WW1

BLACK, Emily Conyngham

Date of birth: 
1884

Emily Conyngham Black was born in Tinamba near Maffra, Victoria in 1884, the second daughter of William Murray Black (1835-1925) of Grenock, Scotland and Mary Anne Bennison (1850-1912) of Port Albe

Allan Bennison Black DCM, Emily's brother wounded in France
Emily Conyngham Black AANS
52 BGH Nurses in anti-malaria dress 1918 (AWM H15761)
52 BGH Salonika 1918 (AWM H15755)
Emily Conyngham Black in the 1950s
Emily Black (back 4th left) St Anne's Grammar Gippsland c1947 (St Anne's Grammar
Grave of Emily Conyngham and Mary Isabel Black, Karrakatta Cemetery, WA
  • 4300 reads

BLACK, Herbert

Date of birth: 
1888

Herbert Black was an architect and a widower when he enlisted on 19 February, 1917.

  • 2146 reads

BLAIR, William Allison

Date of birth: 
1889

William Allison Blair as a Stock and Station Agent, aged 27 when he enlisted on 27 July, 1916.

  • 2670 reads

BLATCHFORD, Herbert Albert

Date of birth: 
1894

Herbert Albert Blatchford had no real connection with East Melbourne, save that his sister, Clara Blatchford, lived at Clivedon Mansions, on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon St, East M

Record Page with reference to desertion
  • 2510 reads

BLUNDELL, Madeline Patricia Petrie

Date of birth: 
1880

Patricia Blundell was one of five surviving children (four daughters, one son) born to Martin Petrie Blundell and his wife Emily (nee Lineker) between 1871 and 1890.

Patricia Blundell (Table Talk 27.5.1915)
Madeline Blundell's sister, Beatrice Emily who married George Stoving 2 Feb 1914
SS Mooltan leaving Sydney 16 May 1915. Patrica Blundell on board.
Australian sisters outside their quarters on Lemnos late 1915
Australian sisters on Lemnos 1915
Australian sisters on board SS Mooltan May 1915
First contingent of Australian sisters arriving at Lemnos 1915
Australian sisters ready to leave Lemnos early 1916
Australian General Hospital on Lemnos October 1915
Patricia Blundell on a hospital train, Egypt, 1916 (Blundell Papers, SLV)
Patricia Blundell's medals (Blundell Papers, SLV)
  • 6274 reads

BODEN, Samuel

Date of birth: 
1887

Samuel Boden was born in Birmingham, England, but had lived in both India and Ceylon before he came to Australia.

Bikenar Camel Corps 1915-16
Bikaner Camel Corps, 1915-16
  • 2356 reads

BOLTON, Francis Basil

Date of birth: 
1889

Francis Bolton was the younger brother of Reginald Bolton, and like him, lived with his mother and younger brother, Tom, at 'Verona', corner of Clarendon and Gipps Sts., East Melbourne.He was educa

  • 2524 reads

BOLTON, Reginald Henry

Date of birth: 
1887

Reginald Henry Bolton was a Company Manager, aged 29 and had been married to Doris (nee Fairland) for just over a year , when he enlisted on 3 November, 1916.

Reginald Bolton, first left, middle row, at Neuve Eglise, Belgium, 1918
  • 3214 reads

BONE, Kenric Clifton

Date of birth: 
1899

Kenric and Ronald Bone were the twin sons of Ada and George Bone of 'Cotswold', 40 Berry St., East Melbourne.

  • 2163 reads

BONNICK, John William

Date of birth: 
1895

John William Bonnick was born in East Melbourne in December, 1895, the son of James William Bonnick and his wife, Georgina Jane (Ross).

  • 2179 reads
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