Vol. 51, No.3 (New Series) SPRING 2021

The Gallipoli Gazette OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE GALLIPOLI MEMORIAL CLUB LTD

Newspaper Crosswords Sparked Security Scare

People living under the top security blanket over the planning of the D-Day landing in France in 1944 were shocked by the revelation that codenames related to their plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the London morning newspaper, ‘The Daily Telegraph’.

In 1944 Leonard Dawe, the Headmaster of attached to the Canadian Army, to investigate the Strand School in Effingham, Surrey was arrested, crossword. Tweedsmuir, the son of author John along with a senior colleague and joint-crossword Buchan (The 39 Steps) later commented: "We compiler Melville Jones, at his home in nearby noticed that the crossword contained the word Leatherhead after a raid by MI-5. "Dieppe", and there was an immediate and Mr Dawe supplemented his salary by compiling exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the crossword for the Daily Telegraph. the end, it was concluded that it was just a Both were interrogated intensively, but it was remarkable coincidence – a complete fluke". decided that they were innocent, although Dawe Remembering that D-Day was Tuesday, 6 June nearly lost his job as a Headmaster. 1944, the run of D-Day codewords in The Daily Codenames that related to the D-Day plans Telegraph crossword solutions continued: appeared as solutions in his crosswords, causing the • 2 May 1944: 'Utah' (17 across, clued as "One British War Office and MI-5 to suspect messages of the U.S. States"): code name for the D- were being passed to the Germans. Day beach assigned to the US 4th Infantry On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe Division (Utah Beach). This would have been raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in the treated as another coincidence. crossword (set on 17 August 1942) as the answer to • 22 May 1944: 'Omaha' (3 down, clued as the clue "French port". This caused the initial "Red Indian on the Missouri"): code name security alarm. for the D-Day beach to be taken by the US These had followed other D-Day linked solution 1st Infantry Division (Omaha Beach)). words, in previous months, passed off just as coincidental common words in crosswords; ‘Gold' and 'Sword' (both codenames for D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D- Day beach assigned to Canada). The War Office called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, a senior intelligence officer

Ronald French and Head Master Leonard Dawe

President’s Report

Greater Sydney and many parts of New South Wales and indeed the country are again in “lockdown”. This doesn’t look like ending anytime soon so I hope you are keeping safe and well both mentally and physically. Again, I was hoping to be delivering some good news on our construction projects. Completion was supposed to be April 9. Let’s just say things are hastening slowly. I mentioned in my Winter Report that rectification of certain works may at the time have taken a further two months. Here we are three months later with little (or no) progress. We received Certificates of Practical Completion on August 4. Due to substantial items which the Building Committee maintain are not satisfactorily complete, we believe that this was premature. On behalf of the Committee, I can assure you all that we will continue working towards a satisfactory outcome. I will keep you informed. Vice-President Ted Codd represented the Club at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service Commemorations at the Cenotaph. I was invited and did represent the Club at Dawn Service Ceremonies at Merrylands. We received a lovely letter of appreciation from our 2021 Gallipoli Memorial Club Bursary recipient, Angelina Welsh-Hussain. Our Editor, Bob Lawrence, has covered this elsewhere in the magazine. The Board continues to meet regularly via tele-conference. We are becoming quite expert at “Teams” and “Zoom” with external meetings. Keep safe, keep well and keep smiling.

