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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, ED (24 January 1884 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. He is the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal. Blamey joined the Australian Army as a regular soldier in 1906, and attended the Staff College at Quetta.
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Thomas Blamey. Marechal de campo Thomas Albert Blamey ( 24 de janeiro de 1884 - 27 de maio de 1951) foi um general australiano da Primeira e Segunda Guerras Mundiais, e o único australiano a atingir o posto de marechal de campo . O sétimo de dez filhos, Blamey nasceu em 24 de janeiro de 1884 em Lake Albert, perto de Wagga Wagga ...
Thomas Blamey, 1939. Australian War Memorial, 000307. Sir Thomas Albert Blamey (1884-1951), army officer and commissioner of police, was born on 24 January 1884 at Lake Albert, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, seventh child of Richard Henwood Blamey, butcher, and his native-born wife Margaret Louisa, née Murray.
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4 de mar. de 2015 · Thomas Blamey, born near Wagga Wagga on 24 January 1884, became the first Australian army officer to reach the rank of field marshal. Originally a teacher, Blamey received a commission in the Commonwealth Cadet Forces in 1906 and was posted to Melbourne.
26 de mai. de 2022 · Sir Thomas Blamey, the first and only Australian soldier to be appointed a Field Marshal, died in Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital yesterday morning. He will be accorded a State funeral in Melbourne with full military honors on Wednesday afternoon. During World War II, Field Marshal Blamey was Commander in Chief of the Australian General forces.
24 January 1884 - 27 May 1951. A formal portrait of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED. 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.
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey was Australia’s greatest and most important soldier. Indeed, he was a major figure in Australian history. He was probably not Australia’s most accomplished battlefield commander, I am thinking here of men like Sir William Glasgow and George Vasey.
