WW1

GRAY, Alastair Cameron

Date of birth: 
1898
Biographical notes: 

Alisstair Cameron Gray was born in 1898 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area. He was the younger brother of Clark Maxwell Gray who was killed in action at Fromelles in July 1916.

  • 5426 reads

GRAY, Clark Maxwell

Date of birth: 
1896
Biographical notes: 

Clark Maxwell Gray was born on 6 December, 1896 in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Gray and Mary Gray nee Cameron, both born and raised in the Dunedin area. After completing his schooling William Gray worked his way into increasingly senior teaching roles in the Otago region until he undertook a B.A. at the Otago University in 1894, followed by an M.A. 2 years later.

2nd Lieutenant Clarke Maxwell Gray photo 1915/1916
  • 6242 reads

GRAY, Reginald Albert

Date of birth: 
1893
Biographical notes: 

Reginald Gray was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, in Octobet, 1893. He enlisted at Kerang, Victoria, on 21 November, 1917, having been once rejected for being under height - he was only 5 feett 1 inch tall. He was a dealer by occupation, but what he dealt in is not disclosed in his record.

  • 3170 reads

GREAVES, George Frederick

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

George Greaves was 22 years old when he enlisted on 22 March 1915. He listed his occupation as "labourer"; his father, Alfred, was a jeweller and the family came from England at some time after 1901, as the UK Census of that year has the family living at Smethwick, Worcestershire. They arrived in Melbourne on 20 January, 1911 as unassisted immigrants.

  • 3543 reads

GREEN, John Victor

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

John Victor Green was born in 1887 at Williamstown, Victoria. He was the youngest of two brothers and four sisters, of John Vanham Green and Charlotte Una West.  He married in 1910, to Jessie Dunford Andrews and in 1911, they had a son, John Vanham Green.

  • 3217 reads

GREHAN, Frank Albert

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

Frank Grehan's story is one of the oddest accounts of a volunteer soldier in the Great War. Born in Stawell on 24 August, 1889, he had joined the British Imperial Navy on 24/8/1907, on his eighteenth birthday, serving as a 'Boy First Class'  on board HMS Psyche. He remained in the Imperial Navy for six years, leaving in 1913.

  • 3052 reads

GREY, Denis Basil

Date of birth: 
1896
Biographical notes: 

Denis Basil Grey had almost no contact with East Melbourne, staying perhaps only very briefly at 'Rosebank', a boarding house in Clarendon St. afer being returned to Australia following a war injury. He was born in Ceylon of English parents, but the family then moved to Hong Kong, where his sister Nora Evelyn was born in 1898.

  • 3222 reads

GRIFFITHS, Francis Llewllyn

Date of birth: 
1886
Biographical notes: 

Francis Lllewlyn Griffiths was the son of William Moore Griffiths and his wife Rosa August, nee Petterick. He joined up on 23 January 1915 at Victoria Barracks. At that stage he was 28 years old, 5' 8" tall, with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion. His occupation was listed as 'clerk'.

  • 2692 reads

GRIFFITHS, George Norman

Date of birth: 
1888
Biographical notes: 

George Griffiths was 27 and 2 months old when he enlisted to serve in World War 1. He had previous experience, having enlisted on 16 August, 1914, to serve in New Guinea with E Company, First Expeditonary Force.

  • 2766 reads

GRIFFITHS, Norman Lance Guy

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

Private (Pte) Norman Lance Griffiths, aka Tasman Lance Guy Griffiths, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of East Melbourne, Vic. Pte, Griffiths enlisted on 5 July 1915. His uncle, Arthur Griffith, as his legal guardian,gave his permission for the boy to join up. He had attempted to enlist once before, but his height, only 5' 2", probaby led to his rejection.

Tasman Lance Griffiths
  • 3591 reads
more