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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

Peter Kelleher
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Peter Joseph Kelleher

Joe was born on the 22nd of August 1909 at Goulburn, NSW to Peter and Adeline Mabel (née Shurety).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Frederick Miller
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Frederick Christian Miller

Friedrich Christian Müller was born in 1878 at Bethanga, Victoria. He was the forth of eight children to Johannes and Hannah (née Gosling) Müller. 

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Seessle
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John Alfred Benjamin Seessle

John was born on the 5th of May, 1914 at Auburn, New South Wales, to Johann Alfred and Emma Bridget (née Nelson) Sessle.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Norman MacDonald
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Norman MacDonald

Norman was born at Granya on the 22nd of November, 1892. He was the sixth of eleven children of Hugh and Mary Grace (née Cross) MacDonald.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Ben Morgan
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Benjamin Robert Morgan

Ben was born on the 28th of March, 1910, in Euroa Victoria. He was one of eleven children of Thomas Fitzherbert and Sarah Annie (née McNay).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Norman Hamilton
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Norman McGregor Hamilton

Norman was born on the 14th of February 1922, at Tallangatta, Victoria.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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George Wetmore

George was born in 1885 at Granya, Victoria. He was one of seven children to Henry Jones and Margaret Francis (née Drover) Wetmore.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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David James Farthing

Bob was born in 1898 at Allansford, Victoria, 10 kilometres east of Warnambool.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Korean War Memorial
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The Korean War Memorial Kings Park

In 2016, the Honorary Consul in Western Australia to the Republic of Korea, Mrs Fay Duda, was approached by a veteran at the North Beach RS

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