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    Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Fairbairn Rowell, KBE, CB (15 December 1894 – 12 April 1975) was an Australian soldier who served as Chief of the General...
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  • Rowell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bama Rowell (1916–1993), second baseman and outfielder for the Boston Bees/Boston Braves...
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    under the conditions they faced. Morris said to Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell on handing over command of NGF, "The mountains will beat the Nips and...
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    Force during the Kokoda Track campaign, and relieved Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell under controversial circumstances. He planned and carried out the significant...
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  • Sydney Ringer (1836–1910), British pharmacologist Sydney Rowell (1894–1975), Australian soldier, Chief of the General Staff from 1950 to 1954 Sydney Domville...
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    by some of the Australian Army's most notable commanders, including Sydney Rowell, Sir Edmund Herring and Sir Leslie Morshead. General Sir Thomas Blamey...
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    136 days 18 Rowell, SydneyLieutenant General Sir Sydney Rowell KBE, CB (1894–1975) 17 April 1950 15 December 1954 4 years, 242 days 19 Rowell, SydneyLieutenant...
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  • Australian National University. pp. 485–487. ISSN 1833-7538. Hill, A. J. "Rowell, Sir Sydney Fairbairn (1894–1975)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National...
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    season. Rowell was born in Sydney, New South Wales to a mother from Victoria and a father from Queensland. The family moved to Melbourne when Rowell was a...
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  • evacuated in early September. Following the battle Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell, the commander of New Guinea Force, stated that the attacks made by...
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    situation, the commander of the Australian I Corps, Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell who had taken over from Morris in August, decided to pull the 39th Infantry...
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  • General Basil Morris (19 May 1941 – 31 July 1942) / Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell (1 August 1942 – 30 September 1942) / Lieutenant General Edmund Herring...
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    Colonel James Rowell CB, VD (20 January 1851 – 6 July 1940) was an English-born Australian politician, soldier and horticulturalist. Born in Cambridge...
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    Australian Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell, who was dismissed by General Edmund Herring for insubordination.: 219  He said Rowell had a "defeatist attitude...
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    favourable opinion was not universally held. Sydney Rowell later explained that: Robbie, although in Sydney, was not unaware of what was going on. The thing...
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    Military District. I Corps came under the command of Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell around this time. Assigned to the defence of southern Queensland, the...
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    Assembly. Rowell has been appointed by Western Sydney University as a Fellow of Law. After completing a law degree at the University of Western Sydney he held...
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    Force, now commanded by Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell, on 12 August. Clowes' headquarters was formed in Sydney at the end of July and was flown up to Milne...
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    superior General Sir Thomas Blamey, and Blamey's Chief of Staff, Colonel Sydney Rowell, a personal friend of Clowes. Clowes returned to Australia in January...
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    Frank Berryman, William Bridgeford, Cyril Clowes, Horace Robertson, Sydney Rowell and George Alan Vasey. These officers had fought in World War I and...
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    Anderson, Nicholas (2014). To Kokoda. Australian Army Campaigns Series – 14. Sydney, New South Wales: Big Sky Publishing. ISBN 978-1-922132-95-6. Bullard, Steven...
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    Sturdee and his Vice Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell, had to develop an appropriate structure. The proposal submitted to...
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    Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell decided to recall Potts to Port Moresby, returning Porter to command of the 21st Brigade. Rowell's motives have been debated...
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  • [520] John Rossiter 1978 Agent-General for Victoria in London [521] Sydney Rowell 1953 Chief of the General Staff [522] James Rowland 1977 Chief of the...
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  • 2006). "Proud Soldier and Legal Innovator". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 July 2023. Rowell, Sydney (1979). "Bruche, Sir Julius Henry (1873–1961)"...
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    were dismissed by the Brigadier General Staff at I Corps, Brigadier Sydney Rowell. A month later, Savige was proven right when the Afrika Korps pounced...
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    was an elitist. In the wake of the dismissal of Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell for insubordination, Blamey ordered Herring to join him in Port Moresby...
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    Division. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-74114-191-5. Cunneen, Christopher (2000). William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor-General. Sydney: University...
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    Blamey as incompetent and protested at his sacking of Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell. Blamey cancelled Wilmot's accreditation as a war correspondent in October...
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  • Leader Keith Truscott that day. Following the battle Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell, the commander of New Guinea Force, stated that the attacks made by...
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