- Peter Leahy
Lieutenant General Peter Francis Leahy AC is the current Chief of the Australian Army. Peter Leahy was born in Melbourne in 1952 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1972. After serving in various operational and training roles in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States Leahy was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed Chief of Army 28 June 2002 He was reappointed for a further three years on 29 June 2005. - David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen, Ph.D. (born 1967) is a leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. A former Australian Army officer, he left the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005 and is now a senior civil servant, seconded to the United States State Department. He is currently serving as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser, Multi-National Force - Iraq, a civilian position on the personal staff of American General David Howell Petraeus. - Michael Jeffery
Major General Philip Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC (born 12 December 1937) is the 24th Governor-General of Australia. General Jeffery was born in Wiluna, Western Australia and was educated at state schools in Perth. One of these schools was Kent Street Senior High School, which he makes a special mention of in many of his speeches. General Jeffery's military service started by attending the Royal Military College, Duntroon where he graduated in 1958. - Peter Dunn
Peter Dunn (born April 14, 1947) is the former Commissioner for the ACT Emergency Services Authority responsible for the ACT Fire Brigade, ACT Ambulance Service, Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Service. He was appointed to this position in 2003 by Chief Minister Jon Stanhope. The creation of this position was recommended by the McLeod Inquiry into the Canberra bushfires of 2003. Dunn had earlier been a Major General in the Australian Army. - David Horner
David Horner is an Australian military historian and academic. He is a graduate of Royal Military College Duntroon and served in the Australian Army for 25 years, including active service in South Vietnam. Described as "one of Australia's most respected military historians", Horner has written over 20 books. - Mal Brough
Malcolm Thomas "Mal" Brough (pronounced "Bruff") (born 29 December 1961), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Longman, Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was an Australian Army officer and businessman before entering politics. Brough was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, … - Michael Danby
Michael David Danby (born 16 February 1955), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria. Danby was born in Melbourne, Victoria and was educated at Melbourne University. He was President of the Melbourne University Student Union as well as President of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students. - Vivian Bullwinkel
Vivian Bullwinkel-Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (Born Vivian Bullwinkel) (18 December 1915- 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War. She was the sole survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island (Indonesia), on 16 February 1942. - Brudenell White
General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO (23 September 1876 – 13 August 1940), Australian soldier, was Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Army from 1920 to 1923 and again from March to August 1940, when he was killed in the Canberra air disaster, 1940. White was born in St Arnaud in the state of Victoria, and joined the colonial militia force in Queensland in 1898, and served in the Boer War. - John Baker
General John Stuart Baker, AC, DSM, (24 February1936 - 9 July 2007) was an Australian army general. He was Chief of the Australian Defence Force from July 1995 to July 1998. From 1992 to 1992, he was Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation. Baker joined the Australian Army in 1954, where he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon 1957, … - John Gellibrand
Major General Sir John Gellibrand, KCB, DSO and Bar (5 December 1872 – 3 June 1945) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Denison as a Nationalist Party member from 1925 - 1928. - Campbell Newman
Campbell Newman became Brisbane's Lord Mayor in 2004. Newman is the son of former Liberal Party senator and Federal Minister Jocelyn Newman and, former Liberal Party member for Bass (in Tasmania) and Federal Minister, the late Kevin Newman. Campbell Newman is a qualified engineer, formerly in the Australian Army. He lives in Brisbane with his wife Lisa and their two children Rebecca and Sarah. - Reg Saunders
Captain Reginald Walter Saunders, MBE (7 August 1920-2 March 1990) was the first Aboriginal commissioned officer in the Australian Army. He served with distinction during World War II and was subsequently a Company Commander with 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) during the Korean War. Captain Saunders was the nephew of William Reginald Rawlings, MM, who received the Military Medal during the First World War serving with the 1st AIF in France. - James McAuley
Dr James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and prominent convert to Catholicism. McAuley was born in Lakemba, a suburb of Sydney. He attended Sydney University. He began his life as an Anglican, and was sometime organist and choirmaster at Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill in Sydney. McAuley lost his Christian faith as a younger man. In 1943 McAuley was commissioned as a lieutenant in the militia for the Australian Army, … - Harry Smith
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Arthur Smith MC, officer in the Australian Army and Officer Commanding D Coy, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment at the Battle of Long Tan in the Vietnam War. After service as a National Serviceman Smith joined the Australian Regular Army and graduated as Second Lieutenant from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea. In 1966 Smith, then a Major, was Officer Commanding D Coy, 6RAR, … - Les Hiddins
Les Hiddins (born Brisbane, August 13, 1946), aka "The Bush Tucker Man", is a retired Australian Army Major, who had a hit TV series in Australia. As a young private with the Australian Army, Hiddins served in Vietnam. He did two tours of duty between 1966 and 1969, the first as a forward scout in the infantry. In 1980 he was awarded a Defence Fellowship to research survival in northern Australia. - Stanley Savige
Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige KBE, CB, DSO, MC (June 26 1890 - May 15 1954), was a decorated soldier of the Australian Imperial Force in World War I, and later a general in the Australian Army during World War II. Sir Stanley Savige was instrumental in the establishment of Legacy Australia (the war widows and orphans benefit fund). - Robert Anderson
Brigadier General Sir Robert Murray McCheyne Anderson KCMG CVO (6 August 1865 – 30 December 1940) was an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I. - Edmund Herring
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, ED, QC (2 September 1892 – 5 January 1982) was an Australian Army officer during World War II, was a Lieutenant governor of Victoria, and was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. - Horace Robertson
