Private Francis Brett Topp, 6th Battalion, RAR
Francis “Frank” Topp was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 26 January 1947, to Norman and Bridget Topp, the second of 11 children.
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Australian War Memorial
Captain Frank Edmond Getting, HMAS Canberra, RAN
Frank Getting was born on 30 July 1899, the youngest of three to Paul and Janet Getting of Manly, Sydney.
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Australian War Memorial
Lance Corporal Francis Oakenden Roberts, 2/17th Battalion
Francis “Barney,” Roberts was born on 23 February 1904, the youngest son to Joseph and Mary Roberts of Braidwood, New South Wales.
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Australian War Memorial
Alexander Stanley Clingan, 53rd Battalion, AIF
Alexander Stanley Clingan was the son of Ruth and William Clingan of Newtown in Sydney.
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Australian War Memorial
Alexander Stanley Clingan, 53rd Battalion, AIF
Alexander Stanley Clingan was the son of Ruth and William Clingan of Newtown in Sydney.
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Australian War Memorial
Capt Hugh Marcell Conran, Maj William Brazenor and Maj Eric Thomas Brind, 23rd Battalion
Studio portrait of three officer of the 23rd Battalion who all embarked together from Melbourne on 10 May 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides. Two are from Ballarat.
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Australian War Memorial
William Sydney Duchesne, 1st Battalion, AIF
William Sydney “Syd” Duchesne was born on 28 May 1894 in the Sydney suburb of Waverley, the eldest son of Edwin and Edith Duchesne.
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Australian War Memorial
Lieutenant Frederick Gladstone Wilson, 13th Battalion, AIF
Frederick Wilson was born on 17 August 1890, the second son of Frederick and Eleanor Wilson.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Gilbert Pratt, 55th Battalion, AIF
Gilbert Pratt was born in 1893, one of ten children to James and Ann Pratt of Junee in the New South Wales Riverina region.
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Australian War Memorial
Trooper Kenrick Corey Riley, 16/6th Light Horse Regiment
Kenrick Cory Riley was born at the family estate, Glenmore, at Mulgoa on 2 April 1892, to Alick and Louisa Riley.
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Australian War Memorial
Private William Lewis, 30th Battalion, AIF
William Lewis was born in 1894 to John and Ethel Lewis of Adamstown, New South Wales.
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Australian War Memorial
Waverley Soldiers War Memorial
Made of sandstone, this monument consists of a statue of an Anzac soldier holding a rifle to his side, positioned on a pillar.
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Waverley Council
Sergeant Walter John Hancock, 2/29th Battalion, 2nd AIF
Walter Hancock was born on 6 September 1902 in Ballarat East, Victoria, to Albert and Clara Hancock.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Vivian Francis David Sprague, 2nd Battalion, AIF
Vivian “Vic” Sprague was born in 1896 in Blackheath, New South Wales, to George and Sarah Sprague, the second of two sons.
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Australian War Memorial
Corporal Ernest Lionel Bailey, Australian Salvage Corps, AIF
Ernest Bailey was born in Sydenham, London in 1886. At 23, he emigrated to Australia and the Western Australia goldfields, where he worked as a gold assayer.
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Australian War Memorial
Private David Andrew Allison, 11th Battalion
David Andrew Allison was born on 3 December 1872 in Murphy’s Creek, Queensland, to Samuel and Elizabeth Allison.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Oscar Herbert Hart, 4th Battalion
Oscar Hart was born in 1889, one of seven children born to Joseph and Sarah Hart of Wollongong, New South Wales. He lost his mother at the age of six.
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Australian War Memorial
General Sir Henry George Chauvel, GCMG, KCB
The first Australian corps commander, Harry Chauvel was a professional soldier who rose to command the renowned Desert Mounted Corps during the First World War.
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Australian War Memorial
Sergeant Maurice Vincent Buckley, VC, DCM
Maurice Buckley’s military service began badly. He had joined the light horse in 1914 and went to Egypt, where he contracted a venereal disease.
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Australian War Memorial
Captain Edward Frederick Robert Bage
A prize-winning student, athlete, and soldier, Bob Badget Bage was a young adventurous Antarctic explorer before returning to his army appointment.
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Australian War Memorial
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC (1897–1988)
Middle-aged, bespectacled, and a veteran of an earlier war, Anderson did not look like a Hollywood-style war hero.
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Australian War Memorial
Private Alan Thomas Adams, Australian Army Service Corps, att’d 2/12th Field Ambulance
Alan Adams was born in St Peters, Sydney, on 4 April 1913 to Albert and Florence Adams. He grew up and attended school in Newtown.
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Australian War Memorial
Brothers of Glen Innes
The descendants of the Cole Family shared this story of three brothers who enlisted in the First World War in June 1915.
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Australian War Memorial
Sgt Herbert Francis Cole, 56th Battalion, AIF
Born in 1891, Bert Cole was the eldest son of William and Catherine Cole of Wellingrove, New South Wales.
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Australian War Memorial