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BISHOP, Selwyn Teignmouth
The studio portrait of 15421 Private Selwyn Teignmouth Bishop, 16th Reinforcements, 6th Field Company shows a determined young man. The youngest of six children, of Anglican Archdeacon George Nickells Bishop and his wife, Annie Mary (nee Kelly), he enlisted on 29 February, 1916,...
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BLACK, Emily Conyngham
Emily Conyngham Black was born in Tinamba near Maffra, Victoria in 1884, the second daughter of William Murray Black (1835-1925) of Grenock, Scotland and Mary Anne Bennison (1850-1912) of Port Albert. Tinamba was a grazing settlement, with a population 49 according to the 1891 ce...
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BLATCHFORD, Herbert Albert
Herbert Albert Blatchford had no real connection with East Melbourne, save that his sister, Clara Blatchford, lived at Clivedon Mansions, on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon St, East Melbourne, now the site of the Hilton Hotel. He was a skilled labourer, living in No...
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BLUNDELL, Madeline Patricia Petrie
Patricia Blundell was one of five surviving children (four daughters, one son) born to Martin Petrie Blundell and his wife Emily (nee Lineker) between 1871 and 1890. Melbourne-born Martin was employed by the Bank of Australasia on leaving Melbourne Grammar School in 1861. From 18...
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BODEN, Samuel
Samuel Boden was born in Birmingham, England, but had lived in both India and Ceylon before he came to Australia. While in Sri Lanka, he had served for eighteen months with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps. It seems possible that these experiences shape the early part of his milit...
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BOLTON, Reginald Henry
Reginald Henry Bolton was a Company Manager, aged 29 and had been married to Doris (nee Fairland) for just over a year , when he enlisted on 3 November, 1916. They lived at 'Verona', on the corner of Gipps and Clarendon Sts., where he had been living with his mother, Mrs. Fraces...
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BONNIN, Irene Gertrude Hiller
Irene Gertrude Hiller Bonnin (1874–1971) Irene Bonnin is commemorated on an honour board at St Peter’s Eastern Hill, East Melbourne commemorating parishioners who served overseas in the Great War. Her connection with East Melbourne during the war itself was very fleeting - she at...
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BORWICK, Thomas Faulkner
Thomas Faulkner Borwick was the elder brother of Henry Barton Borwick. Both were students studying at Melbourne University and living with their parents, Henry and Hannah Borwick, at 24 Lansdown (sic) St., East Melbourne. Thomas had been educated at Scotch College, East Melbourne...
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BRADLEY, Duncan
Duncan was born at Wangaratta on the 15 November 1888. His full name is Raphael Duncan Bradley. When he enlisted on the 10 March 1915 he was 26 years old, single and worked as a labourer. He was listed from 5'8 tall to 6'0'' and weighted in at 12 stone 6 pounds. His Next of Kin w...
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BRAGG, Arthur Robert
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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BRIESE, Arthur Oswald
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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BROBERG, Carl Albert
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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BROCKELBANK, Lilla
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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BROOKE, Katie Winifred
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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BROOKS, Chassie Winton
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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BROOKS, Constance Jessie
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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BROWNLEE, Robert
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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BRUNT, Archibald Andrew
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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BURFORD, Lionel
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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BURLEY, Rexford
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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BURNELL, Frederick Joseph
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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BUSH, Hubert Sheppard
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...
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Back to the Bronze Age
Newspaper article about the work of Louis Laumen, the sculptor responsible for the Parade of Champions in Yarra Park, Victor Trumper at the MCG, and St. Francis and St. Catherine at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Photos. The Age, 14 June 2003, Review, p. 7.
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Balcombe family of the first East Court, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Brochure provided by "The Briars", Mt. Martha, giving the history of the Balcombe family who built and lived in the first East Court at 122 George Street, East Melbourne.