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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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835 records and collections
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THWAITES, Thomas Joseph
Subjects WW1 Family name THWAITES Given names Thomas Joseph Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 162 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 22490 Rank Gnr Military units 23rd Howitzer Brigade
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TOMSETT, Francis Henry
Subjects WW1 Family name TOMSETT Given names Francis Henry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 17 Lansdowne Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 38147 Rank Gnr Military units 11th Field Artillery Brigade
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TOPE, William
William Tope was born c.1893 in Camberwell, Victoria. He was the son of William Charles Tope and his wife, Alexandra Mary, nee Taylor. The family moved to East Melbourne in 1909 when William snr bought the house at 110 Vale Street. When he enlisted at Brighton, Tasmania, on 22 Au...
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TORPEY, Henry Alphonsus
Henry Alphonsus Torpey was born in 1884 in Limerick, Ireland. He was the youngest son of John and Catherine Torpey. The family emigrated in 1897 and was living at 376 Albert Street, East Melbourne by 1902 when John died. Catherine died in 1907. The children continued to live toge...
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TOVELL, Ada
ADA TOVELL – FIRST WOMAN DENTIST Michelle Calder has contacted us seeking information about her grand-mother’s maternal grand-mother, Ada Tovell (nee Fenton), who she said was the first woman in Australia to practise as a dentist. Ada Fenton had been a student at Ormiston College...
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TRACEY, Edward Albert
Edward Albert Tracey ws the fifth son of the eleven children of Patrick Edward and Charlotte Tracey. He was born in 1894 in East Melbourne. Sergeant-Major Patrick Tracey was a member of the permanent staff of the Victorian Rifle Associatoin. In his early days he had been a keen p...
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TRACEY, George
George Rosen Tracey was the fourth son of the eleven children of Patrick Edward and Charlotte Tracey. He was born in 1892 in East Melbourne. Sergeant-Major Patrick Tracey wa a member of the permanent staff of the Victorian Rifle Association. In his early days he had been a keen p...
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TRACEY, John Henry
John Henry (Jack) Tracey was the third son of the eleven children of Patrick Edward and Charlotte Tracey. Sergeant-Major Patrick Tracey was a member of the permanent staff of the Victorian Rifle Association. In his early days he had been a keep participant in the various shooting...
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TRACEY, Murray
Private Murray Tracey was born in Rosebury, South Australia in 1894. At the time of his enlistment on 25 March, 1915, his father was deceased and mother Mary Tracey was residing at 1002 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne. Murray's occupation was listed as drover. Murray spent two mont...
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TREWHITT, George Alfred
born East Melbourne, Wounded in action
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TRICKETT, Arthur Thomas
Arthur Thomas (Tom) Trickett was born on 12 June 1896 at Albert Villa, 118 Albert Street, East Melbourne. He was the son of Edward Arthur (known as Arthur) Trickett and his first wife, Harriett. Harriett was the daughter of Thomas Wright, a builder who constructed many houses in...
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TRICKETT, David Edward
David Edward Trickett was born on 12 February 1899 at Albert Villa, 118 Albert Street, East Melbourne. He was the son of Edward Arthur (known as Arthur) Trickett and his second wife, Marion Elsie, the daughter of the Rev. D. Meadowcroft of the East Melbourne Congregational Church...
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TUCKER, Beryl May
Beryl May Tucker was born in 1890 in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury to Robert Octavius Tucker (1852–1937) and his wife Mary Eleanor (‘Ella’) (1859–1941). At the time of Beryl’s birth, her father Robert was a teacher at the Brighton Street School in Richmond, the Melbourne inn...
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TURNBULL, Harry Henry
Subjects WW1 Family name TURNBULL Given names Harry Henry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 85 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 486 Rank Pte Military units 6th Battalion, D Company
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TYMMS, Edward Frederick Victor
Edward Frederick Victor Tymms was born in Melbourne in 1889. He was the son of Albert Edward (known as Edward) Tymms and Agnes Elizabeth Ohlenrott. Edward Snr was a pastry cook, confectioner and caterer and he shared premises at the top end of Bourke Street with his brother-in-la...
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UNVERHAU, Hugo James
Hugo James Unverhau was born in Auburn in 1897 to Joseph Hugo Unverhau and Catherine (nee Connolly). James was of German descent, his grandfather immigrating to the Western district of Victoria in the 1840's. James met and married his wife Catherine in Geelong in 1885. Electoral...
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VANDERZEE, Alexander Robert
Robert was born in 1894, the son of George Alexander Albert Vanderzee (aka George Alexander), livery stable proprietor, and wife, Annie, hotel licencee. On his enlistment papers Robert states that he was born in East Melbourne. A search of the Sands & McDougall Post Office direct...
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VAWDON, Harold Frederick
Harold Frederick Vawdon was 23 when he enlisted. He was a Commercial Traveller; so perhaps was his father, who wrote several times enquiring after him from various addresses, one a hotel in Ballarat (in fact, Electoral Rolls confirm this occupation). He enlisted on 13 March, 1916...
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VINCENT, Robert Collier
ROBERT COLLIER VINCENT #19064 Robert Collier Vincent born on Xmas Day 25th December 1892 (dates do not align) enlisted in the AIF on the 12th March 1917 in Melbourne. Robert was aged 23 years and 2 months and being 6' tall and weighing 136 lbs with a fair complexion and hair and...
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VINEN, Peter Henry
Subjects WW1 Family name VINEN Given names Peter Henry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 144 Simpson Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 24612 Rank Dvr Military units 3rd Division Ammunition Column
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VINES, Thomas
Thomas Vines was born in Geelong on 29 December 1868. His father was Joshua Vines who, according to a brief obituary was 'a member of the old coaching firm of Vines and McPhee, who ran many coaches in the Ballarat, Wimmera and Western disricts under the style of Cobb and Co., in...
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VINES, Thomas
Thomas Nicholls Vines was born in Hamilton, Victoria on 15 September 1891. He was the son of Thomas Vines and his wife, Christina McDougall. Thomas snr had spent his life in a world of horses. He had been a horse dealer and during the Boer War had supplied horses to be shipped to...
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VIRGOE, Percy Ernest
Percy Ernest Virgoe was the son of William Richard Neil Virgoe (d.1902) and his wife, Harriette Mary nee McCulloch. William, Percy's father, was the owner of Mathoura Station, N.S.W. and had a keen interest in horse racing, especially steeple-chasing. However Percy was born in 18...
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VOCE, Alfred
Alfred Voce was born in Salisbury, England in 1889. He was the elder of the two sons of Edward Voce and his wife, Charlotte Eliza. The family arrived in Australia in September 1913 aboard the Commonwealth. They settled in East Melbourne, renting a house at 38 Albert Street. By th...