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Personal data Alex Metelmann 

• Alternative name: Thomas Alexander Metelmann
• He was born on March 11, 1897 in Korong Vale, Shire of Loddon, Victoria.
• He was baptized on November 23, 1899 in Arnold, Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Saint Mary.

  Revd. R. Hayward

• Occupations:
• Maurer||bricklayer||metser||maçon in Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.
• in the year 1968 Wartungsarbeiter||maintenance worker.
• Resident:
• between 1951 and 1993: Park Orchards, Victoria.
• between 1954 and 1993: Drayton cr., Park Orchards, Victoria.
• (Wounded) on April 19, 1918.

  Shell Gas

• (Biography) .

  Living in thought with Tom we recall that he was born on 11th March 1897 at Korong Vale in Victoria. He was the son and forth eldest child of Frederick David Metelmann and Cecilia Younghusband.
  Tom was one of five children. He had three sisters; Elsie, Mary and Janet and one brother, Fred, all of whom are now deceased.
  Tom's parents had a small farm at Arnold which is six miles from Inglewood. He worked on his parents farm and on occasions he was given letters to post for his father. Tom must have found this task somewhat irksome as the distance to the Post Office may have been the problem as Tom was reputed to have, on odd occasions, thrown the letters into the creek, no doubt hoping that the current would get them to their destination.
  World War I arrived in 1914, so at the age of eighteen Tom enlisted in the A.I.F. at Bendigo. He did some of his training at Broadmeadows then he sailed to Egypt. From Egypt Tom was sent to France where he was engaged in the Battles of Amiens, the Battle of Bullecourt, Armentières, Fleurs Messines, Poziers, Ypres and Villers-Bretonneux.
  The people of Villers-Bretonneux owed their town's existence to the Australian troops. For on April 24th 1918, Villers-Bretonneux fell to the Germans. That night Australian troops - mostly Victorians, launched a counter attack and took the town back. The battle in which 1200 men lost their lives is considered one of Australia's greatest victories.
  Tom served in the Army for three years and eighth months and he returned to Australia on the troopship `Wiltshire' which was the same ;hip in which he had initially left Australia. He was discharged from he service just before he reached the age of twenty two.
  After the close of World War I, when Tom was discharged from the Army, he married a Melbourne girl, Ruby Violet Powell. Tom and Ruby had four sons; David, Thomas, Donald and Russell. Thomas and Russell are now deceased.
  Tom and his family left the country and came to Melbourne shortly after the birth of David. Tom undertook a course in bricklaying at the Collingwood Technical School, a trade that he practiced for a great deal of his working career.
  As a result of Ruby's and Tom's divorce, Tom re-married to Hilda Adams in 1941. Hilda later passed away. Tom and Hilda had no children. Tom worked in Security during World War 11 at the ammunition factory here in Melbourne.
  It was in Melbourne in1946 that Tom met Alice Watkins. Alice had two sons from a previous marriage; Theodore, Reginald, and a daughter Judy. Tom and Alice were married in Melbourne in 1947 and they settled in Albion for the following six and a half years. Tom joined the staff of Ampol in Spotswood.
  Tom's and Alice's daughter, Gwen was born in Richmond. Tom had always wanted a daughter and therefore she became the 'apple of her father's eye'.
  The Metelmann family moved to Park Orchards in 1951 when the area was covered with orchards and pine tree plantations. Tom found employment with the Doncaster Council where he remained for three years. He then returned to his trade as a bricklayer with his stephson Theo from time to time together with a number of odd jobs that would come up now and then.
  It was with very great sadness that Tom died at the Maroondah Hospital on Friday 16th April 1993.

• He died on April 16, 1993 in Maroondah Hospital, Melbourne-Richmond, Victoria, he was 96 years old.
• He is buried in Lilydale Memorial Park, 120 Victoria Rd., Lilydale, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria.
• A child of David Frederick Metelmann and Cecelia Maria Younghusband
• This information was last updated on April 27, 2021.

Household of Alex Metelmann

(1) He is married to Ruby Violet Adeline Powell.

They got married on February 26, 1920 at Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria, he was 22 years old.

Child(ren):

1. David Metelmann   
2. Thomas Alexander Metelmann  1923-1923
3. Don Metelmann  1926-2003 
4. Russell Basil Metelmann  1928-1983 

The couple were divorced on May 9, 1936.

UNDEFENDED DIVORCE
STATEMENTS FOR COURT

Attorney-General to Intervene
An application by the State Attorney General for leave to intervene in a divorce suit was heard by Mr. Justice Lowe in the Practice Court yesterday. The suit was heard by Mr. Justice Wasley in November. Thomas Alexander Metelmann, of Herbert street, Albert Park, bricklayer, petitioned for divorce from his wife, Ruby Violet Metelmann, of Chestnut street, Richmond, on the ground of her alleged misconduct with William Henry John Baird, confectioner, of Cecil street, North Melbourne. The suit was undefended and a decree nisi was granted to the petitioner.
Mr. Stafford (Instructed by the State Crown solicitor) asked Mr. Justice Lowe yesterday that an order nisi be granted on behalf of the Attorney-General calling upon the petitioner' to show cause why the decree nisi should not be reversed on the ground that material facts had not been brought before the Court and that since the making of the decree petitioner had been guilty of misconduct. Mr. Stafford read an affidavit by Arthur J. B. Aird, of the Crown solicitor's office, stating that he had been Informed by the secretary of the Crown Law Department that on February 12 the Attorney-General had received a letter from Mrs. Metelmann and two reports of an inquiry agent who was working on her behalf. In her letter Mrs.Metelmann stated that before she had instituted proceedings her husband had informed her of the facts, and had said that if she defended the suit it would cost a lot of money. He had suggested that she should do nothing. Whether she defended the suit or not, petitioner had said, he would not ask for the custody of the children. She had told her husband that she was not guilty of any misconduct, and he had said that if she did anything to prevent him from obtaining a divorce he would "get even with her" in some way and take the children from her. Because of that she did not take any steps to defend the suit, and she had since learned that her husband could have been made to pay, for her defense and that the services of the public solicitor would have been made available to her. If she had known this she would have taken steps to defend the suit. Co-respondent was in a poor financial position, and could not raise enough money to defend the suit. She had had her husband watched and had forwarded reports from the Inquiry agent. In the ordinary course of events the decree nisi would have automatically become absolute in a couple of days. Mr. Justice Lowe granted leave to the Attorney-general to intervene, and made tile motion returnable for February 26.

(2) He is married to Alice Davey Watkins.

They got married in the year 1947 at Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, he was 49 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Gwen Metelmann   

(3) He is married to Hilda Christina Adams.

They got married in the year 1941, he was 43 years old.

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