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.
ROGERS, Anthony
Anthony Rogers was the son of Anthony Rogers and his wife, Eliza Walsh (or Welsh). He was born on 16 April 1879. His enlistment papers state that he was born in East Melbourne but no confirmation has been found. His birth certificate has not been viewed but the index states simply, Melbourne. Most of his life was spent in Footscray.
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ROHEN, William
Willian Rohen was 25 years and three months old when he enlisted at East Melbourne on 29/6/1915. He was employed as a coaler and gave his next of kin as his mother, then living in Abbotsford St. North Melbourne. he was sent to France with the 58th Battalion. His military record is marked by bouts of absenteeism, first for three days from 14/3/16 to 17/3/16.
- 2917 reads
ROHRS, John
John Rohrs was born at St. Helliers in the Channel Islands, probably in December 1882. He was educated at King's School, London where he received two books as prizes, which are still in the possession of his family. He was a keen sportsman, playing both cricket and soccer. His parents had migrated to Australia and lived Gnowangerup, Western Australia, later moving to Bellevue, Tasmania.
- 3123 reads
ROSS, Alister Vernon
Alister Ross was one of the earliest volunteers to join the AIF. He enlisted on 19 August, 1914 and was called up a week later. The youngest child of Jane and Alexander Ross, he had grown up in Gippsland, being born at Maffra and later living at Sale. He was a blacksmith by trade, aged 23, 5' 8" tall, with black hair and brown eyes.
- 3005 reads
ROWAN, Alexander Lee
Alexander Lee Rowan enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW, where he was working as a miner. He was forty-six, was relatively old to enlist, but lied about his age, using his brother William's or sister Hnerietta's birth date . He claimed to be a widower, but this was a falsehood: he had married Rosey May Hughes in 1900, but the marriage had ended and Rosey remarried in 1908.
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ROWAN, Andrew Percival
Andrew Rowan was 38 years old, 6' 1" tall and single. He described himself as a grazier, living at Meredin, Western Australia, but had previously worked with his father, also Andrew Rowan, a wine merchant, living in Brighton Rd., St Kilda. He already had substantial military experience, having served with the British Army in South Africa during the Boer War.
- 4117 reads
ROWAN, Clement
Clement Rowan was born on 28 July, 1881, one of the sons of Lee and Margaret (Davis) Rowan. He was a miner, like his brother Alexander. He enlisted on 26 May, 1917 and began his service on 22 June, 1917, at Sydney. At this time, he was two months off the age 0f 36, separated from his wife, living with his next of kin his sister, Henrietta, at 19 Lansdowne St., East Melbourne.
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ROWAN, Eliza
Eliza Rowan (1885-1970) was born at Nagambie in 1885 to Lee Rowan (1847-1899) and Margaret Jane Davies (1851-1931).
- 8170 reads
ROWE, Dexter Brigham
Dexter Brigham Rowe was born in 1888 at 53 Agnes Street, Jolimont. He was the son of John Rowe, contractor, and Mary, nee Pillow. Close by, on the corner of Jolimont Road and Wellington Parade South, lived Dexter Brigham.
- 3773 reads
ROWE, Francis Henry
A biography of Francis Harry Rowe appears in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, see link belo:
- 3327 reads
ROWLES, Ernest
Ernest Rowles was born in East Melbourne in 1894. He was the third son of Joseph and Catherine Ellen Rowles. In the 1909 electoral rolls Joseph was described as a foreman, by 1914 he was a tram employee and at the time of his death in 1922 he was superintendent assistant of the Tramway Board. Ernest, according to his enlistment papers, was a cabinet maker.
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RUNDLE, Walter Henry
Walter Henry Rundle was the only son of Henry Philip Rundle and Jessie Maria Honeyman. He ahd an elder sister, Florence, born in 1891. The family lived in Launceston, Tasmania, where his father was an engine driver. Walter Rundle was a carpenter by trade, Single, aged 22 years and eight months when he joined up on 5 May, 1916, in Melbourne.
- 4766 reads
RUSSELL, Allan
Allan Russell was amongst the first volunteers to enlist, as his military number, 296, testifies. Ond of two sons and three daughter born to James Dickson Allen and his wife, Margaret Ann, nee Johnson, he was born in Hawthorn, but was living at 24 Jolimont Terrace, East Melbourne and working as a driver when he signed up at Prahran on 20 August, 1914.
- 3247 reads
SAKER, Richard
Richard Saker was born on 8 November 1877 in Liverpool, England. He was the son of Edward 'Ted' Sloman Saker and Emily Mary Kate OBrien. He was privately educated. He served in the Boer War with the Rough Riders, a yeomanry regiment of the British Territorial Army. Later he joined the Connaught Rangers, 4th Battalion. By 1907 he had risen to the rank of captain.
- 3991 reads
SALIKIS, Emaniol
photo, wounded in action, see p 45 of Greek Australians in the Australian Armed Forces World War I & II by Steve Kyritsis
- 3207 reads