An Annotated Index, for military historians, to Volume 14, (1940-1980, Di-Kel) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

This annotated index continues my "An Annotated Index, for military historians, to Volumes 7-12, (1891-1939) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography" which appeared in Sabretache Volume 32, No. 1, January/March 1991 and "An Annotated Index for Military Historians to Volume 13, (1940-1980, A-De) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography" which appeared in Sabretache Vol. 35, No. 4, October/December 1994. All individuals who appear in Volume 14 died in the period 1940-1980. Many, but not all, performed their most important work in the period.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is a rich, and often unique, source of biographical information for military historians, who may be unaware of its treasures. This Index, in addition to listing service persons, includes artists, entertainers, manufacturers, peace workers, politicians, public servants, welfare workers etc. whose lives were touched to some extent by Australia's wars. Generally, only matters relating to war or military and associated service are listed. Honours and awards are selectively listed although all valour awards are noted.

Volume 14 of the A.D.B. lists Victoria Cross winners: Dwyer, Edmondson, French, Gratwick, Gurney and Kelliher and great WWII leaders of the AIF: "Black Jack" Galleghan, "Tack" Hammer and "Boss" Edgar. Entertainer, John William Goffage, better known as Chips Rafferty, who so often played what was seen as the typical outback Australian, appears. Howard Florey has been selected in this annotated index as his development of penicillin saved countless lives in WWII. A sad entry is that for Charles Green, at 25 the youngest Battalion commander in the AIF in WWII, killed when commanding 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, in Korea in 1950, aged 30.

DISHER, HAROLD CLIVE 1891-1976. Medical practitioner, army officer and pastoralist.

AIF 1917-1919. 5 Field Amb., RMO 4 FAB. Stroked AIF V111 which won King's Cup at Henley Peace Regatta, 1919. 2/AIF 1939-1945. ADMS 6 Div. and 1 Armoured Div.. DDMS N.G. Force, DDMS 1st Army.

DOLLERY EDWIN MAXWELL OBE MC 1897-1973. Army officer and administrator.

AIF 1916-1919. 12 Bn. MC Proyart, Aug.1918; 2/AIF 1940-1946. Dep. Director Ord.Services ME, Brig. i/c Admin. NT Force. Began `Tasmanian Command Collection' Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

DOLLING, DOROTHY ELEANOR 1897-1967. Community worker and journalist.

WW II. Set up All Library Service Fund, exec. member Allied Forces Information Bureau, Women's Air Training Corps, Women's Land Army.

DOUGLAS, GILBERT ERIC 1902-1970. Air Force officer.

RAAF 1921-1948. CO 1 and 3 Aircraft Depots. Group Captain 1943. CO, RAAF Station, Amberley 1947.

DOWLING, Sir ROY CB DSO 1901-1969. Naval Officer.

RAN 1915-1961. WWII, HMS Naiad, sunk 1942. Commanded HMAS Hobart, 1944-1946, DSO. Commissioned aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney, 1948. Chief of Naval Staff, 1955-1959, Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee 1959-1961.

DOWN, JOHN EGBERT 1885-1963. Dentist and army officer.

WWI AIF 1915-1919. Lieutenant AAMC(Dental Services) 1915. One of first six dentists to be commissioned in AIF. Major 1917. OBE. 2/AIF 1940-1946. Brigadier, Director of Dental Services, Australian Army Dental Corps, 1943.

DOWNIE, EWEN THOMAS TAYLOR 1902-1977. Medical practitioner.

2/AIF 1941-1945. Assistant Director General, Medical Services, Aust. Military Mission, Washington, 1944. Colonel.

DOWNING, CECILIA 1858-1952. Temperance worker, community activist and political organiser.

WWI. "Galvanised women's organisations in Victoria to demand `dry' canteens in military camps and early closing of hotels."

DRAKE-BROCKMAN, GEOFFREY MC. 1885-1977. Civil engineer and army officer.

AIF 1914-1920. 10 LHR and 2nd Field Coy, Engineers, Gallipoli and France. MC 1917. 2/AIF 1941-1944, Temporary Brigadier, engineering posts, AHQ, Melbourne.

DRAKEFORD, ARTHUR SAMUEL 1878-1957. Engine driver, trade unionist and politician.

World War II. Minister for Air and Civil Aviation, 1941-1945 (and 1945-1949). Member of War Cabinet, 1941-1945.

DRUMMOND, IRENE MELVILLE 1905-1942. Army Matron.

2/AIF AANS 1940-1942. Matron 2/13th AGH, Malaya. Evacuated from Singapore, in MV Viner Brooke, sunk 14 February 1942. With 21 other Australian nurses, shot by Japanese soldiers at Radji Beach, Banka Island, 16 February 1942.

DRUMMOND, Sir PETER ROY MAXWELL DSO and Bar, MC.1894-1945. Air Force officer.

AIF 1914-1916. Medical orderly. RFC 1916-1919, Att. No 1 Sqdn. AFC, MC; No 111 Sqdn. RFC. DSO and Bar; RAF. 1920-1945. Deputy Air CinC, Middle East. Air Vice Marshall. Killed in Liberator crash, Azores, 1945.

DRUMMOND, VANCE DFC.1927-1967. Air Force officer.

RAAF 1949-1967. Korea, 77 Sqdn. Shot down and POW 1951-1953. Vietnam. att. USAF. 1966-1967. 381 operational missions. DFC. Lost life in Mirage accident off Newcastle, NSW, 1967.

DUGAN, WINSTON Baron DSO. 1876-1951. Soldier and governor.

Boer War and WWI. British Army. DSO,1915; Governor of Victoria, 1939-1947.

