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Projects and Profiles

Here are some of the projects and profiles that I have researched, commenced or improved (in no particular order):

Australian Army Generals: more than 150 men who have been generals in the Australian Army have been identified (leaving those men and women living and/or still serving for now).

Australia's Victoria Cross recipients: not only Australia's 96 Imperial Victoria Cross and four Victoria Cross for Australia recipients, but have also located the two men born in Australia who were awarded the VC after migrating to the United Kingdom, the eighteen who attained the VC whilst members of a foreign army but then migrated to Australia, and the three who spent time working in Australia after they had been awarded the VC.

Australian Army: formed by Act of Parliament of the new Commonwealth Government in 1901, by merging the six Colonial Military Forces. The RAN was formed at the same time by a separate Act and the RAAF grew out of the Army's Australian Flying Corps post-World War One.

The First Christian Weddings in Australia: were 'garden weddings', held under a gum tree beside Sydney Cove (Circular Quay) on Sunday 10th February 1788 and officiated by the military chaplain, Reverend Richard Johnson.

Aussies involved in The Great Escape: from Stalag Luft III on 24-25th March 1944 included nine Australians six who were amongst the 76 escapees and three who had helped in the preparations; the six were re-captured, with five counted amongst the fifty ordered to be executed – murdered – by Hitler.

Australian Army Chaplains: Chaplains are ordained Christian clergymen who minister to serving soldiers, wherever they may be found. Chaplains have served in every conflict involving Australian Army servicemen and colonial conflicts prior to that. They are non-combatants but share the same danger to see to it that our soldiers are cared for in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually in war and peace.

The Rum Rebellion: is Australia's military coup; when the military regiment and civilian instigators treasonously overthrew the vice-regal colonial government on Sunday 26th January 1808. This is a genealogical view of the key people involved.

New South Wales Sudan Contingent: is a project on the New South Wales Military Force contingent to the Soudan (Sudan) Campaign of 1885. It includes a list of the 770 officers and soldiers on the expedition.

Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery: traces its origins to the Colonial Artillery units formed in and after 1871 when the British Army withdrew from its Colonies, and has included garrison and coastal artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, locating as well as field artillery and mortars.

Governors of New South Wales: a list of the 39 governors from 1788 with links to their profiles and a brief note regards their most-positive contribution.

Governors of Queensland: a list of the 26 governors from 1859 with links to their profiles and a brief note regards their most-positive contribution.

Paddle to Australia: George Paddle, aka Paddle, was the first of Ken's family to live in Australia in 1790 – as a convict of the Second Fleet. This page include's Ken's research into the family, including a list of the 125 family members who served in either (or both) The Great War and Second World War.

Operation Jaywick & MV Krait: honours the fourteen men of Operation Jaywick who, during the Second World War attacked and sunk Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour (once more proving that the 'fortress' was not invincible!) and returned home to tell about it.

Australia's Christian Heritage: Considering the many men and women who have contributed immensely to Australia's health and wealth leads us to many whose very existence is total dedication to their Lord and Master, Christ Jesus.

King's and Queen's Men Honour Roll: more than 1,300 young Queenslanders have attained the highest award that The Boys' Brigade has to offer, including senators, soldiers and seminarians. This page looks at who they were / are.

Australian Nurses of the Vyner Brooke: 65 Aussie nurses evacuated Singapore aboard the Vyner Brooke on 14th February 1942. Two days later 16 died in the sinking of the ship by Japanese aircraft; two further days on and 21 were callously and criminally machine-gunned down by Japanese soldiers; and just 24 of 32 who became prisoners-of-war lived to be repatriated home at the end of the war. Profiles have been created for each lady, but several still require connection to the Tree.

Australia's War Correspondents have done immeasurable work on creating and building the 'ANZAC legend'. Am creating and improving profiles, ensuring they're connected to the Tree.

