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Walter Drummond was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland around 1884 to James and Janet Drummond nee Strang. He married Martha Jane Mason of Richmond in 1916. Water was working as a motor mechanic, aged 32 years, when he enlisted on 18 April 1916 having been transferred to the Austral...

Edmond Du Bois was the son of Rene Du Bois of 99 Hotham St., East Melbourne. He was just over 22 when he enlisted, a signwriter by trade and with some military experience through having served two and a half years in the Cadets. He began training with the 22nd Depot Battalion at...

Wounded in action (twice); eldest son of Monsieur and Madame Dubois, 179 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, again seriously wounded in France, and in hospital at Boulogne suffering from multiple gun shot and amputation of left leg Capt Dubois, who also fought in the South African war,...

Wounded in action (twice); eldest son of Monsieur and Madame Dubois, 179 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, again seriously wounded in France, and In hospital at Boulogne

Charles Allan Gavan Duffy was the son of Charles Gavan Duffy, clerk of the Senate in the Australian Federal Parliament, then held in Melbourne, and his wife Ella. His grandfather, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, had been a leading Irish nationalist in the 1840's, and was elected to the...

Henry James Duggan was a tram conductor by trade, married to Sarah and living in Commercial Rd, South Yarra, when he enlisted on 1 December, 1915. He was then a month off 26 years old. He was sent to Castlemaine for training and then to Broadmeadows, where he was made an Acting C...

Norman Sinclair Duncan was twenty years and six months when he joned u, with his father's permission, to serve in the AIF. He was an early recruit, signing up almost immediately war was declared, on 19 August, 1914, and receiving the number 655. he was single, of no trade or call...

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DUNKLING, George Joseph

George Dunkling was a watchmaker, aged 38, when he enlisted on 13 April, 1918. He was married (1908) to Elizabeth, nee Bruce, in Sydney and they had one child, Nancy - later Mrs. L. Brennan. He seems to have had a raher chequered career - in 1903, he lists himself in the Electora...

Archibald was born in June 1888 at Goorambat in Victoria. He enlisted at Melbourne on the 17 December 1915 and was allocated to the 4th Light Horse Regiment 26th Reinforcements. He was 27 years old. 5'11'' working as a labourer and married to Mary Dunlop. After enlisting he spent...

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DUNNING, Charles Hamilton

Charles Dunning was born at Liverpool England in November 1891. He enlisted in the AIF on the 20 August 1914 at Albert Park Melbourne Vic. He lists himself as a Law Clerk, 23 years old and single. He is a small man 5'' 3' tall and weighing just 9 stone. He was living at 104 Powle...

Ralph Stanley Dyer was the second son of Benjamin Hatch Dwyer, a staircase builder and his wife Frances (Fanny) nee Flinn, living at 317 Nicholson St., Brunswick. His elder brother, Gilbert Beresford Dyer, was born in 1889. Ralph followed in 1894, then Cecil Francis, who died in...

Terence Dyett enlisted at Melbourne. He was aged 24 years 7 months on 13 July 1915, and worked as a factory hand. he gave as his next of kin, his wife, Mrs. Rosalie Dyett of 1151 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne. He was 5ft. 4 ins. with dark brown hair and blue eyes. he was recruite...

William Patrick Earles was born in Collingwood, Melbourne, in 1893. He was aged 22, living in Kerang and working as a labourer when he enlisted on 31 December, 1915. He gave as his next of kin his widowed mother, Bridget Earles, who was then living at 140 Simpson St., East Melbou...