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.
MORRISON, James
James Morrison was born on 10 November 1859 at Scotch College, East Melbourne. His father, Dr. Alexander Morrison, was principal and headmaster of Scotch from 1857 to 1903. James grew up at Scotch and was educated there. A few years after leaving school he became a squatter acquiring Forida Station, near Cobar, NSW.
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MORRISON, Howard Clive
Howard Clive Morrison (known as Clive) was born on 5 July 1889. Clive, in one set of enlistment papers, gave his birth place as Surrey Hills, on another set, dated nine months later, he gave it as Melbourne, however the official record has it as Box Hill. He was the eldest son of Henry Howard Morrison (known as Howard and his wife, Esther, nee Mack (or Mark), and a grandson of Dr.
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MORRISON, Alexander Eric
Alexander Eric Morrison (known as Eric) was born at Inveraven, Erin Street, Richmond on 30 January 1891. He was the second son of Henry Howard Morrison (known as Howard) and his wife Esther, nee Mack (or Mark), and a grandson of Dr. Alexander Morrison, headmaster and principal of Scotch College from 1857 to 1903. Howard was a tea merchant with premises in Flinders Lane.
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HARBECK, Arthur Percival
Arthur Percival Harbeck was one of three brothers from Lakes Entrance who enlisted to fight in the Great War. Arthur was 22 years old and working as a salesman. He enlisted at Eastern Hill and gave his home address as 26 Berry St., East Melbourne.
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PURDEY, George Rising
George Rising Purdey was born on 4 June 1887. He was the elder son of James Purdey (1852-1924) and Jessie Carrick Maver (1852-1927). He stated in his enlistment papers that he was born in Melbourne.
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PEACOCK, William Knox
William Knox Peacock was born on 24 January 1898 in North Melbourne. He was the younger son of Robert Knox Peacock and Emily Jane Finlay. Robert was an Edinburgh trained doctor, and was a brother of Dr Samuel Peacock, famously charged with murder in 1911 after a young female patient disappeared from his premises at 62 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne.
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HAWKINS, Clarence Edmund
Clarence Hawkins was the son of Alfred George Hawkins, a tailor, and his wife Mary Adele, nee Merson.
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BISHOP, Selwyn Teignmouth
The studio portrait of 15421 Private Selwyn Teignmouth Bishop, 16th Reinforcements, 6th Field Company shows a determined young man. The youngest of six children, of Anglican Archdeacon George Nickells Bishop and his wife, Annie Mary (nee Kelly), he enlisted on 29 February, 1916, and embarked from Sydney on board HMAT 'Ceramic' A40.
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MORRIS, Arthur Edward
Arthur Edward Morris was born on 16 November, 1879 to Edward Ellis Morris and Edith Sarah Catherine (nee Higinbotham) at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (MCEGS) where his father, Professor Morris, was Headmaster from 1875 until 1882. He had 3 sisters. His early years were spent both in Australia and England.
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GALLIN, Alice Matilda
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GALLIN, Mary Josephine
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MORLET, Claude
Claude Morlet was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 11 August, 1888 to John Stanislaus Morlet and Mary Alice Morlet (nee Brown). His older sister Muriel was born the previous year and younger brother Jack in 1890 when the family had moved to Dromana, Victoria. Claude attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, living with his mother and brother in South Yarra at that time.
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LATHAM, Leslie Scott
Leslie Scott Latham was born on 13 June, 1879 in Fitzroy to Thomas and Janet Latham (nee Scott) of Ivanhoe. He was educated at Scotch College and commenced a Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne University in 1897, residing at Ormond College. After completing his B.A. Leslie commenced studying Medicine , graduating with a MB. BS in 1904.
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ROBERTS, Margaret Dorothy
Margaret Roberts’ life was a remarkable one by any measure. Born in a Welsh workhouse, deemed too delicate for domestic service or hard work, she blossomed in body and mind and trained as a nurse in London.
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THOMPSON, Muriel Edith Lucy
Muriel Edith Lucy Thompson (1889–1951)
Introduction
Muriel Edith Lucy Thompson is named on the Great War honour boards commemorating parishioners who served overseas between 1914 and 1918. Her connection with the parish was as much by family (she was related to the vicar) as by attendance.
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PURCELL, Annie Watkins Bennett Vize
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PAYNE, Violet Minnie
Violet Payne
Violet and her twin sister Lily both served in the Australian Army Nursing Service during the Great War. (Twins serving were not unknown; twins Catherine and Amelia Uren of SA also joined the AANS). They enlisted and embarked separately and served in different theatres of war but returned to Australia in 1919 on the same ship.
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PAYNE, Lily May
Lily Payne
Lily and her twin sister Violet both served in the Australian Army Nursing Service during the Great War. (Twins serving were not unknown; twins Catherine and Amelia Uren of SA also joined the AANS). They enlisted and embarked separately and served in different theatres of war but returned to Australia in 1919 on the same ship.
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SMITH, Winifred Jane
Winifred Jane Smith and her younger sister Elsie Dora Smith joined the Australian Army Nursing Service together and sailed from Australia on active service together on 7 July 1915.
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