John Robertson

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• 27 May 1944: 'Overlord' (11 across, clued as It was told publicly that the leakage of "common but some bigwig like this has codenames was coincidence. Dawe kept his stolen some of it at times.", Operation interrogation secret until he described it in a BBC Overlord was the code name for the D-Day interview in 1958. Then the real story came out. landings) When the school was moved for safety from • 30 May 1944: 'Mulberry' (11 across, clued as South London in the early years of the war, it was positioned next to a big camp of US and Canadian "This bush is a centre of nursery troops preparing for D-Day. Security around the revolutions.", (Mulberry Harbour – the camp was lax. There was much contact between the name given to the floating temporary schoolboys and soldiers, and soldiers' talk, including harbours that were towed off the French D-Day codewords, may thus have been heard and coast as landing points) learnt by some of the schoolboys. • 1 June 1944: 'Neptune' (15 down, clued as Dawe had developed a habit of saving his "Britannia and he hold to the same thing.", crossword-compiling work time by calling boys into codeword for the naval phase of the his study to fill crossword blanks with words; landings: Operation Neptune). afterwards Dawe would provide clues for those Afterwards, Dawe asked at least one of the words. As a result, war-related words including boys, Ronald French, where he had got these those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe codewords from, and he was alarmed at the said later that at the time he did not know that contents of a notebook that French showed him. these words were military codewords. Dawe gave him a severe reprimand about In 1984, Ronald French, then a property secrecy and national security during wartime, manager in Wolverhampton, told the media he ordered the notebook to be burnt, and ordered the believed that hundreds of children must have boy to swear secrecy on The Bible. known what he knew due to the loose lips of the North American troops.

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Editorial…

Medical women feature recent series of stories linked to V-2 Rocket which was the strongly in this issue of the war time espionage, but this scourge of major British cities in Gazette. We carry the story of story about clues appearing in the 1940s, inspired an article the amazing Doctor Phoebe the Crosswords of London about the German rocket Chapple who would not take newspapers during World War program of World Wat Two and “no” for an answer from the Two shows the extent of vigilance the United States Government’s Australian Government and of Britian’s MI-5. pursuit of its program leader, Dr travelled to England to join the The United Kingdom is also Werner von Braun. He was not British Army Medical Corps in the setting for Bruce McEwan’s pursued as a war criminal but as World War One. For her bravery, contribution. He looks at two the leader of the United States she was awarded the Military contradictory military-political rocket program and its Medal. entanglements. The nation’s domination of outer space. In current time, me meet voters turning their backs on Locally, we look at a practical Angelina Welsh-Hussain who is Winston Churchill in the first memorial to one of the bravest training at ’s Flinders election after World War Two soldiers of World War Two, University Medical School. and the contrasting support given Albert Chowne VC MM and hear Angelina is featured in our story to Margaret Thatcher in the the story of his bravery and of his on the Gallipoli Scholarships as election called just after the wonderful wife, Daphne, who she is the winner of the 2021 victory in the Falklands War. captivated both him and a Gallipoli Club scholarship. An exhibition now on at the member of the British Royal We also have another in our Australian War Memorial of the Family.

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Dr Phoebe Chapple MM

‘Had she been an officer, and a man, she would have received the Military Cross,’ was the annoyed comment of prominent Australian medical pioneer, Dr , when she heard that her friend Dr Phoebe Chapple had only been awarded the Military Medal for her war time heroism Phoebe Chapple was born in When World War I started ninth was mortally wounded. Six Adelaide on March 31, 1879, the the Australian Army refused to were slightly wounded. youngest daughter of the appoint female doctors, so she Julia Cowper, author of an Headmaster of the Methodist left Adelaide in February 1917 for early history of the QMAAC, school, . She England and became attached to wrote later that: 'Fortunately...Dr was educated at the Advanced the . P. Chappel [sic], who was staying School for Girls in central She later joined Queen Mary's the night at the camp, was on the Adelaide, a radical new Army Auxiliary Corps, although spot.’ Working in the dark for institution founded by the South women were not accorded hours, Phoebe moved through Australian government to formal military status and was the destroyed trench, tending to prepare able girls for entry to appointment as a surgeon at the dead and wounded. For her university. Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. actions during and following the She entered Adelaide She was accorded the air raid, Chapple was awarded a University aged 16. She honorary rank of captain and in Military Medal (MM), the first graduated with a Bachelor of November 1917 was one of the woman doctor so decorated Science in 1898 and studied first two women doctors sent to medicine. In her second year she the front, which she ‘regarded as was awarded the university’s an honour for Australia.’ Elder Prize and graduated as a In France Chapple doctor in 1904. worked with the She was appointed as a Women's Auxiliary Army house-surgeon at the Adelaide Corps at Abbeville till Hospital before transferring to August 1918 and also at the Sydney Medical Mission, Rouen and Le Havre. funded by wealthy tobacco On 29 May 1918, merchants, Hugh and Emma Chapple was inspecting Dixson, to provide free or low- the QMAAC Camp 1 cost home-based medical near Abbeville in France services to the poor. when it came under a Returning to Adelaide, she German aerial bombing practised from Prince Alfred attack. Using the glow College. Soon, she was actively from a lorry that had involved in women’s issues, as a been set on fire, German committee member of the South aircrew dropped three Australian Refuge (for women) bombs on the com- from 1912. pound. Two destroyed In 1914 she also became an buildings while a third Honorary Medical Superinten- exploded on a covered dent of the Salvation Army’s trench used by the facility for single mothers, the women as a shelter. McBride’s Maternity Hospital, at The explosion killed inner-suburban Medindie. eight women and a .

