WW1

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

William Geggie was born in East Melbourne, probably in May, 1888. He does not seem to have any other connection with the suburb, but lived with his father, also William Geggie, at 4 Caroline Street, South Yarra. He enlisted on 29 December, 1915, having had three yearsa previosu m...

Albert Francis Gellatly served in both World Wars and in the Citizens Military Service. His name appears on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial, Panel 91, Supplementary Panel 10. He died of an unspecified illness, and his record of service in World War 2 has not yet...

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GEMMELL, Jessie Ross

Jessie Ross Gemmell was one of nine children born to William Gemmell (1834–1903) and his wife Annie née Fenwick (c1839–1878). Both William and Annie were Scottish immigrants to the colony of Victoria in the gold rush decade of the 1850s. Annie likely came with her brother Peter,...

James Rankin Gibb was born in Avoca and grew up on a farm in Wycheproof. He was born in 1873, the eldest child of James Rankin Gibb and his wife, Christina May Wedster, and was followed by five other children: John Gavin Gibb b. 1875; Mary Agmes Gibb, b. 1878; William McMinn Gibb...

The son of James Henry Gibson and his wife, Rosetta Priscilla Overan, George Stormonth Gibson was 27 years old when he enlisted on 17 August, 1914. He was a fitter by trade and, at the time of enlistment, was a single man living with his mother and sister Jean at 92 Gipps Street,...

John Gilbert was born in October, 1882, and was a New Zealander by birth, the son of Thomas and Ellen Gilbert. He had at least one sibling, a brother, Thomas Gilbert, living at Puheohahu, New Zealand. He enlisted in Melbourne on 9 February, 1915, giving his address as 198 Albert...

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GILBERT, William George

William George Gilbert was born in East Melbourne and on enlisting, gave his address as 115 Erskine Street, Middle Park. He have his mother, Annie Taylor as his next of kin, advising that she lived at 55 Munro Street, East Melbourne. Her address, in fact, was 56 Munro Street, Wes...

Charles William Giles was the son of William Henry Giles of Cassilis, near Omeo, Victoria and his wife, Elizabeth Jane, nee Fulton. He was aged thirty and three months when he enlisted and described his occupation as Engineer/ Driver (Engine Driver). Although he was passed as fit...

Born in East Melbourne December 7th, 1896 to George and Florence Maud Gilliman (nee Deane), George was educated at Christian Brother's College, East St. Kilda, then St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The eldest of three brothers, the next son Bernard Joseph enlisted for WW1, a...

Born Bernard Joseph Gilliman in East Melbourne 22 May 1898 to George and Florence Maud Gilliman (nee Dean), Joseph was educated at Christian Brothers College, East St. Kilda then St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. The middle son of three brothers, his eldest brother George Pat...

Norman Robert Glass was born in 1893 at Albert Park Victoria. He was the eldest of two sons to Robert William Glass and his wife, Adelaide, nee Modral. He also nominated his elder sister Gladys Glass on his enlistment form,whose address he gave as the State Savings Bank, Elizabet...

Henry George Gleed was 26 years old and working as a farmer when he enlisted at Hamilton Victoria on 18 August 1916. He was the son of Eleanor Jane,' Helena' Gleed, nee Gilding and Richard Thomas Gleed, a grazier of Casterton. George, as he was known, was one of six children, Ada...

Richrd Arthur Godfrey enlisted on 23 August, 1915. He was 26 years old, single and worked as a contractor, and gave his home address as 121 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. His next of kin was his father, Alfred Godfrey, living at 63 Queen Margaret Grove, Mildmay, London. Richard...