Gertrude "Rita" MadillAge: 661912–1978
- Name
- Gertrude "Rita" Madill
- Given names
- Gertrude "Rita"
- Surname
- Madill
| Birth | 8 August 1912 57 30 Undera, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1912 Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Birth of a brother | 28 December 1913 (Age 16 months) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Frederick Lynas "Fred" Madill
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 4 months) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 4 months) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 16 months) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Birth of a brother | 17 May 1915 (Age 2) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Leslie George Madill
|
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 2) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 3) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 4) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 5) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Birth of a sister | 28 February 1919 (Age 6) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Phyllis Rosiland Madill
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| Australian History | 1919 (Age 6) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 7) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 8) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 9) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Family Photo | Family Photo 1923 (Age 10)David and Abina and Family |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 10) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Marriage of a sister | Abina Maude Madill - View family 1924 (estimated) (Age 11)
brother-in-law -
John "Jack" Stewart Maddock
elder sister -
Abina Maude Madill
|
| Education | Undera 1925 (Age 12)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 10 March 1925 Page 7 |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 13) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 14) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 15) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 16) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 17) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Death of a half-sister | 18 July 1931 (Age 18) Carnegie, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Edith May Madill
|
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 18) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 19) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a father | 10 March 1933 (Age 20) Undera North, Victoria, Australia
father -
David Madill
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| Death of a maternal grandmother | 4 April 1933 (Age 20) 59 Martin Street, Northcote, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Ann Jane Smith
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 20) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Event | Tennis - Women's Singles Champion January 1934 (Age 21)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 2 January 1934 Page 13 |
| Photo | Wedding 11 April 1936 (Age 23) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 23) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 24) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Engagement | 29 October 1938 (Age 26) Note: To Marry Kenneth Donald Halliday The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 29 October 1938 Page 6 |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 25) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 26) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 27) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 28) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Military | WWII 4 July 1942 (Age 29)
Note:
Name MADILL, GERTRUDE RITA
Service Australian Army
Service Number VF388248
Date of Birth 8 Aug 1912
Place of Birth MOOROOPNA, Victoria, Australia
Date of Enlistment 4 Jul 1942
Locality on Enlistment CAULFIELD, Victoria, Australia
Place of Enlistment L H Q, Victoria, Australia
Next of Kin HANLON, R
Date of Discharge 8 Dec 1944
Rank Lance Sergeant
Posting at Discharge AustraliaN WOMENS ARMY SERVICE
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 29) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 30) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 31) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 32) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 33) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 35) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 36) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 37) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 38) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Death of a brother | 10 December 1952 (Age 40) Garfield, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Thomas Matthew Madill
|
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 39) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 41) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 42) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Death of a half-sister | 27 November 1956 (Age 44) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Annie Elizabeth Madill
|
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 43) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 44) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 49) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Death of a mother | 6 July 1963 (Age 50) Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Abina Maude Lynas
|
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 51) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 52) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 53) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 53) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | 1967 (Age 54) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. |
| Australian History | 1968 (Age 55) Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | 1969 (Age 56) Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958 |
| Death of a half-sister | 16 October 1970 (Age 58) Rosebud, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Elizabeth Isabel Madill
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| Death of a half-sister | 1970 (Age 57) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Daisy Madill
|
| Australian History | 1970 (Age 57) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Death of a brother | 6 June 1971 (Age 58) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Leslie George Madill
|
| Australian History | 1971 (Age 58) Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest. Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Australian History | 1972 (Age 59) Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving. |
| Australian History | 1973 (Age 60) Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled Note: Vietnam War ends Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans' Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Australian History | 1974 (Age 61) Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Australian History | 1975 (Age 62) Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988. Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private. Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development. |
| Death of a half-sister | 18 April 1976 (Age 63) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Ethel Madill
|
| Australian History | 1976 (Age 63) Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private. |
| Australian History | 1977 (Age 64) Note: Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem Note: Granville rail disaster killed eighty-three people |
| Death of a half-sister | 15 May 1978 (Age 65) Finley, New South Wales, Australia
half-sister -
Ida Lilian Madill
|
| Australian History | 1978 (Age 65) Note: The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney |
