This article was published in Australian Dictionary of
Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983 George Mawby Ingram
(1889-1961), soldier and carpenter, was born on 18 March 1889 at
Bagshot near Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, son of George Ronald
Ingram, farmer, and his wife Charlotte, née Hubbard, both
Victorian-born. Educated at Lilydale State School, he was
apprenticed as a carpenter and joiner. He later went to
Caulfield, Melbourne, and worked as a carpenter until 1914. On
19 January 1910, at East Prahran, he had married Jane Francis
Nichols with Congregational forms. There were no children of the
marriage which was dissolved in 1926 with Ingram as petitioner,
the grounds being desertion by his wife. In 1905-14 Ingram was a
member of the militia forces and was attached to the Australian
Garrison Artillery. On 10 December 1914 he enlisted as a private
with the 3rd Battalion, Australian Naval and Military
Expeditionary Force, and served in New Guinea until his
discharge on 19 January 1916; he immediately enlisted in