Who’s who in Australian Military History
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.
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+ Artists, photographers, correspondents, historians, authors
- Amor, Rick
- Anderson, Wallace
- Bell, George
- Bowen, Stella
- Bowles, William Leslie
- Browning, George
- Bryant, Charles
- Colahan, Colin
- Colville, George
- Corlett, Peter
- Craig, Sybil
- Curtis, Robert
- Dadswell, Lyndon
- Drysdale, Russell
- Ewers, Ray
- Fletcher, Bruce
- Freedman, Harold
- Friend, Donald
- Gilbert, Charles Web
- Griffin, Murray
- Herman, Sali
- Heysen, Nora
- Hodgkinson, Frank
- Hodgkinson, Roy
- Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
- Julius, Rex
- Lambert, George
- Longstaff, Sir John
- Longstaff, Will
- Mainwaring, Geoffrey
- McClintock, Herbert
- McCubbin, Louis
- McFadyen, Ken
- McNeill, Ian Graham
- Murch, Arthur
- Murdoch, Keith
- Parer, Damien Peter
- Power, H Septimus
- Quinn, James
- Rae, Iso
- Rowed, Reginald
- Sharpe, Wendy
- Slessor, Kenneth Adolf
- Streeton, Arthur
- Thake, Eric
- Treloar, John Linton
- Warner, Ralph
- Watson, Douglas
- Wilkins, George Hubert
- Wilmott, Reginald William Winchester (Chester)
+ Award Recipients
+ Persons of historical importance
- Amphlett, Patricia ‘Little Patti’
- Bazley, Arthur William
- Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
- Bullwinkel, Vivian
- 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’
- Anderson, Charles Groves Wright
- 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
Last updated 08/07/2004

