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There is nothing in Bert Harris's military record that places him anywhere near East Melbourne at the time of the Great War. He grew up in New Zealand and enlisted at Casula, NSW. He gave as his next of kin his brother, Albert, living at Aratapu, and enlisted on 23/11/1915 follow...

Edward Harris enlisted on 20 Auguast 1914. He was then just off twenty three years old, 5'3" tall, with a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. He was a butcher by trade, with no previous military experience. Nor did he have family, save for his sister, Miss K. Harris, who w...

John Ernest Harris joined up almost immediately war was declared by England on 4 August 1914. Harris enlisted on 19 August, 1914, and was given the number 48. On the surface, he looked like the ideal recruit. He was English-born, by occupation a marine engineer, aged 30, single,...

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HARRIS, Percy James

Percy James Harris was born 1st January 1875 at Thornton, Studley-park, Kew. He was the son of Alfred Harris. Two months later Alfred sold the contents of his house as he was leaving for England imminently. Whether he did or not remains uncertain as no shipping records have been...

Edward William Harrison was a young man of 23 when he enlisted on 15 December 1915. He was 5'6" tall, with a dark complexion, blue eyes and dark hair, a single man studying to be a doctor and in his fourth year of study. He went into training at Seymour, Victoria, and then at Bro...

Martin John Harrison was given the number 6, when he enlisted to go to war in 1915. He was a postman by occupation, born in Dean, Victoria, a small town 12o kilometres west of Melbourne, near the Ballarat-Daylesford Rd. His parents, Martin Harrison and Rosina Catherine Harrison,...

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HART, Annie Kidd

Annie (Anne) Kidd Hart was the first of eight children born to John Adolphus Hart (c1849–1930) and his first wife Ann née Kidd (1854­–1908). Annie’s father and mother were both born in Melbourne in the early years of the settlement. On the Hart side, George Hart, a carpenter by t...

Norman Kinamond Harvey was born in Fitzroy in 1884. He was the son of John Henry Harvey and his wife, Henrietta Kinamond nee Fairbairn. John Harvey was an architect and for many years was the architect for the Public Works Department and was responsible for the design of a number...

Stanley Harvey was eighteen and four months old when he enlisted to join the AIF. He was an electircla engineer by training and gave his address as Parliament Place, Melbourne. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and had one sister, Norah Harvey, to whom he would leave his possessi...

Richard Morrison Hawkes enlisted on 13 January, 1916. He was nearly 31 years old, a clerk, 5'7" tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. He had married on 1 July, 1910, in Melbourne and, at the time of his enlistment, his wife, Adelaide Margaret Hawkes (nee (Short), was living at 122...

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HAWKINS, Clarence Edmund

Clarence Hawkins was the son of Alfred George Hawkins, a tailor, and his wife Mary Adele, nee Merson. Born in 1883, he was the second eldest of a large family of five boys and one girl: Theodore (1881); Bertram (1884); Mabel (1886); Raymond (1887): Edgar (1889); Philip (1890) and...

William Edward Riley took good care to cover his true name when he enlisted at Richmond, Victoria, on 17 August, 1915. His gave his name as Edwin Hayes, and claimed to be 19 years and two months old when he enlisted at the Drill Hall, Gipps St, Richmond. His true age was 17, but...

George Henry Heaney used a false name when he enlisted on 8 July, 1915. His true surname was Hart, and he had a father and stepmother living in Sexton St., Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Queensland. Heaney was a cook by trade and 36 and 10 months old, and had already had six years serv...

James Heaney was born in 1876 in Casterton, Victoria, the son of Patrick and Honora Heaney, nee Quinn. At the time of his enlistment, he was practising as an accountant, probably at 376 William Street, Melbourne, the address he gave on the Electoral Rolls for both 1914 and 1919....