WW1 soldiers and nurses
These are the East Melbourne people who served in the First World War. Some were born here, some lived and worked here and some registered for service here.
Click on a name to go to an individual's biography.
| Name | Military units |
Roll of Honour |
Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBSON, George Cranstown | 7th Battalion, 1st Reinforcement | ||
| ROCHE, Terence | 45th Battalion | ||
| RODDY, Christmas | 5th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement | ||
| ROGERS, Horace | 2nd Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| ROHEN, William | 58th Battalion | ||
| ROHRS, John | July 1917 Reinforcements Australian Flying Corps | Jill Fenwick | |
| RONAN, James | 37th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement | ||
| ROPER, Frank | 7th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement | ||
| ROPER, Reginald Astley | Divisional Ammunition Column 1, Reinforcement 8 | ||
| ROSS, Alister Vernon | 8th Battalion, H Company | Jill Fenwick | |
| ROWAN, Alexander Lee | 2nd Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| ROWAN, Clement | 2nd Tunnelling Company | Jill Fenwick | |
| ROWAN, Eliza |
Australian Army Nursing Service (Freeman Thomas Hospital, Bombay) (44 British General Hospital, Deolali) (34 Welsh General Hospital, Deolali) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| ROWE, Dexter Brigham | Army Medical Corps | Sylvia Black | |
| ROWE, Francis Henry | Hospital Transport Corps | Sylvia Black | |
| RUNDLE, Walter Henry |
Howitzer Brigade 25, Reinforcement 6 14 Field Artillery Brigade, 5 Division |
JillFenwick | |
| SALIKIS, Emaniol | 5th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement | Bob Batrouney | |
| SALLOWS, Tasman Thomas | 7th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement | ||
| SALTER, Charles Joshua | Special Services, 2nd Draft Italian Reservists | Sylvia Black | |
| SAMSON, Eric James |
24th Howitzer Brigade, 2nd Reinforcements 14th Field Artillery Brigade, 53rd Battery |
Sylvia Black | |
| SAMSON, John Vernon |
Field Artillery Brigade, March 1917 Reinforcements 3rd Division Signal Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| SANDERS, Algernon Benjamin |
1 Australian General Hospital 6 Field Ambulance |
Sylvia Black | |
| SANDERS, Frederic Roy |
1 Australian General Hospital, Reinforcements 6 Field Ambulance |
Sylvia Black | |
| SCHULTZ, Johann George |
13th General (Victorian) Reinforcements 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital |
Sylvia Black | |
| SCOTT, Ernest Humphrey | Supply Column 3, Army Service Corps 26 | Sylvia Black | |
| SEARL, Alice |
Australian Army Nursing Service (8 [British] General Hospital) (1 Australian General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| SEDMAN, George Edwin | 14th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement | ||
| SELLAR, Jack Marchant | 2nd Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 4 | Sylvia Black | |
| SERLE, Walter Henry | 8th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| SHARPE, Walter | 22nd Battalion Head-Quarters Staff | ||
| SHAW, Charles Gordon | 2nd Field Ambulance | Sylvia Black | |
| SHEPHERD, Victor Joseph | 48th Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| SHERLOCK, Harold Oscar | 9/1st Pioneer Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| SHORTIS, James |
5th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement 59th Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| SIEVERS, Charles George | 29th Battalion, B Company | ||
| SIMPSON, Arthur | Tunnelling Companies (September 1916-February 1918): June 1917 Reinforcements | ||
| SINGLETON, Herbert Elliot | 12th Reinforcements, 29th Battalion | Sylvia Black | |
| SINGLETON, Percy William |
9th Reinforcements, Australian Flying Corps 2nd Division Artillery |
Jill Fenwick | |
| SMAIL, Leslie Paterson |
