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Robert William Osmond

Robert was born on the 17th of November 1877 at Tumbarumba, New South Wales. He was one of twelve children to Robert and Joanna (née Loseby).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Antonio Victor Travers

Antonio was born on the 16th of February, 1895 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was the son of Antonio Victor and Annie (née Macklan) Travers.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Stanley McKoy
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Stanley James McKoy

Stanley was born in 1889 at Frankston, Victoria. He would be the fifth of eight children for John Henry and Helena Meara Lena (née Henrichs) McKoy.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Edmund Malcolm (Mal) Brown

Mal was born in 1893 at Moonee Ponds, Victoria, the youngest of three sons to Edmund Joseph (a surveyor) and Annie (née Moran).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Ernie Edmondson
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Ernest (Ernie) Edmondson

Ernie was in July of 1893. Two resources tell of different birth places, Beechworth and Wooragee.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Henry Ellis
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Henry (Harry) Ellis

Harry was born on the 2nd of January 1893 at Eskdale, Victoria. He was one of eleven children of William and Eupemia (Agnes) (née Owen) Ellis.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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William (Bill) Shanahan

Bill was born in Tallangatta in 1891, the seventh child of Timothy “Barney” and Ellen (née Mongan) Shanahan.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Thomas Puddephatt
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Thomas Henry Puddephatt

Thomas was born in 1879 at Yackandandah, Victoria. He was one of nine children of John Joseph and Ann (née Higgins) Puddephatt.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Jack McMahon
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John (Jack) McMahon

Jack was born in 1889 at Sandy Creek in Victoria. He was one of eleven children of John and Mary (née McGrath) McMahon. 

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Norm Woodhouse
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Norman Woodhouse

Norman (Norm) Woodhouse was born on the 31st of January, 1912, at Tumbarumba, NSW. He was the youngest of two children for Charles and Ellen Macbeth (née Evans).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Joe Butler
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Jospeh Gipson Butler

Joe was born on the 27th of April 1919 at Tallangatta in the north-east of Victoria.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Andrew Boyd
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Andrew Boyd

Andrew was born in Melbourne on the 21st of November, 1893 to James and Jeanie Boyd.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

George Boyce
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George Henry (Jim) Boyce

Jim was born in Beechworth on the 26th of March 1891. He was of ten children to John and Catherine Alice (née Creamer) Boyce.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Matthew Dallas Burns

Matthew was born in Tallangatta, Victoria in 1899. He was one of twelve children to John Bertie and Eliza Sarah Matilda (née Seeley) Burns.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Gilbert Hindle
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Gilbert Harold Hindle

Gilbert was born in September of 1896 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was one of five children of Joseph Illingworth and Elizabeth Ann (née Gilbert) Hindle.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Archibald McMeekin Paton

Archie was born in Tallangatta on the 28th of January 1917. He was the second of four sons to John Sydney and Catherine Winifred (née Gilchrist) of Tallangatta.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Albert (Bert) Meadows Whitehead

Bert was born at the Lighthouse, Tooma, NSW on the 1st of April 1894. His middle name, “Meadows” is after the name of the property, “The Meadows”.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Owen Raymond Matthews

Owen was born in 1894 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was the eldest of eight children to George and Jane (née Walsh) Matthews.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Charles Green
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Charles Nelson Green

Charles was born on the 11th of January 1914 at Bethanga in Victoria. He was one of seven children of William John and Florence Gertrude (née Wiltshire) Green.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Derwent memorial on father's headstone, Woronora Memorial Park
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John Percy James Derwent

John was born on the 28th of April 1882 at Kogarah, New South Wales, just south-west of Sydney.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Paddy O'Farrell
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Patrick (Paddy) James O'Farrell

Paddy was born on the 1886 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was one of six children of James and Margaret (née Shanahan) O’Farrell.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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Frederick (Fred) Jarvis

Fred was born on the 23rd of February, 1897, at Tallangatta, Victoria. He would be the fifth of eleven children for Frederick William and Emily (née Haeffner) Jarvis.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Pat Williams
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Thomas Edwin (Pat) Williams

Pat was born at Granya, Victoria, on the 3rd of June, 1892. He would be one of fourteen children to Thomas and Ellen Mary (née Carlile) Williams.

Author: Stephen Learmonth