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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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HARBECK, Arthur Percival
Arthur Percival Harbeck was one of three brothers from Lakes Entrance who enlisted to fight in the Great War. Arthur was 22 years old and working as a salesman. He enlisted at Eastern Hill and gave his home address as 26 Berry St., East Melbourne. Like his brothers, he nominated...
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HARRIS, Bertram
There is nothing in Bert Harris's military record that places him anywhere near East Melbourne at the time of the Great War. He grew up in New Zealand and enlisted at Casula, NSW. He gave as his next of kin his brother, Albert, living at Aratapu, and enlisted on 23/11/1915 follow...
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HARRIS, Edward
Edward Harris enlisted on 20 Auguast 1914. He was then just off twenty three years old, 5'3" tall, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. He was a butcher by trade, with no previous military experience. Nor did he have family, save for his sister, Miss K. Harris, who w...
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HARRIS, John Ernest
John Ernest Harris joined up almost immediately war was declared by England on 4 August 1914. Harris enlisted on 19 August, 1914, and was given the number 48. On the surface, he looked like the ideal recruit. He was English-born, by occupation a marine engineer, aged 30, single,...
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HARRIS, Percy James
Percy James Harris was born 1st January 1875 at Thornton, Studley-park, Kew. He was the son of Alfred Harris. Two months later Alfred sold the contents of his house as he was leaving for England imminently. Whether he did or not remains uncertain as no shipping records have been...
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HARRISON, Edward William
Edward William Harrison was a young man of 23 when he enlisted on 15 December 1915. He was 5'6" tall, with a dark complexion, blue eyes and dark hair, a single man studying to be a doctor and in his fourth year of study. He went into training at Seymour, Victoria, and then at Bro...
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HARRISON, Martin John
Martin John Harrison was given the number 6, when he enlisted to go to war in 1915. He was a postman by occupation, born in Dean, Victoria, a small town 12o kilometres west of Melbourne, near the Ballarat-Daylesford Rd. His parents, Martin Harrison and Rosina Catherine Harrison,...
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HART, Annie Kidd
Annie (Anne) Kidd Hart was the first of eight children born to John Adolphus Hart (c1849–1930) and his first wife Ann née Kidd (1854–1908). Annie’s father and mother were both born in Melbourne in the early years of the settlement. On the Hart side, George Hart, a carpenter by t...
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HARVEY, Norman Kinamond
Norman Kinamond Harvey was born in Fitzroy in 1884. He was the son of John Henry Harvey and his wife, Henrietta Kinamond nee Fairbairn. John Harvey was an architect and for many years was the architect for the Public Works Department and was responsible for the design of a number...
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HARVEY, Stanley
Stanley Harvey was eighteen and four months old when he enlisted to join the AIF. He was an electircla engineer by training and gave his address as Parliament Place, Melbourne. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and had one sister, Norah Harvey, to whom he would leave his possessi...
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HAWKES, Richard Morrison
Richard Morrison Hawkes enlisted on 13 January, 1916. He was nearly 31 years old, a clerk, 5'7" tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. He had married on 1 July, 1910, in Melbourne and, at the time of his enlistment, his wife, Adelaide Margaret Hawkes (nee (Short), was living at 122...
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HAWKINS, Clarence Edmund
Clarence Hawkins was the son of Alfred George Hawkins, a tailor, and his wife Mary Adele, nee Merson. Born in 1883, he was the second eldest of a large family of five boys and one girl: Theodore (1881); Bertram (1884); Mabel (1886); Raymond (1887): Edgar (1889); Philip (1890) and...
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HAYES, Edwin
William Edward Riley took good care to cover his true name when he enlisted at Richmond, Victoria, on 17 August, 1915. His gave his name as Edwin Hayes, and claimed to be 19 years and two months old when he enlisted at the Drill Hall, Gipps St, Richmond. His true age was 17, but...
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HEANEY, Gordon Henry Herbert
George Henry Heaney used a false name when he enlisted on 8 July, 1915. His true surname was Hart, and he had a father and stepmother living in Sexton St., Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Queensland. Heaney was a cook by trade and 36 and 10 months old, and had already had six years serv...
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HEANEY, John
James Heaney was born in 1876 in Casterton, Victoria, the son of Patrick and Honora Heaney, nee Quinn. At the time of his enlistment, he was practising as an accountant, probably at 376 William Street, Melbourne, the address he gave on the Electoral Rolls for both 1914 and 1919....
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HENRY, Arthur Milton
Arthur Milton Henry was born at Geelong, Victoria and was living there when he enlisted on 9 February. 1915. He was a butcher by trade, only 22 years old, and the only child of his widowed mother, Lily (nee Trinder), and her husband, Charles Henry. By 1915, she seems to have and...
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HENRY, George Winfred
George Winfred Henry was born in Hamilton, Victoria, but at the time he enlisted was working as a clerk and living in East Melbourne. His father, Robert Henry, lived in Grey St., Hamilton. His mother may have been deceased and he does not seem to have had siblings. George Henry a...
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HENRY, Robert Edward
Robert Edward Henry was born in Northern Ireland in 1879 and was 35 and 4 months old when he joined up in 13 March, 1915. By then, he was living in Melbourne with his brother, William Liggatt Henry. They were the sons of Samuel Dugeon and Emily Ellen (nee Liggatt) Henry. The brot...
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HEPBURN, Austin
This is not the story of one young man, but of six, of whom two were to die in WW1. Austin Hepburn was the second of five sons born to Thomas Robert Hepburn and his wife, Emily Marion (nee Cosgrove). The family was Roman Catholic by religion and their sons were all educated at Xa...
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HIDDLESTONE, Cecil John
Enlisted on the 10th October 1914 aged 24 years. Previously his occupation was a Tailor's Cutter Commenced training with the 14th Battalion at Broadmeadows Camp before embarkation on the 22nd December 1914 Suffered numerous illnesses and sent to Malta and then to St George's Hosp...
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HILTON, Ernest Roderick
Ernest Roderick Hilton was the son of William Hilton, a builder, and his wife Julia Ellen, nee Hawkley. He was one of four children, a brother, Sidney, and sisters, Lily and Irene. He was just over 27 years when he enlisted on 24 October, 1916, a Master Printer by trade and newly...
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HILTON, John Thomas
John Thomas Hilton was the son of Robert Hilton and his wife, Abigail, nee Lambert. He was a barber by trade, and 41 and 9 months old when he enlisted. By then, his parents may have been dead, because he gave as his next of kin on the enlistment form, his sister, Mrs. Lavinia Ali...
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HINES, William George
Next of Kin: Rita Vivian Hines (Wife) Enlisted on the 27 June 1915 at the age of 29 years and 2 months, weighing 10 stone 2 lbs Upon arrival in Egypt, William suffered with medical ailments and had many visits to hospitals with influenza Embarked per the "Royal George" from Alexa...
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HOBLER, Minnie
Minnie Hobler was born in 1875 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She was the ninth of the eleven children of Francis Helvetius Hobler (1825-1889) and his wife Jessie Ann (nee Learmonth) (1838-1910). Minnie's forebears on both sides were pioneer settlers in the colonies - Van Dieman's L...