Queenstown, then post-war to Burnie, Hobart and Launceston. He did his clerical training at Queen's College, Melbourne a...
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Walter's biography is somewhat limited and difficult to detail due to the lack of precise detail, however, the following can be gleaned from the documents. MILITARY NOTES: Enlisted at Melbourne on 15th January 1915 aged 43 years. Previously served in the 2nd Scottish Horse in Sou...
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Alexander Cobb was the son of Alexander and Catherine Cobb, nee Buchanan. His father is described in the Electoral Rolls as a cook, while the son is a warehouseman, alnd later, a storeman. He had served an apprenticeship Needham, Carter and Pirrie Coy, Melbourne, and may have sti...
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Stanley Warrender Cochrane was born in London in 1880, the second youngest of 6 sisters and 2 brothers. His father Robert was employed with Brooks, Robinson & Co, Melbourne based glass merchants. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1883, residing in the Hawthorn area. Stanley gre...
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James Collins as a 24 year old labourer when he enlisted in 1915, living at 192 George St., East Melbourne, probably a boarding house. He named Mrs. Slocombe of that address as his next of kin, so she may well have been his sister or other relative. He began his military training...
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Reginald Michael Collins had a fairly brief war. He enlisted on 1 March, 1915, and was returned to Australia on 12 February, 1916. A commercial traveller by trade, he lived at 73 Hotham St., East Melbourne with his mother, Mrs. Esther Collins. He was placed in the 23rd Battalion,...
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Peter David Conlon was the son of Denis Conlon, of 419 Canning St. Carlton and his wife, Bridget (nee Egan). He was born on 25 September, 1896, in Jolimont, but did not otherwise live in East Melbourne, and was the eldest of four children, the others May, Edie and Jack. His desir...
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Eden Dennis Connor was born in Woodville near Adelaide in August 1887, he was the youngest son of George Alexander Connor and Jessie Hall Simpson. He moved from South Australia and married Maria Elsie Conliffe in Victoria in 1911 In 1914 he is listed on the electoral Roll as livi...
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John Conway was born at Longford in Ireland on 9 April 1885, the son of James and Mary (nee Farrell) Conway. The 1901 census shows him as being eighteen years of age, a Labourer, not married, and could read and write. He was living with his parents. At age 19, he enlisted with th...
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Francis Joseph Cooney was the son of James and Catherine Cooney and was born at the family home, Doontallie, 1121 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne 1886. He was the youngest of nine children. The others were: twins, Annetta and James (b.1871); Hugh Patrick (b,1874); Thomas (b.1876);...
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Charles Cooper was aged 37 when he enlisted on 7 July, 1915. He was placed in the 8th Field Artillery Brigade at Broadmeadows and subsequently was moved to Maribynong to join the Australian Veterinary Section. He named as his next of kin his wife, Mrs. N.L. Cooper, whose address...
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George Henry Cooper was one of ten children of Jesse Cooper and his wife Kate, nee Haggarty. He was a carpenter by trade, living in Heidelberg when he enlisted on 31 August, 1916. He married his first wife, Ruby Mertle Davis in 1917, and it is her address at 101 George St., East...
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Leslie Cooper was a hairdresser, possibly working at Thellier Hairdresser, Prahran, where he had done his apprenticeship. He was a month off his 29th birthday when he enlisted on 12 February, 1916, and at 6' 1" tall, must have seemed liked an ideal recruit. He gave as his next of...
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George John Corcoran was born in Port Melboune in 1886. His father George was a Civil Engineer. At the time of his enlistment on 21 October, 1914, his next of kin is his aunt Lucy Johnson who was living at Victora Parade, East Melbourne. Aged 28, George was single and occupation...
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Joseph Alan Cordner was born at Bridgewater on the Loddon River in May 1890. His father Isiah Joseph Cordner and mother Jessie Walker moved regularly as Isiah was a bank Manager with the National Bank of Australasia. Isiah was living at Colermine and is listed as a bank Manager i...
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Noel Aubrey Corrigan was one of five children of Joseph and Catherine or Kathleen Corrigan, nee Finlayson. He was probably the youngest brother, with Signa Daphne, b.1887, Joseph, b. 1890, Thomas Norman and one other. He was no doubt eager to enlist to go to war. He joined up on...
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Although born in East Melbourne in 1892, Thomas Norman Corrigan had little contact with the suburb. When he enlisted, aged 22, on 27 January, 1915, he was living at 25 Ford St., Brunswick and working as a tea packer. He joined the 21st Battalion, raised at Broadmeadows in early F...