Frederick Robert CoulingAge: 421900–1942
- Name
- Frederick Robert Couling
- Given names
- Frederick Robert
- Surname
- Couling
| Birth | 10 June 1900 35 33 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1900 Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 6 months) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 18 months) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 2) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Birth of a sister | 27 January 1904 (Age 3)
younger sister -
Lillian May Couling
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| Australian History | 1904 (Age 3) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 5) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a father | 24 October 1908 (Age 8) Footscray, Victoria, Australia
father -
Frederick Couling
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 7) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 23 August 1909 (Age 9)
paternal grandmother -
Mary Ann Bryan
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| Death of a paternal grandfather | 16 September 1909 (Age 9)
paternal grandfather -
William Couling
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 8) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 9) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 10) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 11) 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 |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 12) 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 12) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 13) 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. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 14) 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 15) 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 16) 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 17) 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. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 18) 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 19) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 20) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 21) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 22) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a mother | 15 November 1924 (Age 24)
mother -
Eleanor Selena "Lena" Webb
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 25) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 26) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 27) 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 28) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 29) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 30) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 31) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 32) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Birth of a son #1 | 2 November 1936 (Age 36) |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 35) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 36) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 37) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 41) 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. |
| Death | 5 September 1942 (Age 42) Richmond, Victoria, Australia |
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| father |
Frederick Couling
Birth 26 February 1865 34 36 Churchill, England, United Kingdom Death 24 October 1908 (Age 43) Footscray, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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22 months mother |
Eleanor Selena "Lena" Webb
Birth 1867 Sebastopol, Victoria, Australia Death 15 November 1924 (Age 57) Loading...
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Marriage: 17 June 1896 — Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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18 months #1 elder brother |
Herbert Clifton Couling
Birth 1898 32 31 Death 1898 Age: 6 months Loading...
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2 years #2 himself |
Frederick Robert Couling
Birth 10 June 1900 35 33 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 5 September 1942 (Age 42) Richmond, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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4 years #3 younger sister |
Lillian May Couling
Birth 27 January 1904 38 37 Loading...
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| Family with Eleanor Mary Gilmour - View family |
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Frederick Robert Couling
Birth 10 June 1900 35 33 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 5 September 1942 (Age 42) Richmond, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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4 months wife |
Eleanor Mary Gilmour
Birth 18 October 1900 Death 13 May 1965 (Age 64) Loading...
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| #1 son |
Frederick Charles Couling
Birth 2 November 1936 36 36 Death 2 November 2019 (Age 83) Morwell, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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| wife |
Eleanor Mary Gilmour
Birth 18 October 1900 Death 13 May 1965 (Age 64) Loading...
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