WW1
ROSS, Alister Vernon
Alister Ross was one of the earliest volunteers to join the AIF. He enlisted on 19 August, 1914 and was called up a week later. The youngest child of Jane and Alexander Ross, he had grown up in Gippsland, being born at Maffra and later living at Sale. He was a blacksmith by trade, aged 23, 5' 8" tall, with black hair and brown eyes.
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ROWAN, Alexander Lee
Alexander Lee Rowan enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW, where he was working as a miner. He was forty-six, was relatively old to enlist, but lied about his age, using his brother William's or sister Hnerietta's birth date . He claimed to be a widower, but this was a falsehood: he had married Rosey May Hughes in 1900, but the marriage had ended and Rosey remarried in 1908.
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ROWAN, Andrew Percival
Andrew Rowan was 38 years old, 6' 1" tall and single. He described himself as a grazier, living at Meredin, Western Australia, but had previously worked with his father, also Andrew Rowan, a wine merchant, living in Brighton Rd., St Kilda. He already had substantial military experience, having served with the British Army in South Africa during the Boer War.
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ROWAN, Clement
Clement Rowan was born on 28 July, 1881, one of the sons of Lee and Margaret (Davis) Rowan. He was a miner, like his brother Alexander. He enlisted on 26 May, 1917 and began his service on 22 June, 1917, at Sydney. At this time, he was two months off the age 0f 36, separated from his wife, living with his next of kin his sister, Henrietta, at 19 Lansdowne St., East Melbourne.
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ROWAN, Eliza
Eliza Rowan (1885-1970) was born at Nagambie in 1885 to Lee Rowan (1847-1899) and Margaret Jane Davies (1851-1931).
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ROWE, Dexter Brigham
Dexter Brigham Rowe was born in 1888 at 53 Agnes Street, Jolimont. He was the son of John Rowe, contractor, and Mary, nee Pillow. Close by, on the corner of Jolimont Road and Wellington Parade South, lived Dexter Brigham.
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ROWE, Francis Henry
A biography of Francis Harry Rowe appears in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, see link belo:
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ROWLES, Ernest
Ernest Rowles was born in East Melbourne in 1894. He was the third son of Joseph and Catherine Ellen Rowles. In the 1909 electoral rolls Joseph was described as a foreman, by 1914 he was a tram employee and at the time of his death in 1922 he was superintendent assistant of the Tramway Board. Ernest, according to his enlistment papers, was a cabinet maker.
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RUNDLE, Walter Henry
Walter Henry Rundle was the only son of Henry Philip Rundle and Jessie Maria Honeyman. He ahd an elder sister, Florence, born in 1891. The family lived in Launceston, Tasmania, where his father was an engine driver. Walter Rundle was a carpenter by trade, Single, aged 22 years and eight months when he joined up on 5 May, 1916, in Melbourne.
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