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	Thomas Blamey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blamey briefly held battalion and brigade command posts in late 1916 and early 1917 but as an experienced staff officer was considered too valuable for a combat post.
		Blamey's treatment of the unionists was typical of his hardline anti-communist beliefs and as such his relations with left-wing governments were tense.
		Blamey is honoured in Australia in various ways, not least by the square named in his honour around which is situated the Russell Offices headquarters of the Australian Defence Force and Department of Defence in the national capital, Canberra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Blamey (2231 words)

	Veryan - pafg70 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Bertha Louisa Blamey was born in 1887/1888 in Veryan, Cornwall.
		Thomas Archibald Trevarton was born on 18 Nov 1900 in Veryan, Cornwall.
		Thomas Blamey was born on 25 Jul 1873 in Veryan, Cornwall.
	webhome.idirect.com /~djtrounce/veryanres/pafg70.htm (966 words)

	General Sir Thomas Blamey (in detail)
		Thomas Albert Blamey was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales on 24 January 1884, the seventh of ten children of Richard Blamey, a Cornish butcher who had emigrated to Australia at age 16 and worked as a drover and overseer.
		Blamey accompanied the 2nd Division to France in March 1916 but on 5 July, as a result of a shuffle of senior staff posts, he moved to the 1st Division as GSO1, replacing Lieutenant Colonel A. Bridges (a cousin of the general), who became GSO1 of the 2nd Division.
		Blamey initiated a sweeping reorganisation of the defence of Australia that saw Lieutenant General J. Lavarack appointed to command the First Army in Queensland, Lieutenant General I. Mackay, the Second Army in Victoria and Lieutenant General H. Bennett, the III Corps in Western Australia.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/ww2/blamey.htm (4992 words)

	Field Marshal (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blamey was, at the time of his promotion, seriously ill and mostly bed-ridden in the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
		At the time of his promotion, Blamey was on the Retired List of General Officers and as a result the then British Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), Sir William Slim, himself a field marshal and later governor-general of Australia, resisted Menzies' recommendation for promotion.
		Blamey served in the First World War in the First Australian Imperial Force from the horrors of trench warfare at the ANZAC postions at Gallipoli to duties as an effective staff officer on the staff of Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash, Commander of the Australian Corps in France and Belgium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Field_Marshal_(Australia) (762 words)

	Veryan - pafg61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Samuel Thomas Blamey [Parents] was born on 7 Dec 1806 in Veryan, Cornwall.
		Samuel Thomas Blamey was born on 13 Dec 1833 in Veryan, Cornwall.
		Samuel Thomas Blamey was born in 1850/1851 in Gosport, Hants.
	webhome.idirect.com /~djtrounce/veryanres/pafg61.htm (1149 words)

	Field Marshal Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED
		Thomas Blamey, born near Wagga Wagga on 24 January 1884, became the first Australian army officer to reach the rank of field marshal.
		Considered confrontational, violent, and ruthless, Blamey's tenure with the police was dogged by controversy; he was forced to resign in 1936 having lied to protect one of his senior officers.
		Blamey conducted a series of successful offensives in New Guinea in 1943 but was criticised late in the war when Australians were involved in operations against long-bypassed Japanese units in New Guinea and Borneo.
	www.awm.gov.au /people/117.asp (516 words)

	General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief, Allied Land Forces, SWPA
		General Sir Thomas Blamey was Commander in Chief of the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA).
		General Sir Thomas Blamey with Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger, leader of the U.S. ground troops in New Guinea, standing in front of a captured Japanese pillbox during the fight for Papua.
		General Blamey's main Advanced Land Headquarters for Allied Land Forces was later located at the University of Queensland at St. Lucia in Brisbane from 1 August 1942 to 31 December 1944.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/ozatwar/blamey.htm (1506 words)

	Blamey Oration - Brisbane
		For Blamey was not a tactician; he was a strategist.
		Blamey’s lot was in some ways tougher — to try to steer an ill-prepared and dispirited country through what was then, and remains today, its greatest crisis.
		Blamey’s tribulations in 1942 mark, by contrast, the supreme crisis in Australia’s strategic history, in which the need to defend our own territory from direct attack became the overriding concern of every Australian.
	www.defence.gov.au /minister/ReithSpeechtpl.cfm?CurrentId=668 (3930 words)

	Thomas Blamey
		In July, 1914, Blamey was promoted to major and on the outbreak of the First World War he was sent to Egypt as an intelligence officer.
		On the outbreak of the Second World War Blamey was made commander of the Australian forces in the Middle East.
		Blamey was recalled to Australia when Japan entered the war.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWblamey.htm (242 words)

