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Edgar Thomas Towner VC MC
Born:
19 April 1890
Died:
18 August 1972
Unit:
25th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion AIF, 26th Battalion CMF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1067, Q30753
Edmund Francis ‘Ned’ Herring KCMG KBE DSO MC KC
Born:
2 September 1892
Died:
5 January 1982
Unit:
6th Division Royal Australian Artillery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, AIF Commands- I Corps, New Guinea Force, II Corps, 7th Military District, Northern Territory Force, 6th Australian Infantry Division, 22nd Field Artillery Brigade, British Army Commands - B Battery 99th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Service:
Australian Imperial Force, British Army
Service number:
VX15
Edward John Francis Ryan VC
Born:
9 February 1890
Died:
3 June 1941
Unit:
55th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1717
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett CBE
Born:
11 February 1881
Died:
5 April 1931
Unit:
Bedfordshire Regiment British Army
Service:
British Army
Ellis Luciano Silas
Born:
13 July 1885
Died:
2 May 1972
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
634
Elsie Jean Dalyell OBE
Born:
13 December 1881
Died:
1 November 1948
Unit:
Lady Wimborne's Serbian Relief Fund unit, Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63rd General Hospital
Service:
British Army
Francis Hubert McNamara VC CB CBE
Born:
4 April 1894
Died:
2 November 1961
Unit:
No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, No. 42 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps
Service:
Australian Flying Corps
Service number:
5
Frederick Birks VC MM
Born:
16 August 1894
Died:
21 September 1917
Unit:
6th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2nd Field Ambulance AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
47
Frederick Harold Tubb VC
Born:
28 November 1881
Died:
20 September 1917
Unit:
7th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Frederick William Bell VC
Born:
3 April 1875
Died:
28 April 1954
Unit:
6th West Australian Mounted Infantry, Royal Irish Dragoon Guards British Army
Service number:
8
George Cartwright VC ED
Born:
9 December 1894
Died:
2 February 1978
Unit:
33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4/3rd Battalion CMF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
726, N60360
George Julian Howell VC MM
Born:
19 November 1893
Died:
23 December 1964
Unit:
1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Eastern Command Headquarters, United States Sea Transport Service
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
George Mawby Ingram VC MM
Born:
18 March 1889
Died:
1 July 1961
Unit:
24th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
V82281
Grace Cossington Smith AO OBE
Born:
20 April 1892
Died:
20 December 1984
Unit:
Guy George Egerton Wylly VC CB DSO
Born:
17 February 1880
Died:
9 January 1962
Unit:
1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
Service:
British Army
Henry Dalziel VC
Born:
18 February 1893
Died:
24 July 1965
Unit:
15th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 9/15th Battalion CMF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
Q302305
Henry William Murray VC CMG DSO & Bar DCM
Born:
1 December 1880
Died:
7 January 1966
Unit:
13th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion AIF, 26th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 23rd Volunteer Defence Corps Queensland Regiment
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
315, QX48850, Q30751
Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell VC
Born:
26 October 1884
Died:
19 November 1933
Unit:
10th Light Horse Regiment AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
James Ernest Newland VC
Born:
22 August 1881
Died:
19 March 1949
Unit:
12th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2, 2354
James Park Woods VC
Born:
4 January 1886
Died:
18 January 1963
Unit:
48th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
3244A, 3244
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