Trooper Albert Thomas Day by Bev Day No.600 Trooper Albert Thomas Day, 9th Light Horse Regiment Albert (Bert) Thomas Day was born on April 14th 1869 in Camperdown in the Western District of Victoria. He was the seventh child of Alexander and Beata Day who had migrated to Australia from Wiltshire, England in the 1850s. […]
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Gunner Arthur Hubert Day
Gunner Arthur Hubert Day by Bev Day No. 34336, Gunner Arthur Hubert Day, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces Arthur Hubert, known as Hubert or Hugh, was the elder son of Arthur Joseph (Art) Day and Annie Jordan Cope. His father was the eighth child of Alexander Day and Beata Stratton, and was born at “Chocolyn”, […]
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 Orford Brothers
by Doug Orford Frederick John Orford Frederick John Orford was born in Eltham 1889 and attended Dalton Street and Research Schools. Headmaster Cole cared for him after his mother died. He enlisted for active service on 9.7.1915 and left on 8.2.1916 and disembarked at Marseilles on 27.5.1916. He joined the 24th Battalion on 6.7.1916 and […]
William O’Day
First Published on Facebook Nillumbik Shire Council – Nillumbik Chronicles #17, 7 November 2014 In the lead up to Remembrance Day, let’s take time to remember a young man from Panton Hill, a labourer who enlisted in February 1916. Private William John O’ Day stood only 5’4” tall, had blue eyes and had a scar […]
World War 1 : Nurse Amy Alice Simpson (Mrs Richard George Cordingley)
Nurse Amy Alice Simpson (Mrs Richard George Cordingley) Address : care of Mrs Walker, Paterson Street, Preston Next of kin : Sister in law, Mrs G. Simpson, Geelong Hospital. Parents Robert and Mary Lily Simpson (nee Sutton) Amy Simpson was just the second woman on our Darebin In Memoriam roll and for all practical purposes, […]
Did I tell you about the time?
‘Did I Tell You About The Time?’ The Great War Story of Herbert Godber ‘Of thine unspoken word thou art master; Thy spoken word is master of thee.’ (Eastern saying, quoted by H.A. Godber in his grand-daughter Sharon Godber’s autograph book, 1966) On 4 October 1919, Herbert Alfred Godber of Diamond Creek married Ivy Muriel […]
To War and Back
George John Smith was born at home in Panton Hill on the 23rd May 1884, and his birth was registered at Queenstown, Victoria. He was the 6th child of Edwin and Louisa Smith. George went to school at Panton Hill, as did his ten brothers and sisters. When George left school, after completing the 8th […]
Nurse Gallagher
“at home to her friends” The Mildura Cultivator published this notice on the 13th October, 1915. “Miss Bessie Gallagher will be at home to her friends tomorrow afternoon.” To us this seems a quaint remnant of an era when ladies would go visiting in the afternoons to exchange news and cement friendships. But in the […]
Last Survivor of the 14th Battalion
Maurice Gerald “Gerry” Hevey, one of the last surviving members of Jacka’s Mob – the 14th Battalion, Ist A.I.F. and pioneer archer passed away in Ivanhoe, Victoria on Tuesday 21 June 1994. He was aged 95 years. As a young man Gerry had been very keen to join the fight. “I, like many others, went […]