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• Maurice Gerard O'Brien
  | monumentother = [https://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/ The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial Ballarat, Victoria] ...0 they moved to the Northam camp before boarding the [[HMT Y3 Nevasa]] for the Middle East on 20 Apr 1940.
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• Austin Henry (Paddy) Bingham
  ...x sisters. Little is known of his early life other than he was employed in the farming industry. ...xandria on 7 Jun 1916 aboard the [[HMT Ionian]], arriving in Marseilles on the 14 Jun 1916.
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• Henry Bolton
  ...barked on [[HMAT A40 Ceramic]] at Port Melbourne's Railway Pier along with the 15th Battalion and some 4th Brigade artillery men. After a brief pause in A ...ys of practice landings from the ship's boats, they landed at Gallipoli in the late afternoon of 25 April 1915.
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• Thomas McGow
  ...hen man at the National Hotel in Fremantle; 1910 yardman; 1912 barman at the Terminus hotel; 1916 with Lily at 301 High street, Fremantle, barman ...om was allocated to the newly formed [[44th Battalion]]. He travelled with the battalion to England aboard [[HMAT A29 Suevic]], arriving there on 21 Jul 1
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• William Stephens
  | caption = The Drill of the Foot-Hills Birtwistle collection ...0 Jun 1915 reports that Bill was the Assistant Station Master at Beenup at the time of his enlistment.
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• HMT Mamari
  ...whilst being dry-docked at the Calliope dry dock, Auckland she shifted on the keel blocks, this resulted in a large wave that killed two workmen. ...heme from 1917 onwards, and post hostilities made at least one jorney from the UK to Australia with troops eturning home.
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• British War Medal
  ...in North and South Russia, the eastern Baltic, Siberia, the Black Sea and the Caspian. Essentially the requirement was that the individual had to have left his/her native shores for service overseas.
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• Hobart Douglas Firns MID
  ...merous timber mills that surrounded Jarrahdale, where he was born in 1896. The family moved from Serpentine to Gosnells then later took up farming at Koor Six of the seven boys served their nation in the war in both the army and the navy.
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• Sylvanus Benjamin Buckland
  ...h was taken on strength by the [[28th Battalion]] who had just come out of the front lines on a day when there was a light fall of snow, followed by rain. ...and Sutton Veny, before returning to Australia where he was discharged by the 5th Military District on 10 Apr 1918.
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• Frank Ernest Cousens
  | caption = Kalgoorlie Sun 24 Dec 1916 page 6 ...was reallocated to the [[12th Training Battalion]] as a reinforcement for the 48th Battalion.
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• Patrick (John) Curo
  | caption = ''The Westralian Battalion'' page 326 ...ng, from where they made their way to Steenwerck and their introduction to the Western front.
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• Walter Stanley Fisher
  | caption = Kalgoorlie Sun 18 Feb 1917 page 6 Electoral Roll entries - 1910 a mill hand at the Jarrahdale Board Mill; 1915 mill hand at No. 1 Mill, Jarrahdale.
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• Rupert Gregg
  ...pert travelled with them to England, and on 18 Jun 1916 while still aboard the Suevic he was charged with gambling and fined a day's pay. While in Englan ...17 when he was released to the Base Depot. On 29 Sep 1917 he was back with the 44th Battalion at Poperinghe in Belgium.
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• HMT Cardiganshire
  | shipfate = sun k by acoustic mine ...tember 1914 used to ferry troops from England to France, and taken over by the Admiralty in February 1915 for a voyage to Zeebruge with troops and war sup
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• James Lawrence McKenna
  In Feb 1907 was attending the Jarrahdale Board Mill School. ...n, he travelled to England, as on 6 Aug 1916 he embarked in Alexandria and the next entry in his records implies that he was granted leave in England duri
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• Harold Ross
  | monumentawmnote = Is on the Australian War Memorial under the name Harold Nielson ...8 Dec 1915. On 6 Jan 1916 Harold was allocated to the Miners, and sent to the Engineers' Depot at Moore Park for specialised training and to travel with
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• Ian Stuart MacLean
  ...er MacLean]] served in the RAAF - note spelling options, each one reflects the name as spelt in their respective military records. ...guin' until he was posted to the London Depot on 20 Mar 1942 travelling to the UK on [[RMS Andes]].
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• 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital
  ...St Marylebone School in South Road, Southall, Middlesex was taken over by the Australian Imperial Forces as a military hospital. ...a detached building, used as an infirmary with 27 beds, which also housed the X-ray Department.
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• HMAS Yarra
  ...p and down the Red Sea and maintaining a tight blockade between Africa and the Arabian coast. ...irst salvo. The Italians turned away, persued by British units which drove the enemy destroyer ''Francesco Nullo'' ashore on a small island off Massawa an
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• Codford
  ...o had been evacuated from the front line and were not yet fit to return to the front) arrived from Wareham in Dorset, remaining at Codford until November ...n who had been evacuated from the front line and were not fit to return to the front.
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• Andrew McKenzie
  || monumentother = [https://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/ The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial Ballarat, Victoria] ...a part of Convoy US 11A which departed Fremantle on 9 July. Their route to the Middle East was via Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and they disembarked at
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• Casimir Jack Bavich
  ...dded and over-turned in loose gravel on Albany-rd, about 5½ miles east of the Narrogin Inn, early yesterday. Taken to hospita! were : ...Norman James, Prospect-rd, Armadale.</blockquote><ref>Trove Sunday Times Sun 8 Dec 1946 page 14</ref>
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• SS Félix Roussel
  ...ke long ocean crossings (up to a month and a half) in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific with many stopovers. It had two square and very short stacks. ...w of French and British volunteers' She sailed under the Free French flag. The first trip as a troop transport took place in October 1940 when she took Au
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• Arthur Matthew Aitken
  ...f the Militia from January to November 1941. He had previously worked for the Public Works Department (2 years) and he had spent time as an Apprentice Ta ...m the RAAF as an enlisted man on 18 Nov 1942 on receipt of a Commission in the RAAF from 19 Nov 1943 as a Pilot Officer.
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• USS Haven (AH-12)
  | shipbuilder = Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, Chester, Pennsylvania ...of allied ex-prisoners of war, some of them suffering from the effects of the atomic blast.
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• Albert Charles Gregory
  ...at time of his enlistment they had 4 children under the age of 16 years. The eldest being Stanley Charles (1921 - 2005). Two others were born post WW2. ...th Australian Infantry Training Battalion]]. The same day he was posted to the [[2/1st Australian Movement & Transportation Group]].
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• Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
  ...omalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, and in service of the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave. ...Commission war memorial in the El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Egypt. The memorial commemorates 11,866 Commonwealth forces members who died during Wo
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• 105th Australian Military Hospital
  | caption = Officers taking the sun outside Cudmore House | caption2 = Main view of the Hospital
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• General Service Medal 1918-1962
  ...sequent service is recognised by the award of further clasps to be worn on the original medal. The medal is cupro-nickel medal with the obverse having the effigy of the reigning sovereign at time of issue.
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• Mothers & Widows Badge WW1
  ...mothers and/or widows of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) or the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force who were killed in action ...kin they had to apply through this process and the difficulties caused by the application process may explain why not all women received a badge, or why
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• No. 1 Personnel Depot RAAF
  ...of the unit changed to '''No. l Personnel Depot''' in May 1944. As part of the training program, practice air raids were carried out, including removal of ...elbourne Cricket Ground. The Depot was disbanded at Laverton, Victoria, at the end of October 1946.
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• 1st Division Train
  ...gage and resupply food, forage and water for the headquarters and units of the division. The 1st Division Train comprised the following elements:
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