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25.01.2022 Major General William Throsby Bridges Sir William Throsby Bridges (1861-1915), soldier, was born on 18 February 1861, at Greenock, Scotland, son of William Wilson Somerset Bridges, naval officer and his wife Mary Hill, née Throsby. He was educated at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and from 1871 at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, London. When his father retired in 1873 the family migrated to Canada, settling at Shanty Bay, Ontario, and Bridges continued his schooling at Trinity Coll...Continue reading

24.01.2022 Thomas Cooke (1881-1916), Cooke was born in Kaikoura, in the Marlborough District of New Zealand, on 5 July 1881, to an Englishman, Tom Cooke, and his wife Caroline (née Cooper). Educated at Kaikoura District High School, the family later moved to Wellington where Cooke became a carpenter like his father. He also played the cornet and was part of a band. In 1902, he married Maud Elizabeth Elliott and the couple had three children, two girls and a boy. In June 1912, he moved h...is young family to Australia and settled in the suburb of Richmond, in Melbourne, where he worked as a builder. On 16 February 1915 he enlisted as a private in the Australian Imperial Force and after training at Broadmeadows and other camps was allotted to the 24th Battalion as a reinforcement. He embarked for Egypt in November on the troopship Commonwealth and on arrival was transferred to the 8th Battalion at Serapeum in the Suez Canal Zone. His unit sailed for France on 26 March 1916 and from April to July served in the Fleurbaix and Messines sectors of the Western Front. In mid-July the battalion was moved south to the Somme where it took part in the furious fighting around Pozières. The task of advancing through the village itself had been allotted to the 8th Battalion and on 24-25 July 1916, as the men moved forward under an intense bombardment, Cooke was ordered, with his Lewis-gun team, to a dangerous part of the newly captured line. There was little cover, and heavy enemy fire killed all his companions, but he continued to hold out alone. When assistance finally reached him he was found dead beside his gun. For his gallantry he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. His name is commemorated on the roll of honour at the Australian war memorial, Villers-Bretonneux. Cooke's wife was unaware of the award of the VC to her husband until reading of it in newspaper reports. The medal was eventually presented to her by Arthur Foljambe, the Governor-General of New Zealand, in a ceremony at Government House in Wellington on 31 January 1917. His wife, who had returned to Wellington at the time of Cooke's enlistment in the AIF, later remarried Citation Reads: "For most conspicuous bravery. After a Lewis gun had been disabled, he was ordered to take his gun and gun-team to a dangerous part of the line. Here he did fine work, but came under very heavy fire, with the result that finally he was the only man left. he still stuck to his post, and continued to fire his gun. When assistance was sent he was found dead beside his gun. He set a splendid example of determination and devotion to duty." London Gazette, 9 September 1916 Information and Images: https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?key=COOKE/T/3055 https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/264357 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10676562 https://en.wikipedia.org//Thomas_Cooke_(soldier,_born_1881) http://vconline.org.uk/thomas-cooke-vc/4586242025 https://www.aucklandmuseum.com//online-ceno/record/C129098

23.01.2022 Private William Jackson VC "You never know what virtues may come out of the most unsuspected places, nor what heroes may spring up out of the smallest village, Gunbar, a little place of about four houses. Not even a blacksmith's shop or a pub. My nephew had never even seen a train until he enlisted." Mr. George Gale, at the Anzac Buffet, Sydney. 6.7.1917. ...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Marine Corps Lieutenant General Frank Emmanuel Petersen, Jr (March 2, 1932 August 25, 2015) First black aviator in the United States Marine Corps First African American three-star ranked general in the U.S. Marines....Continue reading

21.01.2022 Lady Edith Lilian Bridges Her tragic family background which seeped into her own famliy's heart-breaking struggles. Lady Bridges married to Major General William Throsby Bridges, was the initial president of the Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers, set up by her friend Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor General, early in World War I to provide support for families of soldiers of the first AIF. ...Continue reading

