Sections
A. Descendants of Alf and Tassie
AA. Cedric Holroyd
AB. Eric George de Tremblay
AC. Enid Valerie Claudia
AD. Louis Alphonse
AE. Glynne Tasman
AF. Edouard James Yorke (Yorke)
AG. Yniol Alfred (Bobby)
B. Descendants of of Amedee and Grace
BA. Horace Amedee Felix Olivier
BB. Sylvia Alma Janet
BC. Evan Paul (Paul)
BD. Lester Quintus
BE. Arthur Noel Octave
AA. Cedric Holroyd
Cedric was the eldest child of Alf and Tassie and was born in Hawthorn in 1892. . He attended Malvern Grammar School and completed his education at Scotch College. After he left school he joined Dalgety’s. During this period prior to the First World War, Cedric was active with the 58th battalion (Essendon Rifles) where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant.
On the declaration of war in 1914, Cedric enlisted the same day and later that year left for Europe. After some time in England, he became part of the Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Force training in Egypt. Cedric was now a Captain in the 7th Battalion. He fought in the Second Battle of Krithia on May 8, 1915.
In July 1915, he was wounded at German Officers’ Trench, and died at sea on board a hospital ship on July 14, 1915. He has no known grave. He is commemorated in the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
AB. Eric George de Tremblay
Louis was the second son of Alf and Tassie. He was educated at Wesley College. The change in school from Scotch to Wesley related to the ease of catching the tram at Darling Rd all the way to Wesley in St Kilda Rd.
Eric George de Trembley Permezel. Permezel was born in Caulfield on May 7, 1894. He enlisted as a 20-year-old clerk living in East Malvern and embarked on the Themistocles on December 22, 1914. He took part in the Gallipoli landings and was later sent to France where he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918. The citation reads as follows: “Captain Eric George de Trembley Permezel of the 5th Australian Infantry Battalion was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for conspicuous bravery and gallant leadership during World War I. ‘During the attack on St Martin’s Wood near Foucaucourt on August 23, 1918, this officer led a front-line company on the attack and showed conspicuous bravery and gallant leadership. On reaching the front enemy posts, the line was temporarily held up. He worked around the flank and rear of the enemy positions and captured three machine guns and 12 prisoners, thus enabling his company to move forward. Later, he moved up and down his line under machine gun fire, correcting and maintaining directions, and showed an utter disregard for his personal safety.”
The Wesley Chronicle in 1915 reported as follows: “Lieut. Eric G de T Permezel (1907) took reinforcements to Egypt for the 7th
Battalion, and then joined the Public Schools’ Company (5th Battalion D Company). He was at the landing on the 25th April, and remained in the firing line for nearly twenty weeks without a break, not having had a day’s sickness since leaving Melbourne last December.
Writing from Lemnos on 22nd September, he says that he was having a rest; it was a great change after the time spent at Gallipoli. He was “lazing” enjoying the landscape, and playing cricket. Permezel seems to be a rare commodity in that he survived the entire Gallipoli campaign without reporting ill or being wounded.”
Unfortunately, Eric and his wife Alma were unable to have children. According to John (1925) this stemmed from an early miscarriage that was “mis-managed” by the local general practitioner.
Eric appears to have been particularly genial and fondly remembered by all. Alison (1932) recalls frequent visits by Eric to the North-East of Victoria where he had a couple of businesses. He regularly caught up with his brother Bobby in Yackandandah and teased Bobby about leaving his wife and children at home on the weekend while Bobby played golf.
AC. Enid Valerie Claudia
Enid was the only daughter of Alf and Tassie. She married relatively late (for that time) at 29 years of age to Leslie Escott. According to John (1925), extra provision had been made in the will of Tassie for her single daughter.
Enid and Les lived on a farm near Dookie and had two daughters – Elizabeth (Liz) and Margaret (Margot).
AD. Louis Alphonse
Louis was the third son of Alf and Tassie and, like all his brothers other than Cedric, was educated at Wesley College. He also attempted to enlist in the Great War but was rejected on medical grounds.
Louis spent time in business in Yarrawonga and Benalla, sending his boys to Scotch College.
AE. Glynne Tasman
Glynne was a star pupil at Wesley College. He was Dux of Lower Fourth July 1911, Lower Fourth Dec 1911, and Form IVA in Dec 1912. On each occasion he was awarded leather-bound volumes (7 in all), signed by the famous Wesley Headmaster – L.A. Adamson. He was a keen footballer and cricketer both at school and after the war where he played for local teams in East Malvern. In later life he played golf, followed the horse racing and was active in the East Malvern R.S.L. He enlisted for service in WW1 and was sent to France but arrived soon after the war ended. There was a famous meeting with Eric in some remote French village. Glynne’s battalion had been marching through town when he heard Eric’s characteristic laugh coming from a group of soldiers on the roadside.
