WW1

Subjects WW1 Author Sue Larkin Family name POTTAGE Given names Henry Rupert Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Jolimont, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 15173 Rank Pte Military units 14th Australian General Hospital

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POWERLETT, George

George Powerlett stated that he was born in East Melbourne on 7 December 1884. However his grand-daughter, Valerie Weber, has unearthed a slightly different story. According to the Victorian Police Gazette he was found abandoned in the Cricket Reserve (Yarra Park) on 20 December...

Wife - Sarah Jane Poynter, 583 Victoria Parade East Melbourne James enlisted on the 18 September 1916 at the age of 43 years and 8 months with the occupation o Clerk His parents were deceased, however, James married Sarah Jane on 23 November 1916 who became his next of kin Upon e...

John Colin Prictor was on of three children born to James Henry Prictor and his wife, Catherine, nee McLeod. He grew up in Hamilton, in the Western District of Victoria, and was a storekeeper by occupation, living at Noradju. When he enlisted on 14 August, 1916, he was a married...

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PRIDAY, Stella Muriel

Stella Muriel Priday (nee Hurford) was born on 19 April 1886, in Hawthorn, Victoria, the first of the three children of financier Thomas Walter Hurford (c1851-1892) and his wife Mary Grace (nee Paterson) (d1945). Thomas Hurford died in 1892 aged 41 after several months of illness...

Enlisted on he 21st July 1915 at the age of 44 years and 10 months and was a Departmet Superintendant for the St John's Ambulance at Geelong His sister also resided at Geelong, however, there is a reference to an address at 41 Wellington Street East Melbourne Joined the 3rd Light...

Subjects WW1 Family name PULLAR Given names George Edward Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 21 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 6387 Rank Pte Military units 23rd Battalion, 18th Reinforcement

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PURDEY, Joseph Ernest

Joseph Ernest Purdey was born on 20 September 1889 in East Melbourne. He was the son of James Purdey (1852-1924) and Jessie Carrick Maver (1852-1927). The 1892 Sands & McDougall Post Office directory lists J. Purdy as caretaker of the Friendly Society Gardens, Yarra Park, East Me...

Joseph Charles Quin was born in Cobden, Victoria c March 1885. He was the son of John and Sarah Quin. On enlistment on 12 February 1916 he gave his occupation as labourer. He had been employed for the previous three years by Bennie, Teare and Co., suppliers of oil engines which h...

Edward Quinn had no real connection with East Melbourne, other than that his mother, Bridget, lived in St Joseph's Convent, 360 Albert St, East Melbourne, now the Mary McKillop Centre. At the time of his enlistment for the war, he was working as a labourer in Hamilton, Victoria....

Subjects WW1 Author Sylvia Black Family name RADCLIFFE Given names Harold Octavius Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Avondale House 127 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2010 Rank Pte Military units 57th Batt...

Cecil Harry Ramsdale was born on 9 August 1890 at Prahran. He was the son of John Alfred Ramsdale and Margaret Daisy McGowan. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar. On his enlistment papers of 13 April 1913 he stated that he was a motor tyre traveller and, both parents having died...

In the First World War, Alfred Leonard Rawlins volunteered to serve overseas with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He enlisted on 19 February,1917, and embarked at Melbourne, Victoria, aboard HMAT Themistocles on 4 August 1917. He was placed in the 3rd Pioneering Battalion as...

George Veitch Redpath was born in 1886 in Bendigo, where his family had been resident for two generations. He was the son of Thomas Veitch Redpath and his wife Louisa, nee Payne. He was educated at the local Ironbark School and by the age of fifteen he was employed by jeweller, W...

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Subjects WW1 Family name REESE Given names John Howard Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 10 Brunswick Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 3411 Rank Dvr Military units 3rd Field Artillery Brigade

Henry William Reeve was born in East Melbourne in 1876, but appears to have had no further contact with the suburb. When he enlisted on 10 August, 1915, he was living with his wife, Lily G Reeve at Castlemaine St. ,Yarraville , and working as a labourer. He was then thirty eight...

Killed in action 25 April-2 May 1915 Gallipoli

Subjects WW1 Family name REILLY Given names Harold Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Merton Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 6112 Rank Cpl Military units 7th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement

Subjects WW1 Family name REILLY Given names William Leslie Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 102 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 13483 Rank Dvr Military units 5th Motor Transport Company

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REYNOLDS, Raymond Gifford

Raymond Gifford Reynolds was born in Bendigo in 1895. He was the son of Harry Thomas and Jessie Reynolds. On his enlistment papers dated 19 August 1914 he stated that he was a draper and that he been an apprentice with Myers in Bendigo for three years. He gave his mother as his n...

Subjects WW1 Family name RICHMOND Given names Albert James Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 64 Clarendon Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 445 Rank Pte Military units Australian Remount Unit 1, Squadron 2

Edwin Riley was born in East Melbourne in July 1898. When he enlisted on 19 October, 1916, he was 28 years old, married to Lilian Ida Riley and livng at 16 Harmsworth St., Collingwood, Victoria. He had previous military experience in 1911, serving with the Australian Field Artile...