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William Maurice McKenzie aged 37 enlisted on th 17 August 1914 and joined the 2nd Infantry Brigade 6th Battalion AIEF with the SERN 26 Attestation paper informs he was from Melbourne East, unmarried and unstated next of kin William was a Telephone Repairer being 5 feet 8 & 1/2 in...

Thomas McKeon was a student of Divinity and living at Vermont, Victoria, when he enlisted for the war on 23 October, 19015. Born at Enniscorthy in Ireland, his enlistment application identified both parents as dead, and no siblings. For his next of kin, he gave his wife, Stella A...

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McKINNELL, Bertha

Bertha McKinnell (1879–1963) was the youngest of five children (four daughters, one son) born to Francis McKinnell (c1839–1904) and his wife Mary Ann (nee Donnolly/Donnelly) (c1843–1927). Francis McKinnell was the son of Charles McKinnell, a Scottish born wine merchant in London....

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McKINNON, Mary

Mary McKinnon (1885–1979) born in Marnoo, Victoria, the third of seven children born to Godfrey McKinnon (1847–1934) and his second wife Margaret (nee Patience) (c1851–1916). Mary’s forebears on both sides were Scottish highlanders. Her father Godfrey had come from the Isle of Sk...

William McLauchlan enlisted on 19 August, 1914. He was 26 years old, single and working as a tailor at 130 McKillop St., Geelong. He had been born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland and cited 7 years military experience with the Black Watch (3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotl...

George Reginald Albert McLeod was born in Northcote in May 1896 and enlisted to serve in the war in 1914, when he was just twenty years and three months old. His father, George Frederick McLeod, a civil servant,was then living at 'Airlie', 314 Albert St., East Melbourne with his...

Oswald McLeod was the son of George Frederick McLeod and his wife, Elizabeth Derippe Williams.He was 18 years old when he enlisted and had to have the permission of his parents to sign up. At the time he enlisted, he was working on a farm at Elmore, Victoria, but had two years wo...

James McMahon was 38 years and three months old when he enlisted on 17 October, 1916.He was born in Clunes, Victoria, the son of Patrick McMahon (1859-1914) and his wife Hannorah, nee Savage (1854-1904). He had one brother, John Ignatius McMahon, b. 1892. By trade, he wrote that...

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McMILLAN, Ronald Malcolm

Ronald Mc Millan was the elder son of Malcolm Reginald Mc Millan and his wife Jane. They lived at 230 Clarendon St., East Melbourne, and he gave this as his home address. He was only nineteen years of age and working as a clerk when he enlisted on 17 August, 1914, virtually as so...

Andrew McNiven enlisted on 29 September, 1916. He was the son of David McNiven, Cheltenham House, Cheltenham, Victoria, and gave as his address 226 Clarendon St., East Melbourne. By trade, he was a draper, an occupation he maintained post-war. He was a single man, aged 31 and 11...

John McPherson was working as a farm hand when he enlisted on 5 July, 1915. Born in Richmond, Victoria, he ws the son of John McPherson, a carpenter, and his late wife, Mary. Father and son were living at 20A Hotham St., East Melbourne in 1915. John gave his occupation on his enl...

In 1895, James Wallace McPhillamy was born into a pioneering family near Albury, his father being John Sydney McPhillamy , a grazier, and mother Annie Mary Josephine Serong. At the time of his enlistment on 9 February, 1917, John was working as an Overseer, possibly on the family...

In 1883, Ronald Murray McPhillamy was born into a pioneering family around Albury, his father being John Sydney McPhillamy, a grazier, and mother Annie Mary Josephine Serong. In 1914 Ronald married Doris Claudia Gilroy in Victoria and was likely to be living in the country as whe...

Abbott Halford John McQuinn joined up to the military on 29 June 1918. He claimed to be 21 years and 4 months old and born on 25 February 1897 in Sydney, though his birth was also recorded as Launceston, Tasmania in 1892. He was the son of John Jacob Wallace McQuinn and his wife...

Subjects WW1 Family name McVEAN Given names Armstrong Poliah Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 102 Grey Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 5424 Rank Pte Military units 7th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement

The 14th Battalion was formed in the last weeks of September, 1914. Its headquarters initially was at 178 Collins St., Melbourne, but on 1 October, the battalion was relocated to Broadmeadows, where the recruits were trained. Ernest Meadows enlisted on 8 October and would have sp...

Henry Francis Meehan was born in Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of John Meehan and Mary Maize. He had four brothers, James, Joseph, Patrick and John, and two sisters Mary and Sarah Meehan. Of these, James, Mary and Joseph, all died young, while his father, John,died...

Born in Colac, Victoria, Michael Meehan was the son of John and Ellen Corbett. When he enlisted on 6 May, 1916, he was already 36 years and three months old, a single man, working as a labourer. He was not a big man, only 5' 4" in height, with blue eyes and brown hair. By religio...