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CARROLL, William Edward

Mr William Carroll, 139 Simpson Street, East Melbourne (late of the Customs Department), has been notified that his only son, Sergeant William E. Carroll, who enlisted in Febuary, 1915, and served in Gallipoli, and France has been wounded in France. William Edward Carroll enliste...

Henry Carson was a surgical bootmaker, aged 27 years old when he enlisted on 12 July, 1915. He was a married man and he and his wife, Susan, lived at 23 George Street, East Melbourne. He had some previous experience, having been in the Cadets at school. He was attached to the 6th...

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CARTER, Eric Charles

Eric Carter was born in Spotswood Victoria on the 15 March 1893. His father was Herbert James Carter and his mother was Louise Carter. In 1914, he was living with his mother and father at 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne.He enlisted in Melbourne on the 6 July 1915. He was by o...

Henry Norman Carver was born in 1893 in Yea, Victoria to Henry Garret Carver, a grazier in Flowerdale, and Florence (nee Johnstone). His parents had moved to East Melbourne by 1902 where his father passed away at 79 Hotham Street. Little is known about Henry's early life apart fo...

Frederick Cass was born in 1892 in Balmain, Sydney to Thomas and Harriet Cass. He had 2 brothers, George and Thomas, and a sister Ruth, all born in the Sydney area. Frederick enlisted for service on 15 August, 1914. He was working as a clerk and living in East Melbourne. As next...

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CATHIE, Harry Lorraine

Harry Cathie was born at Queenscliff in Victoria on the 15 Jan 1892. His mother was Kate and his father, John Cathie. John Cathie worked with the Postal Department and died in 1895. Harry was working at the State Saving Bank of Victoria as a clerk when he signed up in 1915 and li...

Adam Smith Cattanach was not named after the great economic thinker, but after his mother, Sarah Cattanach, nee Smith. He was the son of Henry James Goodriche Cattanach (b.18/9/1833), a land agent, who had migrated to Australia from Scotland. Adam Cattanach was the seventh child,...

Harry Cattanach was the son of Henry James Goodrich Cattanach (1833-1911) and his wife, Sarah, nee Smith. He was one of nine children born to the couple: Christina (b.1864), Sarah (b.1865), Jane (b.1967), Harriet (b.1871), Victoria (b.1873), Harry (b.1875), Adam (b.1877), Anne (b...

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CECIL, Edith Ruth

Edith Ruth Cecil was born in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1888, second youngest in the large family of Thomas William Cecil (c1840-1912) and his wife Mary (nee Roach) (1849-1908). Thomas had come to Victoria in 1853 on the 'Great Britain' aged 13 with his father and y...

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CHAMBERS, Gordon Enoch John

Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller. He had married in 1916, when he was 21, to Elsie Kent Wade, but they did not appear to...

Leslie Henry Charles Clark was the second son of Samuel Clark, a railway employee, and his wife Charlotte. He enlisted at age 18 years 6 months on 8 April 1916 at Melbourne, making his birth date around November, 1897. His brother, Percy Victor Clark, enlisted the same year, on 1...

Percy Victor Clark was the eldest son of Charlotte and Samuel Clark and brother to Leslie Henry Charles Clark. Like his borther he was born in Balmain Street, Richmond, and went to school at Brighton St. State School, Richmond. He served in the Senior Cadets and had continued his...

William Clark was 34 years old when he enlisted on 28 July, 1915. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, but living in Melbourne and was a draper by trade. He appears to have had only a sister,who was still living in Scotland, because he nominates her as his next of kin, Mrs Anne T...

Herbert Clifford Clarke was born on 23 May, 1879, to William Clarke and Jane Teresa Clarke, nee Jordan. He enlisted on 24 July, 1917, aged 38 years and two months. He was , at the time, a pastry cook and was to go on to become a master baker. He had married Daisy Rachel Gifford i...

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CLEMENT, Sydney Reynold

Sydney Clement was born on the 4 March 1873 at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He was the second son of Reynold Clement of Snarestone Lodge in Snarestone, Leicestershire. The Clement family has an extraordinary history, Sydney's grandfather, Hampden Clement was the owner of several l...

Frederic Toon Cleverdon was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, but spent much of his life both before and after the war as a Methodist clergyman in Tasmania, first at Queenstown, then post-war to Burnie, Hobart and Launceston. He did his clerical training at Queen's College, Melbourne a...

Walter's biography is somewhat limited and difficult to detail due to the lack of precise detail, however, the following can be gleaned from the documents. MILITARY NOTES: Enlisted at Melbourne on 15th January 1915 aged 43 years. Previously served in the 2nd Scottish Horse in Sou...

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COBB, Alexander

Alexander Cobb was the son of Alexander and Catherine Cobb, nee Buchanan. His father is described in the Electoral Rolls as a cook, while the son is a warehouseman, alnd later, a storeman. He had served an apprenticeship Needham, Carter and Pirrie Coy, Melbourne, and may have sti...

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COCHRANE, Stanley

Stanley Warrender Cochrane was born in London in 1880, the second youngest of 6 sisters and 2 brothers. His father Robert was employed with Brooks, Robinson & Co, Melbourne based glass merchants. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1883, residing in the Hawthorn area. Stanley gre...

James Collins as a 24 year old labourer when he enlisted in 1915, living at 192 George St., East Melbourne, probably a boarding house. He named Mrs. Slocombe of that address as his next of kin, so she may well have been his sister or other relative. He began his military training...

Reginald Michael Collins had a fairly brief war. He enlisted on 1 March, 1915, and was returned to Australia on 12 February, 1916. A commercial traveller by trade, he lived at 73 Hotham St., East Melbourne with his mother, Mrs. Esther Collins. He was placed in the 23rd Battalion,...

Peter David Conlon was the son of Denis Conlon, of 419 Canning St. Carlton and his wife, Bridget (nee Egan). He was born on 25 September, 1896, in Jolimont, but did not otherwise live in East Melbourne, and was the eldest of four children, the others May, Edie and Jack. His desir...

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CONNOR, Eden Dennis

Eden Dennis Connor was born in Woodville near Adelaide in August 1887, he was the youngest son of George Alexander Connor and Jessie Hall Simpson. He moved from South Australia and married Maria Elsie Conliffe in Victoria in 1911 In 1914 he is listed on the electoral Roll as livi...

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CONWAY, John

John Conway was born at Longford in Ireland on 9 April 1885, the son of James and Mary (nee Farrell) Conway. The 1901 census shows him as being eighteen years of age, a Labourer, not married, and could read and write. He was living with his parents. At age 19, he enlisted with th...