Cyril Bradon Maddocks was born on the 12th June 1892 to parents John Edward Maddocks (1860-1939) and Alice May (nee Walden) (1868-1935). They had two children: Cyril Bradon and Leslie Walden Maddocks (1899-1931).

In 1911, Cyril married Ivy Veronica Hyland, and they had a daughter Jessie Hope Robinson, born on the 30th August 1912. Ivy was very young when she gave birth and, unable to support her child, arranged for her employer Catherine Powell, who ran a boarding house in Hay Street, East Perth, to adopt Jessie in March 1913. At this time her name was changed to Dorothy Hope Powell.

Cyril was interested in engineering from a young age and had built a motor launch by the age of 17, imported American cars at the age of 19, and at 23, was an electrical engineer and manager of the Carnarvon Electric Light and Power Company. It is assumed he was not in contact with Ivy and his baby. In 1915 Cyril was living in Carnarvon and his father was at Chelmsford Rd.

On the 9th August 1915 Cyril enlisted in the Army.

He joined the Railway Supply Detachment 11th Army Service Corps as a Driver in February 1916, then joined the 16th Battalion and promoted to temporary Corporal while in charge of the desert railway in Serapeum, Egypt.

In November 1916 he was detached to the No 1 Royal Flying Corps to the Officers Cadet Battalion in England. In March 1917 he attended school at the Military Aeronautics at Oxford and was discharged from the AIF to the 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. He was in the RAF until November 1918.

Cyril had married again in 1918 to Frederica Melita Beryl Parfitt (known as Muriel) (1899-1938). They had two children born in England: Nona Beryl (born 1920) and Kenneth Cyril (born 1921).

Cyril made a strong friendship in the RAF with Charles Edward Kingsford Smith and in 1919 they piloted joy-flights in England as Kingsford Smith, Maddocks Aeros Ltd. After this business fell through, Cyril returned to Perth with his second wife and family.

On the 13th September 1924 he died after a period of illness (influenza followed by meningitis). He is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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John Robert Prindiville was born in in Broken Hill, NSW to parents John Prindiville (1865-1947) and Alicia Florence (nee Cohen) (1868-1942) He was the second eldest of 10 siblings born between 1892 and 1911. John Robert and his elder sister Mary May were born in NSW, with the next sister Florence born in Perth as were all the others. The family moved into 42 Chelmsford St around 1913 and stayed, moving out in 1920.

Private John Robert enlisted on the 6th September 1915 and joined the 12th Reinforcements 52nd Battalion. In July 1916 he went to France and was promoted in July 16 to Lance Corporal, a month later Corporal and a month later Sergeant.

In September 16 he was sent to hospital due to illness (bronchitis) and again around May 1917.

He was killed in action on the 8th June 1917 in the field by a shell burst and the concussion from it.

He was buried at the Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium.

Photo courtesy VWMA Faithe Jones