When Clarice Ivy Box was born on 7 February 1907, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, her father, Albert Edward Box, was 27 and her mother, Leila Mary Benn, was 26. She died on 19 January 1921, in Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 13, and was buried in Lilydale Cemetery, Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia.
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Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
English: habitational name from various major and minor places called Box, including parishes named Box in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, Box Farm in Awre (Gloucestershire), Boxfield Farm in Hertfordshire (recorded as Boxe from 1086 to 1428), and Box Hill in Dorking, Surrey, all named with Old English, Middle English box ‘box-tree’. The surname may sometimes also be purely topographic, where the reference is solely to residence by a box-tree, not to a farm or hamlet so named.
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