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.
STEWART, Lyla Ferguson
Lyla Ferguson Stewart was the 10th of 12 children born to Scottish-born parents John Stewart (1836-1912) and Elizabeth (nee Crawford) (1848-1922). She was registered at birth as 'Eliza'. John had come to Victoria as a young man in the early 1850s, and Elizabeth as a small child with her parents. They married in Terang in 1865.
- 8677 reads
STIRLING, George Francis
George Francis Stirling was born in July, 1896. On 7 January, 1916, nineteen years and six months old,he enlisted to go to the war.
- 2751 reads
STRATTON, Frederick John
Frederick John Stratton was the only child of John Angus Stratton, a carpenter, and Agnes Peet. He was born in 1890 in South Yarra. His mother died in 1911 and two years later his father remarried, to Eliabeth Florence Thompson. They also had one son, Edgar John Stratton (1914-1980). Frederick Stratton married Grace Muriel Hitchen in 1912.
- 3153 reads
SWAN, Albert William
Albert William Swan was the name this soldier used when he enlisted at Perth on 24 November 1916. Over a year later, in March 1918, he made a Statutory Declaration stating that his real name was Albert William Barry. He was born in Sydney in 1891 and was the son of Albert and Letitia Barry (nee Swan).
- 4806 reads
SYME, Joseph Edward
Joseph Edward Syme was the son of George Alexander Syme and the grand-son of Ebenezer Syme, proprietor, with his brother David, of The Age newspaper. George was a partner in Daunt, Syme & Co., general merchants, based in Brisbane. He had married Julia Tierney and after his death in 1885 at the age of 34 she married William Henry Glover.
- 4031 reads
TABULO, James
James Tabulo was born in Abbotsford c.1892. When he enlisted on 26 January 1915 he gave his occupation as assistant electrical linesman. He named a friend, Mrs Howard of Terang, Victoria, as his next of kin. He was appointed to the 7th Battalion, 7th Reinforcements as a private and sent to Seymour for training.
- 4527 reads
Stone , John Edward
On 4 February 1915 at Wangaratta, Victoria, a man calling himself John Edward Stone signed up to join the Australian army. He described himself as born in East Melbourne, a storeman by occupation, aged 25 and eleven months and with military experience through School Cadets. He weas 5'9", a good height for the time and exhibited leadership qualities from the beginning of his army career.
- 2928 reads
TEER-HAGEN, Cyril Thomas
Cyril Thomas Teer Hagen was the eldest son of Thomas Teer Hagen and his wife, Emma Frances, nee Fisher. He was born in Nerrandera, New South Wales c.1890. His father was a bootmaker who later in life was described as a ‘gold mining expert’.
- 3795 reads