People profiles
Like all human activity, Australian military history has featured many notable personalities - courageous, talented, compassionate, insightful, and even notorious! Here you will find the stories of some of these remarkable people.
Artists, photographers, correspondents, historians, authors
- Abbott, Harold
- Amor, Rick
- Anderson, Wallace
- Ashton, Richard
- Bell, George
- Benson, George
- Bowen, Stella
- Bowles, William Leslie
- Browning, George
- Bryant, Charles
- Colahan, Colin
- Colville, George
- Corlett, Peter
- Craig, Sybil
- Crozier, Frank
- Curtis, R Emerson
- Dadswell, Lyndon
- Dargie, William
- Drysdale, Russell
- Dyson, Will
- Ewers, Ray
- Fletcher, Bruce
- Freedman, Harold
- Friend, Donald
- Fullwood, A. Henry
- Gilbert, Charles Web
- Griffin, Murray
- Herbert, Harold
- Herman, Sali
- Heysen, Nora
- Hodgkinson, Frank
- Hodgkinson, Roy
- Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
- Julius, Rex
- Lambert, George
- Leist, Fred
- Longstaff, Sir John
- Longstaff, Will
- Mainwaring, Geoffrey
- McClintock, Herbert
- McCubbin, Louis
- McFadyen, Ken
- McNeill, Ian Graham
- Miller, Lewis
- Moore, Alan
- Murch, Arthur
- Murdoch, Keith
- Parer, Damien Peter
- Power, H Septimus
- Quinn, James
- Rae, Iso
- Rafty, Tony
- Ragless, Max
- Rowed, Reginald
- Scott, James F
- Sharpe, Wendy
- Slessor, Kenneth Adolf
- Streeton, Arthur
- Thake, Eric
- Treloar, John Linton
- Warner, R Malcolm
- Watson, Douglas
- Wilkins, George Hubert
- Wilmott, Reginald William Winchester (Chester)
Australian Victoria Cross recipients
- Anderson, Charles Groves Wright
- Axford, Thomas Leslie
- Badcoe, John
- Beatham, Matthew
- Bell, Frederick William
- Birks, Frederick
- Bisdee, John Hutton
- Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth
- Borella, Albert Chalmers
- Brown, Walter Ernest
- Buckley, Alexander Henry
- Buckley, Maurice Vincent
- Bugden, Patrick Joseph
- Burton, Alexander
- Carroll, John
- Cartwright, George
- Castleton, Claud Charles
- Cherry, Percy Herbert
- Chowne, Albert
- Cooke, Thomas
- Currey, William Matthew
- Cutler, Arthur Roden
- Dalziel, Henry
- Dartnell, William Thomas
- Davey, Phillip
- Derrick, Thomas Currie 'Diver'
- Donaldson, Mark Gregor Strang
- Dunstan, William
- Dwyer, John James
- Edmondson, John Hurst
- Edwards, Hughie Idwal
- French, John Alexander
- Gaby, Alfred Edward
- Gordon, Bernard Sidney
- Gordon, James Hannah (Heather)
- Gratwick, Percival Eric
- Grieve, Robert Cuthbert
- Gurney, Arthur Stanley
- Hall, Arthur Charles
- Hamilton, John
- Howell, George Julian
- Howse, Neville Reginald
- Ingram, George Mawby
- Inwood, Reginald Roy
- Jacka, Albert
- Jackson, John William Alexander
- Jeffries, Clarence Smith
- Jensen, Joergen Christian
- Joynt, William Donovan
- Keighran, Daniel Alan
- Kelliher, Richard
- Kenna, Edward
- Kenny, Thomas James Bede
- Keysor, Leonard
- Kibby, William Henry
- Kingsbury, Bruce Steel
- Leak, John
- Lowerson, Albert David
- Mackey, John Bernard
- Mactier, Robert
- Maxwell, Joseph
- Maygar, Leslie Cecil
- McCarthy, Lawrence Dominic 'Fats'
