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MARKS, Cecil Solomon

Cecil Solomon Marks was the son of Edward Marks and his wife, Fanny (nee Benjamin). He was born on 4 March 1876 at the family home, 2 Burlington Terrace, 398 Albert Street, East Melbourne where Edward and Fanny continued to live until their deaths in 1900 and 1909 respectively. A...

John Stanley Marsh was born at Castlemaine Victoria in November 1888. He was the son of Henry Marsh, then aged sixty, and his wife Margaret, nee Edwards, aged forty. He enlisted at Melbourne on 18 April, 1918 at the age of 30 and 6 months. He was single, a manager by occupation,...

Albert Edward Martin was the youngest son of Thomas Martin and his wife Margaret, nee Kain. He was forty years old when he joined the A.I.F. on 4 July, 1917 and a married man: 1 June 1904: Martin-Jones, June 1 at the residence of the bride's mother, 21 Pitt St Redfern, Albert Edw...

Alexander Colin or Collin Martin was 33 and 11 months when he enlisted on 19 February, 1916. Both his parents were dead and he gave as his next of kin his aunt, Helena Coleman. According to the Electoral Rolls, he had been living with her for nearly two years. He was 5'5" tall, s...

Edward Percy Martin was a clerk living at 330 Ferrars street, Albert park. He enlisted into the army on the 20th of April, 1915. At the time of enlistment he was 5 feet and 4 and a quarter inches tall, weighed 10 stones and 31 pounds, had blue eyes and brown hair. He claimed to b...

Edwin John Martin was unusual, in that he enlisted in the A.I.F. twice and twice was found to be 'unfit for General Service'. In June 1915, Edwin John Martin enlisted in the army at Liverpool, N.S.W. He had been born in Kyneton, Victoria, and described himself as British born, ag...

Carroll James Messina, known as Jim, was born in Slaty Creek, near St.Arnaud , Victoria in July, 1890, the son of William and Agnes Massina. By the age of 25, he was living at 162 Powlett St., East Melbourne, with Delia and Louis Massina, probably an uncle. There were two other m...

Enid Esther Mather was born on 6 January 1910 in Queensland. She was the daughter of William Mandeville Ellis L’Estrange and his wife, Mary Emmeline, nee Alder. William was an electrical engineer and administrator who became managing director & chairman of directors of the City E...

Roland Clyne Mathews was born in East Melbourne on 26 January, 1893 to Francis Herbert Seymour Mathews and Margaret Mathews (nee Hudson). He grew up in Brighton Beach and was living there when he enlisted on 2 February, 1915, aged almost 22 years, occupation as a purser. With his...

The son of Gregory and Matilda (nee Lyons) Matoorekos, Panaye was born in 1898 in Albert Park. Gregory was the proprietor of a licensed (wine only) restaurant and oyster saloon in Swanston Street known as the Athenaeum. In 1904 he added to his 'already extensive and palatial prem...

Henry John Matson was just a boy when he enlisted on 3 July, 1917. He was only eighteen years and two months old, and had to get a document of consent from his mother. His father, also Henry Matson, was already at the war as part of the 21st Battalion of the A.I.F., although he w...

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MAXWELL, May

From the time when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India to the landing on Mars – this was the span of the interesting life of May Maxwell, who died at the age of 100 in 1977 at 157 Wellington Parade South Jolimont, which had been her home for sixty years. May was born i...