WW1

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COONEY, Francis Joseph

Francis Joseph Cooney was the son of James and Catherine Cooney and was born at the family home, Doontallie, 1121 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne 1886. He was the youngest of nine children. The others were: twins, Annetta and James (b.1871); Hugh Patrick (b,1874); Thomas (b.1876);...

Charles Cooper was aged 37 when he enlisted on 7 July, 1915. He was placed in the 8th Field Artillery Brigade at Broadmeadows and subsequently was moved to Maribynong to join the Australian Veterinary Section. He named as his next of kin his wife, Mrs. N.L. Cooper, whose address...

George Henry Cooper was one of ten children of Jesse Cooper and his wife Kate, nee Haggarty. He was a carpenter by trade, living in Heidelberg when he enlisted on 31 August, 1916. He married his first wife, Ruby Mertle Davis in 1917, and it is her address at 101 George St., East...

Leslie Cooper was a hairdresser, possibly working at Thellier Hairdresser, Prahran, where he had done his apprenticeship. He was a month off his 29th birthday when he enlisted on 12 February, 1916, and at 6' 1" tall, must have seemed liked an ideal recruit. He gave as his next of...

George John Corcoran was born in Port Melboune in 1886. His father George was a Civil Engineer. At the time of his enlistment on 21 October, 1914, his next of kin is his aunt Lucy Johnson who was living at Victora Parade, East Melbourne. Aged 28, George was single and occupation...

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CORDNER, Joseph Alan

Joseph Alan Cordner was born at Bridgewater on the Loddon River in May 1890. His father Isiah Joseph Cordner and mother Jessie Walker moved regularly as Isiah was a bank Manager with the National Bank of Australasia. Isiah was living at Colermine and is listed as a bank Manager i...

Noel Aubrey Corrigan was one of five children of Joseph and Catherine or Kathleen Corrigan, nee Finlayson. He was probably the youngest brother, with Signa Daphne, b.1887, Joseph, b. 1890, Thomas Norman and one other. He was no doubt eager to enlist to go to war. He joined up on...

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CORRIGAN, Thomas Norman

Although born in East Melbourne in 1892, Thomas Norman Corrigan had little contact with the suburb. When he enlisted, aged 22, on 27 January, 1915, he was living at 25 Ford St., Brunswick and working as a tea packer. He joined the 21st Battalion, raised at Broadmeadows in early F...

William Cotterill is a slippery character and his relationship to East Melbourne is tenuous. He first enlisted for the First World War at Liverpool NSW on 25 November, 1915. He was then 42 years' old and was dscribed as 5'6" tall with tattoos on both forearms and chest. He stated...

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COUGHLAN, Talouchlan

Talouchlan [ Thomas] was born in Sydney in1894 He enlisted on the 15 December 1914 at Echuca Victoria. He is 20 years old labourer. A small man 5'3'' and weighing on 8stone 4 lbs. He is the only son of Annie Coughlan who is living at 480 Albert Street East Melbourne. He embarked...

Private Courtney put his age as 21 years and 1 month when he enlisted at South Melbourne on 6 July 1917. He gave his next of kin as his sister, Rose Courtney, who resided at 55 Studley Road, Forest Gate, Essex; in May 1918 he changed his next of kin to name his father, of the sam...

Gerald Audrey Cadogan Cowper was born in England, probably Hertfordshire, in 1882, to Frank Cadogan Cowper and his wife Edith. He went to Preparatory School for two years in Hertfordshire, then on to Cranleigh College, Surrey, for five years. Cranleigh was reputed to have one of...

Son of Thomas William Coxon and Alice Taylor Garnett, born 1893 in East Melbourne. A search of the Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories shows the family to be then living at 108 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. The house was a boarding house and it does not appear that the Co...

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COY, John William

John William Coy was the son of John William Coy and his wife, Agnes Veronica, nee Hannan. He was born in 1898. When he enlisted he gave his birth place as Melbourne but at the time of his birth the family were living at 70 [now demolished but site of 90] Jolimont Street, Jolimon...

Lewis William Cozens was born in Newcastle NSW on 24 September, 1885, the eldest son of Evan William Richard Cozens and his wife, Mary, nee Jeffrey. He was to have three sisters, Eleanor Jane, b. 1883, Emily May, b. 1884, and Marion Irene, b. 1885. He may also have a brother, eit...

Albert's Attestation Papers indicate he was living in East Melbourne upon enlistment on 19th August 1914, whilst his next of kin lived in East Brunswick. Albert was 22 years and six months of age at enlistment, being 5 feet 5 and 1/4 inches tall. As a younger person, Albert spent...

Like his father, Richard Henry Crawley was a baker. He had undertaken a four year apprenticeship with Mr. A.C. Reilly of Brunswick, Victoria, had been working as a baker at Swan Hill in 1914, but was living at 390 Lygon St., Carlton in 1915, again working as a baker.He was the so...

Robert Anderson Crichton was one of seven children of Andrew Brown Crichton and his wife, Sarah, nee Dobson. He was the fifth child with five sisters and one brother, Andrew. At the time he enlisted he was 24 years' old, single and workign as a carpenter. In 1914, he had been liv...

Born East Melbourne, enlisted 24 January 1916 at Melbourne, embarked 20 May 1916, disembarked at Plymouth 18 July 1916, died of disease (scarlet fever) at Isolation Hospital, Salisbury, England 28 December 1916, his 19th birthday. Buried Stratford sub Castle Churchyard near Salis...

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CULLIVER, Seth William

Norman Seth Culliver was born in 1894 to Eli Culliver (1866-1903) and his wife Margaret Moore Culliver (1866-1943). The family lived in Drysdale, Victoria on the Bellarine Peninsula, but probably moved follwinging Eli Culliver's death in 1902. In 1914, Seth and his mother were li...

John CUREL was the second son of Emily Bragg and Henry Edward Curel, and stepson of Arthur Bragg (see entry). Like his brother Archibald Charles Curel, he had been born at Cloncurry, North Queensland. In 1914, He was a 22 year old and single, a miner by occupation, 5' 9" tall, wi...

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CURRIE, Robert

Photo below: Studio portrait probably of 4159 Private (Pte) Robert Kingsley Currie, 5th Battalion, of East Melbourne, Vic, and another unidentified soldier. Pte Currie enlisted on 2 September 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He returned to Australia...

Very little can be written about Patrick Daly. His name appears both on the 14th Battalion lists form the Australian War Memorial and on the Embarkation Roll, but the National Archives have no Service Records for him. On the Electoral Rolls, he appears in 1912 as a labourer, livi...

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DARLING, Edward Ernest

Edward Ernest Darling was born on 30 September, 1893, the son of Richard Stuart Darling and his wife Sophia, nee Cook. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Annie Agnes Kemp, known as Eliza, in South Melbourne, the daughter of Henry Kemp and Agnes Uglow Kemp. Their son, Reginald Ernest D...