DUNCAN, ADA CONSTANCE 1896-1970. Welfare activist and international affairs specialist.

Took up cause of internees from Great Britain sent to Australia in SS Dunera in 1941.

DUNKLEY, HARRY LESLIE EWEN DSO, MC. 1911-1979. Army officer and schoolmaster.

2/AIF 1939-1946. 2/6 Bn. MC Bardia, 1941; CO 7 Bn. AMF, 1944. DSO Bougainville 1945.

DWYER, JOHN JAMES VC 1890-1962. Politician and soldier.

AIF 1915-1918. Sgt. 4 Machine Gun Coy. VC for action at Zonnebekke, Belgium, 26 September 1917.

EATON, CHARLES 1895-1979. Air Force officer and diplomat.

WWI London Regiment, RFC and RAF; RAAF 1925-1945. CO No 79 Wing, Batchelor, Northern Territory. 1943. Australian Consul, Dilli, Portuguese Timor and Consul General, Batavia, 1945-1949.

EDGAR, CEDRIC RUPERT VAUGHAN. (Boss) CBE, DSO. 1901-1967. Soldier and bank manager.

2/AIF 1939-1946. 2/2 Bn. North Africa and Greece; CO 2/1 Bn. 1941-1943, DSO Papuan campaign; Brigadier CO 4 (Militia) Brigade. New Guinea and New Britain 1943-1945. CBE.

EDMONDSON, JOHN HURST VC 1914-1941. Soldier.

2/AIF 1940-1941. 2/17 Bn. Died of wounds, Tobruk, 14 April 1941. Posthumous VC, first awarded to a member of Australia's armed forces in WWII.

ELLIOTT, ALICE GORDON 1886-1977. Nurse and community worker.

AANS. 1914-1917. Nurse in hospital ships, 3 AGH, France and 1 Aust. Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium. Mentioned in Despatches.

ELLIS, CHARLES HOWARD 1895-1975. Soldier and intelligence officer.

WWI British army. Agent, British Special (Secret) Intelligence 1923-1953.

ELLWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY 1889-1972. MC. Educationist.

AIF 1915-1919. 24 Bn. MC Bullecourt 1917. Militia 1920-1938. Lieut. Col.

EMBRY, Sir BASIL EDWARD. CB, DSO and 2 Bars. 1902-1977. Air Chief Marshal and farmer.

RAF 1921-1956. WWII, CO Night Fighter Wing and No 2 Bomber Group. CB, DSO and 2 Bars. Farmer. Western Australia on retirement from RAF.

ENGLAND, ERNEST ROY 1896-1978. DCM, MM and Bar. Soldier and railway worker.

AIF 1915-1919. 16Bn. MM, Pozieres, 1916; Bar to MM, Bullecourt, 1917; DCM, Hebuterne, France 1918.

EVATT, HERBERT VERE 1894-1964. Politician and judge.

Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs, War Cabinet, 1941-1945.

FAIRFAX, JOHN FITZGERALD 1904-1951. Journalist and company director.

War correspondent for Sydney MoMing Herald with United States Navy in South Pacific, 1943-1944.

FAIRLEY, Sir NEIL HAMILTON 1891-1966 Physician, medical scientist and army officer.

AIF 1916-1919 AAMC, investigated tropical diseases at 14 AGH, Cairo. 2/AIF 1940-1945. Brigadier AAMC, 1944. Prominent in development of atebrin as anti malarial drug. "The control of malaria was a turning point in Burma and the Islands."

FARNCOMB, HAROLD BRUCE (Fearless Frank) CB DSO 1899-1971. Naval officer and lawyer.

RAN 1913-1951. HMS Royal Sovereign 1917-18; Commanded HMAS Perth, 1939-40, HMAS Canberra 1940-1941; HMAS Australia 1941-1944 DSO Coral Sea 1942; HMS 

Attacker 1944; Commodore HMAS Australia 1944-45, Lingayen action, Australia hit by 5 kamikazes; HMAS Shropshire 1945. Rear Admiral 1947.

FELDT, ERIC AUGUSTUS 1899-1968 Naval officer and colonial official.

RAN 1913-1922; Patrol officer and mining warden, New Guinea 1924-1939; RAN 1939-1945. Organised coastwatchers "to warn of hostile incursions by sea or air" in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and New Hebrides. Author of The Coast Watchers (1946).

FERGUSON, JEAN ELSIE 1909-1979 Hospital matron.

2/AIF AANS 1940-1947. England and Middle East 1940-1942; 2/11 AGH, PNG 1943-1945; Lt Colonel and principal matron, AANS (CMF) W.A. 1947-1964.

FERGUSSON, MAURICE ALFRED (Ruthless) DSO, MC and Bar 1885-1975 Army officer and grazier.

AIF 1914-1919 1 FAB Gallipoli; 10 FAB France and Belgium, MC and Bar; 2/AIF 1939-1945 CO 6 Div. Cavalry Regiment DSO Cyrenica; Brigadier 1942; CO 8 Infantry Brigade. 1944-1945 Madang and Wewak.

FERRES, HAROLD DUNSTAN GORDON (Pung) DSO MC and Bar 1885-1978 Army officer and grazier.

AIF 1915-1919. 57 Bn. MC Messines, Bar to MC Hamel, DSO Peronne.

FIELD, FRANK 1885-1961 Army officer and engineer.

War Office Workshop, Jamaica 1912-1918; AIF 1939-1945. Brigadier, first Head of Corps AAEME 1942.

FIELD, JOHN DSO 1899-1974 Army officer and engineer.

