WW1

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DAVIES, Gilbert Heneage

Gilbert Heneage Davies was born in 1879 in Jolimont, to George Schoen Davies, a clerk, and his wife, Sarah Annie, nee Staples. Gilbert was born on 27 April, and Sarah died on 4 May, 1879, so it would seem that she died of complications followinf childbirth, Geogre Davies married...

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DAVIES, Percival Naunton

Percival Naunton Davies was the son of John Davies and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Auguste Fischer. John Davies owned an iron foundry, Davies and Baird, and his son followed in his father's trade. Born in 1883, he married Irene Myra Scott in 1916, and they were to have three childre...

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DAVIS, John George Walker

John George Walker Davis was born in East Melbourne in 1897, but was orphaned at the age of three and raised in Western Australia as her adopted son by Mary Skene, of 157 Claisebrook St., East Perth. He was just over twenty when he enlisted on 21 February 1917, working as an appr...

Mark Davis was the son of David and Florrie Davis. He was born in East Melbourne, and his address may have been at 36 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, where his mother was living in 1903. He was a railway employee, married to Lillian May Davis, nee Fielding, in 1915. In 1916, when...

William Davis was 45 years old when he enlisted. He was a single man, a dentist with a Doctor of Dentistry qualification from the University of California, USA. He already had extensive military experience, as a Lieutenant with the 63rd and 62nd Infantry, as well as the Automobil...

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DAVISON, Frank Sinclair

Frank Davison was born on 10 August 1890. His father, John, had been a practising General Practitioner in Shepparton, but the marriage broke up in 1890 and Dr Davison moved to 19 George St., East Melbourne. Frank was brought up in East Melbourne and went to school at Christian Br...

Walter Henri de Morton was over age when he enlisted on 11 December, 1916. He gave his age as 39, but was already 47. He was a widower and gave as his next of kin his son, Edward David De Morton. They both lived at 138 Lake St., Perth. Walter was a railway employee and gave his....

Allan Stanley Deacon was Scottish by birth and had been born at Milton on Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, in 1886. He was 29 years old when he enlisted, a single man, who named as his next of kin his father, Cecil Deacon of Kirkintillock, Scotland. Cecil Deacon (1859-19350 and his wife L...

Cornelius Aloysius Deane came from a large family at Wahring, near Nagambie, Victoria. He was the son of Patrick and Johanna (nee Forde) Deane and brother to Teresa, Jonnie, Caecilia, May, Patrick and Thomas, plus one other sister and a brother who died early. He enlisted on 9 Ju...

Richard Delaney was Irish by birth and came from Galway. He was 35 years old, single and working as a sawyer when he enlisted on 19 July, 1916. He was Roman Catholic in faith and living at 162 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, within easy walking distance of St. Patrick's Cathedral...

Arundel Cecil Dene enlisted on 15 December 1914. He was a journalist, aged 28, married to Phyllis Lilian and living at 'Rockleigh', in George Street, East Melbourne, now known at 'Braemar'. It may have been Phyllis's family home. Dene had been born in the suburb of Clapham, Londo...

Roger Densham was the first-born of twins born to Robert Densham and his wife Mary Ann, nee Hartnell, on 20 January 189o. They had four other children, Annie (1885-1977), Alma (1887-1979), May Page (1891-1979), nad Mary (1893-1981). Roger's twin, William died in 1894. By 31 Janua...

Born in Maryborough, Melbourne, by 1917 Matthew Devereux was 33 and 3 months old when he enlisted at Redfern, Sydney, NSW on 18 September, 1917. His connection with East Melbourne is therefore tenuous - his next of kin was his father, John Devereux, whom he claimed lived at 61 Ge...

William Devine was a parish priest at St Paul's Church, 264 Brunswick Street, Coburg, when he enlisted on 1 July, 1915. The son of George Devine, a draper, and his wife Catherine, nee McGluckey, he was educated at Drumnadey National School, St. Columba's College, Derry and St. Pa...

William Ditchburn was the second of eight sons born to Thomas Ditchburn (1848-1903) and his wife Eugenie Jane, nee Musika. William Ditchburn was an ironmonger, when he enlisted on 1 March, 1915. Of his four children,the youngest, Noel, was born in 1916, and it is possible that hi...

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DIX, Frank

Frank Dix was 22 years old when he enlisted on 18 January, 1916. He was the son of George Albert Dix and Edith Hooper and identified himself by occupation as a student. He was immediately attached to 'C' Flight, No 1 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps, at Laverton, Victoria,...

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DOCTER, Alfred William

Alfred William Docter and his brother, Thomas Cancel Doctor, were the sons of Thomas Docter, a dairyman, and his wife Alice, of 187 Edward St., Brunswick. Alfred was a driver by trade, while Thomas was a currier. Both died as a resut of war, but in very different circumstances. A...

The son of John Donaldson and Elizabeth, nee Lever, Alexander Donaldson was born on 6 September, 1873, at Diamond Creek Victoria. He had one sibling, his sister Annetta, b. 1971. By 1917, when he enlisted, he was a factory manager, married to Gertrude, and living at 112 Grey Stre...

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DONNAN, James

James Donnan enlisted on 15 July, 1915. It is a significant date, because it follows on from the assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula. James Donnan would have read the news and seen the casualty lists and therefore had full knowledge of his possible fate. Moreover, he was 44 years...

Douglas was born in East Melbourne on 5th May, 1889, the youngest son and child of George Hamilton Dougharty and Catherine (Kate) Grey Dougharty (nee Innes). Douglas had 2 older brothers and 5 sisters, some of whom were also involved directly with WWI.(see later notes) His father...

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DOUGLAS, Alexander

Alexander Douglas was born in 1883 at Junee NSW, the son of Samuel and Ruth Douglas. In 1912, at the age of 29, he married Margaret Emma Connolly (1884-1949) in Newcastle, NSW. They had two daughters, Yvonne Marguerite, known as Bonnie, on 25 September, 1915, at Essendon, Victori...

Arthur Douglas was 41 years old when he enlisted. He was a married man and named as his next of kin his wife, Maria Ethel, known as Maud. He was born in Glasgow in 1876, but in 1917 when he enlisted, was at 40 Albert St., East Melbourne and then at 453 George St., Fitzroy. He was...

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DOW, Wilson

Born East Melbourne on the 10 May 1895. Was living in Williamstown with his father in 1915 and was an apprectice Engineer with W Jackson, Nelson Place Williamstown. Enlisted in the AIF on the 12 July 1915 Allocated to the 5th Battalion. Wilson was 20 years old, a small man of 5'6...

No connection with East Melbourne. Mother lived as boarder in East Melbourne in 1916.