From 12 Regent-street, Preston, McDonald was alternatively listed as an agricultural student and a cheese-maker on embarkation. Somewhat unique in our archives in that he served in Egypt and Palestine with the Camel Corps rather than a Light Horse unit, McDonald died in the 14 General Hospital, Cairo on 8 May, 1917 from a septic haemorrhage […]
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World War 1 Casualty : Nurse Amy Vera O’Grady
Nurse Amy Vera O’Grady (Roman Catholic Presbytery, Clifton Grove, Preston) Nurse Amy O’Grady was one of around a dozen women from Darebin that served in the Medical Corps, and the first of just two that died, in her case of cholera in the Sisters Isolation Hospital, Calaba, Bombay There were around a dozen local nurses […]
George Alexander – Northcote’s First International Sportsman
The Preston Leader (and Melbourne newspapers) noted the death in a private hospital in Richmond on November 6, 1930 at 78 years of age of George Alexander, describing him as “a resident of Northcote for over 60 years” and living at ‘Terracedale’, 3 McLachlan Street at the time of his demise. (Preston Leader, 13 November, […]
John Cain (1931 -)
John Cain (1931 – ) 1When John Cain was born in 1931 his father was the Labor Deputy Opposition Leader of Victoria. John Cain Senior went onto to lead Victoria as Premier on three separate occasions before his death in 1957. With such a strong political presence in his life it was no surprise when […]
Growing up in Pascoe Vale
I started school at the Catholic school in Kensington and soon after we moved to Pascoe Vale. That would have been about 1940 or 1941. I started at Pascoe Vale Primary School then all the Catholic children transferred to Blessed Oliver Plunckett’s. We spent many years in Ray Street, Pascoe Vale. Most people in the […]
Catherine Clinton
Brunswick Pioneer Passes MRS CATHERINE MARY CLINTON, AGED 92 Interesting reminiscences recalled By her passing away at the Sacred Heart Hospital on August 29, Brunswick has lost another of its oldest colonists in Mrs Catherine Mary Clinton, who had reached the age of 92 years, during 80 of which she has been a resident of […]
Why study history
Why study history? by Kathy Shiels for the Brunswick Community History Group newsletter ‘Fusion’ July 2003 p4-5. ‘Stop writing that note!’ I boomed at the fourteen year old girl at the back of the room. I thought despairingly, ‘Aren’t they interested in anything but the next party?’ From the content of the previous notes that […]
My history of living in Melbourne’s north
I left Italy in April 1963, with my Dad, Mum, and 2 young brothers. All the other 5 brothers were already living in Melbourne. We arrived at Victoria dock early in the morning on the 13-5-1963. My first impression of Melbourne was not the best, as it was a very grey morning. When I looked […]
My life in Moreland
My History living in Moreland Interview conducted in Glenroy by a council worker Irene is a lady in her 80s living in Glenroy. She was born in Germany and left in her twenties to live in England because of the lack of employment after World War 2. After the war, the American occupational troops were […]