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The citation for the award reads: herself in the adoption of Medical Women's International For gallantry and devotion to patients' babies or their non- Association conference in duty during an enemy air raid. medical problems.’ Edinburgh. While the raid was in progress Dr Chapple was narrowly She continued her practice Doctor Chapple attended to the defeated in the 1919 Adelaide from her home in Norwood until needs of the wounded regardless City Council elections, despite she was 85. of her own safety. support from the Women's Non- Dr Chapple was blunt, She returned to Australia in Party Association. In 1921-22 she confident and dominating. A tall 1919 and resumed practice on was honorary medical officer, strong woman, for years she North Terrace and re-joined the night clinic (venereal diseases), headed the nursing units McBride Hospital. 'She was a for women patients at the marching in Adelaide each Anzac courageous and clever obstet- Adelaide Hospital. Day. She died unmarried on 24 rician … but was jealous of her On the last of her six March 1967 and was cremated authority; although untiring in overseas trips, in 1937 she was with full military honours. her work, she never involved the Australian delegate to the

The Military Medal

The Military Medal (MM) was instituted in March 1916 as an award for officers and men, a supplementary warrant for the MMl was quickly issued to recognise women three months later. It was considered that the MM may ‘under exceptional circumstances, on the special recommendation of a Commander-in-Chief in the Field, be awarded to women.’

At the time of recommending the award for Chapple, the Commander-In-Chief was unable to authorise a Military Cross, a comparable award given to officers, as the women did not hold commissions. A recom- mendation for a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) was considered more appropriate for the women though the MM was finally decided upon as it could only be won in the field.

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Democracy Chose Britain’s Best Wartime Leader It Was NOT Winston Churchill By Bruce McEwan Despite the opinions of people within the British Commonwealth, and this includes Australians, Margaret Thatcher and not Winston Churchill, was the choice of the British electorate as its best wartime leader.

