Some servicemen went through the War as humble privates and content with their lot. For commissioned officers, the pressures were significantly greater, and in the case of Captain Roy Hector Jones, just a little too much Roy Jones was a brother of Corporal Leslie Theophilus Jones, also Killed in Action; the duo from 21 Alexandra-street, […]
Tag: World War One
World War 1 Casualty : Harry Lowe (aka Henry Charles Lowe) (Preston)
The Great War attracted all types; the good, the bad and the ugly – and “Harry Lowe”, who we suspect in hindsight the A.I.F. may have wished had just stayed at home! To say Lowe, whose full name was Henry Charles Lowe, from Raglan Street, Preston, was a bit of a lad would be an understatement! […]
World War 1 Casualty : John Oliver Lamb
(The image shows part of the stained-glass window of the New Zealand War Memorial at the Auckland Museum where John Oliver Lamb is commemorated). Despite having three brothers enlist with the A.I.F., John Oliver Lamb (family at 138 High Street, Northcote) served with the New Zealand forces, dying in Greytown Military Hospital from unspecified wounds […]
World War 1 Casualty : Samuel Alfred Hulley (Preston)
The carnage at the Dardanelles and Western Front was horrendous, but sometimes the pressures and feeling of rejection of those that volunteered and were not accepted had an almost equally tragic result. Samuel Hulley is another not included in Australian War Memorial records. He was one of many anxious to do his bit for King […]
World War 1 Casualty : Phillip Fargher (senior) (Northcote)
From 28 South Crescent, Northcote, Phillip Fargher senior did not enlist, but played a significant role in the war effort as the local Area Commander of for Northcote training after a somewhat controversial law declaring compulsory home training was introduced by Australia’s first Labor Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, on July 1, 1911. Like many Area […]
World War 1 Casualty : Norman John Embelton (Preston)
One of around 20 local volunteers that died before embarking for overseas. Most succumbed to the effects of disease contracted in camp, predominantly during an outbreak of cerebro-spinal meningitis in July and August of 1915, but Norman John Embelton met with a fatal accident when he fell from his horse in Epping-road, Preston just days […]
World War 1 Casualty : James Radford Dredge (Preston)
James Radford Dredge was from Wallace-street, Preston and appears to have been an uncomplicated soul who just got on with his job – until one night when the daily horrors of war may have become too much for him. The forty-year old Dredge was a cousin of other servicemen from the inter-related families that paid […]
World War 1 Casualty : Kennan Earl Christian
Rather than the infantrymen that made up the vast bulk of Darebin’s volunteers, “Ken” Christian was unusual in that he was one of just two locals from Northcote (the other William George Vincent Williams, the first Australian to be killed in World War One) to have served at sea, in his case with the British […]
World War 1 Casualty : William McCarthy Braithwaite (Preston)
Our image : The Braithwaite family, Colonel William Braithwaite, (wearing cap at rear), William junior on right with extended family and motor car, a 30 h.p. Hotchkiss imported from France, circa 1911. Braithwaite senior took a keen interest in new invention of the time. the motor car, competing along with another local, the nurseryman James […]
WW1 Casualty : Maurice Vincent Barry (Northcote)
Strangely by today’s standards, not a lot of the deaths of servicemen were reported in the Family Notices section of either the Melbourne dailies or the Preston Leader. One notable exception was Maurice “Mickey” Barry, whose sorrowful mother was still placing In Memoriam notices in The Leader some ten or twelve years after her son’s […]