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Albert Chalmers Borella VC MM
Born:
7 August 1881
Died:
7 February 1968
Unit:
26th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
275, V81550
Albert David Lowerson VC
Born:
2 August 1896
Died:
15 December 1945
Unit:
21st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2358, V8081
Albert Jacka VC MC & Bar
Born:
10 January 1893
Died:
17 January 1932
Unit:
14th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
465
Alexander Henry Buckley VC
Born:
22 July 1891
Died:
1 September 1918
Unit:
54th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1876
Alexander Stewart Burton VC
Born:
20 January 1893
Died:
9 August 1915
Unit:
7th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
384
Alfred Edward Gaby VC
Born:
25 January 1892
Died:
11 August 1918
Unit:
28th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Army
Service number:
4053
Alfred John Shout VC MC
Born:
8 August 1892
Died:
11 August 1915
Unit:
1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Border Horse New Zealand Volunteer Force
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
9216
Arthur Charles Hall VC
Born:
11 August 1896
Died:
25 January 1978
Unit:
54th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2631, N387101
Arthur Percy Sullivan VC
Born:
27 November 1896
Died:
9 April 1937
Unit:
45th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers, 10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
56133, 133003
Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC CMG CBE ED
Born:
25 November 1892
Died:
24 November 1960
Unit:
10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, 18th Light Horse Regiment, 2/43rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd Australian War Crimes Section
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
31, SX6962, SX500503
Bernard Sidney Gordon VC MM
Born:
16 August 1891
Died:
19 October 1963
Unit:
41st Infantry Battalion, AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
23
Blair Anderson Wark VC DSO
Born:
27 July 1894
Died:
13 June 1941
Unit:
32nd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 1st Battalion AMF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
N35778
Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean
Born:
18 November 1879
Died:
30 August 1968
Unit:
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
W11349
Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC MC
Born:
12 February 1897
Died:
11 November 1988
Unit:
2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 56th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Commonwealth Military Forces (CMF), 3rd (Kenyan) Battalion Kings African Rifles
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
NX12595
Charles Pope VC
Born:
5 March 1883
Died:
15 April 1917
Unit:
11th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Christine Erica (Strom) Bonwick
Born:
2 August 1892
Died:
10 March 1984
Unit:
Australian Army Nursing Service, 66th British General Hospital, 42nd British General Hospital, 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
198942
Clarence Smith Jeffries VC
Born:
26 October 1894
Died:
12 October 1917
Unit:
34th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Claud Charles Castleton VC
Born:
12 April 1893
Died:
28 July 1916
Unit:
5th Australian Machine Gun Company AIF, 18th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1352
Clifford William King Sadlier VC
Born:
11 June 1892
Died:
28 April 1964
Unit:
1st Australian General Hospital Australian Army Medical Corps, 51st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 1st (Perth) Volunteer Defence Corps Battalion
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2858, 4871, W48375
Doris Ethel Sexton
Born:
7 November 1885
Died:
2 May 1970
Unit:
15th Australian General Hospital, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Service:
Australian Army Nursing Service
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