AIF 1939-1946. CO 2/12 Bn. Tobruk and Syria; CO 7th (Militia) Brigade, PNG and Bougainville. Original Commander "Milne Force", 1942 DSO.

FLOREY, HOWARD WALTER Baron 1898-1968. Medical scientist.

With Ernst Chain developed penicillin, 1941, which was used for treatment of war casualties "with miraculous effect."

FLYNN, JAMES ALOYSIUS 1899-1969. Ophthalmic surgeon.

RAN 1939-1946. Surgeon Commander, ophthalmic specialist HMAS Australia 1939-1941. Author, "Photo-retinitis in anti-aircraft lookouts." Medical Journal of Australia (1942)

FOLL, HATTIL SPENCER 1890-1977 Politician.

AIF 1914-1916. 3 FAB Gallipoli; Senator 1917-1947, Minister for War Service Homes 1937-1938, Minister for Repatriation 1937-1939, Member of War Cabinet, 1939-1941. "Prominent in parliamentary attacks on General Sir Thomas Blamey, 1944-1945."

FOSKETT, RUSSELL GEORGE OBE DFC 1917-1944 Airman.

RAAF 1940-1944. 80 Sqdn. RAF, DFC 1942; CO 94 Sqdn. RAF. Died when aircraft lost over Aegean Sea, 31 October 1944. OBE posthumously.

FOWLER, ROBERT 1888-1965. Surgeon and soldier.

AIF 1914-1920. AAMC. CO 1st and 4th Light Horse Field Ambulances. RAAF. Group Captain, Deputy Director of Medical Services 1936-1937; WWII CO 117 AGH, Toowoomba, DDMS Victorian L of C Area, 1943-1944.

FRANCIS, Sir JOSHUA 1890-1964 Politician and army officer.

AIF 1915-1919. 15 Bn.; MHR 1922-1955, Assistant Minister for Defence and War Service Homes (Lyons Government) 1932-1934; Minister for Army 1949-1955, Minister for Navy 1949-1951 and 1954-1955 (Menzies Government).

FRANK, KENDALL THOMAS 1904-1951 Wireless operator and engineer.

Officer in charge (civilian) Port Moresby Radio 1935-?1947. "Port Moresby radio played a crucial role in military communications in the South-West Pacific area."

FRASER JAMES McINTOSH 1889-1961 Motorman, trade union official and politician.

Senator 1937-1959. Acting Minister for the Army, 1945.

FRASER, JOHN 1945-1968 National serviceman and army officer.

Called up for National Service 29 September 1965. Volunteered for extension of National Service so as to serve in Vietnam. As a lieutenant, 3 RAR, in Vietnam died of wounds following mine explosion 24 March 1968. "When he heard the mine arming, Fraser deliberately used his body in an effort to smother the effects of the blast and minimize injuries to those members of his platoon who were close by."

FRASER, KEITH AIRD 893-1952 Railway engineer and commissioner.

AIF 1915-1919 4 Divn. Engineers; 2/AIF 1940-1943 Commanded Australian Railway Construction and Maintenance Group, Middle East. Built 153 kilometre section of military railway, Beirut to Tripoli.

FRASER, Sir Kenneth Barron 1897-1969 Surgeon and soldier.

2/AIF 1939-1946. CO 2/3 Field Ambulance and 2/2 AGH, Middle East; DDMS Queensland L of C Area, 1942-1946.

FRENCH, JOHN ALEXANDER VC 1914-1942. Soldier and barber.

2/AIF 1939-1942. 2/9 Bn. Awarded posthumous VC for action at KB Mission near Milne Bay, 2 September 1942.

FRY, HENRY KENNETH DSO 1886-1959 Anthropologist and medical practitioner.

AIF 1914-1919. AAMC. 3 Field Ambulance, Gallipoli; DADMS 2 Div., DSO Pozieres 1916; CO 13 Fd. Amb.; Colonel, ADMS 5 Div.

FUNNELL, WILLIAM 1891-1962 Public servant.

WWII. Assistant director manpower and controller of national service offices. 1942, reported on use of manpower in the departments of air and army. "To meet wartime labour shortages, he recommended the extensive employment of women in traditional male occupations."

FURNELL, HERBERT GIBLIN CBE DSO 1898-1973. Gynaecologist and army officer.

2/AIF 1939-1945. AAMC. CO 2/2 Field Ambulance. DSO Derna, 1941; ADMS 9 Divn., provided medical support for Tobruk garrison; Brigadier, DDMS 1 Corps and New Guinea Force, 1943-1945.

GAGAI, KAPIU MASI c1894-1946. Pearler, boatman, mission worker, carpenter and soldier.

WWII. AMF, Boatswain 7 Military District Special Reconnaissance Unit 1941-1943; 11th Infantry Brigade, Netherlands New Guinea, 1943-1944; No 14 Small Ships Coy. and Torres Strait Light infantry Bn. 1944-1945.

GALLEGHAN, Sir FREDERICK GALLAGHER OBE DSO (Black Jack) 1897-1971. Army officer and public servant.

AIF 1916-1919. 34 Bn.; 2/AIF 1940-1946 CO 2/30 Bn., DSO Gemas 1942; Senior AIF Officer, Malaya 1944. (Quote) "One junior officer wrote" We were far more frightened of BJ than of the Japanese."

GARLAND, THOMAS 1893-1952 Trade union official.

WWI R.N. 1914-1919, Jutland veteran; Anti conscriptionist pre war and until 1942 when he abandoned anti conscription stance.

GEDDES, CHARLES MATHERS (Jock) 1904-1979. Salvation Army officer and military chaplain.

