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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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LA TROBE, Sophie
Born Sophia de Montmollin, in Neuchâtel, a French speaking town in Switzerland, Sophie was the eighth of sixteen children. Sophie grew up in an imposing town house and M. Montmollin was active in public affairs as befitted his noble birth, the family having been prominent citizen...
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LAMANDE, Henri Joseph
Henri Joseph Lamande was born in 1884 in Majorca, Victoria. He was the son of Ambroise Lamande and Kate, née Harrington. Ambroise was representative of Prunier and Company cognac, and, for a shorter period, of Roederer champagne. As such he made frequent trips around the country....
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LAMANDE, Leopold George
Leopold George Lamande was born in 1883 in Maryborough, Victoria. He was the son of Ambroise Lamande and Kate, née Harrington. Ambroise was representative of Prunier and Company cognac, and, for a shorter period, of Roederer champagne. As such he made frequent trips around the co...
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LANGFORD, Clarence Augustus
Clarence Langford was the son of James Langford and his wife Blanche, nee Pope. He was 23 when he signed up to join the Australian Imperial Force. He was 5' 8" tall, a little above average for the time, a salesman by occupation and a member of the Church of England. He enlisted o...
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LANGLEY, James
James Langley was forty when he volunteered for army service. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, an accountant, married, living with his wife Evelyn Ellen at 18 Jolimont Rd., East Melbourne. He enlisted at South Yarra on 18 June, 1917. He was a tall man, 5'11", with brown hair an...
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LAPPAN, Matthew
Matthew Lappin was born in Burnie Tasmania in May 1887. He enlisted on 20 July 1915, at the age of 28 years and 2 months. At the time, he gave as his address C% Mrs Emma Connors, 105 Victoria St., East Melbourne, perhaps a boarding house. He was, by occupation, a labourer, 5' 6"...
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LARKING, Rupert
Rupert Larking was a 29 year old Commercial Traveller from Albury when he enlisted on 27 November, 1915. Born in 1888, he was actually two years younger than his stated age and the eldest of four children of John G. Larking and his wife Adelaide.He had been married to Genevieve o...
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LARKINS, Brian Lockwood
Brian Lockwood Larkins was one of twins born on 27 March 1899 to Margaret and William Larkins. He was the twin of Frank Lockwood Larkins and had two other brothers, William, born 1902, and Noel, born 1907, He also had two sisters, Beryl and Alice (died 1909). Along with his broth...
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LARKINS, Frank Lockwood
Frank Lockwood Larkins was the twin brother of Brian Lockwood Larkins. The twins were born to Margaret and Walter Larkins on 20 March 1899. They had four sisters, but these are un-named in records. Frank Larkins left school at the age of thirteen to attend the new Royal Australia...
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LARKINS, William James
William James Larkins was the son of William John Larkins, labourer, and Annie Teresa Browne. He was born in Richmond on 24 October 1898, only 16 years and 8 months at the time of his enlistment on 3 July 1915, rather less than the 18 years and 2 months he claimed. He was at the...
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LATHAM, Leslie Scott
Leslie Scott Latham was born on 13 June, 1879 in Fitzroy to Thomas and Janet Latham (nee Scott) of Ivanhoe. He was educated at Scotch College and commenced a Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne University in 1897, residing at Ormond College. After completing his B.A. Leslie commenced s...
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LATTIMORE, Victory Reginald
Victor Reginald Lattimore was born on 24 May 1897 in Jolimont, the exact address, however, is not known. He was the son of Arthur Lattimore (1868-1915) and Louisa Augusta, nee Pay (1866-1948). Arthur has been variously described as a traveller, dairy salesman and grocer. When he...
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LAVELL, George Charles
George Charles Lavall was, by occupation, a horsebreaker. Born in Bairnsdale, Victoria, he was 33 years and 6 months old when he enlisted, a married man, 5' 9 1/2 " tall, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. He was also identified by numerous scars on his arms, knees and abdomen,...
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LAWRENCE, Helen Ruth
Helen Ruth Lawrence (1883–1964) Helen Ruth Lawrence is one of the nurses from St Peter’s Church Eastern Hill, East Melbourne named on the honour boards commemorating parishioners who served in the Great War of 1914–18. Sister Lawrence enlisted in 1915 and served in Egypt and Fran...
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LAWRENCE, Percival Joseph
Percival Joseph Lawrence was born in Didmanton, Gloucester, England on 13 April 1892. He was the son of Joseph Lawrence. He arrived in Melbourne in November 1913 and settled in Bendigo. When he enlisted on 17 August 1914 he gave his occupation as grocer’s assistant. He was 5ft 10...
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LEAKE, Lancelot Luke
Lancelot Luke Leake was born in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1890. At 25 years old, he enlisted, giving as his next of kin his wife, Jean Winifred Leake. He was well educated and and had a position as a Judge's Associate. His address in East Melbourne - 'Belmont', Clarendon S...
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LEARY, Joseph
Joseph Leary was aged 18 at enlistment, and working as a mechanic. His enlistment form is marked 'not to leave Australia until 19 years of age'. His next of kin and adoptive father was Thomas Henry Haig/Haigh, police constable, of 32 Jolimont Street, Jolimont. His parents were li...
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LEE, Harold
Harold Lee was twenty-one years and five months when he enlisted at Melbourne on 7 July, 1915. He was a confectioner by trade and lived with his mother, Matilda Elizabeth Lee, a widowed dressmaker living at 9 Albert St., East Melbourne. After training with A Company, 10th Battali...
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LEE, Roy Martin Corrington
Roy Martin Corrington Lee joined the AIF on 17 June, 1915. He was one of 11 children, six boys and five girls, born to Henry Lee (1867-1937) and his wife Eliza Catherine, nee Walsh (1865-1961). Roy Lee was then 25 years old, married, and working as a Motor or Coach Painter. He ha...
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LEE-ARCHER, Estelle Frances
Estelle Frances Lee-Archer (1879-1960) was born in Detention, Tasmania, the eleventh of fourteen children born to John Lee-Archer and his wife Mary Anne (nee Lyons). John Lee-Archer (1842-1907) was a second generation Tasmanian, a son of the distinguished colonial architect and c...
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LEIGH, Allen Frederick
Alan Frederick Leigh was the son of William James Thomas Leigh, a baker by trade, and his wife, Elizabeth, nee Mclean. In 1916, when Alan enlisted at the age of eighteen, the family were living at 476 Albert St., East Melbourne, where Elizabeth ran a boarding house. In the 1919 c...
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LEIHY, John Henry
John Henry Leihy was born in 1896 in East Melbourne, but the exact address in not known. He was the third son of Andrew Richard Leihy and Marion, née Eivers. Andrew was a French polisher and in 1916 was president of the Furniture Trade Union. He was also a member of the Total Abs...
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LEIHY, William
William Leihy was born in Fitzroy in 1888. He was the eldest of the five sons of Andrew Richard Leihy and his wife Marion, née Eivers. Andrew was a French polisher and in 1916 was president of the Furniture Trade Union. He was also a member of the Total Abstinence Society and in...
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LENNOX, Andrew
Andrew Lennox was 25 years and 11 months old when he enlisted in the AIF at East Melbourne. He had been born in Scotland and gave his next of kin as his sister Jenny Lennot, living at 11 Olm St., Pennycuik, Scotland. He was a sailor by trade and may not have been highly literate:...