20.01.2022 Frederick Amos Lovett (1887-1958) Fredrick was born on 25 August 1887 at Lake Condah, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Lake Condah at that time was an aboriginal mission. Fredrick found work as a labourer around Milltown, Victoria. When War broke out he was one of five Lovett brothers from the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission in western Victoria to sign up to fight. They and other men from Lake Condah had to battle for the very right to fight for Australia, for Indigenous men, who we...re not citizens and had no vote, were routinely denied their wish to join the armed forces at the time. However, the laws changed and Frederick enlisted on 17 May 1917. He was a Private in the 29th Reinforcements of the 4th Light Horse Regiment, embarking on the troopship Kyarra I on the 7 September 1917. Frederick Lovett had arrived in the Middle East, Palestine, more than a month before his unit, the 4th Light Horse, took part in the charge on Beersheba and other desert campaigns. He was discharged on 15 June 1919 and awarded two service medals. British War Medal, Victory Medal Fredrick moved back to the Milltown area where he met and married Mary Murray Rose in 1931 and had 11 children. When World War 2 broke out Frederick re-enlisted on the 13 March 1941. Deemed too old for overseas engagement, he was promoted to a Corporal and served in the Australian Army Catering Corps as a cook. Fredrick was discharged from the army on the 22 July 1947 at the age of 60. Frederick’s daughter, Laura Bell, said that her dad was affected by the war and experienced flashbacks. She recalled that he once tried to charge at the children while on horseback, but Herbert (Uncle) protected them. Frederick's grandson, Sergeant Ricky Morris, also served in the army with the International Force for East Timor and in Afghanistan. Frederick passed away at the age of 72 on the 3 Oct 1958 (aged 71) at Heywood, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Information and Images: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2031315 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10634590 https://www.findagrave.com//197021759/frederick-amos-lovett https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=180225 https://www.smh.com.au//a-century-on-an-indigenous-family- https://www.standard.net.au//fighting-for-a-shot-at-a-be/. https://www.smh.com.au//the-lost-souls-of-condah-who-joine https://www.deadlystory.com//anzac-day/the-lovett-brothers

19.01.2022 Donald James Yarmy Born Donald James Yarmy, April 13, 1923, in New York, NY; died of lymphoma and a lung infection, September 25, 2005, in Los Angeles, CA. Actor. Though he got his start as a standup comedian, Don Adams is best known for his role as the dull-witted but dedicated secret agent Maxwell Smart on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart . The show, a spoof of James Bond, earned Adams three Emmys and became a cult classic. During Get Smart's five seasons, Adams' trench-coat-wea...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz Copenhagen, Denmark September 1943 Georg F. Duckwitz was born in 1904 and had been involved in the international coffee trade before World War II. In 1939 the German foreign ministry asked Duckwitz to work in the German embassy in Copenhagen. In that position, he developed a close relationship with Werner Best, the Nazi representative in Denmark. Although Best fully subscribed to Nazi ideology personally, he decided to maintain the moderate policie...s that governed Denmark. When Germany occupied Denmark in April 1940, there were no immediate threats to the Danish Jewish community. In August 1943, the decision was made to deport the Jews of Denmark to Theresienstadt. Best was informed of these plans in September 1943 and passed the information along to Duckwitz. Determined to prevent the deportations, Duckwitz flew to Berlin to advocate against the Nazi plan. When that avenue failed, he flew to Stockholm to discuss the idea of smuggling Danish Jews into Sweden with Prime Minister Hansson. Duckwitz also informed the leading Danish Social Democrat, Hans Hedtoft, who subsequently warned the leaders of the Jewish community, C.B. Henriques and Dr. Marcus Melchior, of the impending deportation of Denmark’s Jews, which was to begin on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. The news of the planned deportations quickly spread throughout Denmark. The persecution of a minority was against the ethos of Danish culture; therefore, the Danes galvanized themselves to assist the Jews in whatever ways possible. They helped the Jews find hiding places and smuggled them across the Øresund to Sweden. While the Jews enjoyed temporary refuge in Sweden, their Danish neighbors oversaw the protection of their property. Because of the actions of Duckwitz and the Danish people, nearly the entire population of Danish Jews survived the war. After the war, Duckwitz served as Germany’s Ambassador to Denmark. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz passed away in 1973.

