WW1

JAMISON, Robert Gibton

Date of birth: 
1865
Biographical notes: 

Robert Gibton Jamison, known as 'Skipper', enlisted late in the war and never got to serve at any of the battle fronts. The son of John and Ellen, nee Eades, Jamison. Robert was a clerk, living at 8 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn. On 26 June, 1907, he had married Rita Pilbeam at the Rowe Crescent Congregational Church, Albert Park, and the couple had one child, born c.1913, James Pilbeam Jamison.

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JENKYN, Frederick

Date of birth: 
1884
Biographical notes: 

Frederick Jenkyn had two lives as a volunteer and gave 874 days of service to Australia in World War 1. He first enlisted on 16 July, 1915, and gave his occupation as Hospital Assistant. He was at that time 30 years and eleven months old, single, with his next of kin his father, living in East Melbourne.

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JOHANNSEN, Henry Niemen

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 
Henry (Harry) Neimen Johannsen was the second son of John and Mary Anne Johannsen and one of a large family of eleven children.  He was born in Allendale in c. 1889.  At the time he enlisted on 6 October 1916 he gave his occupation as a tailor.  According to newspaper reports he had been working at the firm of Lyons and White in Ballarat.
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JOHNSON, Bessie Shircliffe

Date of birth: 
1886
Biographical notes: 

Bessie Shircliffe Johnson was born on 2 July 1886, in the Fitzroy area of Melbourne to Webb Johnson (1863-1890) and his wife Kate (nee Ryan, no dates). Formally registered as Elizabeth at her birth, she was the sibling of Kate/Catherine Mary (born 1883) and Ryan (born 1889).

Bessie Johnson (second from right) 14 AGH 1917 (AWM P00812.022)
London War Hospital Epsom c1916 (AWM AO1927)
Ward at 14 AGH (AWM P00228.062)
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JOHNSON, Edwin Campbell

Date of birth: 
1892
Biographical notes: 

Edwin Campbell Johnson was the second son of Alexander Campbell Cusac Johnson and his wife, Ella May, nee Young. He was born on 13 May, 1892 in Adelaide and baptised at St. Mary Magdalene's, Adelaide. At the time he enlisted, on 1 May, 1916, he was 24 years and 4 months old, working as a clerk.

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JOHNSON, Frederick

Date of birth: 
1897
Biographical notes: 

This is a story of two soldiers, not one, Frederick Johnson and his brother Ralph. They were the children of Hubert Thomas Coster Johnson and his wife, Alice Maud Mary Ivey. A third child, Alice, born 1893, died at the age of eight. The eldest child, Constance, born 1891, died in 1972. Frederick Johnson was born in 1897 and his younger brother, Ralph, in 1898.

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JOHNSTON, David Robertson

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

David Robertson Johnston was the son of John Johnston and his wife, Margaret Bolton Johnston. He was one of eleven children and had served a four year apprenticeship as a draper in his birthplace, with J. Falconer of Aberdeen. By 1915, he was living in East Melbourne, at 49 George St. and working as a draper.

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JOHNSTONE, Stanley Watson

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

Stanley Watson Johnston or Johnstone, was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1887, but little else is known of him. His father was Andrew Johnstone, but this is the only fact in his early life, other than that he served four years as an apprentice at Gourlay Brothers, presumably in Dundee. He was 27 years old in 1915 and gave as his next of kin his wife, Mary Frances, nee Hunt.

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JONES, David

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

When David Jones was born on 19 April 1889 in Eaglehawk, Victoria, his father, Henry, was 34 and his mother, Jane, was 34. He was their fourth son and one of eight children. Henry Jones died in 1897, aged 43, when David was nine.

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JONES, Francis Joseph Roy

Date of birth: 
1875
Biographical notes: 

Francis Joseph Roy Jones enlisted on 8 November, 1917. He was reasonably old for a new recruit, 40 years and 3 months. He was, by occupation, an Assistant Surveyor, 5' 8" tall and Roman Catholic by religion. Who his parents were is not known; he gave as his next of kin a friend, Mrs. Maggie Scheicowski, living at 159 George St., East Melbourne. 

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