14th Australian.General. Hospital, A.I.F. 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance, 4th Light Horse Brigade 4th Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, 4th Llight Horse Brigade 4th Light Horse Regiment, 4th Light Horse Brigade 11th Light Horse Regiment, 4th Light Horse Brigade |
Sylvia Black | |
| SMITH, Albert Edward | 2nd Field Ambulance, Section C | ||
| SMITH, Archibald Charles | 8th Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| SMITH, Harry Patterson | 6th Battalion, C Company | Jill Fenwick | |
| SMITH, Philip Daniel | May 1916 Reinforcements | ||
| SMITH, William James | 23rd Battalion | ||
| SNELLING, William Francis | 23rd Battalion, 5th Reinforcement | ||
| SOMMERS, John Archibald Douglas | Ist Divisional Train | Bob Batrouney | |
| SOUNDY, Douglas William | 23rd Battalion, 6th Reinforcement | ||
| SPOWERS, Edward Augustus | Medical Officers | Sylvia Black | |
| ST CLAIR, Ernest | 6th Battalion, E Company | Sylvia Black | |
| STAINES, Albert Edward | |||
| STANTKE, Gustave John | Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, Reinforcement 2 | ||
| STANTON, John Joseph | 1st Australian Clearing Hospital, 13th Reinforcement | Sue Larkin | |
| STARR, James Edward | 3rd Pioneer Battalion | ||
| STENT, John Goulburn | 4th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement | ||
| STEPHENSON, Niels Grontyad | 7th Battalion, A Company | ||
| STEWART, Lyla Ferguson |
Australian Army Nursing Service (2 Australian General Hospital) (British General Hospitals in Egypt and France) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| STIRLING, George Francis | 8th Field Artillery Brigade | Jill Fenwick | |
| STONE, Arthur | 25th Battalion | ||
| STONE, James | 15th Battalion | ||
| STONE, Victor Harold | 4th Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| STRATTON, Frederick John |
21st Battalion, 18th Reinforcement 22nd Battalion |
Jill Fenwick | |
| STROM, Harold Greve | 10th Field Company Engineers | ||
| SULLIVAN, James Henry | 5th Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 6 | ||
| SUTTIE, Thomas | No 4 Tunnelling Company and 1st Reinforcements (May 1916) | ||
| SWAN, Albert William | 46th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| SWIFTE, Frank Roydon | 3rd Pioneer Battalion | ||
| SYME, Joseph Edward |
5th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement 60th Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| SYMONDS, Llewellyn Claude | 7th Battalion, A Company | ||
| TABULO, James |
7th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement 5th Pioneer Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| TALBOT, Clive Richard Alton | 38th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement | ||
| TAYLOR, Robert Ralston | Light Horse Brigade Train 3 | ||
| TAYLOR, Walter James | 14th Battalion | ||
| TEER-HAGEN, Cyril Thomas | Divisional Signal Company 2, Reinforcement 19 | Sylvia Black | |
| TELFER, Percy James | 38th Battalion, Headquarters | ||
| TELFORD, William MacArthur | Tunnelling Companies, December 1916 Reinforcements | Bob Batrouney | |
| THOMAS, Wilfred Speechely |
119th Howitzer Battery 3rd Division Signal Company Engineers |
Sylvia Black | |
| THOMPSON, Florance William | 1st Division Train | ||
| THOMPSON, Joseph | Field Artillery Brigade 2, Battery 4 | ||
| THOMPSON, Wilfred Edgar | 6th Battalion | ||
| THOMSON, Walter Arnold | 29th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement | ||
| THORP, William Gladstone | 7th Battalion, 13th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| THWAITES, Thomas Joseph | 23rd Howitzer Brigade | ||
| TOMSETT, Francis Henry | 11th Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| TOPE, William |
12th Battalion, B Company 52nd Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| TRACEY, George | 7th Battalion | Sylvia Black | |
| TREWHITT, George Alfred | 14th Battalion | ||
| TRICKETT, Arthur Thomas | Field Artillery Brigade 2, Reinforcement 7 | Sylvia Black | |
| TRICKETT, David Edward | 11th General (Victorian) Reinforcements | Sylvia Black | |