18.01.2022 Thomas Jenkins. Jenkins was born in Australia in 1831, and later immigrated to the United States, enlisting in the US Navy from New York in 1861. During the Civil War, Jenkins served as a seaman on the ironclad USS Cincinnati. On May 27, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cincinnati was ordered to steam down the Mississippi River and destroy two Confederate artillery guns which were impeding the advance of General William Tecumseh Sherman's right flank. Be...Continue reading

16.01.2022 Edward McDonald Lovett (1893-1957) Edward was known as 'Mac' was born on 4 Aug 1893 in Milltown, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Australia. He was newly married in 1915 to Rose Ann Heron, the young couple would eventually have two children, a son and daughter. Edward was working as a labourer when the war broke out. He enlisted in 1915. He served with the 4th Light Horse Brigade, embarking from Melbourne on the 23 November 1915 aboard the Ceramic. The 4th LHR saw action at Gallip...oli as did the 13th. It is unsure when but Edward was transferred to the 13th Light Horse Brigade, after the Gallipoli evacuation Edward was sent to the Western Front and fought in the battle of the Somme. Edward survived and returned to Australia in May 1919 and was awarded with two service medals. When war was declared again Edward re-enlisted in 1940 and served as a Corporal at the number 12 Garrison Battalion which was was responsible for Internal Security duties within Victoria. Edward was discharged in 1943. Edward’s daughter, Sarah Pearl, was the second Lovett woman to enlist, serving with the Australian Women’s Army Service during the Second World War N.B: Rose and Edward ran a billiards hall and pub in Hamilton (unsure of what year). Edward died 20 Nov 1957 (aged 64) in Hamilton, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia Information and Images: https://www.awm.gov.au//an/aboriginal-anzacs/alfred-lovett https://www.deadlystory.com//anzac-day/the-lovett-brothers https://www.findagrave.com//1970225/edward-mcdonald-lovett https://www.parliamentofvictorianews.com/edwardmcdonaldlove https://www.facebook.com//edward-mcdonald/868397399866305/ https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/202046 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H19500/ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U51047/ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/12680101?

16.01.2022 Alan Hellier - Survivor Radio operator, HMAS Voyager, 1964 At around 8.56pm on 10 February 1964, during a training exercise, the HMAS Melbourne collided with the HMAS Voyager. The collision was so severe that the Voyager broke in two. ...Continue reading

16.01.2022 John Heinrich Detlef Rabe John Rabe, who would later be remembered as the Oscar Schindler of China, was born on November 23, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, as the son of a ship's captain. When his father passed away, young Rabe had to leave his school, and worked as an apprentice for a Hamburg export firm for two and a half years. Afterwards, he worked for an English firm at Lourenacois Marques, a Portuguese colony in Africa and became fluent in the English language. In 1906, Ra...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Sir Leslie James Morshead Sir Leslie James Morshead (1889-1959), soldier and businessman, was born on 18 September 1889 at Ballarat East, Victoria, sixth child of William Morshead, a miner from Cornwall, and his South Australian-born wife Mary Eliza, née Rennison. Leslie attended Mount Pleasant State School, belonged to Ballarat's Christ Church Cathedral choir, and captained its football and cricket teams. Having qualified at Melbourne Teachers' College, he taught in the cou...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Commonly known as Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, Indiadied January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country. Gandhi is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political and social progress. H...Continue reading

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15.01.2022 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851) Louis Daguerre was French artist, painter, photographer, and a developer of the diorama theatre. He is the most famous for development of daguerreotype which is one of the earliest successful methods of photography. ...Continue reading

