WW1

BLACK, Emily Conyngham

Date of birth: 
1884
Biographical notes: 

Emily Conyngham Black was born in Tinamba near Maffra, Victoria in 1884, the second daughter of William Murray Black (1835-1925) of Grenock, Scotland and Mary Anne Bennison (1850-1912) of Port Albert. Tinamba was a grazing settlement, with a population 49 according to the 1891 census (Angus Watson, Lost and Almost Forgotten Towns of Colonial Victoria, 2003).

Allan Bennison Black DCM, Emily's brother wounded in France
Emily Conyngham Black AANS
52 BGH Nurses in anti-malaria dress 1918 (AWM H15761)
52 BGH Salonika 1918 (AWM H15755)
Emily Conyngham Black in the 1950s
Emily Black (back 4th left) St Anne's Grammar Gippsland c1947 (St Anne's Grammar
Grave of Emily Conyngham and Mary Isabel Black, Karrakatta Cemetery, WA
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BLACK, Herbert

Date of birth: 
1888
Biographical notes: 

Herbert Black was an architect and a widower when he enlisted on 19 February, 1917. He was not called up for duty until 2 July, 1917, and then began training, first at Royal Park, Melbourne, then at from 19 February to 29 March 1917 at Seymour and finally at Ascot Vale from 29 March until 12 May 1917.

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BLAIR, William Allison

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

William Allison Blair as a Stock and Station Agent, aged 27 when he enlisted on 27 July, 1916. He gave as his next of kin his father, Captain William Allison Blair, living at 'Mernda', 42 Jolimont Terrace, Jolimont, with his wife, Minnie Waters Blair (nee Peck).

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BLATCHFORD, Herbert Albert

Date of birth: 
1894
Biographical notes: 

Herbert Albert Blatchford had no real connection with East Melbourne, save that his sister, Clara Blatchford, lived at Clivedon Mansions, on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon St, East Melbourne, now the site of the Hilton Hotel. He was a skilled labourer, living in North Melbourne, who, in the post war  period, identfied himself as a fitter. He was single and aged 31. 

Record Page with reference to desertion
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BLUNDELL, Madeline Patricia Petrie

Date of birth: 
1880
Biographical notes: 

Patricia Blundell was one of five surviving children (four daughters, one son) born to Martin Petrie Blundell and his wife Emily (nee Lineker) between 1871 and 1890. Melbourne-born Martin was employed by the Bank of Australasia on leaving Melbourne Grammar School in 1861. From 1882 until ill-health forced his retirement in 1899 he was manager of the bank’s Melbourne branch.

Patricia Blundell (Table Talk 27.5.1915)
Madeline Blundell's sister, Beatrice Emily who married George Stoving 2 Feb 1914
SS Mooltan leaving Sydney 16 May 1915. Patrica Blundell on board.
Australian sisters outside their quarters on Lemnos late 1915
Australian sisters on Lemnos 1915
Australian sisters on board SS Mooltan May 1915
First contingent of Australian sisters arriving at Lemnos 1915
Australian sisters ready to leave Lemnos early 1916
Australian General Hospital on Lemnos October 1915
Patricia Blundell on a hospital train, Egypt, 1916 (Blundell Papers, SLV)
Patricia Blundell's medals (Blundell Papers, SLV)
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BODEN, Samuel

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

Samuel Boden was born in Birmingham, England, but had lived in both India and Ceylon before he came to Australia. While in Sri Lanka, he had served for eighteen months with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps. It seems possible that these experiences shape the early part of his military career.

Bikenar Camel Corps 1915-16
Bikaner Camel Corps, 1915-16
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BOLTON, Francis Basil

Date of birth: 
1889
Biographical notes: 

Francis Bolton was the younger brother of Reginald Bolton, and like him, lived with his mother and younger brother, Tom, at 'Verona', corner of Clarendon and Gipps Sts., East Melbourne.He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School, Canterbury, Victoria and then took out  Accountancy qualifications and was registered with the Insttute of Accountants, Victoria, before moving to Western Austra

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BOLTON, Reginald Henry

Date of birth: 
1887
Biographical notes: 

Reginald Henry Bolton was a Company Manager, aged 29 and had been married to Doris (nee Fairland) for just over a year , when he enlisted on 3 November, 1916. They lived at 'Verona', on the corner of Gipps and Clarendon Sts., where he had been living with his mother, Mrs. Fraces Edith Bolton and his siblings, Francis Basil and Tom Harold Bolton. HIs father, Mr. F.P.

Reginald Bolton, first left, middle row, at Neuve Eglise, Belgium, 1918
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BONE, Kenric Clifton

Date of birth: 
1899
Biographical notes: 

Kenric and Ronald Bone were the twin sons of Ada and George Bone of 'Cotswold', 40 Berry St., East Melbourne. George Bone was an importer, who built 'Cotswold' in 1891 to house his growing family: Daisy, Iris, Chandos, Ronald and Kenric. Kenric and Ronald were just over 18 when they enlisted in Richmond,Victoria, having celebrated their joint birthday on 21st December, 1917.

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BONNICK, John William

Date of birth: 
1895
Biographical notes: 

John William Bonnick was born in East Melbourne in December, 1895, the son of James William Bonnick and his wife, Georgina Jane (Ross). With the permission of his parents, he enlisted on 16 July, 1915, aged nineteen. He had trained with the Senior Cadets and had two years experience with the 58th Infantry.

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