Churchill’s performance in the Falkland Archipelago and the conduct of First World War South Georgia on 2 April 1982. battles at Gallipoli and in France These small island groups were and Belgium were his initial just two of several small rocky undoing and despite his ocean outcrops that the United inspired rhetoric against the Kingdom had claimed as Nazis in the Second World War strategic possessions during the (“We will fight them on the preceding centuries by an beaches, we will never adventurous navy working for surrender! etc”) , the rescue of empirical rulers and ambitious thousands of allied troops from English governments. the beaches of Normandy by a The Falklands were claimed citizen navy and the success of for Britain in 1592 by the British aircraft in the Battle for navigator John Davis who was Britain, the people of Britain credited with first sighting them failed to re-elect him and his in 1592. Like Gallipoli, the Conservative Government in Falklands conflict was far the first general election after removed from Britain being the war ended. 8000 miles away in the South By contrast, Margaret Atlantic Ocean and South Thatcher won an unexpected Georgia was even 800 miles been offered to the Australian victory when she led the further south. Argentinian Government as a replacement Conservatives to a landslide forces had invaded the for the aging carrier HMAS election win after British forces Falklands after claiming Melbourne. Two cruise ships retook their South Atlantic sovereignty over this British well known to Australians, the protectorates in the so-called Territory for centuries. The Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Falklands War after Argentina military junta that ruled the Canberra, had also been rushed occupied the remote islands of nation did not believe that into service as troop carriers: Britain would try to regain the The convoy of 30 ships sailed on territory by force. They had not April 5. On the carriers was a taken into consideration the strike force of modern Harrier determination of Britain’s Prime Jump Jet aircraft capable of Minister, Margaret Thatcher, extremely short take-offs and who rapidly assembled and sent landings using ski Jump flight south a well-armed and trained desks. It was their performance professional task force of that convinced the United commandos with warships and States Marines to later order US refitted merchant vessels in built versions of this amazing support. aircraft from McDonnell The task force was Douglas. assembled around two aircraft On May 2, the Royal Navy carriers, the 30-year-old HMS nuclear submarine HMS Hermes and the recently Conqueror struck a significant refitted light carrier – The HMS blow for Britain by sinking the Invincible - that earlier had

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Argentinian Cruiser General on the Capital, Port Stanley. About 11,400 Argentine Belgrano. This success followed There was plenty of resistance prisoners were taken by the the loss of the destroyer HMS before the British advance got British and about 650 Argentine Sheffield to an AM 39 Exocet underway. lives were lost – which included missile fired from an Argentine At sea, the Argentine air the crew of the General aircraft. Fearing the abilities of force was performing well, Belgrano. British casualties HMS Conqueror, most other sinking a destroyer, two were 255. The battle high- Argentinian Naval vessels were frigates, a container ship loaded lighted the need in modern kept in port (although torpedo with helicopters and a landing warfare for dominance of the attacks on the British fleet by vessel putting troops ashore. air, the use of rocket-powered, one of Argentine’s modern But this was not enough to electronically-guided missiles German Submarines were al- affect the battle on shore and the benefits of advanced most successful. The Argentine especially bearing in mind the surveillance. navy also had some newly acq- considerable loss of Argentine To the victor, the spoils: uired French Super Entendard aircraft. The Argentine military junta Fighter aircraft equipped with Through forced marches, that had started the war was the latest Exocet anti-ship called “Yomping” by the ejected in 1983 by the missiles. Commandoes, the British Argentine electorate but in the Guided missiles were advanced quickly to capture the same year Margaret Thatcher critical to the success of both settlements of Darwin and gained widespread patriotic sides in subsequent fighting Goose Green before surr- support for the Conservative especially as Mrs Thatcher had ounding and isolating the Party in Britain’s 1983 been able to persuade the capital, Stanley. Seeing the Parliamentary Election because American Government to helplessness of the situation, of her military success in the wholeheartedly support her the Argentine commander South Atlantic. campaign. The US supplied her Menendez surrendered to the British politicians and task force with hundreds of air- British on June 14. A small sports leaders now all recognise to-air missiles, communications, Argentine garrison held out the danger of ignoring the aviation fuel and other equip- until June 20 on one of the opinions of a warrior population ment held on Britain’s South Sandwich Islands but with a history of successful Ascension Island as part of its effectively the war was over in armed and sporting conflicts. commitment as a NATO ally. just two weeks. The United States also helped with critical military intel- ligence information. While the British force was steaming south via Ascension Island a smaller British force retook South Georgia Island. There were around 5,000 Argentinian defenders on the Falklands when the British commando forces landed unopposed at Port San Carlos on the northern coast of East Falkland on May 21 and launched an overland Attacks HMS Sheffield

