East Melbourne Historical Society
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William Cotterill is a slippery character and his relationship to East Melbourne is tenuous. He first enlisted for the First World War at Liverpool NSW on 25 November, 1915. He was then 42 years' old and was dscribed as 5'6" tall with tattoos on both forearms and chest. He stated...
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Talouchlan [ Thomas] was born in Sydney in1894 He enlisted on the 15 December 1914 at Echuca Victoria. He is 20 years old labourer. A small man 5'3'' and weighing on 8stone 4 lbs. He is the only son of Annie Coughlan who is living at 480 Albert Street East Melbourne. He embarked...
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Private Courtney put his age as 21 years and 1 month when he enlisted at South Melbourne on 6 July 1917. He gave his next of kin as his sister, Rose Courtney, who resided at 55 Studley Road, Forest Gate, Essex; in May 1918 he changed his next of kin to name his father, of the sam...
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Gerald Audrey Cadogan Cowper was born in England, probably Hertfordshire, in 1882, to Frank Cadogan Cowper and his wife Edith. He went to Preparatory School for two years in Hertfordshire, then on to Cranleigh College, Surrey, for five years. Cranleigh was reputed to have one of...
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Son of Thomas William Coxon and Alice Taylor Garnett, born 1893 in East Melbourne. A search of the Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories shows the family to be then living at 108 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The house was a boarding house and it does not appear that the Co...
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John William Coy was the son of John William Coy and his wife, Agnes Veronica, nee Hannan. He was born in 1898. When he enlisted he gave his birth place as Melbourne but at the time of his birth the family were living at 70 [now demolished but site of 90] Jolimont Street, Jolimon...
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Lewis William Cozens was born in Newcastle NSW on 24 September, 1885, the eldest son of Evan William Richard Cozens and his wife, Mary, nee Jeffrey. He was to have three sisters, Eleanor Jane, b. 1883, Emily May, b. 1884, and Marion Irene, b. 1885. He may also have a brother, eit...
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Winifred Mary Cramer (1877–1965) Winifred Mary Cramer is commemorated on the Honour Board at St Peter’s Eastern Hill, East Melbourne, with other nurses from the parish who served in the Great War of 1914–18. Winifred Cramer was not sent overseas with the Australian Army Nursing S...
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Albert's Attestation Papers indicate he was living in East Melbourne upon enlistment on 19th August 1914, whilst his next of kin lived in East Brunswick. Albert was 22 years and six months of age at enlistment, being 5 feet 5 and 1/4 inches tall. As a younger person, Albert spent...
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Like his father, Richard Henry Crawley was a baker. He had undertaken a four year apprenticeship with Mr. A.C. Reilly of Brunswick, Victoria, had been working as a baker at Swan Hill in 1914, but was living at 390 Lygon St., Carlton in 1915, again working as a baker.He was the so...
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Robert Anderson Crichton was one of seven children of Andrew Brown Crichton and his wife, Sarah, nee Dobson. He was the fifth child with five sisters and one brother, Andrew. At the time he enlisted he was 24 years' old, single and workign as a carpenter. In 1914, he had been liv...
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Born East Melbourne, enlisted 24 January 1916 at Melbourne, embarked 20 May 1916, disembarked at Plymouth 18 July 1916, died of disease (scarlet fever) at Isolation Hospital, Salisbury, England 28 December 1916, his 19th birthday. Buried Stratford sub Castle Churchyard near Salis...
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Norman Seth Culliver was born in 1894 to Eli Culliver (1866-1903) and his wife Margaret Moore Culliver (1866-1943). The family lived in Drysdale, Victoria on the Bellarine Peninsula, but probably moved follwinging Eli Culliver's death in 1902. In 1914, Seth and his mother were li...
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John CUREL was the second son of Emily Bragg and Henry Edward Curel, and stepson of Arthur Bragg (see entry). Like his brother Archibald Charles Curel, he had been born at Cloncurry, North Queensland. In 1914, He was a 22 year old and single, a miner by occupation, 5' 9" tall, wi...
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Photo below: Studio portrait probably of 4159 Private (Pte) Robert Kingsley Currie, 5th Battalion, of East Melbourne, Vic, and another unidentified soldier. Pte Currie enlisted on 2 September 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He returned to Australia...
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Very little can be written about Patrick Daly. His name appears both on the 14th Battalion lists form the Australian War Memorial and on the Embarkation Roll, but the National Archives have no Service Records for him. On the Electoral Rolls, he appears in 1912 as a labourer, livi...
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Edward Ernest Darling was born on 30 September, 1893, the son of Richard Stuart Darling and his wife Sophia, nee Cook. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Annie Agnes Kemp, known as Eliza, in South Melbourne, the daughter of Henry Kemp and Agnes Uglow Kemp. Their son, Reginald Ernest D...
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Gilbert Heneage Davies was born in 1879 in Jolimont, to George Schoen Davies, a clerk, and his wife, Sarah Annie, nee Staples. Gilbert was born on 27 April, and Sarah died on 4 May, 1879, so it would seem that she died of complications followinf childbirth, Geogre Davies married...
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Percival Naunton Davies was the son of John Davies and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Auguste Fischer. John Davies owned an iron foundry, Davies and Baird, and his son followed in his father's trade. Born in 1883, he married Irene Myra Scott in 1916, and they were to have three childre...
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John George Walker Davis was born in East Melbourne in 1897, but was orphaned at the age of three and raised in Western Australia as her adopted son by Mary Skene, of 157 Claisebrook St., East Perth. He was just over twenty when he enlisted on 21 February 1917, working as an appr...
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Mark Davis was the son of David and Florrie Davis. He was born in East Melbourne, and his address may have been at 36 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, where his mother was living in 1903. He was a railway employee, married to Lillian May Davis, nee Fielding, in 1915. In 1916, when...
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William Davis was 45 years old when he enlisted. He was a single man, a dentist with a Doctor of Dentistry qualification from the University of California, USA. He already had extensive military experience, as a Lieutenant with the 63rd and 62nd Infantry, as well as the Automobil...
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Frank Davison was born on 10 August 1890. His father, John, had been a practising General Practitioner in Shepparton, but the marriage broke up in 1890 and Dr Davison moved to 19 George St., East Melbourne. Frank was brought up in East Melbourne and went to school at Christian Br...
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Ellen Davitt is best remembered as a pioneer educationalist in her role as the first superintendent of the Model School, East Melbourne, which once stood on the island site now occupied by the Royal College of Surgeons. She and her husband, Arthur, who held the senior position of...