East Melbourne Historical Society
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Enlisted aged 25 years and 10 Months on the 27 March 1915 to join the 24th Battalion at Broadmeadows. Married to Isobel and was a railway employee, being 6 feet and 1 1/2 inches tall and living at 153 Wellington Parade, East Mebourne. Embarked for Egypt per HMAS "EURIPIDEA" on 8...
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROBINSON Given names Lawrence John Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 121 George Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 651 Rank Pte Military units Machine Gun Company 15, Reinforcement 11
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROBSON Given names George Cranstown Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 20 Lansdowne Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 1169 Rank Lcpl Military units 7th Battalion, 1st Reinforcement
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Newpaper clipping with brief report on a new restaurant to be established on the ground floor of the apartment building known as 150 Clarendon Street, a conversion of the old Mercy Maternity Hospital. The restaurant will be called Roccella and run by Est Italia, a group made up o...
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Review of Roccella the restaurant that occupies the ground floor of the apartments at 150 Clarendon Street. The restaurant specialises in pizza but serves other dishes as well. The review concentrates on pizza. The restaurant is run by Francesco Crifo and brothers Joe and Bruno C...
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Died of illness 24 March 1918
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROCHE Given names Terence Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 47 Hotham Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2781 Rank Pte Military units 45th Battalion
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Subjects WW1 Family name RODDY Given names Christmas Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 22 Brunswick Street South , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 3392 Rank Pte Military units 5th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
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Anthony Rogers was the son of Anthony Rogers and his wife, Eliza Walsh (or Welsh). He was born on 16 April 1879. His enlistment papers state that he was born in East Melbourne but no confirmation has been found. His birth certificate has not been viewed but the index states simpl...
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Subjects WW1 Family name ROGERS Given names Horace Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 1 Simpson Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 39005 Rank Gnr Military units 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
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A former Scotland Yard detective, John Symonds, tells how he spied on Australia for the KGB. He lived briefly in East Melbourne.
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Willian Rohen was 25 years and three months old when he enlisted at East Melbourne on 29/6/1915. He was employed as a coaler and gave his next of kin as his mother, then living in Abbotsford St. North Melbourne. he was sent to France with the 58th Battalion. His military record i...
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John Rohrs was born at St. Helliers in the Channel Islands, probably in December 1882. He was educated at King's School, London where he received two books as prizes, which are still in the possession of his family. He was a keen sportsman, playing both cricket and soccer. His pa...
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Alister Ross was one of the earliest volunteers to join the AIF. He enlisted on 19 August, 1914 and was called up a week later. The youngest child of Jane and Alexander Ross, he had grown up in Gippsland, being born at Maffra and later living at Sale. He was a blacksmith by trade...
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Clara Louisa Ross Clara Louisa Ross (1874–1952) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt, France and England. Well qualified and highly experienced when she enlisted in 1914, she was promoted from sister to head sister and then matron, and decorated with the Royal...
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Newspaper clipping about The Johnston Collection, a house museum in East Melbourne. Each year a guest curator is invited to re-arrange the collection. This keeps the collection looking fresh and interesting. The article describes the collection as re-arranged by artist Rosslynd P...
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Alexander Lee Rowan enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW, where he was working as a miner. He was forty-six, was relatively old to enlist, but lied about his age, using his brother William's or sister Hnerietta's birth date . He claimed to be a widower, but this was a falsehood: he had m...
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Andrew Rowan was 38 years old, 6' 1" tall and single. He described himself as a grazier, living at Meredin, Western Australia, but had previously worked with his father, also Andrew Rowan, a wine merchant, living in Brighton Rd., St Kilda. He already had substantial military expe...
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Clement Rowan was born on 28 July, 1881, one of the sons of Lee and Margaret (Davis) Rowan. He was a miner, like his brother Alexander. He enlisted on 26 May, 1917 and began his service on 22 June, 1917, at Sydney. At this time, he was two months off the age 0f 36, separated from...
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Eliza Rowan (1885-1970) was born at Nagambie in 1885 to Lee Rowan (1847-1899) and Margaret Jane Davies (1851-1931). Both her parents had been born in the early days of colonial Melbourne. Lee's parents, a baker and a laundress, came from Armagh in Northern Ireland, arriving in Po...
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Dexter Brigham Rowe was born in 1888 at 53 Agnes Street, Jolimont. He was the son of John Rowe, contractor, and Mary, nee Pillow. Close by, on the corner of Jolimont Road and Wellington Parade South, lived Dexter Brigham. There appears to be no blood relationship between the two...