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
- 1638 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.
- 2202 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).
- 1772 reads
GORRIE, John James
John James Gorrie was one of the three children of John James Gorrie (d. 25/8/1888) and his wife, Norah (d. 15/12/1918).
- 1467 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.
- 1914 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.
- 1738 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.
- 1777 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.
- 2089 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.
- 1776 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.
- 2735 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.
- 3275 reads
GRAY, Reginald Albert
Reginald Gray was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, in Octobet, 1893.
- 1791 reads
GREAVES, George Frederick
George Greaves was 22 years old when he enlisted on 22 March 1915.
- 2005 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.
- 1713 reads
GREHAN, Frank Albert
Frank Grehan's story is one of the oddest accounts of a volunteer soldier in the Great War.
- 1696 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.
- 1855 reads
GRIFFITHS, George Norman
George Griffiths was 27 and 2 months old when he enlisted to serve in World War 1.
- 1476 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.
- 1483 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.
- 1898 reads
GROVES, Charles Edward
Charles Edward Groves was born at Jolimont in November 1882. He was the only son of his widowed mother, Fanny Nina Groves, when he went off to the First World War, but had a sister, Ida.
- 1471 reads
GUTHRIE, Albert John
Albert John Guthrie enlisted in Melbourne on 26 January, 1914.
- 2601 reads
HAAKE, Adolf George
Adolf George Haake wa born in March 1889 in Bradford Leeds to Adolf and Clara Haake, both from Hanover, Germany.
- 2132 reads
HABEL, Louis
Carl Louis Habel was born in Murtoa in 1883, the son of Johann Carl and Emilie Clara Habel.
- 1768 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.
- 1500 reads
HALL, May Isabel
May Isabel Hall was born on 6 August 1879 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria.
- 4858 reads
HALLEY, Edward John
Edward John Halley was 28 years old when he enlisted at Geelong on 14 November, 1916.
- 1760 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.
- 1540 reads
HAMILTON, Robert Bell
Robert Bell Hamilton was 23 years old and practising as an architect when he enlisted on 8 December, 1917.
- 2178 reads
HAMPSON, Francis Christian
Frank Christian Hampson was born in Sydney, possibly Strathfield, in 1887. He became a wool classer by trade, moving across NSW and Victoria to the different woolsheds.
- 1635 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.
- 1872 reads
HARRIS, Bertram
There is nothing in Bert Harris's military record that places him anywhere near East Melbourne at the time of the Great War. He grew up in New Zealand and enlisted at Casula, NSW.
- 1498 reads
HARRIS, Edward
Edward Harris enlisted on 20 Auguast 1914. He was then just off twenty three years old, 5'3" tall, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.
- 1440 reads
HARRIS, John Ernest
John Ernest Harris joined up almost immediately war was declared by England on 4 August 1914. Harris enlisted on 19 August, 1914, and was given the number 48.
- 1572 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
- 2863 reads
HARRISON, Edward William
Edward William Harrison was a young man of 23 when he enlisted on 15 December 1915.
- 1728 reads
HARRISON, Martin John
Martin John Harrison was given the number 6, when he enlisted to go to war in 1915.
- 1437 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).
- 3485 reads
HARVEY, Norman Kinamond
- 2164 reads
HARVEY, Stanley
Stanley Harvey was eighteen and four months old when he enlisted to join the AIF. He was an electircla engineer by training and gave his address as Parliament Place, Melbourne.
- 1520 reads
HAWKES, Richard Morrison
Richard Morrison Hawkes enlisted on 13 January, 1916. He was nearly 31 years old, a clerk, 5'7" tall, with blue eyes and brown hair.
- 1616 reads
HAYES, Edwin
William Edward Riley took good care to cover his true name when he enlisted at Richmond, Victoria, on 17 August, 1915.
- 1579 reads
HEANEY, Gordon Henry Herbert
George Henry Heaney used a false name when he enlisted on 8 July, 1915.
- 1564 reads
HEANEY, John
James Heaney was born in 1876 in Casterton, Victoria, the son of Patrick and Honora Heaney, nee Quinn.
- 1788 reads
HENRY, Arthur Milton
Arthur Milton Henry was born at Geelong, Victoria and was living there when he enlisted on 9 February. 1915.
- 1629 reads
HENRY, George Winfred
George Winfred Henry was born in Hamilton, Victoria, but at the time he enlisted was working as a clerk and living in East Melbourne. His father, Robert Henry, lived in Grey St., Hamilton.
- 1617 reads
HENRY, Robert Edward
Robert Edward Henry was born in Northern Ireland in 1879 and was 35 and 4 months old when he joined up in 13 March, 1915.
- 1485 reads
HEPBURN, Austin
This is not the story of one young man, but of six, of whom two were to die in WW1.
- 1618 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
- 1723 reads
HILTON, Ernest Roderick
Ernest Roderick Hilton was the son of William Hilton, a builder, and his wife Julia Ellen, nee Hawkley. He was one of four children, a brother, Sidney, and sisters, Lily and Irene.
- 1659 reads
HILTON, John Thomas
John Thomas Hilton was the son of Robert Hilton and his wife, Abigail, nee Lambert. He was a barber by trade, and 41 and 9 months old when he enlisted.
- 1469 reads