Bert’s parents were Henry Percy and Eliza Greathead née Hunt both born in England. They married on 3 March 1889 and in April they set off on the Steam Ship Lusitania in April 1889 on an unassisted passage arriving in Sydney on 4 May 1889 to set up home in Australia. Their first son was born on 28 January 1890 but died shortly after. Bert William [Click to continue…]

William Edward R Greathead was born in 1895 in Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia. He was the fourth son of Robert J Greathead and Ruth Darwin Rowley. He enlisted as Private 2269 in 5th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement of the Australian Infantry on 21 August 1914. He was 19 years 6 months old and five foot ten inches tall. He weighed nine stones ten [Click to continue…]

William was born in Camberwell, where his father was an Insurance agent. But sometime after 1901 and before 1911 the whole family moved to Chichester where William worked as an assistant in his father's refreshment bar. However William, who had attended the National School, Camberwell, emigrated on his own to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at the [Click to continue…]

Son of Emmanuel Comby Laverick and Mary Hannah (nee Harrison).   William Leslie Laverick was born 2 January 1890, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire and was baptised on the 2 February 1890 at St. Paul's, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. He married Margaret Amelia Brian on the 4 September 1913, at St. Andrew, Cardiff, Wales. His father died 6 February 1918. William [Click to continue…]

Eustace Gilbert Bowhay Eustace Gilbert Bowhay was the son of Albert Bowhay and Edith (formerly Woodd) born in 1889 in Gunnislake, Calstock, Cornwall. He was a Captain in the Devonshire Regiment and died aged 26 (unmarried) on 8 Mar 1916 in Mesopotamia. Much is known about this prominent Cornwall family, and I will be pleased to share information.  [Click to continue…]