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WW1
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Gone to War as Sister: Alice, Eleanor and Mary Gallin - three sisters
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Australian Nurses in the Great War
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Constance Brooks - traveller
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Danger even Death
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Emily Black - devoted sister; Bessie Johnson - 'retired army sister'
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Great War Nurses and their East Melbourne Links
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with East...
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Gone to War as Sister: Interior of ward 3 AGH, Abbeville
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Jessie Gemmell - decorated
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Minnie Hobler - photographer
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Nursing after the War
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Sisters and Brothers at the Front
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: Stella Muriel Priday - teenage eloper; Eliza Rowan - witness to a scandal
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: The Cost to Nurses' Health
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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Gone to War as Sister: The War through Nurses' Eyes
One of 16 illustrated panels prepared by Janet Scarfe and volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition, Gone to War as Sister, commemorating the lives and work of the many women who served as nurses in the First World War and had connection with...
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HAAKE, Adolf George
Adolf George Haake wa born in March 1889 in Bradford Leeds to Adolf and Clara Haake, both from Hanover, Germany. Adolf had five siblings, 1 older sister BeA Cmpany rta, two older brothers Christian and Ernest, and two younger sisters Clara and Celia. The UK 1901 census show the f...
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HABEL, Louis
Carl Louis Habel was born in Murtoa in 1883, the son of Johann Carl and Emilie Clara Habel. In 1909, he married Florence Annie Shearwood, born 1889 in Collingwood, and in 1914, they were living at 1089 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne, with their two children, Melville Carl, born 19...
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HABEL, Oswald Emile
Born at Dunkeld in the Western District of Victoria, Oswald Habel was the eldest of eleven children born to Emil and Annie (nee Hempel) of Minyip,Victoria. Of these children, two other Habel boys, Otto and Walter, joined up. In the wider habel family, in all, there were nine volu...
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HALL, May Isabel
May Isabel Hall was born on 6 August 1879 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria. She was the fourth of the five children and first daughter of John Pitchers Hall (c1836–92) and his wife Isabella Jane (c1845–1918), successful drapers of that city. (Her registered name was Mary but she...
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HALLEY, Edward John
Edward John Halley was 28 years old when he enlisted at Geelong on 14 November, 1916. He had already had one earlier attempt to sign up, probably in Melbourne, but had been rejected because of poor vision and bad teeth. He was in employment as a liftman and gave as his address 20...
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HAMILTON, Richard Henry
Richard Henry Hamilton was the son of John Lambie Hamilton and his wife, Clara Jane nee Booth. He enlisted at age 19, with the consent of his mother. According to his enlistment form, he lived at Croft House, Warley Rd., East Melbourne. The record was not corrected until 1917, wh...
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HAMILTON, Robert Bell
Robert Bell Hamilton was 23 years old and practising as an architect when he enlisted on 8 December, 1917. At the time, he was a single man and living with his mother, Jane Napier Hamilton (nee Bell), at 91 Powlett St, East Melbourne. He had been educated at Scotch College. He wa...
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HAMPSON, Francis Christian
Frank Christian Hampson was born in Sydney, possibly Strathfield, in 1887. He became a wool classer by trade, moving across NSW and Victoria to the different woolsheds. On 24 March 1915, he married Eileen Mary Evans, at St Thomas Church, Essendon. They were to have a child, Murra...
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HANKINSON, Stanley James
Stanley Hankinson was the second child of seven. Born in 1885 to James and Catherine Hankinson, nee Stratton, he had an elder sister Elizabeth (Lily) Ellen b. 1883 and then two sisters and two brothers: Ethel May b. 1888; Norman Lewis b. 1890; Albert Edward (Bert) b.1894; and Ire...
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HARRIS, Bertram
There is nothing in Bert Harris's military record that places him anywhere near East Melbourne at the time of the Great War. He grew up in New Zealand and enlisted at Casula, NSW. He gave as his next of kin his brother, Albert, living at Aratapu, and enlisted on 23/11/1915 follow...