By Liz Pidgeon For many young men, especially early in the war, enlistment was seen as the opportunity for a grand adventure. For Arthur Meekcoms, his journey of a lifetime came when he had earlier decided to migrate to Australia. Arthur was among 150,000 state assisted settlers who arrived in Australia between 1906 and the […]
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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”, […]
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 […]
Deaths at Glenroy Military Hospital
Although there is no 100 percent certain method of identifying the number of deaths that occurred in the Glenroy Military Isolation Hospital, the probable figure is six. Family Notices for three of the deceased clearly identified Glenroy Hospital as the place of death; Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages however show “Cbelfield” (Campbellfield) as the district […]
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, […]
Raising Fund for the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. To begin with, in November 1915, Linda Davis organised a bazaar and garden party at her home, ‘Moreland Hall’, and managed to secure Senator Pearce, the Minister of Defence, to open it. It was at this event that Senator Pearce spoke about the reason for the establishment of the Glenroy Military Hospital […]
World War 1 Casualty : Robert Herbert Thompson
Robert Herbert Thompson is one of dozens on our Darebin In Memoriam Roll that is not acknowledged on the Australian War Memorial as dying in the service of his country. Most of these were men (and a couple of women) that died immediately post-war, usually in a military facility and almost always as a result […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – nurse Alice Prichard
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 […]
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 […]