WW1
GROVES, Charles Edward
Charles Edward Groves was born at Jolimont in November 1882. He was the only son of his widowed mother, Fanny Nina Groves, when he went off to the First World War, but had a sister, Ida. Before enlisting, he was working in the Belgian Congo, employed by the Belgian government as a mining engineer.
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GUTHRIE, Albert John
Albert John Guthrie enlisted in Melbourne on 26 January, 1914. He was one of four brothers, all of whom volunteered and enlisted just nine days after his brother, Henry David Guthrie, had enlisted in Perth. The brothers were the sons of David Guthrie, a tobacconist, and his wife, Eliza Ann, nee Harvey.
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HAAKE, Adolf George
Adolf George Haake wa born in March 1889 in Bradford Leeds to Adolf and Clara Haake, both from Hanover, Germany. Adolf had five siblings, 1 older sister BeA Cmpany rta, two older brothers Christian and Ernest, and two younger sisters Clara and Celia. The UK 1901 census show the family living in Bradford and his father's occupation as merchant clerk.
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HABEL, Louis
Carl Louis Habel was born in Murtoa in 1883, the son of Johann Carl and Emilie Clara Habel. In 1909, he married Florence Annie Shearwood, born 1889 in Collingwood, and in 1914, they were living at 1089 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne, with their two children, Melville Carl, born 1909, and Arthur Louis, born 1913. Carl Louis Habel was then working as a labourer.
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HABEL, Oswald Emile
Born at Dunkeld in the Western District of Victoria, Oswald Habel was the eldest of eleven children born to Emil and Annie (nee Hempel) of Minyip,Victoria. Of these children, two other Habel boys, Otto and Walter, joined up. In the wider habel family, in all, there were nine volunteers, mostly from Murtoa,Victoria.
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HALL, May Isabel
May Isabel Hall was born on 6 August 1879 in Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria. She was the fourth of the five children and first daughter of John Pitchers Hall (c1836–92) and his wife Isabella Jane (c1845–1918), successful drapers of that city.
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HALLEY, Edward John
Edward John Halley was 28 years old when he enlisted at Geelong on 14 November, 1916. He had already had one earlier attempt to sign up, probably in Melbourne, but had been rejected because of poor vision and bad teeth. He was in employment as a liftman and gave as his address 20 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne,the home of his mother, Annie Grace Doran.
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HAMILTON, Richard Henry
Richard Henry Hamilton was the son of John Lambie Hamilton and his wife, Clara Jane nee Booth. He enlisted at age 19, with the consent of his mother. According to his enlistment form, he lived at Croft House, Warley Rd., East Melbourne. The record was not corrected until 1917, when Mrs.
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HAMILTON, Robert Bell
Robert Bell Hamilton was 23 years old and practising as an architect when he enlisted on 8 December, 1917. At the time, he was a single man and living with his mother, Jane Napier Hamilton (nee Bell), at 91 Powlett St, East Melbourne. He had been educated at Scotch College. He was 5' 9" tall, with brown eyes and hair.
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HAMPSON, Francis Christian
Frank Christian Hampson was born in Sydney, possibly Strathfield, in 1887. He became a wool classer by trade, moving across NSW and Victoria to the different woolsheds. On 24 March 1915, he married Eileen Mary Evans, at St Thomas Church, Essendon. They were to have a child, Murray Cecil Hamspon, born in 1916 and died in 1917.
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