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DUNKLING, George Joseph
George Dunkling was a watchmaker, aged 38, when he enlisted on 13 April, 1918. He was married (1908) to Elizabeth, nee Bruce, in Sydney and they had one child, Nancy - later Mrs. L. Brennan. He seems to have had a raher chequered career - in 1903, he lists himself in the Electora...
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Help needed for Boer War research
Rob Droogleever has written to us seeking help with research for his new book which is a regimental history of the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles Contingent in the Boer War. The book will include short biographies of the men involved and he is looking for any information, photos, l...
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Joe Pearce - Informant Saw Him Killed
On 17 August 1914 Arthur Mueller ‘Joe’ Pearce enlisted to fight in the Great War. He was the eighth man from Essendon to sign up and the first VFL footballer to volunteer for the war. He had played 152 games for the Melbourne Football Club from 1904-1913, and in a game where play...
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Remembering the Great War
On November 11 every year we remember the dead of the Great War and especially our Australian dead, those young men who, in loyalty to England and with a sense of adventure joined up in their thousands, leaving behind families, jobs, friends and thinking they’d be ‘home by Christ...
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Smith, George Alexander James
This photo was provided by Eileen Mina Cormick with the suggestion that he was possibly the subject of one of our WW1 biographies: George Joseph Dunkling. She suggests that he was adopted by the Dunkling family and when war was declared enlisted under his adopted name, George Jos...