Who's who in Australia, Volume 9The Herald, 1922 |
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Address Address-The Adelaide University appointed Association Australian Division Author B.Sc Ballarat Battalion A.I.F. Board bourne Brigade Brisbane Captain Ch.M Chairman Charles Chief Church College Colonel command Commonwealth Council Court Croix de Guerre D.Sc Director Edinburgh Editor Edward Egypt elected Engineer England Federal France Gallipoli Geelong George Government Henry Hobart honours Hospital House Infantry James John July June land late Lecturer Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Light Horse Regiment LL.B London Major Medal Medical Melbourne University ment mentioned in despatches Military Mines Minister North Adelaide Officer pastoralist Perth President Prince Alfred College Professor Public Queens Queensland Robert Royal Secretary Sept Served in European Society of N.S.W. sons served South Australia South Wales staff Surgeon Sydney Grammar School Sydney University Tasmania Thomas toria tralia University B.A. versity Victoria Victoria Cross Western Australia William
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Page 270 - KCMO, was born in Melbourne in 1856, entered the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1889, and joined the Government in 1894 as Minister of Agriculture, Commissioner of Public Works, and Vice-President of the Board of Lands and Works, holding office until the fall of Sir George Turner's Ministry in 1899. In 1902 he again held office and in 1904 was appointed Agent-General in London for Victoria. This position he held until 1913, an exceptionally long period. He was the pioneer of the movement for using...
Page 149 - Awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty.
Page 70 - Oalllpoll: won Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when In action with a Lewis gun section at Hamel, France, July 4, 1918; address, 157 Ardoyne Rd., Oxley, Qld.
Page 22 - House; b. May 30, 1867, Lanes, Eng.: ed. Edinburgh Univ., Gunning Victorian Prizeman 1894; Lecturer on Anatomy In School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh, 18941906; Examiner In Anatomy St. Andrew's Univ. 1898-1901, In Univ. of Aberdeen 1901-05, In the Royal Coll. of Surgeons 1396-1905; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Univ.
Page 251 - Australia in 1Q29 and was the first to fly across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia (1931). He was a navigation officer in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1945. Among his publications are his autobiography, The Lonely Sea and the Sky ( 1964). Created a knight commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967, he died in Plymouth, England, on Aug. 26, 1972. BILL BRADDOCK, New York "Times...
Page 25 - He was directed with fifty men to drive the enemy from a strong point. By dogged determination he eventually captured their trench after personally leading four separate parties of bombers against it, many of whom became casualties. In face of fierce opposition he captured 250 yards of trench. Then, after crawling forward with a sergeant to reconnoitre, he returned, attacked and seized another 120 yards of trench, establishing communication with the battalion on his left.
Page 136 - ... Allen & Unwin. Ltd. ,1920., 159(1) p. illus. 8°. BTZE "The adventures of the 17th Divisional Supply Column on its trek to Italy." — Preface. Hoffnung-Goldsmid, Cyril Julian. Diary of a liaison officer in Italy. 1918. London: Williams and Norgate, 1920. viii, 178 p. illus. 12°. BTZE Hughes, WS Kent. Modern crusaders; an account of the campaign in Sinai and Palestine up to the capture of Jerusalem. Melbourne: Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd. [1920?, 3 pl, 170 p. illus. 8°. BTZE Humphrey, Seth King....
Page 273 - for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty" during operations on the Kaiakij Agbala (Hill 60) in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 28 and 29 Aug.
Page 56 - He was minister of education 1885-7; premier and chief secretary 1889-90; chief secretary 1892; minister of education and agriculture 1893-8.
Page 33 - ... upon pain of eternal misery, to believe in them all ' unfeignedly ; ' and when a missionary Bishop of the Church of England shall not be prevented, as I myself have been, from admitting to the Diaconate a thoroughly-competent, well-trained, able, and pious native, who had himself helped to translate the whole of the New Testament and several books of the Old...