Glynne trained in law and rose to the position of Deputy Crown Solicitor with the Attorney General’s Department of the public service. He married Rosalind Annie Warne in 1924 and built a home in 4 Ferguson Street East Malvern, not far from his boyhood home of “Voreppe”. They had five children comprising John(1925), Eric (1927(, Ros(1930), Julie (1937) and Bob (1941).
AF. Edward James Yorke (Yorke)
Yorke was the fourth son of Alf and Tassie and, like all his brothers other than Cedric, was educated at Wesley College. He married Lorna Morres in 1924 and had three children: Phillip and Cedric and Eril. Lorna died in 1944, leaving Yorke with three teenage children. Yorke married for a second time in 1951 to Alma Brindley.
Phillip (Phil) was based in Colac and Cedric farmed at “The Rock” near Wagga. Eril died at a relatively young age and never married.
AG. Yniol Alfred (Bob)
Bob went to Wesley College, but his education was cut short at 15 when his father died in 1919, one day before his 16th birthday. The name “Bob” was a derivation of “Bub” from being the youngest in the family with six elder siblings. He objected to being called Bub by his family and they generously amended “Bub” to “Bob”
Bob married Margaret Jean Lorimer (Jean) in 1929 and went on to have five children: Alison (1932), Geoff (1934), David (1936), Ian (1937) and Elizabeth (1947). Elizabeth died in infancy. Jean was of Irish Protestant background and, like her husband, a stalwart in Yackandandah. She was the daughter of the Yackandandah butcher but her father died early, leaving her mother to raise the family – taking in boarders to make ends meet. Jean was extremely capable and popular. She helped Bob with his business ventures and ran the business when Bob was away with the air force during WWII.
Bob got to Yackandandah through his brother Eric. Eric was large and boisterous. He ran businesses in the north-east of Victoria. He took his smaller and quieter young brother ‘under his wing’ and they worked together through the 1920s. Eric called Bob “Skeet” and they were very close.
Bob ran the farm supplies store in Yackandandah. He built the successful business from the ground up, dealing with farm machinery and chemical supplies. After Ian took over the Yackandandah business and Geoff the parallel Albury venture, Bob went into real estate and became a successful real estate agent. He also acted as an agent for insurance brokers.
He had numerous other achievements in a magnificent career. In 1935, he bought the “Yackandandah News” and used his editorial position to bring electricity to the town. At that time, there was no electricity with the town running on gas lamps. Despite opposition because of cost, negotiations began with the State Electricity Commission and electricity arrived in 1937. Bob sold the newspaper in 1941 after which he served time in the air force during WWII. He served as a trustee and then President of the Yackandandah Bush Nursing Hospital. He was secretary of the Yackandandah Water Trust for 45 years! Almost daily visits by Bob to the water facility led to the local reservoir being known in the family as “Dad’s Water”.
He was a very keen sportsman: football in his younger days and then golf later on. He was a President of the Albury Golf Club. A period of his retirement was spent in a house next to Yarra Yarra Golf Club in Melbourne, where he played almost daily for many years. He is said to have “shot his age” playing golf when he was in his late 80s – one of golf’s great achievements.
Bob’s last years were spent with Alison at Ocean Shores in NSW.
BA. Horace Amédée Felix Ollivier
Horace had a 2-year stint at a small private school at Yarrawonga (Alexandra College?). He studied banking and accountancy by correspondence via Hemingway & Robertson.
Horace was keenly aware of his eligibility for war service during the First World War. His cousin Cedric (1892-1915) and uncle Lester Laurie Paul (1881-1957) served in the AIF; Cedric died at Gallipoli. Horace was rejected at three separate attempts to enlist because of a foot deformity. Horace successfully applied to the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd in 1909 for a position as a bank clerk. He had positions as a junior clerk, ledger keeper, and teller in CBA branches at St.Kilda and Williamstown, then as a clerical assistant to the general manager at head office, 333 Collins St. Melbourne.
Around 1920, Horace was posted to his first position as a branch manager to Heywood, Vic. It was here that he met Ivy Rosina Ainsworth (1894-1975), a school teacher whom he married in 1922, by which time he had been transferred to manage the CBA branch at Jeparit, Victoria. (Robert Gordon Menzies was born at the back of his father’s general store in Jeparit in December 1894.)
Four of the seven children born to Horace and Ivy Permezel were born at Jeparit: Paul Felix Ollivier 20-02-1925, Neville Clarence 04-04-1926, Elaine Marie Clemence 25-02-1928 and Marcus Mortimer 24-06-1929. In June 1930, Horace was transferred to manage the CBA branch at Scottsdale, Tasmania. It was here that the remaining three children were born: David Francis Tasman 24-05-1932, Elizabeth Marie Louise (25/12/1933 – 01/04/1998) and Rosemarie Margaret Grace (21/10/1937 – 03/01/1994).
