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Hugh Allan Harris

“At 5:30 am the calm of the night was suddenly broken by a barrage put down by the Hun across the assembly lines.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Hugh Taylor
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Hugh Taylor

Hugh Taylor was born in Stawell, Victoria, in February 1888, to John and Alice (née Rees) Taylor. He was the youngest of five children.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Stanley Robinson
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Stanley Claude Robinson

Stanley Robinson was such an effective teacher, that the AIF wanted him to remain in Australia to instruct new recruits at the training camp at Broadmeadows, just on the outskir

Author: Stephen Learmonth

David Mackay
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David Glenn Mackay

David was born in Corryong in 1888 to James and Annie Glenn (née Hamilton) MacKay.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Horace Lennox
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Horace Gilchrist Lennox

Horace Lennox had a short war. Whilst his service records indicate that he was 18 at the time of enlisting, birth records show that he was born in 1899.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Joseph Hamilton
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Joseph Bell Hamilton

War diary extract for the 22nd Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, 24 June 1916. 

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Albert Bartlett
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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.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Noel Robertson
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John Noel Robertson

John was born on Christmas Day, 1897 to Rev Colin C Robertson and Margaret Gray Robertson (nee Dixon) at Cranbourne, 40 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Jack Blossett
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Jack Robert Blossett

Jack Robert Blossett was born on the 2nd of February, 1918, at Windsor in Victoria.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

James R Wheeler
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James Rookie Wheeler

James was born in 1877 in Beechworth, Victoria. He was the eldest of four children (3 boys and 1 girl) of Charles and Emily (née Mildren).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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John Mocatta

John Norman Mocatta was born on the 22nd of October, 1890, in his home in Miller Street, South Shore, NSW.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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George Allen Jeffries

George Allen Jeffries was born in 1885, at Tocumwal in New South Wales. His father was George Jeffries and his mother was Anna Jeffries.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Joseph B Hamilton
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Joseph Bell Hamilton

War diary extract for the 22nd Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, 24 June 1916.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Alexander Seaton
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Alexander Galt Seaton

Alexander Seaton was born in Corryong in 1888, to Robert and Janet Alexandrina Seaton. He attended both Corryong and Mt Elliot State Schools.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Stanley C Robinson
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Stanley Claude Robinson

Stanley Robinson was such an effective teacher, that the AIF wanted him to remain in Australia to instruct new recruits at the training camp at Broadmeadows, just on the outskir

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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John Julius Vogel

John Julius Vogel was born on the 6th of October 1879 at Tintaldra, Victoria. His father Christian Georg was 37 while his mother, Elizabeth nee Cartwright, was 35.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Selkirk War Memorial, Scotland
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Alexander Baptie

Alex Baptie was born on the 13th of September 1890 at Selkirk in Scotland, to Alexander and Janet (néw Gray) Baptie. He was the second eldest of four children.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private John Evans
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John (Jack) Barnes Evans

John Barnes Evans was born in Thougla in the Upper Murray in 1883. He was one of eight children of David and Phillipa Anne (née Eade) Evans.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Corporal Charles H Aplin
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Charles Henry Aplin

When Charles Henry Aplin and his twin brother Stephen Vicar were born on the 27th of August 1909 in Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth, their father, Frederick Samuel, was

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private John Mackerrell
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John Mackerrell

John Mackerrell (also spelt MacKerral) was born on the 5th of May, 1890, at Port Ellen on the Isle of Islay, a small Scottish island of the Inner Hebrides, only 40 km north of t

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Charles J Cadman
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Charles John Cadman

Charles John Cadman was born on the 10th of July 1915 in Corryong, Victoria, to Mary Eliza (née) Davis and Charles George Cadman.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Corporal Albert J Kinght
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Albert John (Jack) Knight

Albert John Knight was born in 1883 in Adelong, NSW. He was the tenth child of George and Mary Ann (née Williams).

Author: Stephen Learmonth