AIF 1940-1947. Chaplain, Red Shield representative 6, 7, 9 Divisions, Middle East; chaplain New Guinea and Hospital Ship Wanganella

GELLERT, LEON MAXWELL 1892-1977 Soldier, poet and journalist.

AIF 1914-1916. Lance Sergeant 10 Bn. Gallipoli. Wounded. Author Songs of a campaign "... hailed as one of the best verse collections to have come out of the war to the English language."

GEORGE, Sir ROBERT ALLINGHAM 1896-1967 Air force officer and governor.

WWI Seaforth and Gordon Highlanders; RFC and RAF 1917-1952. MC 1918; Governor of South Australia 1953-1959.

GERALD, JAMES 1891-1971 Comedian.

AIF 1916-1918 1st Aust. and NZ Wireless Sig. Sqdn, Mesopotamia; 2/AIF 1941-1942 Lieut-Col. CO Entertainment Unit, Middle East.

GILL, GEORGE HERMON 1895-1973 Mariner, journalist, naval officer and historian.

WWI British Merchant Navy. RAN 1939-1945 Censorship liaison officer; editor HMAS series in 4 volumes, 1942-1945; author, as C Hermon Gill, of official history: Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942 and Royal Australian Navy 1942-1945. (Esther Patterson Gill, 1892-1971, wife of G H Gill, painted portraits of senior naval figures reproduced in HMAS series and shown at the Australian War Memorial.)

GILLAN, HELEN ELIZABETH 1873?-1955 Voluntary worker and social reformer.

Honorary registrar of Women's Voluntary National Register in WWII. "Thousands of volunteer women workers contributed their labour in the evenings for government service and production departments."

GILROY Sir NORMAN THOMAS 1896-1977 Catholic cardinal.

Junior wireless officer in transport Hessen 1915. Witnessed landing of AIF at Gallipoli, 25 April 1915. "... he mixed well with all types and developed an affectionate respect for Australian servicemen." Archbishop of Sydney 1940-1971. Cardinal 1946.

GLASSOP, JACK LAWSON 1913-1966 Journalist and author.

AIF 1940-1945. Journalist on AIF News, Middle East, Table Tops, Atherton, Queensland; author of novels We Were the Rats (1944) and The Rats in New Guinea (1964); war correspondent Sydney Morning Herald, Korea 1950-1951

GODFREY, ARTHUR HARRY LANGHAM DSO and Bar, MC 1896-1942 Army officer and auctioneer.

AIF 1915-1919 58 Bn. MC; Staff duties 191%1918, att. US 30th Div. July November 1918; 2/AIF 1939-1942. CO 2/6 Bn. DSO Bardia 1941; CO 24 Bde. Bar to DSO Tobruk; died of wounds, El Alamein, 4 November 1942.

GOFFAGE, JOHN WILLIAM PILBEAM (Chips Rafferty) 1909-1971 Actor.

RAAF 1941-1945. Welfare and entertainment duties, Australia and New Guinea. Made propaganda films for Department of Information. Appeared in commercial films Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) and The Rats of Tobruk (1944).

GOLDSMITH, ADRIAN PHILIP (Tim) DFC DFM 1921-1961 Airman and business manager.

RAAF 1940-1945. Fighter pilot. 126 Sqdn. Malta 1942 DFC, DFM; 452 Sqdn, Darwin. 16 1/4 officially credited kills; "... he was one of Australia's top aces in WWII, his unofficial total was 19 1/4.

GOLLAN, HERBERT ROY POLLOCK DSO MC 1892-1968 Journalist, soldier, trade commissioner and diplomat.

AIF 1914-1919 3 LH Bde. Gallipoli; 54 Bn. and 15 Bde. HQ, 1916-1918, MC Polygon Wood, 1917; DSO Bellicourt 1918.

GOODCHILD, JOHN CHARLES 1898-1980 Artist.

AIF 1917-1919. 9 Field Ambulance. Contributed sketches to the Digger and Where Australians Rest. WWI 1 Official War Artist attached RAAF.

GORDON, GORDON ERNEST SUTHERLAND 1907-1960 Headmaster.

RAAF 1942-1945. "As chief rehabilitation officer at Air Force Headquarters, Melbourne, he showed `outstanding foresight' in formulating demobilization policy."

GORMAN, Sir EUGENE MC 1891-1973 Barrister.

AIF 1915-1920 22 Bn., MC Bullecourt 1917; Author of With the 22nd (1919); Honorary Commissioner Australian Comforts Fund, Middle East 1941-1942; 2/AIF 1942-1945 Temp. brigadier, chief inspector of army administration.

GOSSE, GEORGE GC 1921-1964 Naval officer and designer.

RAN 1926-1933; RANR 1940-1946 Mine disposal officer HMiS Hooghly, HMS Vernon (D). Rendered safe 3 D-Type "Oyster" mines. GC 1946.

GOTTSHAL, BENJAMIN BELA VOSTECH 1907-1978 Rabbi.

Slave labourer, Auschwitz. 1943-1944. "Four decades after their release, his fellow inmates from the camps recalled with warmth his influence on them."

GRAHAMSLAW, THOMAS 1901-1973 Public servant and soldier.

ANGAU 1941 "Behind enemy lines as their forces advanced through Kokoda." "Instructed Australian troops before they fought on the Kokoda track ..." 2/AIF 1943-1946 Administrator Southern Region, Papua New Guinea. Temp.lieutenant colonel

GRATWICK, PERCIVAL ERIC VC 1902-1942. Soldier and prospector.

2/AIF 1940-1942 2/48 Bn. Posthumous VC for actions at El Alamein 26 October 1942

GRAY, ROBERT DSO 1902-1942 Naval officer.

