This essay was written in 1937. In the Fairfield Mill of the Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited, the city of Heidelberg possesses the largest unit in Australia for the manufacture of paper and paper boards. Paper is a commodity which lies at the very roots of modern civilisation. There are so many uses for paper in […]
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My Dad – George Stanley McCrohan
by John Stanley McCrohan My father was born George Stanley McCrohan on 15 January, 1894 and lived with his parents, 7 brothers and 5 sisters at 77 Arthur Street, Fairfield. At the age of 19, on 13 July,1915, Dad enlisted in the Army at Fairfield. On 18 November,1915, as Gunner G S McCrohan 6376, 10th Battery, […]
The Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital
What we know as the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital was also used by the A.I.F. during the latter years of the First World War and while the appellation was rarely used, it was officially No. 5 Infectious Diseases Hospital. What is not clear is when the A.I.F. started to use the hospital and just what […]
World War 1 Casualty : Albert Arthur Carr (Fairfield)
The discovery of Arthur Carr‘s relationship to the district was one of the more fortunate only being detected in a brief Death Notice from an aunt, Mrs. F. A. Copperthwaite (Frances Anne, nee May), who suggested he was “the eldest son of the late Mary Carr, late of Fairfield Park”. 1892 directories show Richard and […]
Darebin’s Boer War
The Preston Contingent ”Three Musketeers” in the persons of Messrs Chas. Patterson, Steve Prowse and Fred Michell – all Preston boys – called at this office in a high state of jubilation on Thursday, having been picked the day before to go with the Victorian contingent and fight for the liberties of their fellow Britishers […]
Merri Creek
Merri Creek is one of five major north-south flowing tributaries of the Yarra River, flowing perennially from its source in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range to its junction with the Yarra River in present day Collingwood, just east of Dights Falls. The creek is approximately 60 kilometres in length, the lower 20 of […]
World War 1 Casualty : William Michael McDonald (Preston)
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 […]
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 […]
World War 1 Casualty : William George Vincent Williams (Australia’s First Fatality)
Few will be aware that the first Australian casualty of the Great War on 1914 was William George Vincent Williams from 36 Beavers Road, Northcote. Williams had spent five years in the Naval Reserve and had just a week left to serve out his time when war was declared and he was commanded into full […]
World War 1 Casualty : William Wailes (Preston and Epping)
William Wailes served as 3952, Private, 23rd Infantry and was 23 years of age when killed in action at Lagnicourt, France on 20 March, 1917. His military career was unexceptional – perhaps one or two more run-ins with officialdom than the norm – but he was unusual in that he was one of five brothers […]