An Australian Connection

George Hunter Naylor was born in Audlem in early 1894.

His father was Dr Rupert George St John Naylor who was born in India in 1865 and came to England as a Surgeon and Physician and married Mary from Scotland in time for them to feature in the 1891 census as the occupants of Beech House, Sandy Lane in Audlem.

By 1901 the family had emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where Dr Naylor took up a senior post at the Kew Asylum for the Insane.

George Naylor did an apprenticeship with Austral Otis, a company specialising in enormous machines for pumping and similar purposes. He also spent two years with the Melbourne University Rifles, (an army training unit) at about the same time as Sir Robert Menzies.

George volunteered for the Australian Army at the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 aged 20.

He apparently survived the perils of the Great War and returned to live in Melbourne, probably into the 1960s.

In 1914 when volunteering he remembered his Audlem roots and described himself as a farmer.

Does anybody have any more information about George or his family?

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