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BROOKS, Constance Jessie
Constance Jessie Brooks (1888–1966), who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India from 1917 to 1919, was the daughter of Yates and Emma Brooks (nee Mullen). Constance’s father Yates had come to Victoria at the age of 13 with his parents John and Eliza and five sib...
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BROWNLEE, Robert
Robert Brownlee was born in Glasgow in 1886. He was an apprentice at Harvey Engineering in Glasgow for five years, listed as an Engineer. He left the UK on SS Dorset from Liverpool on 3 August 1912 and arrived in Melbourne on the 21 September 1912, where he is listed as living at...
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BRUNT, Archibald Andrew
Archie was born Parhran in 1894, son of William Brunt and Sarah Buckland nee Brunt Enlisted on the 11 Jan 1915 in Melbourne, aged 21 and listed as a farmer Spent several month 11 Jan 1915 to29 March 1915 at the 13th Light Horse Training depot at Broadmedows Embarked on A34 ss Per...
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BRUNTON, Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander Brunton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in December 1878. He was from a family of 5 brothers and 5 sisters. His father, Thomas Brunton, was in the British Army and possibly fought at the relief of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny in 1858. He is listed as a private i...
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BUDDON, Frederick Phillip
Frederick Buddon was 36 years old, 5' 9", 11 stone, 8 lbs., with fair hair and blue eyes when he enlisted on 27/1/1915. He listed his occupation as Commercial Traveller and gave his next of kin as his sister, Sister Laura Buddon, 150 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne. He had had...
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BURFORD, Lionel
Lionel de Vere Burford was born in Moonee Ponds on 25 June 1894,the second of two sons. His parents, Aubrey John Burford and Annie (nee Edwards) had married in 1892. Annie had been married previously and had a small daughter. Her husband died soon after and Annie took on life as...
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BURKE, Patrick Thomas
Patrick Thomas Burke was born in Launceston, Tasmania, the son of Patrick Burke and his wife Ellen, nee Vaughan. At the time he enlisted he was working as a salesman at Dimmeys Model Stores, 150-162 Swan St., Richmond. he must have been well-liked, because, hearing that he had be...
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BURLEY, Rexford
Rexford Burley or Burleigh was born in Stanley, Tasmania. He was the son of Louisa Agnes Burley. b.1881,but no father is listed on the certificate of birth. On his death certificate, his grandparents are listed as his parents, William Matthew Burley, while the mother was recorded...
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BURLEY, Thomas Mathew
William Thomas Burley was born in Tasmania, but by 1914, his father had retired from farming and both parents were living in Warnambool, Victoria. William was nearby, working as a rabbiter in Dunkeld at the foot of the Grampians. By 1916, however, the family structure had changed...
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BURN, Cecil George
The son of Richard George Burn and Eliza Jane Atkins, Cecil Burns was a 21 year old mechanic at the time he enlisted on 21 January, 1916. Before he left for the war, he married his sweetheart, Isobelle Childe Myrtle Kilminster and ,after training at Broadmeadows, embarked with hi...
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BURNELL, Frederick Joseph
Frederick Burnell was a clerk, living in East Melbourne. He was 36 years old, widowed, with two sons, Francis Joseph and Frederick Thomas Burnell, whom he left in the care of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. E. Hall. He enlisted on 17 August, 1914, and after training at Broadmead...
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BURNS, Stanley Henry
1697 Henry Malache (Denny) Carroll 2031A Stanley Henry Burns alias Henry Malache Carroll alias Dennis Martin Carroll Henry Malache Carroll was born on 31 October 1889 in Waratah, Tasmania to Thomas and Charlotte Mary (Pullen) Carroll. He was the fifth child and second son, and wa...
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BUSH, Hubert Sheppard
Hubert was born in Sandhurst, Bendigo on 6 July 1876 to Albert Bush and Jane Dalton. He was the second youngest of 11 children. His early life was spent in Sandhurst where he attended St. Andrew's College, Bendigo before entering Trinity College, University of Melbourne in 1898 t...
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CAMBRIDGE, Ernest George Henry
Ernest Cambridge enlisted in June, 1914. He was then just over 18 and an assistant in the Mail Branch of the Melbourne GPO. He had some previous experience, having served with the Senior Cadets 51 Battalion at Albert Park for two years. Following initial training, he embarked on...
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CAMERON, Henry Gervais Lovett
Henry Gervais Cameron was the son of Verney Lovett Cameron, a solicitor practising at 30 Collins St.East, Melbourne, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, nee Fraser. He was born in Kew and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. In 1915, when he enlisted, Henry Lovett Cameron was 35 y...
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CAMERON, John
John Cameron was one of a family of eight boys and one girl, of whom three brothers had died before John Cameron. He gave as his next of kin his sister, Violet May Cameron, living in Vale St. East Melbourne. He himself lived at 46 Hocking St. Footscray, while his elder brother, W...
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CAMERON, Robert Ewen
ROBERT EWEN CAMERON Born 27 October 1890 at Portarlington Victoria, the son of a Presbyterian Minister Educated at Geelong College, University of Melbourne and Adelaide, Graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree Teacher at St Peter's College in 1912 in the Prep School then transfer...
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CAMPBELL, John
John Campbell's origins would have remained a mystery, were it not for his descendents. Although he claimed as his address C% James O'Grady at Grant St., East Melbourne, there is no Grant Street in East Melbourne. Luckily, in 2020 and 2021, two connections, one of John O'Grady an...
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CAMPBELL, John McNeil
John Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1897. His father was the Victorian Manager of the London Bank, based at 90 Bourke Street, Melbourne, and John lived at this address. He enlisted on the 30 September 1914 and entered his age as 19 years, six months. He was in fact only 17. It...
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CANTWELL, Philip Sylvester
Philip Sylvester Cantwell was born at Ballan in country Victoria on the 15th January 1882. His father was Philip Cantwell and his mother was Alice Leahey. Phillip Snr and Alice were married in 1880 and Phillip Jnr was the first child. HIs brother, John Patrick Cantwell was born i...
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CARDWELL, James Pearson
James Cardwell was born at Blackpool on the 1st March 1877. He was living with his parents in Blackpool in 1891 according to the 1891 census. He marries Elizabeth Hannah Duxbury at the Holy Trinity Church south Shore Blackpool in 1897 His first child Margaret Ellen Knoles Cardwel...
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CARINE, John William
John William Carnie embarked from Melbourne in October 1917, however there is no service record available.
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CARMODY, John Patrick
John Patrick Carmody was born on 19 January, 1890 in Carlton to John Joseph Carmody and Elizabeth Culhane who was born in Limerick Ireland. His sister Jane Marguerite was born in 1895 in Carlton. At the time of enlistment on 15 october, 1917, John was working as an Electrician ha...
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CARROLL, Alphonso Bertram
Service record is not available.