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.
Blamey in 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
Field marshal (Australia)
Field marshal is the highest rank of the Australian Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of field marshal. It is a five-star rank, equivalent to the ranks in the other armed services of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Australian Navy, and Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force. The subordinate army rank is general.
Australia's first appointed field marshal (honorary), Lieutenant General W. R. Birdwood near Hill 60, Gallipoli. Photograph by C.E.W. Bean, October 1915.
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey – Relief from Blamey Square, Canberra.