RAN 1915-1942 Engineer commander HMAS Perth 1939; DSO Matapan 1941; lost life when Perth sunk 1 March 1942.

GRAY, THOMAS 1905-1941 Stockman, soldier and poet.

Aboriginal. Drover and bushman pre WWII. 2/AIF 1940-1941. 2/16 Bn.; killed in action Damour, Lebanon, 6 July 1941. "In his short time with the unit (2/16 Bn) he became quite the most loved man amongst us."

GREEN, CHARLES HERCULES DSO 1919-1950. Army officer.

2/AIF 1939-1945.2/2 Bn. 1939-1945; CO 2/11 Bn. 1945, aged 25, "... probably the youngest officer to command an Australian battalion in World War U." DSO Wewak; CO 3 RAR. Died of wounds, Korea 1 November 1950. (His widow, Olwyn Green, wrote a moving biography of her husband The name's still Charlie (1993)

GREEN, FRANK CLIFTON MC 1890-1974. Parliamentary clerk.

AIF 1915-1919 40 Bn., MC Messines 1917; author of The Forheth A Record of the 40th Battalion AIF (1922). Clerk of House of Representatives 1937-1955. "He gave moral support to his friend, John Curtin, especially in 1942 when the prime minister endured sleepless nights dwelling on the safety of Australian troops returning from the Middle East."

GREENER, HERBERT LESLIE 1900-1974 Journalist, author and Egyptologist.

2/AIF 1940-1945 Divisional intelligence officer, 8 Divn.; POW 1942-1945: Illustrated a children's book The Happiness Box written in Changi by fellow prisoner, David Griffin; author of He Lived in My Shoes (1948) and No Time to Look Back (1950) based on his war experiences.

GRIFFITH, STURT DE BURGH 1905-1979 Engineer, patent attorney, air force officer and journalist.

RAAF 1939-1945 Wing Commander. Commanded RAAF Station, Darwin during first bombings, February 1942. Criticised for command decisions during and after bombing.

GURNEY, ALEXANDER GEORGE 1902-1955 Cartoonist and illustrator.

World War II War correspondent and cartoonist. Created popular comic strip Bluey and Curley "centred on two larrikin soldiers."

GURNEY, ARTHUR STANLEY VC 1908-1942. Clerk and soldier.

2/AIF 1940-1942.2/48 Bn.; KIA 22 July 1942, Tel El Eisa. Posthumous VC.

HAMILTON, JOHN BRUCE 1901-1968. Ophthalmologist.

2/AIF 1941-1943. 2/7 AGH, Middle East. "His eye surgery was renowned throughout the Army."

HAMMER, HEATHCOTE HOWARD. (Tack) CBE, DSO and Bar. 1905-1961 Army officer, commercial traveller and store keeper.

Militia 1923-1940. 2/AIF 1940-1945. Brigade major 16 Brigade; CO 2/48 Bn. DSO El Alamein; CO 15 Bde. 1943-1945. Bar to DSO Salamaua. CMF Post War, Maj. General. "One of the most thoughtful and successful commanders of World War 11. Hammer was a `tireless, fiery and colourful leader', immaculate in the desert and even in the jungle."

HANNAH, Sir COLIN THOMAS. 1914-1978. Air Force officer and governor.

RAAF 1935-1972. CO No. 6 Sqdn. 1943; Group Captain 71 Wing, 1944. Air Marshall and Chief of Air Staff 1970. Governor of Queensland 1972-1977.

HANSMAN, FRANK SOLOMON. 1896-1972. Biochemist and pathologist.

WWII Hon. Major AAMC. "... he was a member of the board (1942) which identified chromium salts in the dye of khaki uniforms as the cause of a form of dermatitis among Australian soldiers serving in the Middle East and New Guinea."

HARDWICK, HAROLD HAMPTON. 1888-1959. Sportsman.

AIF 1917-1919. No. 2 Sig. Sqdn. Middle East. In 1919 won heavyweight boxing title at the Inter Theatre of War Boxing Tournament, Aldershot. Awarded a cup as the "Ideal Sportsman of the British Force.

HARDY, BENJAMIN GOWER GC. 1898-1944. Motor driver and soldier.

WWII. 7 Garrison Bn. 1941-1944; 22 Garrison Bn. 1944. Awarded posthumous George Cross for actions during breakout of Japanese prisoners of war at Cowra, NSW, 5 August 1944.

HARNEY, WILLIAM EDWARD. Author and soldier.

AIF 1915-1919. Signaller, 9 Bn. Western Front 1916-1918. "His acclaimed radio interview (1958) with J J M Thompson on his war experiences was to be published as Bill Harney's War." (Melbourne 1983.)

HARRIES, DAVID HUGH (Darbo) 1903-1980. Naval officer.

RAN 1917-1960. Senior officer, 4th Minesweeping Flotilla 1941; Naval Attache, Washington, 1941-1942; Exec. officer HMAS Shropshire 1943-1944. Commanded aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney, Korea 1950-1951. Rear admiral 1954. "He was passed over for the position of Chief of the Naval Staff in 1959."

HARRINGTON, EDWARD PHILIP 1895-1966. Balladist.

AIF 1917-1919. 4 LH Regiment, Beersheba charge, advance to Damascus. "Seeing him in Jack Titus's pub in 1962, L. J. Blake observed: "He looked spry enough but the dreadful cough was with him then A tiny man with a coat too long and legs so short, but one could see him with an emu feather in his hat and those legs in breeches, a light horseman of the first A.1.F. who fought once at Beersheba."

HARRINGTON, Sir WILFRED HASTINGS DSO (Arch). Naval officer.

