WW1

Born in Glasgow, Scotland and enlisted in the AIF on the 6th July 1917 being 21 years and 9 months old. His sister Nancy Miller of Aldgate, London was nominated as his next of kin. Training at Broadmeadows Camp before embarkation on the 'Persic"on the 21st March 1918 with the 1st...

John Samuel Goldsbury was 18 years and 8 months old when he enlisted on 17 January, 1916. He was, by occupation, a civil servant, single and with some military training: 4 years in the Senior Cadets and six months in the 64th Citizens Forces. He was the son of John Marriott Golds...

Ambrose was 6' tall, weighed 12 stone 7 lbs and was 39 years old when he signed his attestation papers on 25 September 1916 at Enoggera in Queensland, although his file says his service dated from 2 February 1916. He had been a labourer in Cloncurry, Queensland, and his enlistmen...

James Goodall enlisted on 11 January, 1915, at the Drill Hall in Powlett St., East Melbourne, following an earlier attempt in Tasmania. He claimed to be nineteen years old and described his occupation as 'gardener and baker'. In fact, he was only seventeen, born in Magnet, near W...

Richard Harry Goold was born on 12 December, 1880 in Kyneton to James Crosbie Goold and Ann Martha Goold (nee Gutheridge). He completed Year 6 at State School before attending South Melboutne College to sub-matriculaton level. He then qualified as an engineer. Richard signed up t...

John James Gorrie was one of the three children of John James Gorrie (d. 25/8/1888) and his wife, Norah (d. 15/12/1918). From these dates, we might guess that the younger John James was the youngest child, as his father died in the year following his birth. On his enlistment form...

Rex Elmo Gotts was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1889, the son of Isaiah Alfred Gotts and his wife, Margaret Josephine, nee Riley. He was one of twelve children, eight boys and four girls, and the youngest of the three brothers who volunteered for World War 1: Rex Elmo, Roy Stanle...

Sydney Hartley Graham was a married man, an accountant and aged 36 when he enlisted at Adelaide on 7 March 1917. He had married his wife, Christina Jane, nee Macrae, on 11 January, 1911. The couple had no children and were living at 6 berkshire Street, Glenelg, South Australia. H...

Tom Graham was born in Inverness, Scotland, in April 1897. When he enlisted at Seymour on 24 March, 1916, he was eighteen and eleven months old and working as a crockery packer. He have his address as 36 Berry Street, East Melbourne, and appears to have had no family in Australia...

John Grant was born in Sale, Victoria in 1895 to William and Mary Grant (nee Keating). His father was born in Scotland in 1862 and mother in Waterford, Ireland. They married in 1894 at Sacre Coeur, Kew. JOhn was the eldest born of 5 children (3 brothers and 1 sister). He enlisted...

William Alexander Grant was born on Beechworth, Victoria in 1896 to William and Mary Grant (nee Keating. His father was born in Scotland in 1862 and mother in Waterford, Ireland. They married in 1894 at Sacre Coer, Kew. William was the second born of five siblings (3 brothers and...

Alisstair Cameron Gray was born in 1898 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area. He was the younger brother of Clark Maxwell Gray who was killed in action at Fromelles in July 1916. William Gray worked his way in...

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GRAY, Clark Maxwell

Clark Maxwell Gray was born on 6 December, 1896 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area. After completing his schooling William Gray worked his way into increasingly senior teaching roles in the Otago region unti...

Reginald Gray was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, in Octobet, 1893. He enlisted at Kerang, Victoria, on 21 November, 1917, having been once rejected for being under height - he was only 5 feett 1 inch tall. He was a dealer by occupation, but what he dealt in is not disclosed in...

George Greaves was 22 years old when he enlisted on 22 March 1915. He listed his occupation as "labourer"; his father, Alfred, was a jeweller and the family came from England at some time after 1901, as the UK Census of that year has the family living at Smethwick, Worcestershire...

John Victor Green was born in 1887 at Williamstown, Victoria. He was the youngest of two brothers and four sisters, of John Vanham Green and Charlotte Una West. He married in 1910, to Jessie Dunford Andrews and in 1911, they had a son, John Vanham Green. John Green was employed a...

Frank Grehan's story is one of the oddest accounts of a volunteer soldier in the Great War. Born in Stawell on 24 August, 1889, he had joined the British Imperial Navy on 24/8/1907, on his eighteenth birthday, serving as a 'Boy First Class' on board HMS Psyche. He remained in the...

Denis Basil Grey had almost no contact with East Melbourne, staying perhaps only very briefly at 'Rosebank', a boarding house in Clarendon St. afer being returned to Australia following a war injury. He was born in Ceylon of English parents, but the family then moved to Hong Kong...

Francis Lllewlyn Griffiths was the son of William Moore Griffiths and his wife Rosa August, nee Petterick. He joined up on 23 January 1915 at Victoria Barracks. At that stage he was 28 years old, 5' 8" tall, with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion. His occupation w...

George Griffiths was 27 and 2 months old when he enlisted to serve in World War 1. He had previous experience, having enlisted on 16 August, 1914, to serve in New Guinea with E Company, First Expeditonary Force. Griffiths departed from Australia on 19 August on board HS Berrima,...

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GRIFFITHS, Norman Lance Guy

Private (Pte) Norman Lance Griffiths, aka Tasman Lance Guy Griffiths, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of East Melbourne, Vic. Pte, Griffiths enlisted on 5 July 1915. His uncle, Arthur Griffith, as his legal guardian,gave his permission for the boy to join up. He had attempte...

Charles Edward Groves was born at Jolimont in November 1882. He was the only son of his widowed mother, Fanny Nina Groves, when he went off to the First World War, but had a sister, Ida. Before enlisting, he was working in the Belgian Congo, employed by the Belgian government as...

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GUTHRIE, Albert John

Albert John Guthrie enlisted in Melbourne on 26 January, 1914. He was one of four brothers, all of whom volunteered and enlisted just nine days after his brother, Henry David Guthrie, had enlisted in Perth. The brothers were the sons of David Guthrie, a tobacconist, and his wife,...