The Royal Australian Survey Corps was a Corps of the Australian Army, formed on 1 July 1915 and disbanded on 1 July 1996. As one of the principal military survey units in Australia, the role of the Ro
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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. He is the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.
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…2/1st Aust Army Topographic Survey Company, 3rd Aust Field Survey Company, 69th US Engineer Topographic Company and 8th Field Survey Section to General Thomas Blamey, Commander, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area. At Morotai, the 1st Mobile Lithographic Section was given the privilege of preparing the…
Formal portrait, c. 1942
Group portrait of 1st Division staff officers at Mena Camp, December 1914. Blamey, then a major, is in the front row, second from the right.
1st Division Headquarters at Anzac, 3 May 1915. Blamey is in the right foreground with his back to the camera. The position was exposed to shrapnel fire and Major John Gellibrand was wounded there.
Blamey in Belgium, March 1919