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Argentine Navy light cruiser General Belgrano

ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. as USS Phoenix, she was built in 1935-8 in New York, She survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 undamaged, and went on to earn nine battle stars for World War II service. At the end of the war, she was placed in reserve at Philadelphia in February 1946 and remained laid up there until being sold to Argentina in October 1951. She was renamed 17 de Octubre after the "People's Loyalty day", an important symbol for the political party of the then-president Juan Perón. The 17 de Octubre was one of the main naval units that joined the 1955 coup in which Perón was overthrown, and was renamed General Belgrano after General Manuel Belgrano, who founded the Escuela de Náutica (School of Navigation) in 1799 and had fought for Argentine independence from 1811 to 1819.

HMS Conqueror, the first nuclear-powered submarine to fire in anger, launched three Mark 8 torpedoes at the General Belgrano in the Falklands War. Two struck the ship and exploded. Twenty minutes later, the crew abandoned the sinking ship. General Belgrano was unable to issue a’ Mayday’ signal because of electrical failure.

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Memorial to Albert Chowne VC MM

We continue our series on war memorials around Australia in the leafy Willoughby Park on Sydney’s North Shore.

Bert Chowne was born on 19 July 1920 in battle were always conspicuous. He was Sydney, the seventh child of Arthur James Chowne, hospitalised on October 24 after being wounded at grocer, and his wife Frances Ellen, née Dalziel. The El Alamein, Egypt. Chowne and Dalziel families were well known in He was among forces that Prime Minister John the Willoughby district where Bert grew up. Curtin brought back to Australia in January 1943. He attended Chatswood Boys' Intermediate The 2nd/13th moved to Papua in July that year. By High and Naremburn Junior Technical schools, In then Chowne was mortar-platoon sergeant. Near 1935 he joined the Sydney department store David Finschhafen, New Guinea, in the last days of Jones Ltd, as a shirt cutter. September, he twice crawled forward to direct A keen sportsman, he represented Gordon mortar-fire on enemy positions; for his deeds he Rugby Union Football Club, and also enjoyed was awarded the Military Medal. scouting and tennis. He served briefly in the One of Chowne’s comrades wrote of his Militia's 36th Battalion before enlisting on May 27, 'exceptional coolness and great courage', and of 1940 in the Australian Imperial Force. his reluctance to boast; while a second was quoted He described himself on enlistment as a that 'he never showed fear'. In October, he salesman, probably to avoid reserved-occupation returned to Australia for officer-training, status. From the outset, he showed initiative, graduating as a lieutenant in January 1944. His beginning in the 2nd/13th Battalion as No.15 family fondly remembered his arriving home in Platoon runner and soon advancing to company uniform to be godfather to his niece. runner. In March 1945, at St Philip's Anglican Church, Reaching the Middle East in November 1940, Sydney, he married Daphne May Barton, with the battalion helped to garrison Tobruk, Libya, whom he had worked at David Jones. After training from April to December 1941. Chowne transferred in jungle warfare at Canungra, Queensland, he to the carrier platoon and in September 1942 was joined the 2nd/2nd Battalion in October, two promoted to substantive sergeant. His actions in months before its departure for New Guinea.

Two generations of residents of Willoughby have benefitted from the practical memorial of local hero, Albert Chowne VC MM (1920-1945)

