East Melbourne Historical Society
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Subjects WW1 Family name WAIGHT Given names George William Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 198 Albert Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 2030 Rank Ssgt Military units 8th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
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Photocopy of 'Walking Tour of East Melbourne' published by the National trust (Victoria) in association with the East Melbourne Group. First published 1982, copyright Winston Burchett. Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee m...
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Join former architect Lisette Malatesta for an engaging walking tour of historic East Melbourne. Discover how this remarkable suburb has evolved, from its earliest inhabitants to its most notable residents. Along the way, Lisette will highlight significant architectural features,...
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A brochure with the title Walking Tour of East Melbourne. It was devised and written by Winston H Burchett, and published in 1982 for the National Trust of Victoria in association with the East Melbourne Group. It provides a map with the subject buildings marked by numbers. The n...
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Academic in art, architecture and design, Dr Monique Webber will take us on a walk through the Fitzroy Gardens. She will explain exactly where some of the old statues stood and will identify which statues stood where and why they were chosen for those particular sites. Her talk w...
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8 pamphlets produced by City of Melbourne comprising a series of self guided walks around Melbourne. The first covers Eastern Hill and the Parliamentary Precinct.
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A collection of walks that can be done around East Melbourne. Include maps and potted histories.
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Subjects WW1 Family name WALLACE Given names Wm Henry Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 Chillingham George Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 538 Rank Pte Military units 24th Battalion, B Company
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Louisa Waller was born in Benalla, Victoria on 29 January 1887, the daughter of local storekeeper Charles Richard Waller (c1856-1932) and his wife Jane Matthews (1859-1936). She was the fourth of the couple’s fourteen children. Perhaps it was the death of several siblings as infa...
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Photocopied chapter from 'Years May Pass On. Caulfield Grammar School 1881-1981' by Horace Webber, being a biography of Walter Murray Buntine, M.A., educationist and headmaster of Caulfield Grammar 1896-1931. Buntine matriculated from Scotch College in 1885. During his time at Sc...
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Subjects WW1 Family name WALTERS Given names Alfred Tasman Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 110 Powlett Street , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 11941 Rank Dvr Military units Supply Column 3, Army Service Corps 26
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Leonard Thomas Willis Walters was born in 1890 at East Melbourne, Victoria. The 1892 Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories gave the family’s address as 123 [now 476] Victoria Parade, East Melbourne. He was confirmed on 15 July 1903 at St Peter’s, Eastern Hill. He was the elde...
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Subjects WW1 Family name WARD Given names Sidney Eric Richard Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 449 Victoria Parade , East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 557 Rank Pte Military units 3rd Pioneer Battalion
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Subjects WW1 Family name WARDEN Given names Reginald George Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 46 Rank Pte Military units Australian Ordnance Corps (Inspector Ordnance Machinery Section)
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Newspaper article and review about Zio's. Photo. Age, 24 April 2003, A3, p. 10.
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Newspaper clipping announcing that Shane Warne's will be the next statue to take its place in Yarra Park. It will be the first of the Australia Post Avenue of Champions. Louis Laumen will be the sculptor as he has been for the previous statues.
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Frederick Charles Warnock was born in St.Kilda on 24 August, 189o to Frederick and Alice Warnock (nee Andersen). At the time of his enlistment in April 1915, Frederick was working at the Union of Australia Bank in Yarram Yarram, Gippsland, and his mother who was next of kin was l...
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Newspaper clipping - formation of new Neighbourhood Watch group as part of body corporate at Wellington Gardens. Melbourne Yarra Leader, 9 September 2002.
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Newspaper articles relating to Melbourne's water supply. One explains the laying of new pipes under Yarra Park. Another tells of the background to the building of the Yan Yean reservoir. Another reports on the recycling of water used when Rod Laver Arena was converted to a swimmi...
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Eileen Marriott Watson was the youngest of the five daughters and one son born to the Reverend James Marriott Watson (1842-1903) and his wife Marianna (nee Dunning) (1846-1908). James's father was the wonderfully named Brereton Rolla Ross Porter Pemberton Watson, a prominent earl...
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Subjects WW1 Family name WATSON Given names John Edwin Gender Male East Melbourne addresses Year 1914 151 Wellington Parade , Jolimont, Victoria, Australia Military service WW1 Regimental number 19942 Rank Dvr Military units 8th Field Artillery Brigade
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Leslie Gottreux/Gottruex Watson was born in 1898 at Casa de Maria, 123 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. He was the son of Edward J and Edith Watson. At the time of his enlistment at Moonee Ponds on 22 November 1917 he gave his occupation as warehouseman. He gave his father as his ne...