| TUCKER, Beryl May |
Australian Army Nursing Service - Australian Military Forces (9 Australian General Hospital) (12 Australian General Hospital) Australian Army Nursing Service - India Service (Colaba War Hospital) (56 Station Hospital) (Victoria War Hospital) (Freeman Thomas Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| TURNBULL, Harry Henry | 6th Battalion, D Company | ||
| UNVERHAU, Hugo James | Australian Reserve Park 1, Reinforcement 9 | Sue Larkin | |
| VANDERZEE, Alexander Robert | 2nd Vet Sect | Sylvia Black | |
| VAWDON, Harold Frederick | 22nd Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| VINCENT, Robert Collier | AIF Headquarters | Bob Batrouney | |
| VINEN, Peter Henry | 3rd Division Ammunition Column | ||
| VINES, Thomas |
Australian Remount Unit 1, Squadron 2 2nd Australian Divisional Train |
Sylvia Black | |
| VINES, Thomas | 5th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| VIRGOE, Percy Ernest |
4th Light Horse Regiment A.A. Pay Corps |
Sylvia Black | |
| VOCE, Alfred |
1st Australian General Hospital, Reinforcements 51st Field Artillery Battery, 13th Field Artillery Brigade |
Sylvia Black | |
| VOCE, Edward Stanley | 9th General (Victorian) Reinforcements | Sylvia Black | |
| WADE, Edmund Thomas | 14th Light Horse Regiment | ||
| WAIGHT, George William | 8th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement | ||
| WALLACE, Wm Henry | 24th Battalion, B Company | ||
| WALLER, Louisa |
Australian Army Nursing Service (Deccan Military Hospital, Poona, India) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| WALLER, Walter Rupert | 22nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement | ||
| WALLER, William James | 2nd Battalion | ||
| WALTERS, Alfred Tasman | Supply Column 3, Army Service Corps 26 | ||
| WALTERS, Leonard Thomas Willis |
6th Battalion, 7th Reinforcements AIF Headquarters |
Sylvia Black | |
| WARD, Sidney Eric Richard | 3rd Pioneer Battalion | ||
| WARDEN, Reginald George | Australian Ordnance Corps (Inspector Ordnance Machinery Section) | ||
| WARNOCK, Frederick Charles |
9th Aust Army Supply Column - 8th Reinforcements 1st Anzac Transport Supply Col |
Sue Larkin | |
| WATSON, Eileen Marriott |
Australian Army Nursing Service (2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Lemnos) (18 Stationary Hospital, Bombay) (Colaba War Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| WATSON, John Edwin | 8th Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| WATSON, Leslie Gottreux | 58th Battalion, 10th Reinforcements | Sylvia Black | |
| WATT, James Erskine | 12th Field Artillery Brigade | ||
| WATTS, John David Herbert | |||
| WATTS, Stanley Keevil | Auxiliary Mechanical Transport Company 1, Section 2 | Sylvia Black | |
| WEBSTER, John Laing | 22nd Battalion | ||
| WELDON, Frederick James | Field Artillery Brigade, Reinforcement 27 | ||
| WELLER, Frank Arthur | 24th Battalion | ||
| WHAMOND, Frederick Charles |
2nd Field Artillery Brigade Australian Army Medical Corps |
Sylvia Black | |
| WHARTON, John Lynne | 23rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement | ||
| WHELAN, Martin Thomas | 22nd Battalion | ||
| WHINFIELD, Myles William | Australian Veterinary Hospital | Sylvia Black | |
| WHITE, Jessie McHardie | Australian Army Nursing Service | Janet Scarfe (additional notes only) | |
| WHITE, Newport Benjamin | 57th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| WHITE, Rupert William |
23rd Battalion, 7th Reinforcements 57th Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| WHITE, Thomas Wilson | 5th Machine Gun Battalion | ||
| WHITE, Thomas Wilson |
15 Machine Gun Company, 3 Reinforcement 5 Machine Gun Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| WHITEFORD, Robert | Convalescent Depot, Harefield Park, London | Sue Larkin | |
| WHITEHEAD, Herbert | 59th Battalion | ||
| WILKINSON, Archer Stalham |
14th Australian General Hospital Australian Flying Corps |
Sue Larkin | |
