WW1

CASS, Frederick

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Frederick Cass was born in 1892 in Balmain, Sydney to Thomas and Harriet Cass. He had 2 brothers, George and Thomas, and a sister Ruth, all born in the Sydney area.

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CATHIE, Harry Lorraine

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Harry Cathie was born at Queenscliff in Victoria on the 15 Jan 1892. His mother was Kate and his father, John Cathie. John Cathie worked with the Postal Department and died in 1895.

Harry was working at the State Saving Bank of Victoria as a clerk when he signed up in 1915 and living with his mother, Kate, and his brother Harold at 74 Gipps Street in East Melbourne.

Probably Harry Lorraine Cathie standing. AWM has only L Cathie
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CATTANACH, Adam Smith

Date of birth: 
1877
Biographical notes: 

Adam Smith Cattanach was not named after the great economic thinker, but after his mother, Sarah Cattanach, nee Smith. He was the son of Henry James Goodriche Cattanach (b.18/9/1833), a land agent, who had migrated to Australia from Scotland. Adam Cattanach was the seventh child, following on from Christina (b.1864).

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CATTANACH, Harry

Date of birth: 
1875
Biographical notes: 

Harry Cattanach was the son of Henry James Goodrich Cattanach (1833-1911) and his wife, Sarah, nee Smith. He was one of nine children born to the couple: Christina (b.1864), Sarah (b.1865), Jane (b.1967), Harriet (b.1871), Victoria (b.1873), Harry (b.1875), Adam (b.1877), Anne (b.1879) and Maud (b.1882).

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CECIL, Edith Ruth

Date of birth: 
1888
Biographical notes: 

Edith Ruth Cecil was born in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1888, second youngest in the large family of Thomas William Cecil (c1840-1912) and his wife Mary (nee Roach) (1849-1908). Thomas had come to Victoria in 1853 on the 'Great Britain' aged 13 with his father and younger brother (both William), his mother and remaining siblings arriving in 1857 on the 'Hotspur'.

Edith Cecil (Punch, 2.12.1915, p894)
Choubra Military Infectious Diseases Hospital c1916 (AWM1850.001)
Choubra Hospital: view from nurses' home (AWM PO1425.005)
Casino at Boulogne-sur-mer, site of 13 [British] General Hospital
Boulogne-sur-mer c1911
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CHAMBERS, Gordon Enoch John

Date of birth: 
1893
Biographical notes: 

Gordon Chambers was the son of Ernest Enoch Chambers and his wife Alice Maud, nee Carter. He was 23 years old at the tmie he enlisted on 15 January, 1918, and working as a Commercial Traveller.

Plane used by No. 2 Squadron AFC
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CLARK, Leslie Henry Charles

Biographical notes: 

Leslie Henry Charles Clark was the second son of Samuel Clark, a railway employee, and his wife Charlotte.   He enlisted at age 18 years 6 months on 8 April 1916 at Melbourne, making his birth date around November, 1897.

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CLARK, Percy Victor

Date of birth: 
1896
Biographical notes: 

Percy Victor Clark was the eldest son of Charlotte and Samuel Clark and brother to Leslie Henry Charles Clark. Like his borther he was born in Balmain Street, Richmond, and went to school at Brighton St. State School, Richmond. He served in the Senior Cadets and had continued his training after leaving school.

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CLARK, William

Date of birth: 
1881
Biographical notes: 

William Clark was 34 years old when he enlisted on 28 July, 1915. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, but living in Melbourne and was a draper by trade. He appears to have had only a sister,who was still living in Scotland, because he nominates her as his next of kin, Mrs Anne Thomson, living at 4 Fairyhill Rd., Kilmanock, Scotland.

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CLARKE, Herbert Clifford

Date of birth: 
1879
Biographical notes: 

Herbert Clifford Clarke was born on 23 May, 1879, to William Clarke and Jane Teresa Clarke, nee Jordan. He enlisted on 24 July, 1917, aged 38 years and two months. He was , at the time, a pastry cook and was to go on to become a master baker. He had married Daisy Rachel Gifford in 1902, and they were living at 26 Jolimont Rd., Jolimont, when he left for the war.

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