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Profiles of Influential and Notable People

Below are some of the profiles of influential or notable men and women to which I have contributed (arranged alphabetically):

Military

• Lieutenant Colonel Nat Barton was a Light Horseman during the First World War and AAMC doctor throughout the Second World War. He was also a cousin of A B 'Banjo' Paterson.
• Major General Sir William Bridges, established the AIF and was GOC 1st Division at the Gallipoli landings; was KIA a few weeks later.
• General Sir Harry Chauvel name is synonymous with the Australian Light Horse.
• Sergeant 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM, stated to be Australia's greatest soldier.
• Major General Sir Thomas Glasgow KCB CMG DSO VD, a brigade and divisional commander on the Western Front, elected to the Australian Senate, as well as serving as Minister for Defence; appointed Australian High Commissioner to Canada.
• Major General Sir John Hoad KCMG, was Australia's first 'home-grown' Army General and the second Chief of the General Staff.
• Lieutenant General Sir John Dudley Lavarack was responsible for building-up Australia's defence in the light of Japanese aggression; became Queensland's first Australian-born governor.
• General Sir John Monash is considered one of the best Allied generals of the First World War.
• Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead as General Officer Commanding 9th Division in the Second AIF was the 'Defender of Tobruk'.
• General Sir Cyril Brudenell White planned the AIF, the evacuation of Gallipoli, the continuing Australian Army after the First World War and the establishment of the 2 AIF.

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Christian Ministry

• Padre Charles Cunningham, 'exceptionally meritorious service' as chaplain with the 2/1st Battalion at Eora Creek.
• Reverend Hugh Cunningham, 'Captain of the souls of men'.
• Reverend Doctor Alfred Edersheim one of the great Biblical scholars of the nineteenth century.
• Doctor H A Ironside, the Archbishop of Fundamentalism, was influential in popularising dispensationalism.
• Reverend Richard Johnson, the first chaplain and Chistian clergyman in Australia.
• William 'Fighting Mac' McKenzie MC, dubbed by some 'the most famous man in the AIF'.
• Reverend Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday school.
• Doctor Charles Ryrie, editor of The Ryrie Study Bible by Moody Publishers and a notable proponent of classic premillennial dispensationalism.
• Sir William A Smith, founder of The Boys' Brigade and the 'Father of Boyhood'.

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Art & Culture

• Florence Austral, was an Australian operatic soprano renowned for her interpretation of the most demanding Wagnerian female roles.
• Nancy Cato, Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry.
• Charles Chauvel, was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter in a period when the Australian film industry had virtually collapsed.
• Frances Ridley Havergal, composer of Take My Life.
• Ion Idriess, one of Australia's finest authors, known for his narrative, story style of writing.
• Slim Dusty, Australian country music legend.
• Louise Mack, Australian poet, journalist, war correspondent, newspaper editor, novelist, autobiographer/memoirist and public lecturer.
• Joy McKean, known as the 'grand lady' of Australian country music, Joy is recognised as one of Australia's leading songwriters and bush balladeers.
• Phillip Schuler, is one of Australia’s most significant First World War war correspondents and photographers; who died of wounds in 1917.
• Nevil Shute, was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
• Arthur Upfield, a veteran of Gallipoli and the Western Front, was an English-Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte.

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Humanitarian

• Eva Burrows, 13th General of The Salvation Army.
• Lady Cilento, Doctor Phyllis Cilento (nee McGlew) held a special interest in the health of mothers and children, including obstetrics, and became a pioneering advocate of family planning. Lady Cilento Children's Hospital was named in her honour.
• Colonel Doctor Sir Ernest 'Weary' Dunlop AC CMG OBE was an Australian surgeon renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War and for his devotion to the health and welfare of former prisoners-of-war and their families.
• Reverend John Flynn, founder of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
• Major General Sir Neville Howse VC KCB KCMG, in 1901, became the first person in Australia's military forces to be granted the Victoria Cross (VC) for rescuing a wounded soldier and carrying him to a place of shelter whilst under heavy cross-fire. During the Gallipoli campaign's first days he instigated triage of the hundreds of wounded soldiers and took charge of evacuating from the beach those urgently needing treatment aboard the off-shore hospital ships.
• Reverend Ted Noffs, founded The Ted Noffs Foundation and Wayside Chapel (1967); and co-founded the Aboriginal Affairs Foundation (1962) and Lifeline (1963).
• Matron Olive Dorothy Paschke RRC popular with her staff, patients and medical officers; leading by example, often working long hours beside her nurses.
• Matron Annie 'Sammy' Sage CBE RRC matron-in-chief of the AANS during the Second World War.

