WW1

For King and Country - Thomas Faulkner Borwick - Exhibition Panel

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Illustrated panel prepared by volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition,For King and Country, commemorating the centenary of the commencement of the First World War. It is one of 16 panels, each of which provides a life story, with relevant images, of men and women who served in the war and who had connection with East Melbourne or Jolimont.

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For King and Country -William Hopton Anderson - Exhibition Panel

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Illustrated panel prepared by volunteers from the East Melbourne Historical Society as part of an exhibition,For King and Country, commemorating the centenary of the commencement of the First World War. It is one of 16 panels, each of which provides a life story, with relevant images, of men and women who served in the war and who had connection with East Melbourne or Jolimont.

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FORBES, Cyril

Date of birth: 
1898
Biographical notes: 

Cyril Charles Albert Forbes was the son of James Forbes and his wife Mildred, nee McLean.  He was born in Brunswick in 1898.  He enlisted on 10 June 1915.  He named his sister, Gladys Forbes of 116 Vale Street, East Melbourne, as his next of kin.  As his guardian she signed a note of consent to his going to war, although he had added a year to his age and was only 17.

Cyril Forbes
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FORDEN-BELLGROVE, Bryan Westley

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 
Bryan Westley (sometimes Wesley) Fordon-Bellgrove’s background and pre-war life remain somewhat of a mystery.  He was born in East Melbourne in 1897.  His mother was Sarah Grace Forden-Bellgrove (nee Fordon).  At birth his father’s name was not registered, likewise for his six siblings. There is no record of a marriage involving the names of Fordon/Forden and Bellgrove.
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FRASER, Frank

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

Born in Carlton Victoria in September, 1897, Frank Fraser was the son of Margaret, nee Walls, and Falconer Fraser, whom he cited as his next of kin, living at 42 Agnes St., Jolimont. He was the middle child, with his eldest sister, Eva Emmeline, born 1899 and his younger sister, Olive Margot, born in 1894. Frank Fraser was a jockey by trade, single and lived nearby at 17 Grey St.

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FRAZER, Francis George

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

Francis George Frazer was 25 years and nine months old when he enlisted on 14 January, 1915. He was the son of Richard White Frazer and Lillian Brookwell Frazer, nee Cox, and gave as his next of kin his mother, Lilian Frazer, living at 93 Victoria Parade East Melbourne and later at 1107 Hoddle Street.

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FREY, Maud Josephine

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967)

Maud Josephine Frey (1892-1967) was born in the northern Victorian agricultural town of Tungamah, to Arnold James Frey (c1841-1897) and his wife Kate (also Cath, Catherine, Katherine) (c1859-1904).

Maud Frey in AANS uniform c1915 (family collection)
Maud Frey (r), Menindie, c1923 (family collection)
Elson Varco Whyte and Maud Whyte (nee Frey) (family collection)
Grave of Maud Whyte (nee Frey), Wentworth Cemetery NSW
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FRITH, Herbert

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

Herbert Frith was the second child of Sydney Silver Frith and his wife, Nora, nee Murray. He was born in 1884, according to the Birth Index, but is listed elsewhere as born in 1887. He followed on from Florence (1881-1969) and Percy (1886-1969)  and was born in Williamstown, Victoria, where his father was a publican, running the Court House Hotel.

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FROOMES, Harold William

Date of birth: 
1884
Biographical notes: 

Harold William Froomes was born in 1884,  the eldest child of Arthur William Froomes and his wife, Rosalie Harriet, nee Parsons. He was followed by six further children: Beryl May (1885-1886) ); Olive Maude (b.1887);Arthur Wray (b.1889): Eric (b.1890) Marie Constance (b.1892); Richard Marshall (b.1896) who was also to serve in the AIF in World War 1.

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FROST, Dudley Vye

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

Dudley Vye or Vyer Frost was born in East Melbourne in May, 1897. He was the son of Ernest Frost and his wife, Adelaide Flora, nee Dudley, of 74 Patterson St., Middle Park, and this was the address he gave on his enlistment form. By occupation, Dudley Frost was a draughtsman, and in 1917 when he enlisted,was a month short of his twentieth birthday.

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