| WILKINSON, Robert Neil | 22nd Battalion, 6th Reinforcement | ||
| WILLIAMS, Arthur James |
Divisional Signal Company 3, Engineer Reinforcements 13 Graves Registration Services |
Sylvia Black | |
| WILLIAMS, John Walter | 8th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement | ||
| WILLIAMS, Mark Alfred | 6th Battalion, F Company | Sylvia Black | |
| WILLIAMS, Reginald George Hurlburt | July 1917 Reinforcements | ||
| WILLIAMS, Richard |
Australian Flying Corps, No 1 Squadron, C Flight RAF's 40th (Army Wing) Palestine Brigade (RAF 40th Wing + 5th (Corps) Wing |
Sue Larkin | |
| WILLMOTT, Maxwell Thomas | Field Artillery Brigade, Reinforcement 27 | ||
| WILLOUGHBY, Arthur Howard Wilton | 1st Field Ambulance | Sylvia Black | |
| WILMS, Leopold Henry | 23rd Howitzer Brigade | Sue Larkin | |
| WILSON, Frank Costella |
Field Artillery Brigade 4, Battery 12 No. 1 Section, 3rd Divisional Amunition Column |
Sylvia Black | |
| WILSON, George Thomas | 6th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| WILSON, Robert | Australian Army Pay Corps, 4th Field Artillery Brigade | Sue Larkin | |
| WILTON, Gerald Langford D'Auverne | 38th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| WILTSHIRE, Herbert | Brigade 2 Headquarters | Sylvia Black | |
| WINDSOR, Michael George |
6th Battalion, C Company 2nd Machine Gun Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| WINTERBOTTOM, Bertie Dallas | 14th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| WITHALL, Latham | 4th General (Victorian) Reinforcements | Sylvia Black | |
| WOOD, Clifton Loris |
3rd Division Artillery 23rd Howitzer Brigade 108th Battery 8th Field Artillery Brigade |
Sylvia Black | |
| WOOD, John Henry |
3rd Pioneer Battalion, Reinforcement 3 Mechanical Transport Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| WOOD, Thomas Jacob |
10th Field Company Engineers Mechanical Transport Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| WOOD, Thomas Patrick | Chaplains' Corps | Sylvia Black | |
| WOOD, Thomas Reginald |
6th Field Company Engineers 5th Division Signal Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| WOODLEY, Geo Herbert |
22nd Battalion, 11th Reinforcement 20th Depot Unit of Supply |
Sylvia Black | |
| WRIGGLESWORTH, Alfred |
5th Battalion AIF 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment |
Peter Fielding | |
| WRIGHT, Edwin Marsden | 29th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement | Sylvia Black | |
| WRIGHT, Robert George |
14th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement 46th Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| YOUNGER, Robert Sydney | Staff Sergeant Dispensers | Sylvia Black | |
| YOUNGER, Stanley William | 22nd Battalion, A Company | Sylvia Black | |
| CHAUVEL, Harry | Michael O'Brien | ||
| DUBOIS, A. J. | Middlesex Regiment | Mike O'Brien | |
| LUCAS, Norman Carey | 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles | Jill Fenwick | |
| BRENNAN, John (Jack) | A Company, 6th Battalion | Peter Fielding | |
| WILSON, Grace Margaret | Australian Army Nursing Service | Mike O'Brien | |
| GAYNOR, Edward John | 23rd Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| CLARKE, Cyril Lowther |
14 Australian General Hospital, AIF 5 LH Field Ambulance |
Sylvia Black | |
| HONYBUN, Anthony Garvis |
8th Battalion 2nd Machine Gun Company |
Sylvia Black | |
| GILMOUR, Stanley Gladstone | 5th Battalion | Jill Fenwick | |
| DYETT, Terence Egan | 7th Battalion, 1st Australian Division | Sylvia Black | |
| CAMERON, Edith Clare |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (26 [British] General Hospital) (1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station) (10 Stationary Hospital) (1 and 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospitals) (31, 71 and 14 [British] General Hospitals) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| SHAW, Patrick | R.A.A.M.C., 29th batallion | Sylvia Black | |
