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Henry Arthur Hogan

3135 Private (Pte) Henry Arthur Hogan, C Company, 7th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion, of Mitcham, Vic. Pte Hogan enlisted on 7 April 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Commonwealth on 26 November 1915. Read More

Leslie Raymond Talbot Gilbert

1560 Sergeant L.R.T. Gilbert, 14th Battalion, Died of Wounds 1916-01-20 Read More

Leslie Philip Frost

506 Private Leslie Philip Frost, 6th Machine Gun Company of Mitcham, Vic. Read More

Alfred Marcus Chalmers

Alfred Marcus Chalmers entered this world in December 1894 in Richard Street, Mitcham. He was one of eight children born of Mary Jane and William Chalmers, an employee of the Australian Tessalated Tile Company. Read More

Blackburn

First settled by Europeans in the 1840s, originally “Blackburn Creek” was a staging post on the way to Lilydale, centred on the Travellers’ Rest Hotel (erected 1861). Read More

Mitcham

Mitcham was named after Mitcham Grove, a farm property owned by William Slater, who grew roses and herbs for perfumes and remedies. Read More

Nunawading

In Parkside Avenue, Blackburn a 250 year old stringybark is believed to have been the focus in a place of ritual of the Wurundjeri people, original inhabitants of the Nuwawading area. Read More

Vermont

The landscape of Vermont was thickly timbered bushland, inhabited by the Wurundjeri, Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who camped near the creeks and gullies of the area now known as Bellbird Dell. Read More

Australian Tesselated Tile Company

The Australian Tesselated Tile Company was established in Mitcham in 1886, south of the station. It almost collapsed after the end of the land boom Read More

Schwerkolt Family

Johann August Schwerkolt (August) was born in Prussia in 1822. He was a brickmaker by trade and married his first wife Paulina Richter in 1849. Read More