Vernon Sturdee
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Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, was an Australian Army commander who served two terms as Chief of the General Staff. A regular officer of the Royal Australian Engineers who joined
Lieutenant General Vernon Sturdee, GOC First Army c. 1945
Sturdee outside a dugout at Anzac.
B Company, 4th Pioneer Battalion shifts camp from the Butte de Warlencourt to Fremicourt by light railway.
Senior commanders on Bougainville. Sturdee is on the left.
Doveton Sturdee
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Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. After training as a torpedo officer, he commanded two different cruisers and then three different batt
Vernon Sturdee
…and his wife Laura Isabell, née Merrett. Alfred Sturdee, a medical practitioner from England, came from a prominent naval family and was the brother of Doveton Sturdee, who later became an admiral of the fleet. Alfred emigrated to Australia in the 1880s, travelling as a ship's doctor. He served in the Boer War, where…
Sketch of Sturdee for Naval Officers of World War I
Battle of the Falkland Islands by William Lionel Wyllie. Scharnhorst rolls over and sinks while Gneisenau continues to fight
Sturdee on board HMS Hercules commanding 4th Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland
Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1918, by Glyn Philpot