| Death | 21 December 1978 (Age 66) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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27 years mother |
Birth 10 July 1882 40 34 Hanna Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 6 July 1963 (Age 80) Traralgon, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1898 — 66 Herbet Street, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #1 elder sister |
Birth 10 September 1900 45 18 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 19 May 1993 (Age 92) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #2 elder brother |
Birth 28 February 1903 47 20 Albert Park, Victoria, Australia Death 7 August 1982 (Age 79) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
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11 months #3 elder brother |
Birth 1 February 1904 48 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 10 December 1952 (Age 48) Garfield, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #4 elder sister |
Birth 15 October 1905 50 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 2 June 1995 (Age 89) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #5 elder sister |
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5 years #6 herself |
Birth 8 August 1912 57 30 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 21 December 1978 (Age 66) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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17 months #7 younger brother |
Birth 28 December 1913 58 31 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death August 2007 (Age 93) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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17 months #8 younger brother |
Birth 17 May 1915 59 32 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 6 June 1971 (Age 56) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #9 younger sister |
Birth 28 February 1919 63 36 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 4 July 2011 (Age 92) |
| Father’s family with Adelaide Annie Briggs - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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5 months step-mother |
Adelaide Annie Briggs
Birth 1856 22 21 Ararat, Victoria, Australia Death 11 December 1879 (Age 23) Ararat, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1877 — Clunes, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #1 half-sister |
Birth 9 August 1879 24 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 27 November 1956 (Age 77) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
| Father’s family with Mary Ellen Ryan - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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5 months step-mother |
Mary Ellen Ryan
Birth 1856 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 1898 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: about 1881 |
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16 months #1 half-sister |
Birth 16 May 1882 26 26 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 18 July 1931 (Age 49) Carnegie, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #2 half-sister |
Birth 4 January 1884 28 28 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 18 April 1976 (Age 92) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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23 months #3 half-sister |
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21 months #4 half-sister |
Birth 25 August 1887 32 31 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 16 October 1970 (Age 83) Rosebud, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #5 half-sister |
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2 years #6 half-sister |
Birth 14 September 1891 36 35 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1970 (Age 78) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #7 half-brother |
Birth 27 June 1893 37 37 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 12 July 1983 (Age 90) Berrigan, Victoria, Australia |
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23 months #8 half-sister |
Birth 6 June 1895 39 39 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 15 May 1978 (Age 82) Finley, New South Wales, Australia |
| Family with Ray Mervyn Hanlon - View family |
| husband |
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-6 years herself |
Birth 8 August 1912 57 30 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 21 December 1978 (Age 66) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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| #3 son |
Gertrude "Rita" Madill has 32 first cousins recorded
Father's family (21)
Parents John Sherry + Ann Jane Madill
Parents James Alfred Bilson + Mary Ellinor Madill
Parents James Henry Ryan + Margaret Ann Madill
Mother's family (11)
Parents William James Lynas + Ellen Rose North
Parents Vincent Scott Moran + Sara Elizabeth Lynas
Parents John "Arthur" Lynas + Edith May Madill
Parents Frederick Victor Lynas + Jane Sellwood
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Australian History | Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | Western Australia celebrates its centenary |
| Australian History | Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings |
| Australian History | Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |
| Australian History | Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Engagement | To Marry Kenneth Donald Halliday |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
| Australian History | 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. |
| Military | Name MADILL, GERTRUDE RITA
Service Australian Army
Service Number VF388248
Date of Birth 8 Aug 1912
Place of Birth MOOROOPNA, Victoria, Australia
Date of Enlistment 4 Jul 1942
Locality on Enlistment CAULFIELD, Victoria, Australia
Place of Enlistment L H Q, Victoria, Australia
Next of Kin HANLON, R
Date of Discharge 8 Dec 1944
Rank Lance Sergeant
Posting at Discharge AustraliaN WOMENS ARMY SERVICE
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| Australian History | Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese |
| Australian History | Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. |
| Australian History | Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. |
| Australian History | the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. |
| Australian History | Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme |
| Australian History | Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Australian History | Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins |
| Australian History | 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. |
| Australian History | Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement |
| Australian History | Television in Australia is launched. |
| Australian History | The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. |
| Australian History | Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. |
| Australian History | The Beatles tour Australia; |
| Australian History | Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; |
| Australian History | Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; |
| Australian History | Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; |
| Australian History | More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Australian History | Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; |
| Australian History | The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. |
| Australian History | The Sydney Opera House is opened |
| Australian History | Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Australian History | (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private. |
| Australian History | Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem |
| Australian History | The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney |
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