Abraham Rosham (subsequently changed by deed poll to ‘Alan Katel’) was working as a Wool Buyer in the south west of Western Australia, when the … Read more
Gordon Samuel Keesing 1888 – 1972
Gordon Samuel Keesing was born at Auckland, May 19, 1888, the eldest child of Henry ‘Harry’ Albert and Hannah Rachel Keesing (nee: Benjamin). Nancy … Read more
Jacob (Jack) Rolph Kensell 1915 – 1967
Jack Kensell (Service no S3551) served as a stoker on HMAS Perth. (His actual name was Jacob Rolph Kensell, but he signed up under the … Read more
Trooper Samuel Kensell 1880 – 1957
Samuel Kensell was born at Spitalfields, London in 1880, while his parents of Polish birth were actually en route emigrating from Poland to Australia.
Both … Read more
Cpl Albert Kessler 1905 – 1981
Albert Kessler was born in Balmain, Sydney on 23 December 1905. He had his Bar Mitzvah at The Great Synagogue in December 1918, the first … Read more
Edward Alexander Lane 1902 – 1984
Edward Alexander Lane gave his birth date as 3 April 1901, though it was actually 3 April 1902. Most likely this was because he was … Read more
Corporal Claude Levi 1923 – 2001
Claude Levi lived his life in Gowrie Avenue, Bondi Junction and was a student at Wellington Street Public School. He was one of eight children, … Read more
Flying Officer Alan Milston 1922 – 2012
Alan Kaufman Milston was born in Sydney 24 October 1922. He studied Civil Engineering at Sydney University and when his final exams were completed in … Read more
Kurt Nothman 1918 – 2007
Kurt Nothman arrived in Australia from Germany in September 1939 and joined the Australian Army in 1942, when it was decided that refugees from Europe … Read more
Captain Orwell Phillips 1913 – 1997
CAPTAIN ORWELL EDWARD PHILLIPS
Orwell Phillips was born in 1913 at Tusculum, Potts Point, and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He … Read more