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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, CStJ, ED (24 January 1884 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. He is the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal. Blamey joined the Australian Army as a regular soldier in 1906, and attended the Staff College at Quetta.
Thomas Blamey, 1939. Australian War Memorial, 000307. Sir Thomas Albert Blamey (1884-1951), army officer and commissioner of police, was born on 24 January 1884 at Lake Albert, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, seventh child of Richard Henwood Blamey, butcher, and his native-born wife Margaret Louisa, née Murray.
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BLAMEY, Sir Thomas Albert. Generale australiano, nato il 24 gennaio 1884 a Wagga (Nuova Galles del Sud); partecipò dal 1914 al 1918 alla prima Guerra mondiale, in cui si distinse tanto da esser nominato (1918) capo di stato maggiore del corpo australiano in Europa, e nell'anno seguente capo di stato maggiore delle forze australiane imperiali.
4 mar 2015 · Description. Thomas Blamey, born near Wagga Wagga on 24 January 1884, became the first Australian army officer to reach the rank of field marshal. Originally a teacher, Blamey received a commission in the Commonwealth Cadet Forces in 1906 and was posted to Melbourne.
BLAMEY, Sir Thomas Albert in "Enciclopedia Italiana" - Treccani - Treccani. BLAMEY, Sir Thomas Albert (App. II, 1, p. 415) Generale australiano, morto a Melbourne il 27 maggio 1951. Bibl.: W. Churchill, La sec. guerra mond., trad. ital., V-VI, Milano 1950; L.-M. Chassin, Hist. milit. de la sec. guerre mond., Parigi 1951, pp. 74, 159, 483.
24 January 1884 - 27 May 1951. A formal portrait of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey GBE KCB CMG DSO ED. Thomas Albert Blamey was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, on 24 January 1884, the seventh of ten children of Richard Blamey, a Cornish butcher who had emigrated to Australia at age 16 and worked as a drover and overseer.
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey was Australia’s greatest and most important soldier. Indeed, he was a major figure in Australian history. He was probably not Australia’s most accomplished battlefield commander, I am thinking here of men like Sir William Glasgow and George Vasey.
