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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

2nd Lieutenant William Crowe
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William Gordon Hamilton Crowe

William was born in 1892 in Jingellic, Victoria. He was one of four sons and one daughter born to George and Jane Cathcart (née Hanna).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Sergeant Frederick A Ferris
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Frederick Aston Ferris

Frederick Aston Ferris was the second son of Jacob Ferris of Port Albert and Helen Brown Ferris (née Nielson) of 52 Hanover Street, Windsor.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Stanley H Bailey
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Stanley Hector Bailey

Stanley Bailey was born in 1890, one of eleven children of William and Catherine (née Fraser) of Corryong.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Flying Officer John Herbert
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John Frederick Herbert

When John Frederick Herbert was born on the 29th of December, 1920, in Corryong, Victoria, his father, Frederick, was 42 and his mother, Florence Amelia (née Phillips), was 34.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private Bernard Spilsbury
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Bernard Spilsbury

The death of Frederick in 1917, when Bernard was only four years old, must have been very difficult for the family.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Private William J Matheson
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William John Matheson

William John Matheson was born in Tumbarumba, NSW on the 12th of August 1917, the sixth child of Thomas and Elizabeth (née Portors) Matheson. 

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Pilot Officer James Marshall
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James Marshall Carter

James Marshall Carter was born on the 17th of March 1912, in Seymour, Victoria.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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City's children inspire memorial to war dead

Mackay’s war dead and former defence forces personnel will be honoured in new plantings along the nation’s Remembrance Driveway between Sydney and Canberra.

Author: Peter Jardine