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Sport

• Artie Beetson first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport and is frequently cited as the greatest post-war forward in Australian rugby league history.
• Sir Jack Brabham, Australia's greatest car racing driver, the only person to win the Formula One World Championship in a car that he has built.
• Garrie Cooper, was the founder of the highly successful Elfin Sports Cars and a competitive racing driver in his own right, winning several championships in multiple categories – all in Elfin cars of his own design.
• Teddy Flack, was Australia's first Olympic Gold Medallist, before Australia was even a nation, a sports administrator, a prominent accountant, and a successful dairy farmer.
• Reg Gasnier, 'Puff the Magic Dragon' represented Australia in a then-record 36 Tests and three World Cup games.
• John Landy], was the second man to break the four-minute-mile barrier and is universally respected as one of the great runners of the twentieth century. He was later appointed Governor of Victoria.
• Frank Matich, was one of the greatest drivers of the Formula 5000 era and a true great of Australian motorsport. Alongside Sir Jack Brabham and Garrie Cooper, he is one of an exclusive group of Australian drivers who raced – and won – in the cars they created.
• Duncan Thompson, amongst the finest Australian rugby league footballers of the twentieth century and regarded as the father of modern coaching.

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Explorers

• Ludwig Leichhardt, German-Australian naturalist and explorer of northern and central Australia.
• Mike Leyland, was the older of the intrepid Australian explorers, adventurers and filmmakers, the Leyland Brothers.

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Convicts

• John Bunt was convicted of the theft of a coat and transported to New South Wales in 1834. His agricultural skills were immediately put to good use when he was assigned to John Nicholson Jnr of Berrima to work on his Sutton Forest grazing property.
• Thomas Evans, stole some horses; arrived in the colony of New South Wales per the Countess of Harcourt on 8th September 1828; was drafted to work for Wm Hutchinson; as a groom for his horses.
• Ann Jackson was convicted of stealing linen from the house where she lodged and transported to New South Wales in 1806. There, she was indented as a personal servant to Mrs George Evans of the Hawkesbury River settlement of Windsor.
• Paul Lutherborrow, found guilty of grand larceny, arrived in the ten-year old penal colony of New South Wales aboard the Barwell on 18th May 1798; appointed the first schoolmaster at St Anne's church school and parish clerk of the church.
• Mary O'Brien, convicted of stealing goods, was incarcerated in Newgate Prison for almost a year before being transported to New South Wales, arriving in January 1793. She married George Patfield in the April and gave birth to their first child in September-October. Became the matriarch of the vast Patfield family (including those of her daughters: Mesdames Pincham, Small, Brown and Hatton).
• George Patfield, aka George Paddle, stole four donkeys (stop laughing!); arrived on the 'Death Ship', the Second Fleet transport Neptune in June 1790; after serving his time he built up a property of 120 acres, however, then fell foul of the Rum Corps and their trading monopoly.
• Aaron Pearce, arrived in the colony of New South Wales per the Admiral Gambier in 1811 and assigned to the Government Establishment at Pennant Hills; purchased 600acs at the corner of the Lane Cove Road (Pacific Hwy) and the Pennant Hills Road (in today's Wahroonga), the intersection becoming known as Pearce's Corner; arguably once Greater Sydney's best-known landmark.
• William Pincham, court martialled for desertion from the Wiltshire Regiment of Militia; arrived in New South Wales on 26th July 1807 on the Duke of Portland; assigned to the Government Establishment, Pennant Hills.
• Richard Worthing, convicted if disposing of forged and counterfeit bank notes to the value of £1, was transported to New South Wales in 1821. For stealing a hat, clothes and money from a drunk on the street, he was sentenced to two years on a work gang at Emu Plains, from which he absconded and spent time at Moreton Bay. Richard stood just 156cm (5ft 1½in) tall.
• Hannah 'Annie' Wright; the 21-year-old laundress was convicted of stealing shoes. She had two previous convictions and was transported to New South Wales, arriving in late 1827 and assigned to the female factory at Parramatta. She could both read and write, and stood just 154.3cm (5’ 0¾”) tall. Hannah was missing her four upper front teeth.

