 In Melbourne , Blamey met Minnie Millard , the daughter of a Toorak stockbroker who was involved in the Methodist Church there . They were married at her home on 8 September 1909 . His first child was born on 29 June 1910 , and named Charles Middleton after a friend of Blamey 's who had died in a shooting accident ; but the boy was always called Dolf by his family . A second child , a boy named Thomas , was born four years later . 
