People of East Melbourne
This is a list of biographies of residents of East Melbourne.
This project started to commemorate the soldiers and nurses who went to Europe to serve in World War 1. But it has grown from there to cover biographies of any and all residents of note.
Along with many of their fellow Australians people from East Melbourne flocked to enlist. Many were heroes. Many lost their lives or suffered horrific physical or mental injuries. At home family and friends worked, endured and suffered consequences that were sometimes terrible and persisted long after the war.
Major-General Michael O'Brien gave us a starting point with a list of East Melbourne people who served in WW1. He spoke to the Society in April 2013 to give us some context to the period and to help the EMHS prepare for its own commemorations of this most devastating period in our history.
Everyone can participate by gathering or documenting information:
- Photos, memorabilia and family records
- Stories in books, newspapers and on-line
- Memorial plaques in churches and public places
- War memorial, church, national and state archives
You can refine the list by applying the various filter criteria and go to a particular detailed biography by click on the title.
HUTCHISON, George
George Hutchison enlisted on 19 June, 1916. He was a married man, having wed Elizabeth May Lott, known as May, in 1916. He gave their address on his enlistment form as 131 Powlett St., East Melbourne. Their son, Darken Charles Hutchison was born the following year in 1917, while his father was away at war.
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HYLAND, Francis William
Frank Hyland was onle a boy when he joined up, eighteen years and five months old. He was a junior telephone mechanic, in training with the Electrical Engineers Branch of the PMG, and living at 18 Berry St., East Melbourne.
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IPSEN, Carl Frederick Hendrik
Carl Frederick Hendrik Ipsen was the son of Danish born Carl Hendrik Ipsen and English born Bessie Jemima, nee Westmore. He was born in Abbotsford in 1892.
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JACK, Robert Duncan
Killed in action at Armentieres in 1916. Robert Duncan Jack was the son of Robert Hunter and Julia Jack. He was born in Caulfield in 1893.
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JACOBSON, William
When William Jacobson was born on 20 April 1879 in Launceston, Tasmania, his father, Charles (1835-1904), was 43 and his mother, Margaret, nee Carswell, was 34 . William was the eldest of four children, Janet (b. 1881), Arthur (b.1884) and Ada (b.1886).
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JACOMB, Robert Arthur
Robert Arthur Jacomb came from a well established East Melbourne family. Robert Elwall Jacomb and his wife, Anne, had first lived in Victoria Parade and then, as their family grew, at 53 Powlett St from the 1860s. Robert Arthur Jacomb was born to their son, Robert Ker Jacomb, and his wife, Louisa, in January, 1886, at Brighton Beach.
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JAMES, Charles Frederick
Charles Frederick James was born on 17 March, 1885, and was baptised at St. Peter's Anglican Church, Eastern Hill. He was the son of Lewis James and his wife, Sophia, nee Friedlein. At the time of his enlistment, Charles James was 31 and 11 months old, working as a Public Servant and living at 53 Park St., Moonee Ponds with his wife, Alice Montgomery James.
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JAMES, George Edwin
George Edwin James was born in Birmingham, England c.1886. He arrived in Melbourne shortly before the war broke out and took up residence in East Melbourne. At the time of his enlistment on 17 August 1914 he was living at 125 Gipps Street, where at that stage one could rent furnished or unfurnished rooms with breakfast optional.
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JAMISON, Robert Gibton
Robert Gibton Jamison, known as 'Skipper', enlisted late in the war and never got to serve at any of the battle fronts. The son of John and Ellen, nee Eades, Jamison. Robert was a clerk, living at 8 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn. On 26 June, 1907, he had married Rita Pilbeam at the Rowe Crescent Congregational Church, Albert Park, and the couple had one child, born c.1913, James Pilbeam Jamison.
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JENKYN, Frederick
Frederick Jenkyn had two lives as a volunteer and gave 874 days of service to Australia in World War 1. He first enlisted on 16 July, 1915, and gave his occupation as Hospital Assistant. He was at that time 30 years and eleven months old, single, with his next of kin his father, living in East Melbourne.
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JOHANNSEN, Henry Niemen
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JOHNSON, Bessie Shircliffe
Bessie Shircliffe Johnson was born on 2 July 1886, in the Fitzroy area of Melbourne to Webb Johnson (1863-1890) and his wife Kate (nee Ryan, no dates). Formally registered as Elizabeth at her birth, she was the sibling of Kate/Catherine Mary (born 1883) and Ryan (born 1889).
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JOHNSON, Edwin Campbell
Edwin Campbell Johnson was the second son of Alexander Campbell Cusac Johnson and his wife, Ella May, nee Young. He was born on 13 May, 1892 in Adelaide and baptised at St. Mary Magdalene's, Adelaide. At the time he enlisted, on 1 May, 1916, he was 24 years and 4 months old, working as a clerk.
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JOHNSON, Frederick
This is a story of two soldiers, not one, Frederick Johnson and his brother Ralph. They were the children of Hubert Thomas Coster Johnson and his wife, Alice Maud Mary Ivey. A third child, Alice, born 1893, died at the age of eight. The eldest child, Constance, born 1891, died in 1972. Frederick Johnson was born in 1897 and his younger brother, Ralph, in 1898.
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JOHNSTON, David Robertson
David Robertson Johnston was the son of John Johnston and his wife, Margaret Bolton Johnston. He was one of eleven children and had served a four year apprenticeship as a draper in his birthplace, with J. Falconer of Aberdeen. By 1915, he was living in East Melbourne, at 49 George St. and working as a draper.
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JOHNSTONE, Stanley Watson
Stanley Watson Johnston or Johnstone, was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1887, but little else is known of him. His father was Andrew Johnstone, but this is the only fact in his early life, other than that he served four years as an apprentice at Gourlay Brothers, presumably in Dundee. He was 27 years old in 1915 and gave as his next of kin his wife, Mary Frances, nee Hunt.
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JONES, David
When David Jones was born on 19 April 1889 in Eaglehawk, Victoria, his father, Henry, was 34 and his mother, Jane, was 34. He was their fourth son and one of eight children. Henry Jones died in 1897, aged 43, when David was nine.
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JONES, Francis Joseph Roy
Francis Joseph Roy Jones enlisted on 8 November, 1917. He was reasonably old for a new recruit, 40 years and 3 months. He was, by occupation, an Assistant Surveyor, 5' 8" tall and Roman Catholic by religion. Who his parents were is not known; he gave as his next of kin a friend, Mrs. Maggie Scheicowski, living at 159 George St., East Melbourne.
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JONES, George
George Jones, born on 18 October, 1896, was the youngest of five brothers, at least three of whom enlisted for the 1st World War. There was George Henry, born 1877; Henry Joseph and Samuel Albert, born 1878; David, born 1889. In 1887, a sister was born, Alice Catherine, followed by Emily Caroline in 1883 and Daisy Amelia in 1891.
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JONES, Norman Fletcher
Norman Fletcher Jones enlisted at the age of 28 years and 10 months
Occupation at the time was as a Printer
He was Single
Next of Kin: Mother - Mary Jones who at one stage resided at 134 Powlett Street East Melbourne before moving to Western Australia
Enlisted 11 March 1916 being 5'6" blue eyed, brown hair
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