WW1

AYERS, Edward Woodzell

Date of birth:

1887

Edward Ayers was one of the very early volunteers to fight in the Great War, enlisting on 20 August 1914.

2300 reads

BAIGENT, Albert

Date of birth:

1889

Albert Baigent was 27 years old, single and a bricklayer when he enlisted at Bendigo on 26 November 1916.

2159 reads

BAKER, Harold Arthur

Date of birth:

1897

Harold was born in 1897 in the small Victoria town of Kurting. His father was a school teacher.

2201 reads

BALME, Gerald Archibald

Date of birth:

1885

Gerald Archibald Balme was born in St. Kilda, Victoria, and went to school at Brighton Grammar.

Polygon Wood Butter, captured by 5th Division AIF, 26 September, 1917

3058 reads

BANBROOK, Albert Clifford

Date of birth:

1890

Albert Clifford Banbury was born in East Melbourne on 17 July, 1890, but enlisted at Portville, Tasmania, giving as his address the West Coast Hotel, Hobart.

2232 reads

BANBURY, Frederick

Date of birth:

1886

Frederick Banbury was 30 years and 8 months old when he enlisted on 30 September 1916. He was a salesman, English by birth, with his next of kin his mother, Mrs.

2171 reads

BANKS, James Bruce

Date of birth:

1892

James Banks was 22 when he enlisted and gave his occupation as a motor body builder, having completed a four year apprenticeship with A.G. Hampstead of Elsternwick.