War
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During the Second World War, municipalities around Australia were expected to take their own precautions...
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Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Hobart Sturdee served as a surgeon in the 2nd Field Ambulance of the 16th...
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Bruce Kingsbury was born in Armadale in 1918. After working interstate for a while he joined his fathers real...
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Corporal Henry Rogers (6 Infantry Battalion) was born in 1917 lived in both North Preston and Reservoir and,...
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Frank Leslie Lugton (1893-1916) was a promising young cricketer with the Northcote Cricket Club, a member of...
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The Beaufort was a twin-engine aircraft designed for torpedo or bomb carrying and produced by the Bristol...
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I'm now talking with Joan Clinnick of Reservoir. Joan has lived all of her life in Reservoir and in fact...
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Private Leslie Alfred Swift (alias William Alfred Smith) of Mitchell Street, Northcote, was just 16 years of...
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Collingwood born Norman Stanley Osborne served with distinction in both World Wars, achieving the rank of...
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For the last ninety years two cannons have straddled High Street in Westgarth, defending Northcote from...
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During the Second World War, Preston Town (City) Hall played an important role in coordinating defence...
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The Preston Cenotaph – a monument built to commemorate deceased persons whose remains lay elsewhere - was...
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Private Claude Membrey (6 Battalion) of Merri Street, Northcote was killed by a sniper at Pozieres in 1916...
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Richard Minifie was born in Alphington on 2 February 1898. In 1916 he joined the Royal Navy Air Service...
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Howard, Arthur. Northcote’s bravest son : the story of Cpl. Rodney Breavington executed by the Japanese 2nd...
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In 1943, the Mayor, Cr. W.H.Robinson, on behalf of the citizens of Preston, presented a mobile canteen to the...
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Sargent’s Cakes at 40 Edwardes Street Reservoir was established in 1952 by James Percy G. Sargent and his son...
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Reverend Alfred Charles Kellaway was born in Dorset in September 1856. The family came to Australia at the...
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Thomas (Tom) William Thrupp was born on 22 September 1903 in Cue, W.A., about 400 km north of Kalgoorlie. He...
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Vivian Bullwinkel was born in Kapunda, South Australia on 18 December 1915. After training as a nurse she...
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William Scott was born in New Zealand on 11 April 1881, before moving to Victoria in 1890.Enlisting in the...
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Able Seaman William G.V. Williams, aged 28, an electricity works employee, of Thornbury, was the first...
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In the first decade of the 1900’s George Wardrop - a tailor - bought and lived in a house that stands at what...