RAN 1920-1965. HMAS Yarra 1939-1942. DSO; Exec. officer HMAS Australia 1942-1944; HMAS Quiberon 1944-1945. Vice admiral, chief of the Naval Staff 1962-1965. During his term of office, five midshipmen from HMAS Sydney were drowned off Hook Island, North Queensland, October 1963 and 82 lives were lost in a collision between HMAS Voyager and HMAS Melbourne, February 1964. "Controversy surrounding these events dominated the second half of Harrington's career"

HARRINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK DSC 1914-1941

WW II. RAN Reserve. Surgeon lieutenant HMAS Parramatta, DSC 1941; lost his life when Parramatta torpedoed and sunk, 27 November 1941

HARRIS, NORMAN CHARLES DSO 1887-1963. Railways administrator.

AIF 1915-1919 2 Div. engineers. MC, Pozieres 1916. WWII chaired the transport sub-committee of the Emergency Council for Civil Defence

HARRISON, Sir JAMES WILLIAM 1912-1971 Army officer and governor.

Staff Corps. 1932-1940. 2/AIF 1940-71945. Lt. Col. Staff duties, ME and NG.; Aust. Army staff, London. Post war. Colonel, first commandant Officer Cadet School, Portsea, 1951. Maj-Gen. 1959. Governor of South Australia 1969-71

HARTLEY, FRANCIS JOHN. 1909-1971. Methodist clergyman and peace activist.

AIF 1941-1945. Chaplain 7 Div. Cav. Regt. M.E. and N.G. 1941-1943; Senior Chaplain, 7 Div. NG. 1943-1944; author of Sanananda Interlude (1949); Co founder of Australian Peace Council. "Prime Minister (Sir) Robert Menzies labelled him the "pink parson."

HATELY, MARTHA MADGE 1906-1950 Air Force matron.

RAAF Nursing Service 1940-1949. Matron 1948.

HAWKINS, HAROLD FREDERICK WEAVER 1893-1977 Painter.

British Army 1914-1919. Queens Westminster Rifles. Wounded, Gommecourt, France, 1916. "A series of twenty operations saved his arms from amputation, though his right hand remained lifeless and the left became a less than full strength painting hand."

HAWKINS, THOMAS JOSEPH 1898-1976. Public Servant.

Navy office and secretariat, 1915-1963. Secretary, Department of the Navy 1950 1963.

HAYDEN, JOHN GERALD 1901-1960. Physician.

2/AIF 1940-1945. 2/7 AGH, ME and NG. 1944-1945. Colonel. Consulting physician, Directorate of Medical Services, 1944-194.~

HAYES, HERBERT EDWARD 1882-1960. Anglican clergyman and heretic.

WWI British Army Ordnance Corps. Formed close association with Rev. P B (Tubby) Clayton, founder of Toc H movement. Introduced movement into Australia. In 1926 clashed with RS&SILA for his support of British ex-servicemen who alleged discrimination against them.

HEADING, Sir JAMES ALFRED DCM, MM 1884-1969 Farmer and politician.

AIF 1915-1919 48 Bn.; DCM Passchendaele, 197; MM Dernacourt, 1918.

HEALY, JAMES (Big Jim) 1898-1961 Trade unionist.

WWI 8 Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, wounded. As leader of waterside workers led campaigns to ban export of loading scrap metal and pig iron from NSW ports to Japan, 1937-1938. Gained improved conditions and pay for waterside workers during WWII (quote)" In return the W.W.F. executive encouraged the men to put maximum effort into loading and unloading military supplies."

HELY, WILLIAM LLOYD 1909-1970. Air Force officer.

RAAF 1930-1966. CO 72 Wing, Merauke, NG; CO 84 Wing, Bougainville; involved in atomic trials, Monte Bello, 1952. AVM 1956.

HENNESSY, ERIC CLAUDE DSO MC 1910-1964 Soldier, hospital attendant and stock and station agent.

2/AIF 1939-1946. 6 Div. Cavalry Regt., MC Bardia, 1941; Commanded regiment, as 2/6 Cavalry (Commando) Regt., NG, 1944-1945, DSO.

HENRY, MAX DSO 1883-1959. Veterinary surgeon and army officer.

AIF 1914-1919. Dep. Asst. Director Veterinary Services, 5 Div.; Lieut-col. 1918; DSO 1919.

HERBERT, ANDREW DESMOND 1898-1976. Professor of botany.

WWII: advised on the selection of suitable sites for research on chemical warfare; author of Friendly Fruits and Vegetables (1943), a survival manual for members of the RAAF.

HERINGTON, JOHN 1916-1967 War historian, air force officer, public servant and social worker.

RAAF. 1941-1948 Coastal Command 1942-1943; in charge Historical Records Section RAAF Hq. London, 1945; author of official histories: Air War against Germany and Italy 1939-1943 (1954) and Air Power over Europe 1944-1945 (1963)

HETHERINGTON, JACK AIKMAN 1907-1974 Author and journalist.

WWII War correspondent ME, Greece and invasion of Europe. Author of Air Borne Invasion (1943), The Australian Soldier (1943); war novel The Winds are Still (1947) and Blame), (1954, revised 1973.)

HEYES, Sir TASMAN HUDSON EASTWOOD 1896-1980. Public servant.

AIF 1916-1919 3 Div Sigs. and Australian War Records Section; Australian War Memorial 1919-1942 Acting Director, 1939-1942. Oversaw opening, 1941, of Australian War Memorial in Canberra

HICKS, Sir CEDRIC STANTON 1892-1976 University professor and army catering officer.