	ADF :: Online Media Room
		This oration is named in honour of Sir Thomas Blamey - the only Australian to reach the rank of Field Marshal — a man who served his country with skill and determination in the two world wars of the twentieth century.
		When Blamey was ordered to New Guinea in September 1942 to fix what others saw as a near desperate situation, he bore the full load of ultimate command.
		Blamey’s dramatic flight to Port Moresby with the New Guinea campaign in the balance brings into the story two men, both West Australian, by birth or upbringing.
	www.defence.gov.au /media/speechtpl.cfm?CurrentId=926 (5446 words)

	MacArthur and Blamey leave Australia's northern door open
		This neglect of the defence of Port Moresby by MacArthur and Blamey becomes even more difficult to understand in the light of evidence that the Japanese and the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chester Nimitz, were well aware of the strategic importance of Port Moresby.
		At this time when MacArthur and Blamey were finally recognising the need to strengthen Australia's defences in Papua, they were warned by American naval intelligence in Melbourne (FRUMEL) that the next attempt by the Japanese to capture Port Moresby was likely to be an overland attack by crossing the Owen Stanley Range.
		Blamey appreciated that the Japanese might probe in the direction of Kokoda, but he believed that their main purpose in landing a large force at Gona was simply to establish a forward base at either Gona or Buna.
	www.users.bigpond.com /battleforaustralia/battaust/KokodaCampaign/KokodaOverview3.html (1452 words)

	Print Article: On the trail of historical truth
		Earlier that day General Thomas Blamey, Australia's military commander-in-chief, had briefed the war cabinet on the fighting in New Guinea, in particular the grim, slogging retreat of Australian troops in the Owen Stanleys.
		Blamey, at an anxious government's request, had flown to Port Moresby on September 12 for a first-hand report from the Australian overall commander in New Guinea, Lieutenant-General Sydney Rowell [later Sir Sydney Rowell, chief of the Australian general staff].
		The next day he told the war cabinet, in detailing the Owen Stanleys campaign, all of it involving only Australian and Japanese troops to this point: "General Rowell and the troops are confident the Japanese will not [reach] Port Moresby from the land," and he shared their confidence.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/10/04/1033538773600.html (1391 words)

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	Second World War Books Review
		In particular, he notes how Blamey's performance left a great deal to be desired in Greece and Syria, and that only firm action from Rowell saved the day in Greece.
		Blamey, fearing for his own position, disloyal to his subordinates, and reckless with his troops, magnified those pressures.
		In a particularly damning series of events, Brune shows how Blamey irresponsibly addressed the survivors of 21st Brigade and publicly accused them of cowardice and failure on the Kokoda Track, which led inexorably to their destruction when a new commanding officer who didn't trust them insisted they redeem themselves with suicidal attacks at Gona.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/031130.shtml (3553 words)

	GENERAL MACARTHUR TAKES COMMAND OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE
		On 23 March 1942, the Australian government recalled Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Blamey from the Middle East to be Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces.
		It was only then that MacArthur and Blamey appear to have appreciated the danger to which their neglect had exposed Australia, and they rushed seasoned AIF troops of the 7th Division to New Guinea.
		The behaviour of General Blamey during this shameful episode will be covered in greater detail in the section dealing with the Battle of the Kokoda Track.
	www.users.bigpond.com /battleforaustralia/battaust/MacArthurinAustralia.html (2196 words)

	Advanced Land Headquarters, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, Queensland University, St. Lucia, Brisnbane, ...
		General (later Field Marshall) Sir Thomas Blamey, was based at his Advanced Land Headquarters in the Forgan Smith Building at the Queensland University at St. Lucia in Brisbane from 1 August 1942 to 31 December 1944 during World War 2.
		The Forgan Smith building was almost completed when General Blamey took it over for his Advanced Land Headquarters in August 1942.
		Blamey was Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces (AMF) and also had the role of Commander, Allied Land Forces.
	home.st.net.au /~pdunn/locations/alhq.htm (401 words)

	SBS Television - What's on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The main target of his criticism was General Thomas Blamey, the Commander in Chief of Australia’s armed forces.
		When Blamey later tried to get Wilmot enlisted, the ABC sent him to Britain - where he became a famous correspondent for the BBC.
		Blamey is concerned with fighting a world war and lives of Australians are at stake and what he doesn’t need is somebody trying to undermine his authority as Commander- in-Chief.”
	www.sbs.com.au /whatson/index.php3?id=1201 (440 words)

	People's Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey, the highest-ranking Army officer in Australian history, was born at Lake Albert, Wagga Wagga in 1884.
		Just over 30 years later in December 1915 Blamey was in Gallipoli preparing for the evacuation of the Australian troops.
		At the same time, young men in his home town were setting off on the Kangaroo March in an attempt to encourage other young Australian men to join those who were already fighting overseas with the Australian Imperial Force.
	www.peoplesvoice.gov.au /stories/nsw/wagga/wagga_w.htm (113 words)

