WW1

BURLEY, Thomas Mathew

Date of birth: 
1883
Biographical notes: 

William Thomas Burley was born in Tasmania, but by 1914, his father had retired from farming and both parents were living in Warnambool, Victoria. William was nearby, working as a rabbiter in Dunkeld at the foot of the Grampians.

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BURN, Cecil George

Date of birth: 
1895
Biographical notes: 

The son of Richard George Burn and Eliza Jane Atkins, Cecil Burns was a 21 year old mechanic at the time he enlisted  on 21 January, 1916.

  • 3757 reads

BURNELL, Frederick Joseph

Date of birth: 
1888
Biographical notes: 

Frederick Burnell was a clerk, living in East Melbourne. He was 36 years old,  widowed, with two sons, Francis Joseph and Frederick Thomas Burnell, whom he left in the care of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. E. Hall. He enlisted on 17 August, 1914, and after training at Broadmeadows, was attached to G company, 6th Battalion, one of the first battalions raised in Victoria.

6th Battalion, photographed at Broadmeadows, AWM DAX0914
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BURNS, Stanley Henry

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

1697 Henry Malache (Denny) Carroll
2031A Stanley Henry Burns alias Henry Malache Carroll alias Dennis Martin Carroll

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BUSH, Hubert Sheppard

Date of birth: 
1876
Biographical notes: 

Hubert was born in Sandhurst, Bendigo on 6 July 1876 to Albert Bush and Jane Dalton. He was the second youngest of 11 children. His early life was spent in Sandhurst where he attended St. Andrew's College, Bendigo before entering Trinity College, University of Melbourne in 1898 to study Medicine. At Trinity College he was a member of  both the boat and football teams.

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CAMBRIDGE, Ernest George Henry

Date of birth: 
1898
Biographical notes: 

Ernest Cambridge enlisted in June, 1914. He was then just over 18 and an assistant in the Mail Branch of the Melbourne GPO. He had some previous experience, having served with the Senior Cadets 51 Battalion at Albert Park for two years. Following initial training, he embarked on 1 April, 1916, on board HMAT Suffolk A23.

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CAMERON, Henry Gervais Lovett

Date of birth: 
1880
Biographical notes: 

Henry Gervais Cameron was the son of Verney Lovett Cameron, a solicitor practising at 30 Collins St.East, Melbourne, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, nee Fraser. He was born in Kew and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. In 1915, when he enlisted, Henry Lovett Cameron was 35 years old and appears to have been a businessman.

Henry Gervais Lovett Cameron
Officers 60th Battalion H G Lovett Cameron, from row, third from right
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CAMERON, John

Date of birth: 
1883
Biographical notes: 

John Cameron was one of a family of eight boys and one girl, of whom three brothers had died before John Cameron.  He gave as his next of kin his sister, Violet May Cameron, living in Vale St. East Melbourne. He himself lived at 46 Hocking St. Footscray, while his elder brother, William, worked for the Footscray Boxing Company, at 360 Collins St., Melbourne.

Soldiers with Stokes Mortars, Western Front 1917
  • 4092 reads

CAMERON, Robert Ewen

Date of birth: 
1890
Biographical notes: 

ROBERT EWEN CAMERON

Born 27 October 1890 at Portarlington Victoria, the son of a Presbyterian Minister

Robert Ewen 'Stumpy' Cameron during his teaching years
Volume of Milton's poems purchased with inaugural R E Cameron Prize
  • 4494 reads

CAMPBELL, John

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

John Campbell's origins would have remained a mystery, were it not for his descendents. Although he claimed as his address C% James O'Grady at Grant St., East Melbourne, there is no Grant Street in East Melbourne.

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