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Booklet Number 142 OGG BROTHERS JAMES MOUNT HUTTON 1880 – 1930 WILLIAM MILLER 1893 - 1930 James Ogg This booklet remains the property of Saint Andrew’s Uniting Church. Please see a Guide if you would like a copy. ©Saint Andrew’s Uniting Church Corner Ann and Creek Streets Brisbane QLD 4000 2016 2 George and Mary Mount Ogg and family Born in the Scottish town of Dunnottar in Kincardineshire, Scotland, George Ogg (1852 – 1927), a publican, came to Melbourne on the ship Somersetshire at the age of 24 in 1875. In Melbourne in 1879 he married Mary Mount Hutton (1854 – 1936) of Fitzroy in a ceremony at which Rev Charles Strong1 officiated. George Ogg became a shipping clerk requiring him to serve first in Sydney, then the Dundathu Reach of the Mary River in Queensland and later at Wynnum and South Brisbane. Their children were born at these places, seven in all - three sons and four daughters. Their eldest daughter Mary Isabel died in 1899 aged sixteen years and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery. George Ogg died in 1927, also buried in the Toowong Cemetery as is Mrs Mary Ogg who died in 1936, outliving her three sons and two of her daughters. Mrs Mary Mount Ogg was a communicant member of S a i n t A n d r e w ’ s Presbyterian Church, Creek Street, Brisbane. 1. Rev Charles Strong was minister at Scots Presbyterian Church, Melbourne from 1875 to 1883. Mrs Mary Ogg in the 1860s 3 The names of her eldest son (James Mount Hutton Ogg) and her youngest son (William Miller Ogg) are on one of the honour boards in the Merrington Anzac Memorial Peace Chapel. Both enlisted and were accepted in the Australian Imperial Force but neither of them fought on the battlefields during the Great War. Sergeant James Mount Hutton Ogg James Mount Hutton Ogg (known as Jim), eldest child of George Ogg and Mary Mount née Hutton, was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on 16 October 1880. In his childhood he would have lived at Melbourne, Sydney and Wide Bay before settling in Wynnum with his younger sisters and brothers in the care of their parents in about 1892. He tried outdoor work as a station hand on Milo Station off the Adavale-Windorah Road in south western Queensland in 1903 and carried out clerical duties as a bookkeeper while living with his parents at Wynnum from about 1908 to 1912. In the Citizen Forces James Ogg served in the 13th Australian Light Horse and Queensland Mounted Infantry for 3 years and the Australian Pay Corps for 3 years. On 2 October 1912, Jim Ogg married Miss Jane Evelyn Tristram of Palma Rosa, Hamilton in the Holy Trinity Church in a ceremony conducted by Rev Hugh Simmonds. The couple lived at Adam Street, Tingal Hill, Wynnum till the end of 1918. Palma Rosa, Hamilton, Brisbane 4 It was on 3 January 1919 (after the war) when James Ogg at the age of 38 years and two months enlisted to serve overseas in the Australian Imperial Force. After medical examination in Melbourne he was considered fit for active service though he had previously been rejected because of poor eyesight. Allocated regimental number 85674, he was appointed to the Army Pay Corps to serve in London with the rank of sergeant. He embarked at Melbourne on board A74 HMAT1 Marathon on 25 January 1919 and arrived at Southampton on 19 March. While on leave soon afterwards he became seriously ill and was admitted to Endell Street Military Hospital with influenza. His wife Evelyn, next of kin, received a telegram from Base Records stating, “NOW REPORTED JAMES OGG ADMITTED ENDELL STREET HOSPITAL LONDON THIRTIETH MARCH INFLUENZA.” Endell Street Hospital, Covent Garden, London. c1915 (Imperial War Museum) 1.His Majesty’s Australian transport 5 James Ogg remained in hospital till 9 May when he was transferred to the 3rd Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford and discharged three days later for convalescence at AIF headquarters before return to Australia on 5 June per HMAT Mahia. Sergeant James Ogg was discharged from the AIF on 4 August 1919. According to the 1919 Electoral Roll for the District of Oxley, Subdivision of Wynnum, James and Evelyn Ogg returned for a while to their home at Adam Street Wynnum. By 1922 however, James was employed as a bookkeeper at Merinda residing with his brother Guthrie Ogg and Guthrie’s wife Lucy and their family. From about 1925 James Ogg and his brother Guthrie Ogg were employed at the State Coalmine at Collinsville where James was a bookkeeper and a Justice of the Peace. Sadly, James Ogg died in Collinsville early in the year 1930, aged 49. Jim (left) and Guthrie Ogg Reporting his death on 14 January, a Brisbane newspaper The Brisbane Courier stated simply, “On 11 January, at Collinsville, James Mount Hutton, eldest son of Mrs Ogg and the late George Ogg, Brereton