NZEF WWI. and 2/AIF 1940-1946. First director of Australian Army Catering Corps, 1943. Supervised the Defence Food Research Establishment at Scottsdale, Tasmania. Author of Who called the Cook a Bastard? (1972).

HILL, CEDRIC WALTERS 1891-1975. Air Force officer.

RFC and RAF 1915-1944. 14 Sqdn. Shot down and captured by Turks, 1916; feigned insanity to gain exchange as a prisoner of war, 1918. Group Captain, 1940. Author of The Spook and the Commandant (1975).

HINCKS, Sir CECIL STEPHEN 1894-1963 Politician, farmer and soldier.

AIF 1914-1920. 10 Bn. Gallipoli and Western Front. Wounded 1917. Right leg amputated. Endured 100 operations. S.A. Parliament. Minister for Lands, Irrigation and Repatriation 1946-1963.

HOLLAND, Sir George William Frederick MM 1897-1962 Returned servicemen's leader.

AIF 1914-1919 7 Bn. MM, Passchendaele 1917; National president RSS&AILA 1950-1964.

HOLLOWAY. EDWARD JAMES 1895-1967. Trade unionist and politician.

Founding Secretary, 1916, of Labor's national anti-conscription executive; author of The Australian Victory over Conscription 1916-1917 (1966).

HOLMWOOD, Raymond Arthur 1911-1941 Air force officer.

RAAF 1932-1941. CO 615 Sqdn. RAF, 1940; first RAAF officer to lead a British squadron in WWII; killed in action 26 February 1941.

HOSKING, RICHARD 1877-1971 Physicist and teacher.

Founding professor of physics Royal Military College, Duntroon, 1911-1922; RAAF 1924-1937; principal education officer, 1936.

HOWDEN, HARRY LESLIE (Lucky Harry) 1896-1969 Naval officer.

RAN 1917-1951 Captain HMAS Hobart Mediterranean, Singapore, Netherlands East Indies, Coral Sea, 1940-1942.

HUDSON, EDWARD ARTHUR DFC and Bar 1921-1980 Airman and office supervisor

RAAF 1940-1946 57 Sqdn. RAF, DFC 1942; 460 Sqdn. RAAF, Bar to DFC, 1943.

HUGHES, PATERSON CLARENCE DFC 1917-1940 Air force officer.

RAAF 1936-1940. 234 (Spiffire) Sqdn. RAF; 14 confirmed "kills"; highest scoring Australian fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain. Killed in action, 7 September 1940.

HUGHES, TIMOTHY MBE, MM 1919-1976. Soldier and farmer.

Aboriginal. 2/AIF 1939-1945.2/10 Bn. MM, Buna, 1942. Received exemption, 1956, from restrictions of S.A. Aborigines Act. "(he) deeply resented this "dog license." MBE 1970.

HUGHES-JONES, EDITH 1905-1976. Nurse and hospital proprietor.

Initiated Centaur War Nurses' Memorial Fund, 1943; War Nurses Memorial Centre, 1948; Annie M Sage memorial nurses scholarships.

HUSH, Sir RAYMOND DOUGLAS 1898-1970 Ex-servicemen's leader and businessman.

AIF 1915-1919 5 LHR and 2LH Brigade. Sig. Troop; Queensland State president, RS&SILA, 1930-1967; WWII organised Volunteer Defence Corps of RS&SILA.

HULME-MOIR, FRANCIS 1910-1979 Anglican bishop.

2/AIF ?1939-1945 Chaplain, ME, NG and Bougainville. Deputy Assistant Chaplain General, 1943.

HUMPHRIES, WALTER RICHARD 1890?-1951. Civil servant.

ANGAU, 1942-194; presided at 1943 trial of `renegade' Papuans who had collaborated with Japanese, 22 executed; killed during eruption of Mount Lamington, 1951.

HUNT, BRUCE ATLEE 1899-1964 Medical practitioner.

AIF 1917-1919 8 FAB, Western Front; 2/AIF 1941-1945 2/13 AGH, 8 Div.; POW, Devoted physician, "beaten several times by the Japanese for standing up for rights of sick prisoners of war." Testified before war crimes tribunal.

HUNT, JACOB GEOFFREY DCM 1917-1941 Grazier and soldier.

2/AIF 1940-1941 2/13 Bn.; DCM Tobruk; "He was energetic like a game fox terrier." Died of wounds 30 November 1941, Ed Duda, prior to attack on Sidi Rizegh.

HUNT, RALPH ALEC. DSO 1891-1980 Engineer and administrator.

AIF. 1916-1919, 12 Field Co. Engineers; DSO (as a lieutenant) 1918; during 1920s worked for Victorian State Electricity Commission under Sir John Monash in development of electricity from brown coal.

HURLEY, Sir THOMAS ERNEST 1888-1958 Surgeon and medical administrator.

AIF 1914-1920, 2 Field Amb., Gallipoli, 2 AGH, Western Front; RAAF 1939-1945, Director General of Medical Services.

IRVING, SYBIL HOWY 1897-1973 Founder and controller of the Australian Womens Army Service.

Established AWAS, 1941. Colonel 1943. Strongly supported policy that AWAS should not bear arms.

JACKSON, JOHN 19137-1945. Soldier.

Aboriginal. 2/AIF 1941-1945. 8 Div. Provost Coy; prisoner of war; died Sandakan Death March, 29 April 1945.

JACKSON, JOHN FRANCIS DFC 1908-1942 Grazier, businessman and air force officer.

RAAF 1939-1942. 3 Sqdn., RAF, DFC 1942; 75 Sqdn. RAAF, killed in action, 28 April 1942.

JACKSON, LESLIE DOUGLAS 1917-1980 DFC and Bar. Businessman and air force officer.

