When Edward Murray Harmer was born on 28 February 1916, in Hopetoun, Victoria, Australia, his father, Francis Henry Vicars Harmer, was 46 and his mother, Ellen Alice Barrett, was 38. He married Coral Evelyn Moyle in 1939, in Victoria, Australia. He died on 6 December 1976, in Hahndorf, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 60, and was buried in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Due to the First World War in Europe, in 1917 the South Australian Government changed the name Hahndorf to Ambleside
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
Hahndorf was re-instated as the town's name with the enactment of the South Australia Nomenclature Act of 1935 on 12 December 1935.
from the Middle English personal name Hermer, a borrowing of Old French Her(e)mer, an ancient Germanic name composed of hari, heri ‘army’ + māri, mēri ‘famous’.
habitational name from Haremere Hall in Etchingham (Sussex), which may derive from Old English hār ‘gray; boundary’ + mere ‘pool’.
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