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Business

• Sir Peter Abeles AC, was a refugee from Austria, via Hungary, who became a businessman in Romania, before migrating to Australia and built a transportation 'empire' – TNT.
• Thomas Barry, at three years of age emigrated from Ireland with his widowed mother and sibling as a 'remittance passenger'. Eighteen years later, he opened a grocery store in George Street, Brisbane with partner Samuel Roberts undercutting established retailers, dealing with suppliers and customers alike on a cash only basis, and operating a large and convenient rural order trade. Under Thomas' two sons, Barry & Roberts became a major department and grocery store chain across Queensland.
• Robert Campbell Snr, was one of New South Wales' pioneer merchants and ship-builders, loyal to the crown's representative, Governor William Bligh, during the Rum Rebellion; his home, Duntroon, is today the officers' mess of the Royal Military Academy.
• Hector Crawford, one of the best-known and most respected names in the history of Australian entertainment – Crawford Productions.

• Bernard 'Bon' Flewell-Smith CBE MM, was an Australian fruit grower, decorated soldier, businessman and one of the visionaries in developing the pineapple industry in Queensland and the Golden Circle fruit cannery.
• Joe Hammond, arrived in New South Wales aboard Shackamaxam in 1863 and established a butchering business on Sydney's north shore, later known as Hammond Bros. Butchers.
• Wally Kennard, established W. Kennard & Company, now Kennards Hire and Kennards Self-Storage.
• Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was an Australian businessman, entrepreneur, pastoralist and philanthropist who wore his Christian beliefs 'on his sleeve'.
• Sir Leslie Thiess CBE, was a Queensland, Australia, construction and mining industries entrepreneur. He was one of the founders of Thiess Bros, later known as Thiess Pty Ltd.
• David Webster, founder of Webster's Cakes & Biscuits.

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Government & Diplomacy

• Doctor Sir Llew Edwards AC was a Queensland parliamentarian and Liberal Party leader who served as Minister for Health (1974-78) and Deputy Premier and Treasurer (1978-83). After leaving parliament he was appointed chairman and chief executive for Brisbane's World Expo '88 and as chancellor of the University of Queensland. A noted Christian, he was active in the Congregational Church.
• Sir Samuel Griffith GCMG KC served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for 31 years, including five years as Attorney General and eight as Premier. He is credited with drafting the Queensland Criminal Code and the federal Judiciary Act and played a key role in the drafting of the Australian Constitution.
• Sir Thomas McIlwraith KCMG, was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland and three times Premier; annexed British New Guinea, later Papua, to prevent Germany from doing so.
• Senator Bertie Milliner was a trade unionist and a minor figure in Australia’s political history but for the events that followed his sudden death. He was inclined to conciliation rather than militancy and a great supporter of numerous community organisations. Bert was a Boys' Brigade King's Man and remained a devout Presbyterian all his life.

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and Profiles of influential folk on which I am working

Outside my projects, I am improving the following profiles:

• Elsie Chauvel, needs improving
• Air Commodore Arthur Cobby, needs connecting to the Tree
• Roy Emerson Snr, needs improving and connecting
• Ludwig Leichhardt, needs connecting to the Tree
• Gordon Moyes, needs family relationships and connecting to Tree
• Murray Bouchier, connected but needs improvement

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My Extended Family

And, finally, on what family profiles I am mostly concentrating:

• Henry Evans, is my 2 x great grandfather. Filling out his life story. His father remains a brick wall.
• Tyson Evans, my nephew; continuing to improve his profile.
• George Patfield / Paddle, my 5 x great grandfather and the first of my family to arrive in the colonies, Second Fleet 1790. Whilst his name in both England and New South Wales was Patfield, aboard ship it was Paddle. He remains a brick wall. Also working on adding fellow Neptune convicts to WikiTree.
• Alexander Barron, my 2 x great grandfather and my first Queenslander needs his Scottish life and heritage build-up.
• William Waterhouse, my 4 x great grandfather; currently a brick wall.
• Richard Worthing, is my 3 x great grandfather. His pre-convict life in England requires much research.

Sources

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