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Louis Lewis's only connection to East Melbourne is his mother, cited as next-of-kin on his enlistment form and living at Canally, on the corner of Powlett and George Streets, East Melbourne. At the time of his enlistment, he was just off 24 years old and was working as a railway...

Raymond Lewis was a waiter, living in Albert St. East Melbourne when he enlisted on 23 July, 1917. He was a Tasmanian by birth, his father John Lewis living at 269 Murray St., Hobart, with his wife Sarah, nee O'Brien. They had at least four other children: William George (1891),...

Michael Liddy is somewhat of a man of mystery. He was born in Fallas Green, County Limerick, Ireland, probably in March 1885, as Michael Augustine O'Dwyer, but when he came to Australia or when and why he changed his name, is unknown. In 1916, when he enlisted, he was 31 years ol...

Ina Isabel Lindsay was born in East Melbourne in 1887, but at the time she enlisted in 1916 she was lving with her mother at 'The Hutte' , Irving Avenue, Armadale, Victoria. She enlisted in Melbourne at the end of 1916, when she was 29 years old and embarked on HMAT Orsova A67 as...

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LINDSAY, Robert Henry

Robert Lindsay enlisted for war service on 18 May, 1916. He was 34 years old when he joined the AIF, single and a miner at Cootamundra, NSW. He had grown up in East Melbourne, however, with his parents, Matthew and Frances Lindsay, still iving at 30 Gipps St. He was sent for trai...

William Thomas Lisson first tried to enlist on 8 March, 1915. He would have been just over sixteen at the time, but claimed to be eighteen and to be working as a jeweller in Hobart, Tasmania. He was one of nine children born between 1878 and 1895 to Adam Claude Lisson and Carolin...

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LITTLEJOHN, Euan Ironside

Euan Ironside Littlejohn was born on 26 October 1892 in Nelson, New Zealand where his father William Still Littlejohn had been assistant master at Nelson College since his arrival from Scotland in 1881. Euan's mother Jean Littlejohn (nee Berry), a teacher, met her husband-to-be w...

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LIVINGSTON, David Frederick

1168 Corporal (Cpl) David Frederick (Fred) Livingston, 29th Battalion was from Larraville, NSW, but gave as his own abdress that of his wife's address, 144 Simpson St., East Melbourne, Victoria. A 38 year old grazier prior to enlisting on 5 November 1914, he embarked with the D C...

Franklin Lloyd was 23 years old, 5 feet eleven inches and weighing twelve stone when he enlisted at Melbourne on 2 July, 1915. He was a gasfitter by trade, and gave as his next of kin his mother, Mrs. Emily Bailey, living at 93 High St., Northcote. He trained at the military camp...

John Loas was a Police Constable, living in East Melbourne with his parents, Joseph and Delia Loas, at 52 Albert St. He was one of eleven children, three of whom were named Joseph after their father and two, John. Delia Waldron and Joseph Loas or De Loas had been married in 1880....

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LONG, Cuthbert Jones

Cuthbert Jones-Long was 44 years old, a Ticket Writer by trade, when he joined up. The son of Henry James Long, a pharmacist, he ahd been educated at Scothch College, East Melbourne. He had a conviction for using obscene language, was nearly six feet tall, with blue eyes and brow...