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Arthur Edward May was nineteen and six months old when he enlisted for the Australian Imperial Force at Korumburra. Victoria. he was the son of Thomas Edward May and his wife Matilda, nee Henson. He was a slight man, 5' 5" in height, with blue eyes and light brown hair. and a lab...
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Edmund Maynard was the son of George and Catherine Maynard and was born in Bendigo in 1880. George was Clerk of Courts in Bendigo until his death in 1884. Edmund enlisted at Coonamble, N.S.W. on 1 July 1917 and gave his next of kin as his sister Miss Mary Maynard of 76 Vale Stree...
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Information from Paul Burke, 19 June 2013:- -John Baird McAlister was born in Tapanui, Otago, NZ, in 1885. His parents were Scottishh immigrants to NZ from Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was also John Baird McAlister and his mother Mary McAlister, nee Turnbull. -at some point...
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Strangely enough, there were two John Archibald McColls, who both enlisted in 1915. Both were under twenty at the time. The first John Archibald McColl, 4260, was born in Kyneton and at the time of enlistment, was still living there, and working with his father as a butcher. He e...
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Garnet Frederick Binge was born on 24 November, 1896, the son of Henry Morris McCormack (d. 1927) and Caroline Katie, nee Binge (d. 1945). He was nineteen years and 11 months old when he enlisted on 25 October, 1916, and identified his job as motor driver. He had served 2 years i...
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Ernest Alfred McCure was born in Colac on 12 October 1893. He was the son of Alfred Ernest McCure and his wife, Clara Eve, nee Coney. In 1914 the family moved to Ararat where his father was a veterinary surgeon, and was the first to discover an outbreak of anthrax in Australia. H...
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Alexander McDonaldwas a 21 year old orphan and he enlisted on October 9, 1917. His address was Gembrook - C/o Mr Pitt, Farmer, Gembrook. He had no next of kin on enlistment but that was later changed to Charlotte Buchanan of Gembrook, whom he listed as his aunt. He was sent to Br...
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Alexander Michael McDonald was born on 27 November. 1896, to Michael Alexander McDonald and his Belgian wife, Elise Flora Marie Hartrive. He had one sister, Gladys Flora, born in 1898. His father died in 1908. amd at the time he enlisted, on 23 January, 1917, he was living with h...
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Benjamin James McDonald was 18 years and 9 months old when he enlisted to serve in the Great War. He was under age, but the authoritites accepted his application without dispute. In his enlistment form, he wrote that both his parents were dead and gave his next of kin as his sist...
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Frank McEvoy was born in 1893, son of Charles E. McEvoy, of Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, 1906-11 and was chosen to play in the First XV111. Following school, he was employed by Goldsborough Mort & Co. for twelve months and then a...
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File of copies of historical records and photos relating to the MCG footbridge in Yarra Park east of the MCG. Sourced mainly from VicTrack, Department of Transport, the owner of the bridge; but also from Public Records Office of Victoria, and The Argus newspaper.
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Newspaper clipping reporting that developers will appeal decision by Melbourne City Council not to grant a permit. Melbourne Yarra Leader, 21 Jan. 2002.
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Further submission to Heritage Victoria to have MCG Hotel listed. It provides extra source material, and many illustrations in support. 2 items: 1. Report 2. Letter in support
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An expert witness statement to VCAT supporting the case against demolition of the northern wing of the hotel which was part of a proposal to build apartments on the site. The statement contains historical information and images. The file also contains two pages from 'A Game of Ou...
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Submission to Heritage Victoria to have MCG Hotel listed, citing new evidence as to construction date. Building now thought to have been completed in 1859 and possibly the same building in which football rules were written and Melbourne Football Club founded. Licensee at the time...
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Article reporting on plans to replace the Shane Warne stand (Great Southern Stand) at the MCG. Told against a history of the ground and its many changes.
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Newspaper clipping about proposal to create restaurant and recreation precinct at MCG looking out onto Yarra Park. Herald Sun Sunday, 16 March 2003.
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Article on redevelopment of MCG and its impact on Yarra Park In Elm Watch. September 2003, July 2004.
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Newspaper clippings about redevelopment of MCG. Includes proposal to do away with food vans. August 2003.
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Newspaper clippings about redevelopment of MCG. Photos. Also leaflet with plan of sporting precinct.
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Newspaper clippings covering MCG's 150 years. Includes memorable moments, people, photos. 2003.
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Malcolm John McGregor was born on 19 June, 1886. His parents,were Alexander Malcolm McGregor and Elizabeth Lilian McGregor, nee Rutherford. He was the eldest of four children born to the couple: Malcolm (1886), then Ernest (1889-1917), Robert (1891-1891), and Beatrice (1893 -?)....
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Henry McGuiganIn the years from 1845 to 1852 against a backdrop of an Ireland devastated with famine, through the potato blight – the people’s staple diet – and an insidious mixture of politics– one million Irish people emigrated to the New World and one million had already died...
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Kenneth Fraser McKenzie was the only living son of Mrs. Marjorie Jane Fraser McKenzie, a widow, and her late husband George Kenneth McKenzie. He was brother to seven sisters: Margaret, Lila, Flora,Sara, Jane. Another son, Daniel, had died at two years of age. Mrs. McKenzie and he...