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On 25 March 1945 at Dagua, west of Wewak, Chowne rushed a Japanese- held knoll, later to bear his name. Ascending a steep, narrow track, he hurled grenades and silenced two machine-guns. Although mortally wounded, he reached the enemy's fox- holes and killed two more soldiers before he died. Chowne was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. Daphne heard of his death on March 29, her birthday. In 1946 she and Albert’s family received his decorations from the Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester at Admiralty House. Daphne subsequently presented the VC and the MM to the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Chowne was buried in the Lae War Cemetery. The Lieutenant Albert Chowne, V.C., M.M., Memorial Hall at Willoughby was built and opened in 1954 by Willoughby Council. His architect was Eric Nicholls, the former partner of Walter Burley Griffin, who with him and his wife Marion planned the suburb of Castlecrag and built many of its early Albert Chowne VC MM houses. Chowne Street in Campbell, Canberra (near the Australian War Memorial) and Chowne Place, Chatswood were named after him. Daphne had turned 24 just four days after Bert was killed. A bunch of red roses Chowne sent to mark her birthday arrived just before news arrived of his death. 'I am proud for him but it doesn't make up for everything,' she told the Sydney Morning Herald in September 1945. 'I would rather he had remained just ordinary and was alive. He was a wonderful man and a grand husband. I have no plans for the future. It is all dead to me now.' Some years later, Daphne married Corporal John Dunne of the 2nd/29th Battalion, who had been captured in Malaya in 1942 and was imprisoned at Changi.

Albert and Daphne's wedding photo

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After she donated Bert’s Victoria Cross and other medals to the Australian War Memorial she had replica’s made which she wore on Anzac Day and other ceremonial occasions. In 2015 the grandson of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry, spotted the replica Victoria Cross pinned to Daphne's chest at the Sydney Opera House after he completed a deployment with the Australian Defence Force. 'He asked me about the Victoria Cross,' Mrs Dunn said back then. 'He said he recognised that and wanted to know all about it.' Daphne and Prince Harry caught upon every trip the Prince made to Sydney after that. At their last meeting, she told the Prince and his wife that she could not wait to nurse their expected baby next time the royal couple came to this country. It was not to be. She received a birthday card from Prince Harry for her 99th birthday but died so after.

In 2002, Willoughby City Council ran a competition with the winner to be commissioned to create a new work of art that would complement the Albert Chowne Memorial Hall. Sculptor Gaby Porter, while investigating Albert's life learned of his widow Daphne and submitted her idea for a sculpture – winning the commission. Made of bronze, Daphne’s casting took two months and the modelling another two months.

Albert Chowne's medals which are held by the Australian War memorial

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Gallipoli Scholarship Fund 2021 Gallipoli Scholarships Announced Members should remain mindful of the of the assistance that can be provided to any young descendants they know of Australian and New Zealand service personnel in necessitous circumstances to train for a career. It is important that you spread the word in your communities. Our Gallipoli Memorial Club years, organising numerous day the Gallipoli campaign, has long been a proud sponsor of trips for the veterans around particularly among younger the Gallipoli Scholarship Fund Sydney. As the veterans aged people, and sought Bill’s which was founded in 1996 as a they began meeting annually at assistance in establishing the result of a donation from a World the Merrylands RSL Club. Gallipoli Scholarship. War I Veterans Association which In 1990 Bill was a carer for had met annually prior to Anzac four New South Day for a number of years at the Wales members of Merrylands RSL Club, in western the group of Sydney. remaining WW1 This year the Gallipoli veterans when they Memorial Club Bursary was revisited Gallipoli for awarded to Angelina Welsh- the 75th anniversary Hussain (see page 14) who is of the campaign studying a six-year double degree with other veterans of Bachelor of Clinical Science/- from around the Doctor of Medicine at Flinders country, under the University in Adelaide. auspices of then Club President John Robert- Prime Minister, Bob son attended the announcement Hawke. in Canberra by the Governor- In the mid-90s, General, David Hurley. under new Chaiman The late Bill Hall, a World Charles Mance, the War II veteran from the Battle of Association mem- Milne Bay in New Guinea, had bers resolved to been a co-ordinator of the WWI perpetuate a better Bill Hall Association for a number of understanding of

In August 1939, Sydney born William (Bill) Henry Sutherland Hall OAM, BEM(C) (1919-2003) enlisted as a Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. He was a great organiser, brilliant with figures, and as a consequence was frequently seconded to logistics and organisational tasks within the armed forces. His overseas service included the United Kingdom, the siege of Tobruk, and in Syria. In the Papua New Guinea campaign he served at Milne Bay, Nadzab, Lae and the Ramu Valley. Bill enjoyed his service years and stayed in the Army until discharged in 1946 with the rank of Major. His involvement with the Army continued for all of his life through service to the RSL, Veterans’ Associations, Veteran’s Affairs, the First World War Diggers, Legacy, The Rats of Tobruk Association, the Krait Memorial, and the Gallipoli Scholarship Fund.

