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People of East Melbourne
This is a list of biographies of residents of East Melbourne.
This project started to commemorate the soldiers and nurses who went to Europe to serve in World War 1. But it has grown from there to cover biographies of any and all residents of note.
Along with many of their fellow Australians people from East Melbourne flocked to enlist. Many were heroes. Many lost their lives or suffered horrific physical or mental injuries. At home family and friends worked, endured and suffered consequences that were sometimes terrible and persisted long after the war.
Major-General Michael O'Brien gave us a starting point with a list of East Melbourne people who served in WW1. He spoke to the Society in April 2013 to give us some context to the period and to help the EMHS prepare for its own commemorations of this most devastating period in our history.
Everyone can participate by gathering or documenting information:
- Photos, memorabilia and family records
- Stories in books, newspapers and on-line
- Memorial plaques in churches and public places
- War memorial, church, national and state archives
You can refine the list by applying the various filter criteria and go to a particular detailed biography by click on the title.
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East Melbourne and the First World War
We will soon arrive at the 100th anniversary of the Great War. This talk will look at how the war affected East Melbourne and Jolimont, those who participated in it and their fates, some famous participants and ask if and how they might be commemorated. It will also include a gui...
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FALCONER, James
James was born in England. Has no real connection with East Melbourne except as listing a forwarding address of 'a friend' in Powlet street East Melbourne.
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FALKINGHAM, Henry
Henry Falkingham was born in 18813 at Tallarook, Victoria, the son of Henry Falkingham and hsi wife, Mary Elizabeth, nee Bolin. By 1915, he was 33 years old, married to Ethel Maud Levin since 1905 and had a job described on his embarkation roll as an 'Electrical Insulation Worker...
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FALKINGHAM, William
William Falkingham enlisted early, on the 14 October, 1914. He was then eighteen years old and had the consent of his father, Henry Falkingham. He had had 12 months in the School Cadets and a further 3 years Compulsory Military Training. He was not employed. He did four months tr...
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FARLEY, John Henry
Born at Prahran, Victoria, John Henry Farley was a grocer by trade. He enlisted in East Melbourne, and was killed in action on 1 July, 1916, France at Armentieres. While he listed his religion as Presbyterian, a rosary was among his effects, returned to his next of kin. Farley wa...
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FARLEY, John Henry
John Henry Farley, a 36 year old railway employee, enlisted on 8/9/1914. He was then a railway employee and a widower. The next day, he married Clara Elizabeth Turton, the Rev. W.S. Rollands conducting the ceremony at Toorak, probably st St. John's, as Farley records his religion...
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FARRELL, Michael James
Mick O' Farrell was 25 and 5 months old when he enlisted on 12 August, 1915. He described hmself as a horse trainer and had already had marked success with his horse, Zephuron, who own the Grand National Steeple in 1914. He enlisted as Michael Farrell, though at least one of his...
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FAWCETT, George Henry
George Fawcett was English by birth, born in Lewisham, England, he went to school at Cheltenham College, where he served eighteen months with the Cadets, then went to Charters Towers School of Mines for a year. In 1916, he was working as an accountant with the Falkiner Electrical...
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FAWKES, James Guy
James Guy Fawkes was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, the son of Charles and Ellen Catherine Fawkes, nee Davies. He was born in 1885 and when he enlisted on 18 July, 1915, he was 30 years and seven months old, a single man, working as a Draper's Assistant, and living at 144 Powl...
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FAY, Francis William
Mrs. Frances Marie Fay, who lived at various addresses in East Melbourne, 38 and 42 Albert St., 151 Hotham St.,and Brunswick St. South (now Morrison Place), had been widowed for eight years in 1914, when the war began. She had to wait as her three sons enlisted; only one of them...
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FEGAN, Catherine Agnes
Catherine Agnes (Katie) Fegan was born in 1879, the second of Sergeant John and Mary Anne Fegan's two children and sister to Mary Sarah (b1875, later Sister Mary Xavier of the Religious Sisters of Charity, Fitzroy). On her enlistment form, she gave East Melbourne as her place of...
