People of East Melbourne
This is a list of biographies of residents of East Melbourne.
This project started to commemorate the soldiers and nurses who went to Europe to serve in World War 1. But it has grown from there to cover biographies of any and all residents of note.
Along with many of their fellow Australians people from East Melbourne flocked to enlist. Many were heroes. Many lost their lives or suffered horrific physical or mental injuries. At home family and friends worked, endured and suffered consequences that were sometimes terrible and persisted long after the war.
Major-General Michael O'Brien gave us a starting point with a list of East Melbourne people who served in WW1. He spoke to the Society in April 2013 to give us some context to the period and to help the EMHS prepare for its own commemorations of this most devastating period in our history.
Everyone can participate by gathering or documenting information:
- Photos, memorabilia and family records
- Stories in books, newspapers and on-line
- Memorial plaques in churches and public places
- War memorial, church, national and state archives
You can refine the list by applying the various filter criteria and go to a particular detailed biography by click on the title.
FREY, Maud Josephine
Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967)
Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) was born in the northern Victorian agricultural town of Tungamah, to Arnold James Frey (c1841-1897) and his wife Kate (also Cath, Catherine, Katherine) (c1859-1904).
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FRITH, Herbert
Herbert Frith was the second child of Sydney Silver Frith and his wife, Nora, nee Murray. He was born in 1884, according to the Birth Index, but is listed elsewhere as born in 1887. He followed on from Florence (1881-1969) and Percy (1886-1969) and was born in Williamstown, Victoria, where his father was a publican, running the Court House Hotel.
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FROOMES, Harold William
Harold William Froomes was born in 1884, the eldest child of Arthur William Froomes and his wife, Rosalie Harriet, nee Parsons. He was followed by six further children: Beryl May (1885-1886) ); Olive Maude (b.1887);Arthur Wray (b.1889): Eric (b.1890) Marie Constance (b.1892); Richard Marshall (b.1896) who was also to serve in the AIF in World War 1.
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FROST, Dudley Vye
Dudley Vye or Vyer Frost was born in East Melbourne in May, 1897. He was the son of Ernest Frost and his wife, Adelaide Flora, nee Dudley, of 74 Patterson St., Middle Park, and this was the address he gave on his enlistment form. By occupation, Dudley Frost was a draughtsman, and in 1917 when he enlisted,was a month short of his twentieth birthday.
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FROWD, Hugh McGee
Hugh Frowd was born in Kyabram in 1895, but by 1915, when he enlisted, was living at 51 Berry St., East Melbourne. He was a maltster by trade and probably worked at one of the breweries in nearby Abbotsford. His parents may have been dead, because he gave his next of kin as his brother, Issac Frowd, a policeman living at the Police Barracks in West Melbourne.
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FRYER, Albert Douglas
Albert Douglas Fryer was born in 1892 th,e son of Robert Frye and his wife, Marianne or Maria Theresa Bird/Baird. He was born in Windsor, Victoria, a small suburb of Melbourne, but was living with his father at 44 Jolimont St., Jolimont, East Mlebourne, when he enlisted on 7 January, 1916. He signed his attestation on 21 February, just a month short of his 24th birthday.
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FURPHEY, Ivan
Herbert Ivan Furphey was born in 1895 to Thomas Furphey, a manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, nee Wright. He was the eldest of six children and the only boy. In 1915, when he enlisted as Ivan Furphey, he was living at 4 Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont, with his family. He was single and by occupation, a clerk, and named his mother as next of kin.
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GAGAN, Edward Alan
Edward Gagan was 27 years and 8 months old when he enlisted at Brunswick on 25 May, 1916. A clerk by profession, he lived at 116 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, with his mother, Janet, and his sisters, Margaret and Helen, a telephonist. In both the 1914 and 1916 Electoral Rolls, Alfred Murray Gagan, probably his brother, also lived at that address.
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GAIN, Cyril Roy Frederick
Cyril Gain was born in 1895 and was the eldest child of Frederick Gain and his wife, Martha, nee Bartholomew. In the years that followed the family grew, until there were eleven young Gains, 5 boys and 6 girls. His younger brother, Augustus, was also to join up for the war and be invalided out.
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GALLAGHER, Thomas
Thomas Gallagher was a single man, aged 23 and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 22 August, 1914. He was English by birth and gave as his next of kin his sister, Mrs. Agnes Bonet, living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He trained in Melbourne, was taken on strength with the 6th Battalion, D Company, and embarked for Egypt on board HMAT Hororata A 20 on 19 October, 1914.
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GALLIN, Eleanor
Introduction: three Gallin sisters AANS
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GALLOP, Cyril
Cyril Gallop was the son of Gilbert D'Arcy Gallop and Edith Margaret, nee Marfleet. He had one brother, Rollo D'Arcy Gallop, who enlisted using the name Robert.
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GARDNER, Thomas
Thomas Gardner was 33 and two months old when he enlisted for World War 1 on 1 September, 1914. An iron turner by trade, he was born in 1881 in Richmond, Victoria, the son of Thomas Gardner and his wife, Sarah Ellen, nee Gorman. There were three other children, Mabel (b. 1877), Adeline (b.1879) and Sarah (b.1883).
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GARTON, Norman James
Norman James Garton enlisted for overseas service on 28 July, 1916. He claimed to be 21 years old and was, in fact, very nearly that age, but he was born on 28 September, 1895 and his 21st his birthday was not until two months later. Why he chose to enlist at that time, without parental permission, is not known.
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GATEHOUSE, Thomas
Thomas Gatehouse was born in Geelong in August 1888. He enlisted for overseas service on 14 July, 1915, when he was 26 years and 11 months old. He was a single man and worked as a groom. He appears to have been without close family, giving as his next of kin his friend, Miss Minnie Costain.
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GEGGIE, William Henry
William Geggie was born in East Melbourne, probably in May, 1888. He does not seem to have any other connection with the suburb, but lived with his father, also William Geggie, at 4 Caroline Street, South Yarra. He enlisted on 29 December, 1915, having had three yearsa previosu military training wuth the 56th Infantry Yarra Borderers.
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GELLATY, Albert Francis
Albert Francis Gellatly served in both World Wars and in the Citizens Military Service. His name appears on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial, Panel 91, Supplementary Panel 10. He died of an unspecified illness, and his record of service in World War 2 has not yet been digitised.
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GEMMELL, Jessie Ross
Jessie Ross Gemmell was one of nine children born to William Gemmell (1834–1903) and his wife Annie née Fenwick (c1839–1878).
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GIBB, James Rankin
James Rankin Gibb was born in Avoca and grew up on a farm in Wycheproof. He was born in 1873, the eldest child of James Rankin Gibb and his wife, Christina May Wedster, and was followed by five other children: John Gavin Gibb b. 1875; Mary Agmes Gibb, b. 1878; William McMinn Gibb, b. 1883; Elizabeth Grace Gibb, b. 1885 and Fanny Johnson Gibb, b. 1889.
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GIBSON, George Stormonth Henry
The son of James Henry Gibson and his wife, Rosetta Priscilla Overan, George Stormonth Gibson was 27 years old when he enlisted on 17 August, 1914. He was a fitter by trade and, at the time of enlistment, was a single man living with his mother and sister Jean at 92 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. He belonged to the Church of England and would have attended Holy Trinity CHurch in Hotham Street.
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