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Gallipoli Scholarship Fund

In 1996, Bill approached to highlight the 1939-45 War weighting applies to necessitous Major General Arthur Fittock AO activities of Australian soldiers at circumstances and a 40% (Retd), who is the Patron of the the battle of Milne Bay in Papua weighting to educational merit. Gallipoli Memorial Club, to New Guinea – a battle which saw Currently, the Scholarship does establish and administer the the first defeat of enemy forces not extend beyond one year. Scholarship Fund. on land in the Asia- Pacific area. From 2021, scholarship General Fittock formed a The Gallipoli Scholarship applicants must be an Australian Management Committee and Fund seeks to perpetuate among citizen who is a direct descendant registered the Gallipoli Scholar- young Australians an understand- of a Service man or woman who ship Fund, attracting tax ded- ing of those enduring traditions has served in the Australian or uctible donations from RSL and of perseverance, courage, self- New Zealand Defence Force in Service Clubs, RSL Sub-Branches sacrifice and mateship that were any conflict or peacekeeping role and other organisations, found- established so indelibly in the since the First World War. ations and individuals to ensure cause of world peace at Gallipoli, However, Bill Hall Bursaries are the Scholarship’s long-term and thereafter on other battle- now awarded to previous sustainability. fields and peace operations. It recipients of a Gallipoli General Fittock was the helps inform and remind Scholarship for the second year Fund’s first Chairman and retired Australians of the sacrifices of of study and a Macintosh from the position in July 2016. those who served Australia in Foundation Bursary to previous Major General Michael Smith, conflicts and peace operations, recipients for their third year. who followed as Chairman, then and thereby contributes to the This year a new bursary in paid tribute to Arthur’s work, future security of our nation and honor of Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk, noting that the establishment our national values of democracy, has been made possible by the and sustainability of the freedom, and the rule of law. generosity of two Australians of Scholarship was due to Arthur’s The Scholarship provides Turkish descent, to support a dedication, strong leadership and financial assistance to the most young person from the persistence. deserving and meritorious Australian-Turkish community to In 1998 the first two Gallipoli Australian applicants, undertake further study. Mr Scholarships were awarded and commencing their first year of Omer Incekara, Chair of the, in 2006 the first Scholarships tertiary study at a University or Ataturk Scholarship, and Mr Ozan honouring the efforts of Bill Hall TAFE at Degree, Diploma or Girgin, CEO of Promax Construc- were granted. Among other Advanced Diploma level, in the tions were honored at the things the name and memory of year of application. In assessing announcement ceremony. Bill Hall provides the opportunity suitability for an award, a 60%

Criteria

• Must be an Australian Citizen under 25 years of age • Must be a direct descendant of an Australian or New Zealand Service man or woman who has served in any conflict or peacekeeping operation from the First World War to the present day. • Must be able to prove necessitous circumstances, such as being in receipt of or being eligible to receive Youth Allowance, ABSTUDY, DVA assistance, or a similar Australian Government benefit.

