WW1
FROWD, Hugh McGee
Hugh Frowd was born in Kyabram in 1895, but by 1915, when he enlisted, was living at 51 Berry St., East Melbourne. He was a maltster by trade and probably worked at one of the breweries in nearby Abbotsford. His parents may have been dead, because he gave his next of kin as his brother, Issac Frowd, a policeman living at the Police Barracks in West Melbourne.
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FRYER, Albert Douglas
Albert Douglas Fryer was born in 1892 th,e son of Robert Frye and his wife, Marianne or Maria Theresa Bird/Baird. He was born in Windsor, Victoria, a small suburb of Melbourne, but was living with his father at 44 Jolimont St., Jolimont, East Mlebourne, when he enlisted on 7 January, 1916. He signed his attestation on 21 February, just a month short of his 24th birthday.
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FURPHEY, Ivan
Herbert Ivan Furphey was born in 1895 to Thomas Furphey, a manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, nee Wright. He was the eldest of six children and the only boy. In 1915, when he enlisted as Ivan Furphey, he was living at 4 Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont, with his family. He was single and by occupation, a clerk, and named his mother as next of kin.
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GAGAN, Edward Alan
Edward Gagan was 27 years and 8 months old when he enlisted at Brunswick on 25 May, 1916. A clerk by profession, he lived at 116 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, with his mother, Janet, and his sisters, Margaret and Helen, a telephonist. In both the 1914 and 1916 Electoral Rolls, Alfred Murray Gagan, probably his brother, also lived at that address.
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GAIN, Cyril Roy Frederick
Cyril Gain was born in 1895 and was the eldest child of Frederick Gain and his wife, Martha, nee Bartholomew. In the years that followed the family grew, until there were eleven young Gains, 5 boys and 6 girls. His younger brother, Augustus, was also to join up for the war and be invalided out.
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GALLAGHER, Thomas
Thomas Gallagher was a single man, aged 23 and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 22 August, 1914. He was English by birth and gave as his next of kin his sister, Mrs. Agnes Bonet, living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He trained in Melbourne, was taken on strength with the 6th Battalion, D Company, and embarked for Egypt on board HMAT Hororata A 20 on 19 October, 1914.
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GALLIN, Eleanor
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS
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GALLOP, Cyril
Cyril Gallop was the son of Gilbert D'Arcy Gallop and Edith Margaret, nee Marfleet. He had one brother, Rollo D'Arcy Gallop, who enlisted using the name Robert.
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GARDNER, Thomas
Thomas Gardner was 33 and two months old when he enlisted for World War 1 on 1 September, 1914. An iron turner by trade, he was born in 1881 in Richmond, Victoria, the son of Thomas Gardner and his wife, Sarah Ellen, nee Gorman. There were three other children, Mabel (b. 1877), Adeline (b.1879) and Sarah (b.1883).
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GARTON, Norman James
Norman James Garton enlisted for overseas service on 28 July, 1916. He claimed to be 21 years old and was, in fact, very nearly that age, but he was born on 28 September, 1895 and his 21st his birthday was not until two months later. Why he chose to enlist at that time, without parental permission, is not known.
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