WW1

CUREL, John

Date of birth:

1892

Biographical notes:

John CUREL was the second son of Emily Bragg and Henry Edward Curel, and stepson of Arthur Bragg (see entry). Like his brother Archibald Charles Curel, he had been born at Cloncurry, North Queensland. In 1914, He was a 22 year old and single, a miner by occupation, 5' 9" tall, with blue eyes and brown hair.

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CURRIE, Robert

Biographical notes:

Photo below: Studio portrait probably of 4159 Private (Pte) Robert Kingsley Currie, 5th Battalion, of East Melbourne, Vic, and another unidentified soldier. Pte Currie enlisted on 2 September 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 29 December 1915. He returned to Australia aboard the HMAT Orontes on 25 October 1919 with the 46th Battalion. [AWM]

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DALY, Patrick

Date of birth:

1894

Biographical notes:

Very little can be written about Patrick Daly. His name appears both on the 14th Battalion lists form the Australian War Memorial and on the Embarkation Roll, but the National Archives have no Service Records for him. On the Electoral Rolls, he appears in 1912 as a labourer, living at 394 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, but on no other Electoral Roll form 1912-1920.

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DARLING, Edward Ernest

Biographical notes:

Edward Ernest Darling was born on 30 September, 1893, the son of Richard Stuart Darling and his wife Sophia, nee Cook. In 1903, he married Elizabeth Annie Agnes Kemp, known as Eliza, in South Melbourne, the daughter of Henry Kemp and Agnes Uglow Kemp.

Edward Ernest Darling grave St. Kilda Cemetery, Victoria

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DAVIES, Gilbert Heneage

Date of birth:

1879

Biographical notes:

Gilbert Heneage Davies was born in 1879 in Jolimont, to George Schoen Davies, a clerk, and his wife, Sarah Annie, nee Staples. Gilbert was born on 27 April, and Sarah died on 4 May, 1879, so it would seem that she died of complications followinf childbirth, Geogre Davies married again, to Jessie Agnes Mchurtie, and had three other sons: Dr.

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DAVIES, Percival Naunton

Date of birth:

1883

Biographical notes:

Percival Naunton Davies was the son of John Davies and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Auguste Fischer. John Davies owned an iron foundry, Davies and Baird, and his son followed in his father's trade. Born in 1883, he married Irene Myra Scott in 1916, and they were to have three children: Margaret b.1920 d.1980, Kathleen b.1922 d. 1990 and John Scott b.1929 d.1991.

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DAVIS, John George Walker

Date of birth:

1897

Biographical notes:

John George Walker Davis was born in East Melbourne in 1897, but was orphaned at the age of three and raised in Western Australia as her adopted son by Mary Skene, of 157 Claisebrook St., East Perth. He was just over twenty when he enlisted on 21 February 1917, working as an apprentice silversmith in Sedgewick St., Perth.

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DAVIS, Mark

Date of birth:

1891

Biographical notes:

Mark Davis was the son of David and Florrie Davis. He was born in East Melbourne, and his address may have been at 36 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, where his mother was living in 1903. He was a railway employee, married to Lillian May Davis, nee Fielding, in 1915. In 1916, when he enlisted he was 25 years and 4 months old.

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DAVIS, William Emille

Date of birth:

1871

Biographical notes:

William Davis was 45 years old when he enlisted. He was a single man, a dentist with a Doctor of Dentistry qualification from the University of California, USA. He already had extensive military experience, as a Lieutenant with the 63rd and 62nd Infantry, as well as the Automobile Corps. and had been elevated to Captain on 1 January, 1914.

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DAVISON, Frank Sinclair

Date of birth:

1880

Biographical notes:

Frank Davison was born on 10 August 1890. His father, John, had been a practising General Practitioner in Shepparton, but the marriage broke up in 1890 and Dr Davison moved to 19 George St., East Melbourne. Frank was brought up in East Melbourne and went to school at Christian Brother's College, St Kilda.