For details on applying visit: https://gallipolischolarship.com.au/apply

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Gallipoli Scholarship Fund

Angelina Welsh-Hussain is studying a six year double degree of Bachelor of Clinical Science/Doctor of Medicine at Flinders University, Adelaide. “Throughout my degree I hope to participate in clinical placements in rural and remote Australia and be part of the Ride Along program with the Royal Flying Doctors. I am a committee member of the Women in Health Society and a performer in the Flinders Medrevue musical. Once I graduate my aim is to specialise in emergency medicine or trauma to enable me to work with Mercy Ships or Doctors without Borders and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. My great-grandfather, Kenneth Hamlyn McConnel (1896-1976) grew up on the oldest residence in Queensland, Cressbrook Station, and went on to fight and survive both world wars and become a distinguished architect. In World War One, as a Lieutenant in the 5th Light Horse Brigade and the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion, he fought in the major battles of Lone Pine, Pozieres, Bullecourt, Ypres, Amiens and the Second Somme. In WW2, he served with RAE (Camouflage) and fought in New Guinea. For his service he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the Allied Medal, and the Victory Medal. Kenneth also became a leading architect, designing major buildings such as the British Medical Association House (1928) in Sydney and St Mary’s Church in North Sydney (1939). After retiring in 1965, he continued to work as a consultant to his firm but was free to give more time to charity work for Legacy and the War Veterans' Home in Narrabeen. He died after a long illness aged 79.

Speech by the Governor General, David Hurley General David Hurley officiated at the 2021 Gallipoli Scholarship announcement in March.

Good evening, all. My wife and they will be able to give you • acknowledge those who Linda and I are delighted to be an answer. Incidentally, far fewer, have served, and here and delighted to be part of I suspect, would know that today – especially those who have another important milestone for 18 March – is an important part of died or been injured the Gallipoli Scholarship Fund. the Anzac story. The day the fighting for Australia We are a little over a month British Admiralty admitted the • reflect on how that service out from Anzac Day. Our nation fleet had failed to force the and sacrifice has will pause, as we do every year, to Dardanelles. A defeat that led to contributed to what and reflect and honour those who the Gallipoli campaign and all that have served. followed. who we are as a nation Ask almost any Australian – It is important, though, to today – that is, to young or old, in uniform or remember that Anzac Day is about understand its impact civilian, those whose families have more than remembering dates or • understand what our been here for generations or our recalling long-past battles. It is a response should be to that newest Australians – what is point-in-time where we, as a legacy. significant about the 25th April nation:

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Gallipoli Scholarship Fund

The Gallipoli Scholarship should inspire recipients. His Ladies and gentlemen, to Mr Foundation has a very similar honour and values and his Omer Incekara, Chair, Ataturk purpose. It seeks to perpetuate commitment to his nation shaped Scholarship, and Mr Ozan Girgin, among young Australians an generations that followed. Like CEO, Promax Constructions, I say understanding of the Anzac the Anzac legacy, those values ‘thank you’. Your initiative and legacy and of the characteristics are also reflected in the Mustafa support for this bursary is a which we now prescribe to it: Kemal Atatürk Memorial Bursary. wonderful contribution to our endurance, courage, sacrifice and Finally, it is fitting that we community. To all involved with mateship. In essence, these launch this bursary in Harmony the Gallipoli Scholarship characteristics say that we are a Week – an opportunity to Foundation – thank you for what people who are strong, look out celebrate our diversity and you do for young Australians. for each other, and are prepared recognise that our different We are a good country; a to put others before self. backgrounds, cultures and good people. You are all exam- Today’s launch is an example experiences combine to make us ples of that richness of spirit and of the application of that legacy the country we are. goodness. to our modern world. A new bursary, made possible by the generosity of two Australians of Turkish descent, to support a young person from the Australian-Turkish community to undertake further study. A terrific, modern example of mateship, of supporting others and offering a hand-up to create an opportunity or overcome a challenge. The very epitome of the Anzac legacy. I dare say that, in the heat of any battle, few participants are able to envisage a future where deadly foes would, in generations to come, become friends, family and partners. We know, though, that there was at least one who could: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Just as we seek to learn from and apply the Anzac legacy, Ataturk took his experiences from the battlefields of Gallipoli and applied them as he shaped modern Turkey. He was a remarkable, visionary leader Governor-General David Hurley whose name on this bursary

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