- McDougall, Stanley Robert
- McGee, Lewis
- McNamara, Francis Hubert (Frank)
- Middleton, Rawdon Hume
- Moon, Rupert Vance
- Murray, Henry William
- Newland, James Ernest
- Newton, William
- O'Meara, Martin
- Partridge, Frank John
- Payne, Keith
- Peeler, Walter
- Pearse, Samuel George
- Pope, Charles
- Rattey, Reginald Roy
- Roberts-Smith, Benjamin
- Rogers, James
- Ruthven, William
- Ryan, Edward John Francis
- Sadlier, Clifford William King
- Shout, Alfred
- Simpson, Rayene Stewart
- Starcevich, Leslie Thomas
- Statton, Percy Clyde
- Storkey, Percy Valentine
- Sullivan, Arthur Percy
- Symons, William
- Throssell, Hugo
- Towner, Edgar Thomas
- Tubb, Frederick
- Wark, Blair Anderson
- Weathers, Lawrence Carthage
- Wheatley, Kevin
- Whittle, John Woods
- Woods, James Park
- Wylly, Guy George Egerton
George Cross recipients
- Goldsworthy, Leon Verdi
- Gosse, George
- Hardy, Benjamin Gower
- Jones, Ralph
- Madden, Horace William
- Matthews, Colin
- Mould, John Stuart
- Rogers, Jonathan
- Syme, Hugh Randall
Persons of historical importance
- Amphlett, Patricia 'Little Patti'
- Bazley, Arthur William
- Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
- Bullwinkel, Vivian
- Cawood, Dorothy Gwendolen
- Charlwood, Donald Ernest Cameron (Don)
- Davis, Neil Brian
- Deakin, Vera
- Dunstan, Roberts Christian (Robert)
- Felsche, Susan
- Goldsworthy, Leon Verdi
- Hogue, Oliver 'Trooper Bluegum'
- Jeffery, Agnes Betty
- Kingsford-Smith, Charles Edward
- Kirkpatrick, John Simpson
- Long, Gavin Merrick
- Manning, Frederic
- Morant, Henry Harboard 'The Breaker'
- Owen, Evelyn Ernest
- Saunders, Reginald Walter (Reg)
- Sheean, Edward (Teddy)
- Siffleet, Leonard George (Len)
- Wake, Nancy Grace Augusta 'The White Mouse'
Senior Officers
- Allen, Arthur Samuel 'Tubby'
- Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall
- Bennett, Henry Gordon
- Best, Kathleen Annie Lousie
- Birdwood, William Ridell
- Blamey, Thomas Albert
- Bostock, William Dowling
- Bracegirdle, Leighton Seymour
- Bridges, William Throsby
- Burnett, Joseph
- Caldwell, Clive Robertson 'Killer'
- Chauvel, Henry George (Harry)
- Clowes, Cyril Albert
- Cobby, Arthur Henry 'Harry'
- Collins, John Augustine
- Cosgrove, Peter John
- Crace, John Gregory
- Creswell, William Rooke
- Daly, Thomas Joseph
- Dechaineux, Emile Frank Verlaine
- Dumaresq, John Saumarez
- Dunlop, Ernest Edward (Edward) 'Weary'
- Elliott, Harold Edward 'Pompey'
- Galleghan, Frederick Gallagher 'Black Jack'
- Glasgow, Thomas William (Bill)
- Glossop, John Collings Taswell
- Hasset, Francis George (Frank)
- Herring, Edmund Francis (Ned)
- Honner, Ralph Hyacinth 'Jump'
- Irving, Sybil Howy
- Jones, George
- Leane, Raymond Lionel
- Legge, James Gordon
- Monash, John
- Morshead, Leslie James
- Potts, Arnold William
- Rowell, Sydney Fairbairn
- Ryrie, Granville de Laune
- Sanderson, John Murray
- Stevenson, Clare Grant
- Stoker, Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre 'Harry'
- Truscott, Keith William 'Bluey'
- Vasey, George Alan
- White, Cyril Brudenell Bingham
- Williams, Richard