15.01.2022 John Robinson Royston (1860-1942), Royston was born on 29 April 1860 at Durban, South Africa, son of William Royston, civil engineer. He was educated at Durban High School where his chunky build and fierce patriotism won him the nickname 'John Bull'. He fought in the Zulu War in 1879 and by 1884 was a sergeant in the newly formed Natal Mounted Rifles. When the South African War broke out in 1899 Royston was a squadron sergeant major in the Natal Border Rifles. Commissioned...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Agnes Betty Jeffrey was born in Hobart on 14 May 1908, the second youngest child of six. As a child Betty and her family moved often on account of her father’s job. An accountant at the General Post Office, he was often transferred interstate to implement new accounting methods. Jeffrey came to dislike her first name, preferring to be called Betty. After many years of travelling, the family finally settled in East Malvern, Victoria, a town Jeffrey would call home for the res...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Lovett Family The Lovett family belong to the ‘fighting Gunditjmara.’ Gunditjmara people from South West Victoria earned this title in the 1800s because of their strong resistance to the white settlement of their Country. The Lovett family have continued this legacy through military service. Overall, 21 Lovett men and women have served Australia abroad in countries including Japan, Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan, and all have returned home safely. The family's military recor...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Helen Dorothy Stirling STIRLING, HELEN DOROTHY (NELL) (1909-1951), radio actress, was born on 22 August 1909 at Summer Hill, Sydney, daughter of Henry James Malmgron, a New Zealand-born sharebroker's clerk of Danish-German descent, and his wife Mary Rose, née Lawrie, who came from South Australia. While still at school, Nell determined to go on the stage. After studying classical dancing under Frances Scully, she performed her own act at the Tivoli Theatre at the age of 16. ...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Reg Baillieu pilots a B.E.2e along the Mediterranean coast. With Ross Smith as his observer, Baillieu was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing a downed flier before the first Battle of Gaza. Information and Images: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C41611 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspap/article/154552817/17853598... https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C41616?image=2 https://ww1valour.weebly.com/military-cross-recipients-ba-b See more

11.01.2022 Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell, also called (192229) Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baronet, (born February 22, 1857, London, Englanddied January 8, 1941, Nyeri, Kenya. In 188485 Baden-Powell became noted for his use of observation balloons in warfare in Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and the Sudan. From October 12, 1899, to May 17, 1900, he defended Mafeking, holding off a much larger Boer force until the siege was lifted. After the wa...r he recruited and trained the South African constabulary. On returning to England in 1903, he was appointed inspector general of cavalry, and the following year he established the Cavalry School, Netheravon, Wiltshire. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1907. Having learned that his military textbook Aids to Scouting (1899) was being used for training boys in woodcraft, Baden-Powell ran a trial camp on Brownsea Island, off Poole, Dorset, in 1907, and he wrote an outline for the proposed Boy Scout movement. Scout troops sprang up all over Britain, and for their use Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys was issued in 1908. He retired from the army in 1910 to devote all his time to the Boy Scouts, and in the same year he and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell (18581945) founded the Girl Guides. His wife, Olave, Lady Baden-Powell (18891977), also did much to promote the Girl Guides. In 1916 he organized the Wolf Cubs in Great Britain (known as Cub Scouts in the United States) for boys under the age of 11. At the first international Boy Scout Jamboree (London, 1920), he was acclaimed chief scout of the world. A baronet from 1922, Baden-Powell was created a baron in 1929. He spent his last years in Kenya for his health. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefYjvlolXc https://www.britannica.com//Robert-Stephenson-Smyth-Baden-

11.01.2022 Sir Nicholas Winton (May 19, 1909 July 1, 2015) "Save one life, save the world." ...Continue reading

11.01.2022 Herbert Stahle Lovett Born 20 Nov 1897, Lake Condah, Glenelg Shire, Victoria, Australia. Herbert was musically gifted and played the organ at Lake Condah's church. He was also the choirmaster. Herbert, the youngest of the brothers to serve in WWI, he was working in the timber industry. Before he enlisted in 1917. As Herbert was only 19 years old, his parents were required to give special permission for him to join. He embarked 30 October 1917 from Melbourne on the HMAT Aen...eas A60 Herbert fought on the Western Front as a Private in the 15th Machine Gun Company and participated in the attack that broke the Hindenburg Line in 1918, the last and strongest of the German army's defence. He was discharged in July 1919 and was awarded two medals for his service Herbert married Emma Foster from Harrow in 1926 and went on to have six children. He was working as a labourer when the second world war broke out and in August 1940, Herbert re-enlisted as a Private at 42 years of age. He served as a cook in the Australian Army Canteen Corps and was discharged in October 1945 Herbert passed away 30 May 1976 (aged 78), Hamilton, Southern Grampians Shire, Victoria, Australia Information and Images: https://www.findagrave.com//197038289/herbert-stahle-lovett https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/322946 https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/322946 https://www.standard.net.au//fighting-for-a-shot-at-a-be/. https://www.naa.gov.au//wo/attestation-form-herbert-lovett https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/brothers-in-arms https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com//RCDIG1067763/larg https://birtwistlewiki.com.au/wiki/HMAT_A60_Aeneas https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10646956 https://vwma.org.au/explore/units/160