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FENTON, Arthur William
Arthur William Fenton enlisted on 15 July, 1915. He was a clerk by occupation, 5' 9" tall, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. he gave as his next of kin his father, Arthur Fenton of Bank St., Ascot Vale. Arthur Fenton was sent to Seymour, Victoria, to train with D Company, No. 1...
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FERGUSON, Ernest Oscar
Ernest Oscar Ferguson was born in Richmond Victoria in January, 1893, the son of Albert Ernest Ferguson or Furguson and his wife, Eleanor Louisa, nee Green. He names himself on different documents as a clerk or alternatively, a labourer. On his enlistment form, he states his addr...
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FERGUSON, Harry
Harry Ferguson was 39 years old, married to Edith, with two children and working as a clerk when he enlisted on 17 August, 1918. He gave his permanent address as Trenery Crescent, Abbotsford and it is possible thta this was his workplace. He was sent to Broadmeadows Camp for trai...
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FIELD, Victor Henry
Victor Henry Field wass eighteen years and ten months old when he enlisted on 1 July, 1915. He was one of five children of Frederick James Field and his wife, Septima, He was the middle child in his family, with brother Frederick Fern (1893-1959) asnd sister Myrtle Hazel (1894-19...
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FIELDING, George Arkwright
Wife, Mary Valantina Fielding Profession, Solicitor Enlisted at Prahran on the 9th March 1916 at the age of 42 Partener in legal firm of Rigby and Fielding 60 Market Street, Melbourne Had previous military career as a reserve officer [Lt.] in the AGA in severalal postings.1900-19...
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FINDLAY, Stuart Barham (ANA)
Stuart Barham Findlay was already a war veteran when he joined enlisted to fight in World War 1. In 1900, he had been in Paget's Horse, in 1901/02 in the Imperial Light Horse and in 1906, in the Transvaal Rifles, all in South Africa. When he joined up on 30 July, 1915, he was one...
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FIRTH, Arthur
Arthur Firth was 22 years old and a tailor by trade when he enlisted on 24 December 1915. He had already served a five year apprenticeship with tailors R.T. Lloyd of Bourke St. Melbourne and had two and a half years' training in the 64th Infantry of the citizens' forces. He lived...
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FISH, George Henry
George Fish was the son of Robert Fish and his wife, Hannah, nee Taylor. One of eleven children, he was born in 1877 at Pleasant Creek, near Stawell, Victoria, and was by trade, a trapper. When he enlisted he gave his address as 4 George Street, East Melbourne, the home of his mo...
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FISH, William Robert
William Robert Fish was the older brother of George Henry Fish (see entry). He was one of eleven children of Robert Fish and his wife, Hannah, nee Taylor. William Fish was born at Pleasant Creek, Stawell, Victoria in June, 1971, and was 44 and 10 months old when he enlisted at Le...
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FITZGERALD, John
John Fitzgerald was unusually tall for his generation, just over 6' 1". He was the son of John Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Travers Fitzgerald, born in Lilydale, Victoria. He was 29 years old when he enlisted, marrying his sweetheart, Eileen Mary Bascombe, the eldest daughter of Herb...
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FITZPATRICK, David John
David Fitzpatrick was the son of Bartholomew Fitzpatrick and his wife and Mary Anne, nee O'Brien. At the time he enlisted, on 6 June, 1918, he was twenty three years and eleven months old, single and working as a train examiner, an occupation he remained at for most of his life....
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FLACK, George Edward
Geoge Edward Flack Born East Melbourne Next of Kin: Mrs Flack, Lower Ferntree Gully, Victoria Enlisted on 22nd October 1916 at Broadmeadows at the age of 21 years ad 4 months, being described as being 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 122 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair. Occupa...
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FLANAGAN, James
James Flanagan was born in Ballarat c.1885. On enlistment on 15 August 1914 he gave his occupation as salesman. He was unmarried, and his address and that of his mother, Mrs. Flanagan, his next of kin, was 61 Grey Street, East Melbourne. He was appointed to the Naval & Military E...