OUR NURSING HERITAGE - The Vyner Brooke Tragedy
On 12 February 1942, sixty-five Australian Army Nurses were ordered to evacuate Singapore to escape the advancing Japanese Army. Along with many civilians, they boarded the ship “Vyner Brooke”.
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Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch
William James Supple
William was born around 1897 at Tallangatta in Victoria. He was one of five children of James and Alice Ann (née Mildren).
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Stephen Learmonth
Clarence William Johnson
Clarence was born on the 21st of April 1894 at Corowa, New South Wales. He was the third surviving child of Walter Murray and Christina (née Squires) Johnson.
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Stephen Learmonth
James Duff
Jim was born on the 21st of March 1950 at Perth in Scotland. He was the eldest child of four children of Frederick Norval and Anne (née Ford) Duff.
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Stephen Learmonth
George Henry Anderson
George Henry Anderson was born in 1883 at Stanley, Victoria. At the time, his father, James, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth McOstrich (née Jaffray), was 24.
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Stephen Learmonth
Warrant Officer Class 2 Antonino Parrello 36337
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Australian War Memorial
World War II Honour Board Unveiling
On Sunday 17th September 2023 Senators Anne Urquhart and Jacqui Lambie unveiled the new World War II Honour Board in the South Riana Memorial Hall.
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Sally Cotterell
Albert Thorburn Bartlett
Albert Thorburn Bartlett was born in Williamstown, Victoria on 28 March 1876. At the time of his birth his father, Sidney, was 39, while his mother, Mary, was 35.
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Stephen Learmonth
Box Hill (Nunawading Shire) Soldiers’ Memorial: A short history
A memorial hall and club rooms.
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Owen Genat
Frank John Lloyd
Frank was born in Corryong, Victoria on the 15th of November 1917. He was the youngest of four children to George Hourne and Mary Ann (née Mahon) of Corryong.
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Stephen Learmonth
Arthur Laurence Osmand
Laurie was born on the 13th of March, 1906, at Burrowye, Victoria. He was one of five children born to William Thomas and Florence Emily (née Bownds).
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Stephen Learmonth
John George Walton
Jack was born at the Rock, a small rural town just over 30 km from Wagga Wagga in NSW, in 1885. He was one of eleven children to Robert and Emma Florence (née Go
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Stephen Learmonth
William Tough Strachan
William was born on the 15th of May 1879 at Jingellic, New South Wales.
Author:
Stephen Learmonth
William Malcolm Chisholm
In 2014, William Malcolm Chisholm was officially recognised by the Australian War Memorial as being the first Australian to be killed in the First World War.
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Stephen Learmonth
William Stirling Ross
William was born in August of 1878 at South Alloa, in Stirlingshire, Scotland, to William and Isabella (née Barrie) Ross.
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Stephen Learmonth
Thomas Henry Mullholand
Thomas was born in 1894 in Tallangatta, Victoria. He was one of six children to David and Adelaide (née Bennett) Mulholland.
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Stephen Learmonth
James Patrick Kelly
James was born in 1888 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was one of thirteen children to John Wise and Elizabeth Anne Eliza (née Down) Kelly.
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Stephen Learmonth
James Evans
James Evans is another student whose name appears on the Corryong Consolidated Roll of Honour and yet is not indicated as having died during the Great War.
Author:
Stephen Learmonth
Ernest Campbell Post
Ernest was born in Tintaldra, Victoria on the 15th of September 1889. He was the youngest of nine children of William Henry and Elizabeth Jane Thomson (née Inglis).
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Stephen Learmonth
Frank Leslie Butler
Frank was born on the 13th of April 1919 at Tallangatta, Victoria.
Author:
Stephen Learmonth
Theodore Charles Kleeberger
Theo was born in September of 1893 in Corryong, Victoria. He was one of six children of Charles Julius Robert and Mary Annie (née Craig) Kleeberger.
Author:
Stephen Learmonth
John (Jack) James Sutherland
Jack was born in 1888 at Thologolong Station in Victoria.
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Stephen Learmonth
John Jackson Park
Jack was born on the 14th of September 1895 at Running Creek, Victoria, approximately 40 kilometres north of Mt Beauty.
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Stephen Learmonth
Leslie James Hitchcock
Leslie was born in 1890 at Junee, New South Wales. He was one of nine children to Andrew and Elisabeth (née Mulley) Hitchcock.
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Stephen Learmonth