	Blamey Family Genealogy Forum
		Richard Blamey born somewhere in England - Darlene Blamey 6/19/02
		Re: Richard Blamey born somewhere in England - Jennifer Albright 7/12/02
		Thomas Blamey/Minnie Millard Melb,Aust - Jacqui Moce 5/15/01
	genforum.genealogy.com /blamey (313 words)

	surrender
		Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey on board USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan, 2 September 1945.
		To see all those thousands of men from generals down to ordinary seamen, standing bare-headed while this prayer was being broadcast, is something one could never forget and it just seemed to be a really fitting start for such a great and historical day as this one was destined to be.
		Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey seats himself at the table to sign the surrender document.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /vevp/surrender.html (781 words)

	Exhibition: Soldier for a crisis: Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
		Soldier for a Crisis: Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey commemorates the 50th anniversary of Blamey’s death.
		This small biographical exhibition tells the story of a general who attracted controversy but retained the confidence of prime ministers, who upheld Australia’s interests against British and American demands, and under whom the Australian Army was developed for the vital battles of the war in the Pacific.
		In an acknowledgement of Blamey’s contribution to the war effort, Prime Minister John Curtin said: 'History will give to General Blamey one of the highest places in the annals of this country for the service he has rendered to it.'
	john.curtin.edu.au /events/blamey.html (368 words)

	Quadrant Magazine
		He was neither “arrogant” nor “silly” in claiming that the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thomas Blamey, had lost the confidence of the Australian Army.
		Rowell’s concern was that Blamey, who had lost his nerve in Greece, might try to exercise field command in New Guinea.
		Blamey was a fine administrator and a first-rate Chief of Staff to Sir John Monash in the Great War, but a miserable human being who was disloyal to his subordinates and whose attempts to preserve his position at all costs resulted in unnecessary Australian casualties.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=229 (2956 words)

	The Leaders; The King; PM Curtain; Gen McArthur; Gen Blamey
		A close and mutually supportive relationship developed between Blamey and Curtin.
		Despite misgivings from some Labor MPs, Blamey retained Curtin’s confidence and was given a public reception upon his arrival in Australia at the Melbourne Town Hall at which time the prime minister promised that Blamey would enjoy unfettered control in his new command.
		History will give to General Blamey one of the highest places in the annals of this country for the service he has rendered to it."
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line1/the_leaders.htm (590 words)

	23 September 1942
		General von Thoma is in command of the Armor.
		Australian General Thomas Blamey arrives in Port Moresby to take direct command of the New Guinea forces.
		Despite his position Blamey came into conflict with his commander, General Douglas MacArthur, who has become Australian Prime Minister Curtin's principle military advisor.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/09/23.htm (1103 words)

	DVA Annual Reports 2000-2001 - OUTCOME 3 - COMMEMORATIONS
		Sir Thomas Blamey Square, Canberra, was renamed Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey Square on 27 May 2001.
		The renaming of the square provided full recognition of Sir Thomas Blamey's status as the only Australian soldier to achieve the rank of Field Marshal.
		A photographic essay about the service life of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey GBE KCB DSO ED was produced as a commemorative booklet for the occasion.
	www.dva.gov.au /media/aboutus/annrep01/section5_7/053_commrations.htm (2459 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Hofker had in 1945 sold his works directly to then General Sir Thomas Blamey, commander-in-chief of both the Australian Military Forces and Allied Land Forces in the Southwest Pacific.
		And it was the Blamey family who sold the two paintings.
		It was then that he approached Sir Thomas Blamey's company in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, and offered his paintings for sale, which Sir Thomas promptly bought.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20041219.M02 (861 words)

	BER to BOX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Thomas H.~26/6/1995~~1921~B. 6/3/1921; S/O Thomas H. and Mary~Barnoon~
		Thomas Charles~13/6/1916~52~1864~H/O Sarah Jane; same headstone as his wife and Annie~Phillack~
		Irene Helena~25/9/1980~~~Same headstone as Samuel and Hilda THOMAS and Martha PEARCE~Barnoon~
	www.members.tripod.com /chrisuphill/mainb2.htm (1287 words)

	Beachhead Battles
		In the last pitched battle on the Kokoda Track, at Oivi-Gorari, the Australian 16th and 25th Brigades had overrun the dug-in survivors of the Japanese 144th Regiment and the way seemed clear to the coast.
		In fact, the senior Allied commanders — Generals Douglas MacArthur, the American supreme commander of Allied forces in the South-West Pacific Area, and Thomas Blamey, the Australian commander of Allied Land Forces in the theatre — grossly underestimated the strength of the Japanese force and overestimated the Allies’ capacity to continue fighting.
		The Japanese had brought in fresh troops and had up to 9000 men in well-dug defences around the beachheads who were prepared to fight to the death if necessary.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /beachheads/beachhead.html (853 words)

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