WW1
DE MORTON, Walter Henri
Walter Henri de Morton was over age when he enlisted on 11 December, 1916. He gave his age as 39, but was already 47. He was a widower and gave as his next of kin his son, Edward David De Morton. They both lived at 138 Lake St., Perth. Walter was a railway employee and gave his. Employment as 'checker'.
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DEACON, Allan Stanley
Allan Stanley Deacon was Scottish by birth and had been born at Milton on Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, in 1886. He was 29 years old when he enlisted, a single man, who named as his next of kin his father, Cecil Deacon of Kirkintillock, Scotland. Cecil Deacon (1859-19350 and his wife Letitia Frances, nee Berry, (b.1863) were the parents of six children, of whom Allan was the second oldest.
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DEANE, Cornelius Aloysius
Cornelius Aloysius Deane came from a large family at Wahring, near Nagambie, Victoria. He was the son of Patrick and Johanna (nee Forde) Deane and brother to Teresa, Jonnie, Caecilia, May, Patrick and Thomas, plus one other sister and a brother who died early. He enlisted on 9 July, 1916, at which time he was a 24 year old bachelor and a mechanical drafstman and designer by trade.
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DELANEY, Richard
Richard Delaney was Irish by birth and came from Galway. He was 35 years old, single and working as a sawyer when he enlisted on 19 July, 1916. He was Roman Catholic in faith and living at 162 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, within easy walking distance of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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DENE, Arundel Cecil
Arundel Cecil Dene enlisted on 15 December 1914. He was a journalist, aged 28, married to Phyllis Lilian and living at 'Rockleigh', in George Street, East Melbourne, now known at 'Braemar'. It may have been Phyllis's family home. Dene had been born in the suburb of Clapham, London, on 26 March, 1886.
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DENSHAM, Roger
Roger Densham was the first-born of twins born to Robert Densham and his wife Mary Ann, nee Hartnell, on 20 January 189o. They had four other children, Annie (1885-1977), Alma (1887-1979), May Page (1891-1979), nad Mary (1893-1981). Roger's twin, William died in 1894.
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DEVEREUX, Matthew
Born in Maryborough, Melbourne, by 1917 Matthew Devereux was 33 and 3 months old when he enlisted at Redfern, Sydney, NSW on 18 September, 1917. His connection with East Melbourne is therefore tenuous - his next of kin was his father, John Devereux, whom he claimed lived at 61 George Street, East Melbourne.
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DEVINE, William
William Devine was a parish priest at St Paul's Church, 264 Brunswick Street, Coburg, when he enlisted on 1 July, 1915. The son of George Devine, a draper, and his wife Catherine, nee McGluckey, he was educated at Drumnadey National School, St. Columba's College, Derry and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
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Dispatches from Gallipoli - Phillip Schuler, war correspondent
Newspaper clipping about the life and work of Phillip Schuler, war correspondent for The Age during the Gallipoli campaign, and soldier on the Western Front, where he lost his life. Phillip Schuler was born at Brentani Terrace, 159-161 Grey Street, East Melbourne and lived as a small child at 62 Jolimont Street, Jolimont before moving with his family to their permanent home in Hawthorn.
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DITCHBURN, William Arthur
William Ditchburn was the second of eight sons born to Thomas Ditchburn (1848-1903) and his wife Eugenie Jane, nee Musika. William Ditchburn was an ironmonger, when he enlisted on 1 March, 1915. Of his four children,the youngest, Noel, was born in 1916, and it is possible that his wife, Mary Ann, nee Findlay, died in childbirth.
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