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11.01.2022 Alfred John Henry Lovett Alfred was the first born of 12 children. He was one of the Gunditjmara people from Victoria western. He was born on the 13th November 1880 in Melbourne Victoria, to James Lovett, an aboriginal man from South Australia and his mother Hannah Lovett, a descendant of the Kerrup-Jmara clan of the Gunditjmara nation. At aged 35, Alfred Lovett A horse breaker, trainer, and jockey by trade, decided to join the enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. Priv...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Elizabeth Mallet (16721706) The UK’s first daily newspaper hit the streets on March 11, 1702. Called The Daily Courant, it owed its appearance to the fact that control of the Press by the Government had been abandoned some five years earlier. The Courant also owed its existence to a remarkable and determined woman Elizabeth Mallet, the newspaper’s first proprietor and editor.... In 1672, Elieabeth married David Mallet. During the 1670s and 1680s, she and David dominated the trade in printed speeches given by condemned prisoners before execution at Tyburn ("last dying speeches"), publishing them from Blackhorse Alley in Fleet Street. After David died in 1683, she apprenticed their son David to the printing and bookselling trade, and ran two presses. However, her son failed in this enterprise. Within ten years Elizabeth was again in charge of the family business, publishing serial news publications such as The New State of Europe (launched 20 September 1701) and sensational tracts. Knowing that publication by a woman would not only raise eyebrows but probably cause a significant boycott of the paper, she named the publisher simply as E. Mallet, leaving readers to assume that "E" was male. She avoided news from London because publishing it risked government reprisals, and would have been more easily contradicted. Writing under a male name, Mallet claimed only to provide the facts, and to let the reader make up their own minds, saying: Nor will [the Author] take it upon himself to give any comments or conjectures of his own, but will relate only matter of fact; supposing other people to have sense enough to make reflections for themselves. Remarkably, and for reasons unknown, Elizabeth decided after just forty days to sell the paper. So in 1703 The Daily Courant became the property of printer and bookseller Samuel Buckley. And it was under his stewardship that the paper first ran into trouble. In 1712 it published an account of House of Commons business an act strictly against the law. Parliament did not give journalists the right to publish details of its proceedings until 1771. Buckley had to pay a heavy fine for his transgression. The Daily Courant continued to be printed until 1735 when Buckley merged it with his other newspaper, the Daily Gazetteer. The Courant’s name then disappeared, never to be seen again. Information and Images: https://www.historic-uk.com//William-Hogarth-18th-century/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Mallet https://www.onthisday.com//read-all-about-it-uks-first-dai https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-fashions-of-the-17th-centu

10.01.2022 The First two Military Medals for distinguished service against the enemy on Australian soil have been awarded to two shy youngsters who had to obtain their parents' consent to enlist in the militia. One was just eighteen, the other not yet eighteen. The men are: Gunner Wilbert Thomas Hudson (N108358), No. 2 Anti-aircraft Battery, of Merrylands (N.S.W.); and Lance-Bombardier Frederick Ronald Wombey (N270852), No. 14 Anti-aircraft Battery, of Tallong (N.S.W.). Each of the boy...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Eugen Fischer (5 July 1874 9 July 1967) Fischer was born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1874. and was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, and also served as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin. Fischer's ideas informed the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which served to justify the Nazi Party's belief i...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Antonina and Jan abiski A refuge, a haven, an ark that is how the people who survived World War II thanks to the abiski family remember the Warsaw ZOO. Dr. Jan abiski, director of the Warsaw ZOO, and his wife Antonina abiska helped save Jews, hiding them in empty cages and pavilions of the Warsaw ZOO as well as in their home. At the same time, they were part of the Polish underground the ZOO served as a drop for food, weapons and ammunition. By the 1930's the W...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE 2 August 1861 9 June 1932 Social worker and politician. While you might not know her name, you should know her face: it appears on the back of the Australian 50 dollar note. Born in 1861, Edith Cowan was a social worker involved with the welfare of woman and children and injustices in the legal system. In 1920 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1921, at the age of 59, Edith became the first Australian woman to ...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell Charles William Tingwell AM (3 January 1923 15 May 2009), known professionally as Bud Tingwell or Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, was an Australian film, television, theatre and radio actor. One of the veterans of Australian film, he acted in his first motion picture in 1946 and went on to appear in more than 100 films and numerous TV programs in both the United Kingdom and Australia Tingwell was born in the Sydney suburb of Coogee, the son of William Harve...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Arthur William Fadden Australia's 13th prime minister Country Party 28 August 1941 7 October 1941...Continue reading

