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James Rogers VC
Born:
4 July 1873
Died:
28 October 1961
Unit:
South African Constabulary, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry Company, 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade Train AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
John Carroll VC
Born:
16 August 1891
Died:
4 October 1971
Unit:
33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 44th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4/3rd Battalion CMF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1804
John Hutton Bisdee VC OBE
Born:
28 September 1869
Died:
14 January 1930
Unit:
1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
John James Dwyer VC
Born:
9 March 1890
Died:
17 January 1962
Unit:
4th Australian Machine Gun Company AIF, 15th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
20610
John Leak VC
Died:
20 October 1972
Unit:
9th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2053, 2053A
John Patrick Hamilton VC
Born:
24 January 1896
Died:
27 February 1961
Unit:
3rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 16th Garrison Battalion AIF, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
943, N73242, NX150350
John William Alexander Jackson VC
Born:
13 September 1897
Died:
4 August 1959
Unit:
17th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
588
John Woods Whittle VC DCM
Born:
3 August 1882
Died:
2 March 1946
Unit:
12th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 26th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2nd Imperial Bushmen Tasmanian, 4th Continge Northern Territory, HMAS Challenger, HMAS Pioneer
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
347, 2902, 481
Jørgen Christian Jensen VC
Born:
15 January 1891
Died:
31 May 1922
Unit:
50th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
2389
Joseph Maxwell VC MC & Bar DCM
Born:
10 February 1896
Died:
6 July 1967
Unit:
18th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
607
Laura Margaret (Fowler) Hope
Born:
3 May 1868
Died:
14 September 1952
Unit:
Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
Service:
Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service
Lawrence Carthage Weathers VC
Born:
14 May 1890
Died:
29 September 1918
Unit:
43rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
1153
Lawrence Dominic McCarthy VC
Born:
21 January 1892
Died:
25 May 1975
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
422
Leonard Maurice Keysor VC
Born:
3 November 1885
Died:
12 October 1951
Unit:
1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
958
Leslie Cecil Maygar VC DSO VD
Born:
27 May 1868
Died:
31 October 1917
Unit:
5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment AIF, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Leslie James Morshead KCB KBE CMG CBE DSO ED
Born:
18 September 1889
Died:
26 September 1959
Unit:
2nd Australian Infantry Battalion, 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 18th Australian Infantry Brigade, 9th Australian Division, AIF Headquarters Middle East, GOC AMF ME, II Australian Corps, I Australian Corps
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
NX8
Lewis McGee VC
Born:
13 May 1888
Died:
12 October 1917
Unit:
40th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 5th Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
456
Martin O'Meara VC
Born:
6 November 1885
Died:
20 December 1935
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Headquarters Western Command AIF
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
Service number:
3970
Mary Clementina De Garis
Born:
16 December 1881
Died:
18 November 1963
Unit:
Service:
Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service
Mary Katherine 'Molly' Coleman
Died:
11 April 1938
Unit:
Australian Army Nursing Service
Service:
Australian Imperial Force
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