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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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FLECK, Christian
Christian Fleck was 38 years old when he enlisted. He had been born in Peckham, London, to Christian Fleck and his wife Emily, nee Reed. He grew up in London and in September 1905, married Emily Prudence Bean at St. Georges, Hanover Square. Their daughter, Phyliis Wilhelmina Flec...
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FORBES, Cyril
Cyril Charles Albert Forbes was the son of James Forbes and his wife Mildred, nee McLean. He was born in Brunswick in 1898. He enlisted on 10 June 1915. He named his sister, Gladys Forbes of 116 Vale Street, East Melbourne, as his next of kin. As his guardian she signed a note of...
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FORDEN-BELLGROVE, Bryan Westley
Bryan Westley (sometimes Wesley) Fordon-Bellgrove’s background and pre-war life remain somewhat of a mystery. He was born in East Melbourne in 1897. His mother was Sarah Grace Forden-Bellgrove (nee Fordon). At birth his father’s name was not registered, likewise for his six sibli...
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FRASER, Frank
Born in Carlton Victoria in September, 1897, Frank Fraser was the son of Margaret, nee Walls, and Falconer Fraser, whom he cited as his next of kin, living at 42 Agnes St., Jolimont. He was the middle child, with his eldest sister, Eva Emmeline, born 1899 and his younger sister,...
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FRAZER, Francis George
Francis George Frazer was 25 years and nine months old when he enlisted on 14 January, 1915. He was the son of Richard White Frazer and Lillian Brookwell Frazer, nee Cox, and gave as his next of kin his mother, Lilian Frazer, living at 93 Victoria Parade East Melbourne and later...
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FREY, Maud Josephine
Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) was born in the northern Victorian agricultural town of Tungamah, to Arnold James Frey (c1841-1897) and his wife Kate (also Cath, Catherine, Katherine) (c1859-1904). Maud came from Swiss (possibly German) stock on he...
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FRITH, Herbert
Herbert Frith was the second child of Sydney Silver Frith and his wife, Nora, nee Murray. He was born in 1884, according to the Birth Index, but is listed elsewhere as born in 1887. He followed on from Florence (1881-1969) and Percy (1886-1969) and was born in Williamstown, Victo...
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FROOMES, Harold William
Harold William Froomes was born in 1884, the eldest child of Arthur William Froomes and his wife, Rosalie Harriet, nee Parsons. He was followed by six further children: Beryl May (1885-1886) ); Olive Maude (b.1887);Arthur Wray (b.1889): Eric (b.1890) Marie Constance (b.1892); Ric...
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FROST, Dudley Vye
Dudley Vye or Vyer Frost was born in East Melbourne in May, 1897. He was the son of Ernest Frost and his wife, Adelaide Flora, nee Dudley, of 74 Patterson St., Middle Park, and this was the address he gave on his enlistment form. By occupation, Dudley Frost was a draughtsman, and...
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FROWD, Hugh McGee
Hugh Frowd was born in Kyabram in 1895, but by 1915, when he enlisted, was living at 51 Berry St., East Melbourne. He was a maltster by trade and probably worked at one of the breweries in nearby Abbotsford. His parents may have been dead, because he gave his next of kin as his b...
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FRYER, Albert Douglas
Albert Douglas Fryer was born in 1892 th,e son of Robert Frye and his wife, Marianne or Maria Theresa Bird/Baird. He was born in Windsor, Victoria, a small suburb of Melbourne, but was living with his father at 44 Jolimont St., Jolimont, East Mlebourne, when he enlisted on 7 Janu...
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FURPHEY, Ivan
Herbert Ivan Furphey was born in 1895 to Thomas Furphey, a manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, nee Wright. He was the eldest of six children and the only boy. In 1915, when he enlisted as Ivan Furphey, he was living at 4 Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont, with his family. He was...
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GAGAN, Edward Alan
Edward Gagan was 27 years and 8 months old when he enlisted at Brunswick on 25 May, 1916. A clerk by profession, he lived at 116 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, with his mother, Janet, and his sisters, Margaret and Helen, a telephonist. In both the 1914 and 1916 Electoral Roll...
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GAIN, Cyril Roy Frederick
Cyril Gain was born in 1895 and was the eldest child of Frederick Gain and his wife, Martha, nee Bartholomew. In the years that followed the family grew, until there were eleven young Gains, 5 boys and 6 girls. His younger brother, Augustus, was also to join up for the war and be...
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GALLAGHER, Thomas
Thomas Gallagher was a single man, aged 23 and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 22 August, 1914. He was English by birth and gave as his next of kin his sister, Mrs. Agnes Bonet, living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He trained in Melbourne, was taken on strength with the...
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GALLIN, Alice Matilda
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS Alice Matilda Gallin was the first (and youngest) of three Gallin sisters to enlist in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Great War. Her enrolment in 1915 preceded Eleanor’s by just weeks. Their eldest sister Mary Josephine joined i...
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GALLIN, Eleanor
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS Eleanor Gallin was the second of three Gallin sisters to enlist in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Great War. Her enrolment in 1915 followed Alice’s by just weeks. Their eldest sister Mary Josephine joined in October 1917, soon a...
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GALLIN, Mary Josephine
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS Mary Josephine Gallin was the third of three Gallin sisters to enlist in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Great War. Her younger sisters, Alice and Eleanor, enlisted in 1915. Their eldest sister Mary Josephine joined in October 19...
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GALLOP, Cyril
Cyril Gallop was the son of Gilbert D'Arcy Gallop and Edith Margaret, nee Marfleet. He had one brother, Rollo D'Arcy Gallop, who enlisted using the name Robert. Cyril Gallop was born on September 24, 1895, but when he enlisted, he slightly altered his age; instead of being 18 yea...
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GARDNER, Thomas
Thomas Gardner was 33 and two months old when he enlisted for World War 1 on 1 September, 1914. An iron turner by trade, he was born in 1881 in Richmond, Victoria, the son of Thomas Gardner and his wife, Sarah Ellen, nee Gorman. There were three other children, Mabel (b. 1877), A...
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GARTON, Norman James
Norman James Garton enlisted for overseas service on 28 July, 1916. He claimed to be 21 years old and was, in fact, very nearly that age, but he was born on 28 September, 1895 and his 21st his birthday was not until two months later. Why he chose to enlist at that time, without p...
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GATEHOUSE, Thomas
Thomas Gatehouse was born in Geelong in August 1888. He enlisted for overseas service on 14 July, 1915, when he was 26 years and 11 months old. He was a single man and worked as a groom. He appears to have been without close family, giving as his next of kin his friend, Miss Minn...
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GAYNOR, E.J.
Wounded in action (Hobart Mercury, 20 Dec 1915, p6)
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GAYNOR, Edward John
Edward John Gaynor was the son of Police Constable Edward James Gaynor and his wife Margaret Anne, nee Edwards, known as Annie. The family lived at 'Wendouree', 56 Albert St., East Melbourne. There were two girls in addition to Edward, Eileen and Marie. On 1 May 1915, when he enl...