08.01.2022 Amy Schauer (1871-1956), Cookery instructor, was born on 2 June 1871 in Sydney, daughter of German parents William Schauer, cooper, and his wife Katharena, née Hahn. She was educated in New South Wales, trained at Sydney Technical College and after qualifying in domestic science taught privately. Miss Schauer then taught mainly cookery at the Brisbane (Central) Technical College from February 1895. She also gave classes in invalid cookery at the Mater Hospital for a fee of t...Continue reading

08.01.2022 Alec Guinness de Cuffe, Born April 2, 1914, London, England died August 5, 2000, Midhurst, West Sussex. His mother's maiden name was Agnes Cuff, born on 8 December 1890 to Edward Cuff and Mary Ann Benfield. On Guinness's birth certificate, his mother's name is given as Agnes de Cuffe; the infant's name (where first names only are placed) is given as Alec Guinness, and there are no details for the father....Continue reading

07.01.2022 Andrew Carnegie American steel industry in the late 19th century. Also, a high profile philanthropist, he gave away almost 90 percent of his fortune to charities and foundations. His life has often been referred to as a true "rags to riches" story. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Although he had little formal education, Carnegie grew up in a family that believed in the importance of books and learning. Carnegie’s father, Willia...Continue reading

06.01.2022 German actor Hardy Krüger fought for the SS in WWII Hardy Krüger was born in Wedding, Berlin, Germany in 1928. Known for his acting, having appeared in films with Richard Attenborough, Richard Burton, Ryan O’neal and John Wayne, he got his start in life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Starting in 1941, he attended an Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. When he was 13, he joined the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) as required by all 13-year-old German boys of the time. T...he Hitler Youth was an organization devoted to preparing young men for military service. At the age of 15, Hardy made his film debut in a German film called Young Eagles which was released in 1944. At 16, he was drafted into the army and assigned to an infantry unit. In 1945, he was conscripted by the 38th SS Division Nibelungen. He was part of heavy fighting before being captured by the Americans. After the war, Hardy returned to acting. Eight years later, J. Arthur Rank discovered him and cast him in three British films: The One That Got Away (1957), Bachelor of Hearts (1958), and Blind Date (1959). Typically, he was cast as a German due to his prototypical Nordic looks with blond hair and blue eyes. In spite of heavy anti-German sentiment in the West, Hardy’s rugged good looks made him an international favorite and led to a role co-starring with John Wayne in Hatari! (1962). Hardy was so taken with the beauty of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) where the film was shot that he purchased a home for himself there and a small hotel where tourists could come to see the animals. Hunting was prohibited on his property. He eventually added a cattle farm and sold the meat to local hotels. He referred to his home as an African Walden where he could get away from the world. In 1979, the business parts of his property were closed due to political unrest in the region. Tanzania closed its borders which killed off the tourism industry. Hardy is fluent in German, English and French and found himself in demand by producers in America, Britain, France and Germany. He became much more selective in choosing parts to play. He said, I would rather sit out a picture than take a role I don’t think is right for me. Jack Beckett https://www.warhistoryonline.com//german-actor-hardy-kruge