Street, West End.”1 1. Brisbane Courier, 14 January 1930, page 14 6 James Ogg’s widow Evelyn married again. Her wedding to Charles Greenwood Knox, a Sydney ferry employee, took place in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1932. They lived at Milson’s Point, later North Sydney. Jim and his brother Guthrie, were obviously closely associated. Guthrie Gordon Ogg was head accountant at the State Colliery and secretary for the Collinsville Hospital. Two years after his brother’s death he died tragically in Collinsville, aged 43 years. He committed suicide by shooting himself on 7 January 1932. Sapper William Miller Ogg William Miller Ogg was the sixth child and third son of George and Mary Mount Ogg, born at Brisbane on 10 January 1893. He became an apprenticed draper at Allan and Stark Limited and was still living at home when he enlisted to serve overseas in the AIF on 21 April 1917 at the age of 24 years and three months. Only 4 feet 11½ inches (151 cm) tall, William’s previous application to join up had been rejected on account of his short stature. William named his father, George Ogg as next of kin, Allan and Stark drapery store, then living at Water Street Queen Street, Brisbane. c1912 West in South Brisbane. 7 Assigned to reinforcements for Field Company Engineers (FCE), Sapper WM Ogg with regimental number 20200 entered the FCE Camp at Moore Park, New South Wales in August, travelled by train to Melbourne in November and embarked from Melbourne 1 on board HMAT Nestor on 21 November 1917. The troops were engaged in further training at the Australian Camp at Suez before embarking at Port Said on HMT Kashgar for Southampton in January 1918. Sapper Ogg’s unit of reinforcements for the Field Company Engineers marched into Number 3 Camp at Parkhouse in southern England where they were stationed for the next twelve months. The war ended in November 1918 and early the following year in Essex, Sapper William Miller Ogg married an English nurse Jeanie Mary Greenwood whose father was a cotton manufacturer. The marriage was solemnized at the Wesleyan Chapel, Chapel Road, Brightlingsea on 11 February 1919 according to the rites and ceremonies of the Wesleyan Methodists. It was not till 18 February 1919 that Sapper Ogg proceeded overseas to France. He spent a period of time in hospital with influenza followed by convalescence. He carried out duties at the Divisional Base Depot at Boulogne and Reinforcement Camp at Charleroi in Belgium and returned to the United Kingdom in June in readiness for return to Australia per HMAT Ceramic on 9 August 1919. His wife accompanied him on the homeward voyage and they arrived in Melbourne at the end of September. Sapper Ogg’s period of enlistment was terminated on 3 November 1919 in Brisbane. He was awarded the British War Medal for his services during the Great War. 1. His Majesty’s Australian Transport 8 Central Station, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France Bill Ogg returned to his work as a draper’s assistant in Brisbane. He and Mrs Jeannie Ogg were living at Waverley in Smeaton Street, Greenslopes till 1925. Brother William M Ogg was a mem- ber of the UAOD Acorn Lodge. The 1926 electoral roll for the Di- vision of Maranoa, Subdivision of Windorah lists Jeannie Mary Ogg engaged in home duties at Springfield, via Quilpie but Wil- liam’s name is not listed there. William Ogg died on 10 July 1930, aged 37. His funeral moved from the residence of his younger sister Dorothy and his brother- in-law Mr RH MacKenzie in Lloyd Street, Camp Hill for the Toowong Cemetery. The Brisbane Courier published three funeral notices but Mrs Jeannie Ogg’s name does not appear in any of them. The Ogg family would have experienced deep sadness and grief in the few years between 1927 and 1932. Mrs Mary Ogg lost her husband and her three sons in a short period of time. 9 References National Archives of Australia, military records, World War 1 Brisbane City Council, Cemetery Records Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria Register of Births Deaths and Marriages, New South Wales Register of Births Deaths and Marriages, Queensland Ancestry on line Australian Electoral Rolls, 1905 – 1938 First World War Embarkation Roll Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Brisbane, Annual Reports, 1921, 1923 Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7666, copy of VRPS 947, Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Argus, Melbourne, 11 June 1879, page 1 Brisbane Courier, 19 June 1909, page 7 Brisbane Courier, 9 October 1912, page 17 Brisbane Courier, 15 January 1913, page 11 Week, Brisbane, 16 October 1925, page 8 Brisbane Courier, 14 January 1930, page 14 Brisbane Courier, 11 July 1930, page 14 Daily Mercury, Mackay, 8 January 1932, page 5 Compiled by Noel E Adsett, Brisbane October 2016 10 11 12 .