| Bascombe, Frederick John | 46th Battalion, 4th Australian Division | Jill Fenwick | |
| TRACEY, Edward Albert | Small Arms Ammunition Section 1st Divisional Ammunition Column | Sylvia Black | |
| TRACEY, John Henry | Machine Gun Section, 9th Battalion | Sylvia Black | |
| SCHULTZ, Ernest Leslie | Recruit Depot Battalion | Sylvia Black | |
| MORRISON, James | 1st Remount Unit, 3rd Reinforcements | Sylvia Black | |
| MORRISON, Howard Clive |
58th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcements 5th Battalion |
Sylvia Black | |
| MORRISON, Alexander Eric |
4th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Reinforcements 2nd Division Ammunition Column |
Sylvia Black | |
| PURDEY, George Rising | 10th Field Company Engineers | Sylvia Black | |
| PEACOCK, William Knox | 4th Light Horse Regiment | Sylvia Black | |
| HAWKINS, Clarence Edmund | 4th Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Reinforcements |
Sylvia Black Jill Fenwick |
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| BISHOP, Selwyn Teignmouth |
16th Field Company Engineers 67th Field Company Engineers |
Jill Fenwick | |
| MORRIS, Arthur Edward | Australian Army Medical Corps |
Sue Larkin Sylvia Black |
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| GALLIN, Alice Matilda |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (Deccan War Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| GALLIN, Mary Josephine |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (3 Australian General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| LATHAM, Leslie Scott | AAMC 14th Australian General Hospital | Sue Larkin | |
| MORLET, Claude | Australian Army Medical Corps | Sue Larkin | |
| BROOKE, Katie Winifred |
Australian Army Nursing Service (Indian Nursing Service) (Deccan Military Hospital, Poona, India) (Station Hospital, Bangalore) (19th British Station Hospital, Rawalpindi) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| THOMPSON, Muriel Edith Lucy |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (3 Australian General Hospital) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (25 British General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| PURCELL, Annie Watkins Bennett Vize |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (14 Australian General Hospital) (No 8 Sea Transport Section) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| PAYNE, Violet Minnie |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (17 Casualty Clearing Station) (2 Australian General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| PAYNE, Lily May |
Australian Army Nursing Service (66 General Hospital) (60 General Hospital) (42 General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| SMITH, Winifred Jane |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| QUARTERMAN, Rosa Elizabeth Kate |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (Helouan Convalescent Hospital) (No 4 Section, Sea Transport Service) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| ROSS, Clara Louisa |
Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) (Ras El Tin Convalescent Hospital) (3 Australian General Hospital) (1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital |
Janet Scarfe | |
| LAWRENCE, Helen Ruth |
Australian Army Nursing Service (2 Australian General Hospital) (1 South African General Hospital) (3 Australian General Hospital) (1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| MILLER, Edith Caroline Munckton |
Australian Army Nursing Service (4 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Lancashire) (2 Australian General Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| RUNDELL, Ada Sophia |
Australian Army Nursing Service (Masseuse) (1 Australian General Hospital) (1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) (3 Australian General Hospital) (2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital) |
Janet Scarfe | |
| EDGCUMBE, Erica Valletort | Australian Army Nursing Service | Janet Scarfe |