05.01.2022 Charles Throsby (1777 2 April 1828) An English surgeon who, after he migrated to New South Wales in 1802, became an explorer, pioneer and parliamentarian. He opened up much new land beyond the Blue Mountains for colonial settlement. He was a grazier, and became a prominent member of New South Wales society. Throsby was born in Glenfield near Leicester in England. He was engaged as a surgeon on the convict transport Coromandel carrying 136 male convicts from Portsmouth to...Continue reading

05.01.2022 VX24597 Captain L. C. Matthews GC MC, Captain Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross (GC) for gallant and distinguished services whilst a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese at Sandakan, British North Borneo between Ausgust 1942 and March 1944. Lionel Colin Matthews (1912-1944), soldier and salesman, was born on 15 August 1912 at Stepney, Adelaide, third child of Edgar Roy Matthews, plumber, and his wife Ann Elizabeth....Continue reading

05.01.2022 Private Leonard Charles Lovett 1884-1951 Born 12 April 1884 Condor, Victoria, Leonard was the second of 5 brothers who joined up in World War 1, (the oldest brother Alfred Lovett is shown in the previous post) Leonard, commonly known as Charlie, was droving at the time the war started, while working around Tarrington, near Hamilton, which was settled by German-speaking pioneers, where it is thought that Leonard picked up how to speak fluent German. ... At 36 years old, Charlie enlisted and served as a Private in the 39th Battalion of the 3rd Division, embarking on 27 May 1916 on HMAT Ascanius. He fought on the Western Front, including significant campaigns at Passchendaele in 1917 and Amiens in 1918. Like Alfred his older brother, Leonard had multiple hospital visits throughout the war due to illness and wounds. He was awarded two service medals and returned to Australia in July 1919. He married Elsie Maude Clark, in 1921 with whom he had seven children. Leonard now working as a shearer, re-enlisted for World War 2 , at Warrnambool in 1941. Between 194142, he was stationed in Australia as a Private with the 3rd Garrison Battalion. His daughter, Alice, served with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in WWII and his son, also named Leonard Charles, served in the Korean War. His grandson, Mervyn, served in the Vietnam War. Leonard passed away in 1951 at the age of 67, it was put down as being Death due to War Service. Information and Images: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1130687 https://www.awm.gov.au//an/aboriginal-anzacs/alfred-lovett https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers https://www.deadlystory.com//anzac-day/the-lovett-brothers https://www.smh.com.au//the-lost-souls-of-condah-who-joine https://ancestors.familysearch.org//elsie-maude-clarke-189 https://www.findagrave.com/memo/196995765/elsie-maud-lovett

05.01.2022 Leopold Socha Leopold "Poldek" Socha was a Polish sewage inspector in the city of Lwów. Socha lived in a poor neighborhood of Lwow and worked for the municipal sanitation department and secretly as a burglar and thief In 1943, in the wake of the German occupation of the then-Polish city (known as Lwów in Polish or Lemberg in German), the Jews, who represented more than a third of the total city population of 320,000, began to be herded into an increasingly smaller ghetto a...Continue reading

04.01.2022 John Bunyan Baptised 30 November, 1628 Died 31 August, 1688 Bunyan, the son of a brazier, or traveling tinker, was brought up among a multitude of poor plowmen’s children in the heart of England’s agricultural Midlands. He learned to read and write at a local grammar school, but he probably left school early to learn the family trade. Bunyan’s mind and imagination were formed in these early days by influences other than those of formal education. He absorbed the popular ...Continue reading

04.01.2022 Charles Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remainder. Before this, however, he was Australia's official correspondent to the war. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial. Bean was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales and his family moved to England when he was ten. He completed his education there, eventually ...Continue reading

