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- c.1939 - 1945 (Creation)
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Photograph, 252mm x 201mm
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Stephen Thomas Woodward (1858-1935) and Florence Elizabeth Woodward (1861 - 1946 nee Hopton) were married in Geelong in 1885 and had three children: Florence Agnes Woodward (1886 - 1946 married Wilmot), Violet Louise Woodward (1887 - 1951 married Portch) and Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward (1892 - 1982).
Stephen Thomas Woodward was a coach builder in Corio Street, Geelong. His son Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward attended Flinders State School and studied engineering at Geelong Gordon College from 1908-1911. After graduating, he worked at R.W Hill Engineer’s in South Geelong. In 1916, Hubert Woodward travelled to England and worked in an ammunitions factory in Sheffield during the First World War. He married Kate Buttery (1891-1974) and returned to Geelong to work in the engineering firm, Humble & Sons Vulcan Foundry in Little Malop Street.
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Studio portrait of John Woodward (son of Hubert Woodward) in naval uniform with 'Cereberus' on sailor's cap. John Woodward served as an Able Seaman in the Royal Australian Navy from 1941 to 1945.
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Open
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Public domain
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- English
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Written on back 'Cerberus Naval base Flinders where they are trained' and 'JOHN WOODWARD SON OF HUBERT GRANDSON OF STEVEN G/GRANDSON OF THOMAS