WW1

No connection with East Melbourne. Widower with small daughter in foster care in Jolimont

William Downie was born in Kensington Victoria, but at the time of his enlistment was at 57 Angus St., Jolimont, Victoria. He was a married man, 27 years old, with fair hair and blue eyes, Presbyterian by religion, and working as a salesman. He enlisted early and was placed in D...

Robert Downing was 27 years old and working as a Commercial Traveller when he enlisted 3 April, 1917. he was at the time living with his widowed mother, Mary Ellen Downing, at 128 Albert Street, East Melbourne. She would later move to 49 Victoria Street, and in 1919, they were li...

Robert Hooper Downing was one of two children born to Robert James Downing and his wife, Mary Ellen, nee Scown. BY 1914, Mary Ellen was a widow, living with her two sons at 10 Grey Street, East Melbourne. Her elder son, , Robert Clifford Downing, born 1889, enlisted for the war o...

Walter Drummond was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland around 1884 to James and Janet Drummond nee Strang. He married Martha Jane Mason of Richmond in 1916. Water was working as a motor mechanic, aged 32 years, when he enlisted on 18 April 1916 having been transferred to the Austral...

Edmond Du Bois was the son of Rene Du Bois of 99 Hotham St., East Melbourne. He was just over 22 when he enlisted, a signwriter by trade and with some military experience through having served two and a half years in the Cadets. He began training with the 22nd Depot Battalion at...

Charles Allan Gavan Duffy was the son of Charles Gavan Duffy, clerk of the Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament, then held in Melbourne, and his wife Ella. His grandfather, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, had been a leading Irish nationalist in the 1840's, and was elected to the...

Henry James Duggan was a tram conductor by trade, married to Sarah and living in Commercial Rd, South Yarra, when he enlisted on 1 December, 1915. He was then a month off 26 years old. He was sent to Castlemaine for training and then to Broadmeadows, where he was made an Acting C...

Norman Sinclair Duncan was twenty years and six months when he joned u, with his father's permission, to serve in the AIF. He was an early recruit, signing up almost immediately war was declared, on 19 August, 1914, and receiving the number 655. he was single, of no trade or call...

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DUNKLING, George Joseph

George Dunkling was a watchmaker, aged 38, when he enlisted on 13 April, 1918. He was married (1908) to Elizabeth, nee Bruce, in Sydney and they had one child, Nancy - later Mrs. L. Brennan. He seems to have had a raher chequered career - in 1903, he lists himself in the Electora...

Archibald was born in June 1888 at Goorambat in Victoria. He enlisted at Melbourne on the 17 December 1915 and was allocated to the 4th Light Horse Regiment 26th Reinforcements. He was 27 years old. 5'11'' working as a labourer and married to Mary Dunlop. After enlisting he spent...

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DUNNING, Charles Hamilton

Charles Dunning was born at Liverpool England in November 1891. He enlisted in the AIF on the 20 August 1914 at Albert Park Melbourne Vic. He lists himself as a Law Clerk, 23 years old and single. He is a small man 5'' 3' tall and weighing just 9 stone. He was living at 104 Powle...

Ralph Stanley Dyer was the second son of Benjamin Hatch Dwyer, a staircase builder and his wife Frances (Fanny) nee Flinn, living at 317 Nicholson St., Brunswick. His elder brother, Gilbert Beresford Dyer, was born in 1889. Ralph followed in 1894, then Cecil Francis, who died in...

William Patrick Earles was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, in 1893. He was aged 22, living in Kerang and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 31 December, 1915. He gave as his next of kin his widowed mother, Bridget Earles, who was then living at 140 Simpson St., East Melbou...

Harold Eccles enlisted on 24 April, 1915. He was 23 years old, single and a salesman for Dairy Produce. he lived at 112 Hotham Street, East Melbourne, and gave as his next f kin his father, Edward Eccles, of 7 Oak Road, The Cliff, Broughton, Manchester. On 16 November, he was cal...

Arthur Edginton enlisted on 11 February, 1915, and was placed in the 22nd battalion. He was British by birth, 29 years old, single and described himslef as a waiter and cook. He lived at 395 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, and gave his next of kin as his sister, Mary Ann Edginto...

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EDWARDS, Ernestine Mabel

Ernestine Mabel Edwards, like other members of her family, was known by several variations of her name, most commonly Nesta. Nesta was born in 1883 in the mining hamlet of Snake Valley, near Carngham, some 30 kilometres from Ballarat. She was the first of two surviving children b...

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EDWARDS, Norman Daly

Norman Edwards was 27 years old when he enlisted on 11 September, 1915. Although he worked for the railways as an engine cleaner and lived in the city, he was placed in the 12th Reinforcements, 4th Light Horse. He was originally from country Victoria, having been born at Mount Eg...

Norman Edwards was a bank clerk and just nineteen years old when he enlisted at Hobart, Tasmania, on 13 February, 1918. He had had previous experience, with four years in the cadets and had served 130 days in the 36 Fort. Coy. Aust. Engineers. His father, Henry Alfred Edwards, li...

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EGAN, Marshall John Patrick

Marshall John Egan seems to have been eager to go to war and proved to be a good soldier. He trained for 12 months before enlisting with the CMF at Albert Park, Victoria, then enlisted when he was eighteen and seven months old. A tinsmith by trade, he was 5' 7" tall, with a fair...

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ELLIOTT, William Ewart

William was born at Port Melbourne July 1892. He married Elizabeth Llewelyn at East Melbourne in May 1912. After the wedding they were living at 112 Grey Street, East Melbourne. William enlisted as a private in the AIF in Melbourne on the 12 September 1914. He was allocated to th...

George Washington Emery was an early recruit to the Australian war effort, enlisting at South Melbourne on 20 August, 1914. His registration number, 58, shows how enthusiastic he must have been to 'do his bit'. Initially enrolled as a Driver, he was drafted into the Australian Ar...