02.01.2022 Marcel Mangel (22 March 1923 22 September 2007) better known by his stage name Marcel Marceau, and was known worldwide as a master of silence. The world-famous mime delighted audiences for decades as Bip, a tragicomic figure who encountered the world without words. But during World War II, his skills as a mime came in handy for another reason: He used them to save Jewish children during the Holocaust. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance du...ring most of World War II, Marceau, who was Jewish, didn’t just use his acting skills to make the kids comfortable: He used them to save their lives. He mimed to keep children quiet as they were escaping The actor posed as a Boy Scout leader to trick the authorities. I went disguised as a Boy Scout leader and took 24 Jewish kids, also in scout uniforms, through the forests to the border, where someone else would take them into Switzerland, he recalled in 2002. And when he unexpectedly ran into a group of German soldiers near the end of the war, he pretended he was a member of the French Army and demanded they surrender. They didall 30 of them. He gave his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris. His most populaer character was "Bip - the tragic clown, Part of that sadness stemmed from a very personal loss during the Holocaust. In 1944, Marceau’s father, Charles Mangel, was murdered at Auschwitz. In 1959 he established his own pantomime school in Paris, and subsequently set up the Marceau Foundation to promote the art in the U.S. Among his various awards and honours he was made "Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" (1998) and was awarded the National Order of Merit (1998) in France. He won the Emmy Award for his work on television, was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and was declared a "National treasure" in Japan. He was friends with Michael Jackson for nearly 20 years, and Jackson said he would use some of Marceau's techniques in his own dance steps. Marceau was married three times: first to Huguette Mallet, with whom he had two sons, Michel and Baptiste; then, to Ella Jaroszewicz, with whom he had no children. His third wife was Anne Sicco, with whom he had two daughters, Camille and Aurélia. https://www.history.com//marcel-marceau-wwii-french-resist https://kids.kiddle.co/Marcel_Marceau

02.01.2022 Juliane Koepcke On Christmas Eve of 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke boarded LANSA Flight 508 at the Lima Airport in Peru with her mother, Maria. The two were traveling to the research area named Panguana after having attended Koepcke’s graduation ball in Lima on what would have only been an hour-long flight. They had only been flying in the Lockheed Electra L-188A commercial plane for about 30 minutes when they flew through a sudden and violent storm. The plane was struck b...y lightening and in an instant began to break apart, at which point Juliane heard her mother declare calmly, Now it’s all over. Passengers were sent falling from the plane 2 miles above the Peruvian Amazon. Juliane Koepcke was strapped to her seat and that may have been what actually saved her life. She was catapulted from the plane, spiraling through the air, until she hit the jungle canopy, with the other two seats in her row still attached. Before Koepcke hit the ground she had lost consciousness. She awoke to a concussion, a broken collarbone, and cuts on her arm and leg. Miraculously, she was still able to walk and attempted to look for her mother and for other survivors, with no luck finding anything but jungle. Sadly, Maria did initially survive the crash, but is suspected to have died in the days or weeks following the crash Armed with a bag of sweets from the plane, Koepcke found a stream and followed it, reminded of her biologist father’s advice that it would always lead to a larger river and to people. She then followed the call of the hoatzin bird, which is found mainly near open waters, a fact she learned from her ornithologist mother, having grown up in the jungle in a hut on her parents’ research facility. For 10 days she traveled through the jungle, often floating in the middle of the stream to avoid piranhas. Upon reaching a logging camp, Koepcke found some gasoline and used it to clean the wound on her arm, which by this point had become infected with maggots. The gasoline trick was another she had learned from her father. In another lucky turn, Koepcke was found unconscious by loggers that same day, as they rarely visited the camp. Wings of Hope - documentry https://youtu.be/rlJVIcCPIl8 Information and Images: https://youtu.be/eDyTyszVyCM https://dustyoldthing.com/survival-story-juliane-koepcke/

02.01.2022 Sergeant Archie Barwick 1st Australian Infantry Battalion Australian Imperial Force, First World War, 1914-1918 Known for his diaries and writing poems during his time in ww1 from his perspective....Continue reading

02.01.2022 Lieutenant Albert Chalmers Borella Albert Borella VC MM is one of only 100 Australians, and the only Northern Territorian, to have received the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour in the British Empire, for most conspicuous bravery in attack". Albert Borella was the first son for Louis and Annie née Chalmers. He was the middle child between older sister Elizabeth and younger sister Annie Aurora. Albert’s mother Annie died of scarlet fever in 1885 when Albert was o...Continue reading

02.01.2022 I need to take a break from the politicians they are doing my head in lol.

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