Stories

Neil Croucher and family
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Neil Renfred Croucher

Neil was born on the 4th of June, 1891, at Kiewa in north-east Victoria. He was the seventh of ten children of Henry Joseph and Alice Elizabeth (née Yea) Croucher.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Victor Pollard
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Victor Ernest Pollard

Victor was born on the 1st of September, 1893, at Wodonga, Victoria. He was the fifth of six children to George and Edith May (née McPherson) Pollard.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Fardon
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John Charles Fardon

John was born on the 15th of December 1918, the third of four children to Charles and Jessie Ann (née Seaton) Fardon of Corryong.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Nicholas McIllree
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Nicholas Gordon McIllree

Nicholas was born on the 25th of October 1900 at Corryong, Victoria. He was the second of four children of Robert and Laura Lindsay (née Milligan) McIllree.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Roy Smith
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Roy Leslie Smith

Roy was born at Tallandoon, Victoria, on the 18th of March 1895. He was one of fifteen children to William Thomas and Margaret Annie (née Urwin) Smith of Tallandoon.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Bill Ronald
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William (Bill) Alfred Ronald

Bill was born on the 1st of October 1888 at Tallangatta, Victoria. He was one of ten children to Claude Alexander and Matilda (née Price).

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Pat Joy
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John Patrick (Pat) Joy

On the morning of the 16th of May, the 2/23rd prepared to relieve the 2/43rd Battalion in the eastern sector of the Tobruk salient.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

John Johnson
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John Leslie Johnson

On the morning of the 16th of May, the 2/23rd prepared to relieve the 2/43rd Battalion in the eastern sector of the Tobruk salient.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

James Evans
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James Alexander Evans

On the morning of the 16th of May, the 2/23rd prepared to relieve the 2/43rd Battalion in the eastern sector of the Tobruk salient.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Alan Kelly
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Alan Clement Kelly

On the morning of the 16th of May, the 2/23rd prepared to relieve the 2/43rd Battalion in the eastern sector of the Tobruk salient.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

Henry Skiller
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Henry Charles Skiller

Henry was born in 1895 at Granya in Victoria. He was the ninth of ten children for James and Eleanor Lucy (née Jenkins) Skinner.

Author: Stephen Learmonth

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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