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Rollie Touzel (left)
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Ernest Roland (Rollie) Touzel

Rollie was one of eleven children of Francis Giles and Sarah Maria (née Carter) Touzel. He was born on the 17th of July, 1892, at Cudgewa, Victoria.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Charles Stratton

Charles was born in Corryong in 1875, the sixth of ten children to Robert and Marian Annie (née Grant) Stratton.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Charlton Water Tank

The concrete water tank on the corner of View & Currie Streets was designed and erected in 1913 by the Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Construction Coy, which had been

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

George Airey
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George James Airey

George James Airey was born on the 29th of November 1906 in Tumbarumba, New South Wales. He was the eldest of five children of John William and Helene (née Clarke).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

George Nugent
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George Nugent

George Nugent was born in 1888 to James and Sophie Nugent of Berrigama, Victoria. He was one of five sons of James and Sophie who would join the AIF and serve overseas.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Edmund Everard
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Edmund (Eddie) Henry Everard

Eddie was born on the 22nd of January 1887 at Tintaldra, Victoria. He was the 11th and second youngest child of William Byron and Mary Kate Hickson (née Pike) Everard.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Colin Eastgate
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Colin Henry Eastgate

Colin was born on the 12th of November 1914 at Coburg, Victoria. He would the eldest of four children of Ernest William John and Myrtle Irene Hazel (née Pierce) Eastgate.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Gilbert McCully - Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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Gilbert Lee McCully

Gilbert Lee McCully’s name appears on the Corryong State School No 1309 Roll of Honour for the 1914 – 1919 War.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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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