Portrait of Miss A. M. Prichard RRC, matron of 42nd British General Hospital which was one of the four hospitals at Salonika staffed by the AIF. (Image Courtesy AWM. Image A01891) Alice Prichard hailed from the north of Victoria and had been the Matron of Mildura Hospital prior to enlistment. Her sister Florence also served […]
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Patients at the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. Portrait of Isolation Camp, rear of Army Medical Corps Base. Army Medical Corps, Isolation Camp, Ascot vale. C 1916. (Image courtesy Australian War Memorial. Image DAX1070) Once again, the story of the men who were treated at the Glenroy Hospital has begun to emerge from that wonderful online newspaper collection found at […]
Staff of the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. I was interested to know who worked at the Glenroy Military Hospital. Again, it hasn’t been an easy task and it has been soldiers’ attestation papers and newspaper reports that have given me most of my information. It seems that most of the nurses, orderlies and doctors who worked there had yet […]
Life at the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. It’s been slow work given that there are really only newspaper reports to go on, but finally a picture is emerging of what life might have been like at the Glenroy Military Hospital during its eighteen months’ existence. If you look closely at the image of the hospital at ‘Ashleigh’, courtesy Broadmeadows […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 2
By Cheryl Griffin. If ever you needed a reminder that there was a class system at work within the military (officers and the ranks), just consider the Glenroy Military Hospital set-up. ‘Ashleigh’ and ‘Sawbridgeworth’ were two Italianate mansions built side by side during the years of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. As living quarters they were beyond anything […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 1
By Cheryl Griffin. The 5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria), more commonly known as the Glenroy Military Hospital, opened at Glenroy in June 1915 and closed in January 1917. I have also seen it referred to as the Glenroy Measles Hospital, and this was its principal purpose, although the hospital took in pneumonia and tuberculosis cases, […]
A refugee journey from Africa to Australia
Amongst other things, Baraka Emmy is employed as a casual library officer at Moreland City Libraries. This is a personal account of his journey from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo to Australia. By Baraka Emmy
Six decades playing golf in Glenroy
Judy Manning has a storied history of playing golf in Melbourne’s North. Judy’s family first became golfers after her father Stan Williams came home from World War II looking for a sport he could play with one arm. The whole family first played at Royal Park golf course, with Judy taking up the sport at […]
Victorian P-12 College of Koorie Education (former Glenroy High School, Box Forest campus), Glenroy campus
Victorian P-12 College of Koorie Education (former Glenroy High School, Box Forest campus), Glenroy campus. In the 1960s and 1970s the eight children in the Murray family (Diana, Stephen, Gary, Brian, Margaret, Wayne, Bev and Greg) attended Glenroy High School close to their home. They were the only Aboriginal children in the area and at […]
Growing up in Glenroy
I grew up in Glenroy. The suburb and the community seemed to be growing with me. The pocket of new housing where we lived was filled with lots of children similar in age. In hindsight, we had lots of freedom to wander about. As long as we were home for lunch or tea, or before […]