Australian Army Lieutenant General. A combat veteran of World Wars I and II, he rose in rank to become commander of the 1st and 2nd Corps of the Australian Army. He entered the Army in 1913 and after the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, he served on the Western Front with the field artillery in Europe where he actively participated in the Battle of Pozieres (July to September 1916), the 2nd Battle of Bullecourt (April to May 1917), the Battle of Passchendaele (July to November 1917), and the Hundred Days Offensive (August to November 1918). After the end of World War I, he returned to Australia and remained in the Army, and was eventually promoted to the rank of colonel. After Australia entered World War II, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and became commander of the Royal Artillery in the Australian 7th Division and his unit was sent to North Africa in early 1940 where he participated in the Western Desert Campaign in Egypt and Libya and the Syria-Lebanon campaign. In January 1942 he was transferred to the Pacific Theater of Operations where he participated in the Netherlands East Indies campaign (December 1941 to March 1942), the Battle of Buna-Gona in New Guinea (November 1942 to January 1943), the Salamaua-Lae campaign in New Guinea (April to September 1943), the Finisterre Range and the Huon Peninsula campaign in New Guinea (September 1943 to April 1944), the Philippines campaign (1944 to 1945), and the Borneo Campaign (1945). After the end of World War II he returned to Australia and remained in the Army until his retirement in 1954 at the rank of lieutenant general, with 41 years of continuous military service. His military honors include the Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, the Companion of the Order of the Bath, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Distinguished Service Order, and he was mentioned in dispatches (whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which is described the soldier's gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy) on four separate occasions. In 1948 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom with silver palm by the US government. From 1954 until 1961 he was Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. He died at the age of 87.