RAAF 1939-1946.75 Sqdn. DFC, 1943; CO 78 Wing, bar to DFC, 1945

JAMES, JOHN ALEXANDER 1887-1965. Medical practitioner.

AIF 1915-1919. 5 Field Amb., Gallipoli; DADMS 5 Div. 1918. "In later life in Canberra, he retained his military bearing and was closely associated with the Royal Military College, Duntroon."

JENKINS, CHARLES ALFRED 1869-1955 Methodist minister.

Chaplain CMF, 1911; A I F 1915-1919, troopships; 2/AIF, 1942-1945. Senior Chaplain, Western Command, 1948-1952.

JENSEN, Sir JOHN KLUNDER 1884-1970. Public servant.

1901 Defence Dept. clerk; WWI, executive in munitions factories; WWII Dept. of Munitions 1940-1948, "identified in press as the" human nerve centre of munitions manufacture in Australia."

JOHNSTON, GEORGE HENRY 1912-1970 Journalist and author.

War correspondent 1941-1945. Author of works with war themes--Grey Gladiator (1941), Battle of the Seaways (1941), Australia at War (1942), New Guinea Diary (1943), Pacific Partner (1944), Journey through Tomorrow (1947), My Brother Jack (1964).

JOHNSTON, Sir WILLIAM WALLACE CBE DSO MC 1887-1962. Physician and army medical officer.

AIF 1915-1920 RMO 12 Bn., MC 1916, DSO 1917 (recommended for a VC); "Probably the best, and best loved, RMO in the AIF." 2/AIF 1939-1943. CO 2/2 AGH, DDMS I Corps, DDMS New Guinea Force, Kokoda, 1942.

JOHNSTONE, JOHN EDWARD 1892-1976 Deep-sea diver.

WWI Salvage section, RN; WWlI Chief diver in recovery of gold from SS Niagara, 1941 and other salvage operations, Australia, New Guinea and India

JONES, Sir David Fletcher 1895-1977 Businessman.

AIF 1915-1918. 57 Bn. Fromelles. Discharged medically unfit. "His stammer had returned, worse than before, but repatriation doctors warned that he would have to "speak or starve." Founder of clothing firm, Fletcher Jones and Staff.

JONES, RALPH GC 1900-1944 Labourer, quarry hand and soldier.

AMF 1942-1944. 22 Garrison Bn., POW Camp, Cowra. Killed by Japanese prisoners attempting to escape, 5 August 1944. Awarded posthumous George Cross for his actions during escape attempt.

JOSE, Sir IVAN BEDE MC 1893-1969 Surgeon.

AIF 1914-1918 AAMC, 14 Field Arab., MC, Ypres 1917; WWII RAAF Medical Service. Group Captain.

JOSHUA, ROBERT MC 1906-1970 Politician, soldier, bank officer, stockbroker.

2/AIF 1940-1946 2/32 Bn. MC, Tobruk; CO 2/43 Bn. New Guinea.

JOYCE, ANTHONY WALTER 1946-1980. Journalist.

Overseas correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission, Vietnam, India, Thailand; fatally shot by militia, Lusaka; died 3 February 1980.

KABU, TOMMY c1922-1969 Political leader.

Papuan. Escaped from Japanese 1942, landed Cooktown. "... employed as an orderly by N S Pixley, an officer of the Royal Australian Navy, and served in HMAS Bundaberg 1943-1944, although never formally enlisted in the Navy."

KATER, NORMAN MURCHISON MC 1904-1977 Grazier, medical practitioner and air force officer.

RAAF Medical Service 1944-1952. Loaned to 2/48 Bn. as RMO, MC Tarakan, 1945; BCOF 1946-1948; 77 Sqdn. Korea

KEANE, RICHARD VALENTINE 1881-1946 Politician and trade union official.

WWII. Minister for Trade and Customs, 1941-1945. Responsible for administering rationing and price controls.

KEIGHLEY, ERNA LAURA 1891-1955 Women's leader.

WWII. President women's auxiliary of National Defence League of Australia, 1941 1942; as President of United Associations of Women mounted campaign to secure repatriation and pension benefits for members of the WAAF 

KEIR, STEPHEN 1879-1957 Hatter and company director.

Managing director, Akubra Hat company (established 1912); gained contracts to make military slouch hats in WWI and WWII.

KELLIHER, RICHARD VC 1910-1963 Soldier and gardener.

2/AIF 1941-1945 2/25 Bn. Awarded Victoria Cross for action at Nadzab, New Guinea, 13 September 1943.

KELLWAY, CEDRIC VERNON 1892-1963 Diplomat.

AIF 1915-?1919. 37 Bn. WWII. Member of Australian delegation to Ottawa Conference, 1939, which led to establishment of Empire Air Training Scheme; finance member of Air Board 1940-1942; deputy director general of Australian war supplies procurement, New York, 1942.

KELLY, JOSEPH LAWRENCE ARTHUR DSO 1907-1970 Army officer.

PMF. gunner, 1931; Australian Instructional Corps (AIC) 1936; AIF 1940-1945. 2/13 Bn. ME and NG; CO 31/51 Bn. Bougainville, DSO 1945. "Probably the only member of the AIC to command a battalion in action".

Society Notes

The Military Historical Society of Australia Federal Council Notice of 2001 Annual General Meeting Monday, 26 August 2002 at RSL Club Civic ACT at 7.30 PM

Agenda

1 Confirmation of the Minutes of 2001 Annual General Meeting;

2 Election of three Federal Councillors;

3 Receive and consider the audited Statement of Accounts.

4 Appoint the Society Auditor.