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...born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King George, went out as Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...bodies of thousands of Anzacs piled on the beach at Gallipoli have built a monument of fame to Australia's soldiers that cannot be destroyed. Australia's Navy, however, is young, small and very green. There is just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Track of a Trophy | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...Notable shots: Archduke Ferdinand's blood-flecked tunic; silk-hatted Etonians drilling with rifles; French troops deployed for the first battle of the Marne; Serbia's melancholy Peter watching his army break before Mackensen; a direct hit on Rheims Cathedral; the famed River Clyde under fire at Gallipoli; Russian infantry retreating on the run; the U. S. transport Antilles sinking; a No Man's Land capture; U. S. infantry blinded by gas; a dachshund following Kaiser Wilhelm into exile; French troops shooting traitors as late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Million Dead | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

John Gallishaw '16, who recently lectured in Cambridge and is known for his book on the war, "Trenching in Gallipoli," has contributed an article, "Recollections of a Hypocritical Dean." Gallishaw was an assistant dean at Harvard after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED IN GRADUATES' MAGAZINE | 12/20/1932 | See Source »

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