In January 1940, Horace was transferred to manage the CBA branch at Queenstown, Tasmania at which time the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co. Ltd was moving into its peak production period as Australia’s top producer of refined copper for industrial 
goods and munitions for the war effort.
Horace’s last and final posting was to Brighton (Adelaide) South Australia. in 1950, by which time Paul, Neville and David had already left home for the mainland. Soon afterwards, Marcus moved to Melbourne to continue and complete his civil engineering studies. Elaine, and Elizabeth while essentially still based at home in Adelaide, worked with ANA, and TAA respectively, as air hostesses; and then after various positions in South Australia both married and settled in Adelaide. Rosemarie finished her secondary education in Adelaide, trained as a kindergarten teacher, obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and at the time of her death had been managing a computer system while teaching at a secondary school in Canberra. She left behind her husband and two children.
In the mid 1950s, Ivy lowered her age by ten years and obtained a clerical position at Chrysler Australia and later joined the South Australian education department as a primary teacher at Brighton, where she taught for about two years.
Horace retired from the CBA in January 1959 with regret because he had wanted to complete a full fifty years’ service which would have required another three months’ work, an extension to which head office would not agree. During his retirement, Horace visited David who worked for the Australian administration it Papua New Guinea. On his second visit, when David was district commissioner based at Mount Hagen, Horace ruptured an aortic aneurysm from which he died on 21-6-1969. He was buried at Port Moresby.
Neville was the first to leave home at Queenstown (1946) to work as an assayer at a scheelite mine on King Island. He then worked his way around Australia to settle in Perth where he did extensive postgraduate studies in biological sciences which he furthered at London, Ontario in biochemistry to obtain his M.Sc. Neville now lives at Wollongong, NSW.
Paul left Queenstown in 1948 to work on the commercial and general management side of engineering enterprises in Melbourne, in Brisbane 1970-76, and in the Pacific & Far East (based in Melbourne) 1977-86. From 1987-99 Paul ran his own engineering business located at Braeside, Victoria.
Marcus worked as a civil engineer in Melbourne on major construction contracts, In the mid 1960s moved back to Adelaide, eventually joining the South Australian Public Works Department to design and supervise government contracts.
BB. Sylvia Alma Janet
Sylvia was born in 1896 and lived until 1982. She remained single and was very close to her nephews and nieces. She is said to have had a number of the original items brought by Zephyrin from France
BC. Evan Paul (Paul)
BD. Lester Quintus
Lester Quintus Permezel (1906–1967) was a prominent Melbourne-based solicitor and lawyer. He was born on 20 November 1906 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. He was the fourth of five surviving children born to Amédée Georges Samuel Alexandre Clark Permezel (also a barrister and solicitor) and Grace Permezel (née Paul).
Following his early education in state schools, he attended the University of Melbourne, where he successfully obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. His legal firm, Flood and Permezel was active from the 1930s through to the late 1960s. For the majority of its history, the practice operated out of the A.P.A. Building at 379 Collins Street, Melbourne, before later shifting to 388 Bourke Street in the late 1960s. The firm specialized in probate, wills, estate administration, property conveyancing, and commercial matters for families and businesses across Victoria.
Lester married Beth Taylor in Sydney on 23 November 1935. The couple raised three sons: Graham Lester, Douglas Gordon Finlayson, and Howard Arthur. He passed away on 2 January 1967 in East Melbourne at the age of 60.
BE. Arthur Noel Octave
Arthur was the youngest son of Amédée. He married Barbara Anne Hannington McGhie on 10 August 1940 in Mosman, New South Wales
During World War II, he served as a Lieutenant, 2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion: 16th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd AIF (WW2). During his military deployment in 1941 and 1945, his family resided in Neutral Bay, Sydney, where the couple welcomed their children, Peter William George, Louise Ruth and Roger Stephen Evans.
Barbara became a highly influential trailblazer in the Australian fashion industry throughout the 1950s and 1960s. She served as the prominent President of the Mannequin’s and Models’ Guild of Australia. In this leadership position, she managed, mentored, and elevated professional standards for Australia’s top models and runway mannequins. Known for her poise and industry expertise, she was a highly sought-after compere (master of ceremonies) for major national fashion parades, charity galas, and designer events across cities like Melbourne and Canberra. Barbara heavily documented Melbourne’s heritage as Australia’s fashion capital by authoring the retrospective book, A Crucible of Creative Fashion Talent: Australian Gown of the Year, 1953–1993. The book captures the golden age of Australian couture, profiling the prestigious annual competitive gown exhibition.
Arthur died in 1962 at the age of only 52 years.