Lieutenant General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, KBE, DSO, (1894-1960) was an officer in the Australian Army and at one time Australia's most decorated soldier. During the Second World War he accepted the surrender of the Italian Navy at Benghazi. Following the war, he commanded the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. General Robertson (as he was normally known late in his career) was a key figure in establishing the Australian Armoured Corps. - George Vasey
George Alan Vasey, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar (29 March 1895–5 March 1945) was an Australian soldier. He was rose to the rank of Major General during World War II, before being killed in a plane crash. - Earle Page
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page GCMG, CH (August 8 1880-December 20 1961), Australian politician, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia. Born in Grafton, New South Wales, Page was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in medicine at the top of his year in 1901. He practised in Sydney and Grafton before joining the Australian Army as a medical officer in the First World War, serving in Egypt. - George Johnston
Major General George Jameson Johnston CB, CMG (24 October 1868 - 23 May 1949) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. - William Grant
William Grant, CMG, DSO and Bar, MBE (30 September 1870 – 25 May 1939) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. - Graham Edwards
Graham John Edwards (born 18 July 1946), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Cowan. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and voluntarily joined the Australian Army for service in the Vietnam War in 1968. In 1971 he was severely injured, losing both legs. - Michael Stone
Major Michael Stone is an Officer in the Australian Army notibly involved with its operations in East Timor. He graduated at the rank of Lieutenant from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1999 after gaining a BA majoring in Management and Geography from the Australian Defence Force Academy. It was then that his relationship with East Timor was initiated with a posting to East Timor as a platoon commander. - Tom Uren
Thomas Uren, AO (born 28 May 1921), Australian politician, was a minister in the Whitlam and Hawke Australian Labor Party governments. Uren was born in Balmain, Sydney, then a working-class suburb, and was educated at Manly High School. Uren played rugby league for Manly Warringah in his youth and was a strong competitive swimmer. He had an early career as a professional boxer and challenged for the Australian heavyweight championship against Billy Britt. - Percy Spender
Sir Percy Claude Spender, KCVO, KBE, KC (5 October 1897 - 3 May 1985), was an Australian diplomat, politician and jurist. Spender was born in Sydney, Australia and educated at the University of Sydney, he joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1915. He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1923 and was made a King's Counsel in 1935. Spender entered politics in 1937 when he was elected to the House of Representatives as member for Warringah. - John Northcott
Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott, KCMG, KCVO, CB, (24 March 1890 – 4 August 1966) was an Australian Army general who served as Chief of the General Staff during World War II, commanded the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, and was Governor of New South Wales. - Mick Mumford
Mick Mumford is a career military officer in the Australian Army. He came to prominence in 2006: *Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, from early 2006, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; *As CO of Private Jacob Kovco, the first Australian soldier to die during the Iraq campaign (April 2006); *Commanding 3RAR during: **Operation Anode (Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, … - Beccy Cole
Beccy Cole (born Rebecca Diane Thompson, October 27, 1972 in Glenelg, South Australia) is an Australian country music singer. She has released four albums, with Little Victories and Wild at Heart attaining Gold status. She has won seven Golden Guitar awards. She performed for Australian Army soldiers ("Diggers") in Iraq and as a result found the decision to entertain the troops at Christmas time lost her some fans. - Elizabeth Cosson
Brigadier Elizabeth Cosson, CSC (born 1958) is Australia's most senior female army officer and the first woman to reach the rank of Brigadier in the Australian Army. - William Holmes
Major General William Holmes, <small>CMG DSO VD</small>; (12 September 1862 – 2 July 1917) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. He was mortally wounded by a German shellburst while surveying the ground won at the Battle of Messines. - Donald Cameron
Donald Cameron (19 January 1878 - 20 August 1962), Australian politician, was born in Melbourne of working-class parents. He was educated in state schools and served in the Australian Army in the Boer War. He settled in Western Australia where he worked as a plumber and became an official of the plumbers' union and later secretary of the Trades Hall. Returning to Melbourne in 1919 he became active in the Victorian Socialist Party, a Marxist party. - James Gordon Legge
Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG (15 August 1863 - 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I. Unlike other generals, he never accepted any Imperial honours. He was awarded them but may have refused them, the actual reason being unknown. His son Stanley Ferguson Legge reached the rank of Major General. - Michael Pate
Michael Pate (born February 26, 1920 in Drummoyne, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actor and writer. In 1938, he became a writer and broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, collaborating with George Ivan Smith on "Youth Speaks". For the remainder of the 1930s he worked primarily in radio drama. He also published theatrical and literary criticism. He enjoyed brief success as an author of short stories, … - Eric Smith
Eric Smith (1919 - Present) is an award winning Australian artist. Smith has won many of Australia's major art prizes multiple times including the Archibald Prize for portraiture three times; the Wynne Prize twice; the Sulman Prize three times; and the Blake Prize for Religious Art six times. Smith was born in Melbourne in 1919. He served in the Australian Army during the Second World War before returning to Sydney Australia and pursuing a career as an artist. - John Antill
John Macquarie Antill, CB, CMG (26 January 1866 – 1 March 1937) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. Antill is best known for his rejection of a request to end the attack at The Nek during the Gallipoli Campaign. He retired from the army in 1924 as an honorary Major General. - Carl Jess
Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (16 February 1884 - 16 June 1948) was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I and World War II. - George Wootten
Sir George Frederick Wootten, CB, KBE, DSO, DSC (USA), 1 May 1893-30 March 1970, was an Australian soldier, public servant, right wing political activist and solicitor. He rose to the rank of temporary Major General during World War II. Wootten was famous, in part, for his heavy build. He put on weight after giving up smoking in 1930, and by 1941 - even though he was 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) tall - he weighed 127 kg (20 st).
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