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.
GOOD, Walter Ambrose
Ambrose was 6' tall, weighed 12 stone 7 lbs and was 39 years old when he signed his attestation papers on 25 September 1916 at Enoggera in Queensland, although his file says his service dated from
- 1290 reads
GOODALL, James
James Goodall enlisted on 11 January, 1915, at the Drill Hall in Powlett St., East Melbourne, following an earlier attempt in Tasmania.
- 1774 reads
GOOLD, Richard Harry
Richard Harry Goold was born on 12 December, 1880 in Kyneton to James Crosbie Goold and Ann Martha Goold (nee Gutheridge).
- 1392 reads
GORRIE, John James
Killed in action 27 September 1917
- 1125 reads
GOTTS, Rex Elmo
Rex Elmo Gotts was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1889, the son of Isaiah Alfred Gotts and his wife, Margaret Josephine, nee Riley.
- 1513 reads
GRAHAM, Sydney Hartley
Sydney Hartley Graham was a married man, an accountant and aged 36 when he enlisted at Adelaide on 7 March 1917. He had married his wife, Christina Jane, nee Macrae, on 11 January, 1911.
- 1359 reads
GRAHAM, Thomas McLennan
Tom Graham was born in Inverness, Scotland, in April 1897. When he enlisted at Seymour on 24 March, 1916, he was eighteen and eleven months old and working as a crockery packer.
- 1433 reads
GRANT, John
John Grant was born in Sale, Victoria in 1895 to William and Mary Grant (nee Keating). His father was born in Scotland in 1862 and mother in Waterford, Ireland.
- 1616 reads
GRANT, William Alexander
William Alexander Grant was born on Beechworth, Victoria in 1896 to William and Mary Grant (nee Keating. His father was born in Scotland in 1862 and mother in Waterford, Ireland.
- 1296 reads
GRAY, Alastair Cameron
Alisstair Cameron Gray was born in 1898 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area.
- 2131 reads
GRAY, Clark Maxwell
Clark Maxwell Gray was born on 6 December, 1896 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area.
- 2468 reads
GRAY, Reginald Albert
Reginald Gray was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, in Octobet, 1893.
- 1363 reads
GREAVES, George Frederick
George Greaves was 22 years old when he enlisted on 22 March 1915.
- 1591 reads
GREEN, John Victor
John Victor Green was born in 1887 at Williamstown, Victoria. He was the youngest of two brothers and four sisters, of John Vanham Green and Charlotte Una West.
- 1357 reads
GREHAN, Frank Albert
Frank Grehan's story is one of the oddest accounts of a volunteer soldier in the Great War.
- 1339 reads
GREY, Denis Basil
Denis Basil Grey had almost no contact with East Melbourne, staying perhaps only very briefly at 'Rosebank', a boarding house in Clarendon St.
- 1457 reads
GRIFFITHS, George Norman
George Griffiths was 27 and 2 months old when he enlisted to serve in World War 1.
- 1118 reads
GRIFFITHS, Francis Llewllyn
Francis Lllewlyn Griffiths was the son of William Moore Griffiths and his wife Rosa August, nee Petterick. He joined up on 23 January 1915 at Victoria Barracks.
- 1151 reads
GRIFFITHS, Norman Lance Guy
Private (Pte) Norman Lance Griffiths, aka Tasman Lance Guy Griffiths, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of East Melbourne, Vic. Pte, Griffiths enlisted on 5 July 1915.
- 1486 reads
GROVES, Charles Edward
born Jolimont, wounded in action
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- 1089 reads
GUTHRIE, Albert John
Albert John Guthrie enlisted in Melbourne on 26 January, 1914.
- 1918 reads
HAAKE, Adolf George
Adolf George Haake wa born in March 1889 in Bradford Leeds to Adolf and Clara Haake, both from Hanover, Germany.
- 1568 reads
HABEL, Louis
Carl Louis Habel was born in Murtoa in 1883, the son of Johann Carl and Emilie Clara Habel.
- 1328 reads
HABEL, Oswald Emile
Born at Dunkeld in the Western District of Victoria, Oswald Habel was the eldest of eleven children born to Emil and Annie (nee Hempel) of Minyip,Victoria.
- 1187 reads
HALL, May Isabel
May Isabel Hall was born on 6 August 1879 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria.
- 3877 reads
HALLEY, Edward John
Edward John Halley was 28 years old when he enlisted at Geelong on 14 November, 1916.
- 1371 reads
HAMILTON, Richard Henry
Richard Henry Hamilton was the son of John Lambie Hamilton and his wife, Clara Jane nee Booth. He enlisted at age 19, with the consent of his mother.
- 1205 reads
HAMILTON, Robert Bell
Robert Bell Hamilton was 23 years old and practising as an architect when he enlisted on 8 December, 1917.
- 1671 reads
HANKINSON, Stanley James
Stanley Hankinson was the second child of seven. Born in 1885 to James and Catherine Hankinson, nee Stratton, he had an elder sister Elizabeth (Lily) Ellen b.
- 1481 reads
HARRIS, Percy James
Percy James Harris was born 1st January 1875 at Thornton, Studley-park, Kew. He was the son of Alfred Harris. Two months later Alfred sold the contents of his house as he was
- 2210 reads
HART, Annie Kidd
Annie (Anne) Kidd Hart was the first of eight children born to John Adolphus Hart (c1849–1930) and his first wife Ann née Kidd (1854–1908).
- 2825 reads
HARVEY, Norman Kinamond
- 1658 reads
HARVEY, Stanley
Died of disease 18 October 1918
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- 1168 reads
HAYES, Edwin
Killed in action 8 May 1915
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- 1205 reads
HEANEY, John
James Heaney was born in 1876 in Casterton, Victoria, the son of Patrick and Honora Heaney, nee Quinn.
- 1412 reads
HENRY, A. M.
Killed in action 4 Oct 1917 – Argus
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- 1215 reads
HEPBURN, Austin
born East Melbourne
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- 1225 reads
HIDDLESTONE, Cecil John
- Enlisted on the 10th October 1914 aged 24 years. Previously his occupation was a Tailor's Cutter
- Commenced training with the 14th Battalion at Broadmeadows Camp before embark
- 1366 reads