Thomas Matthew MadillAge: 481904–1952
- Name
- Thomas Matthew Madill
- Given names
- Thomas Matthew
- Surname
- Madill
| Birth | 1 February 1904 48 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Thomas-and-David.png |
| Marriage of a half-sister | Edith May Madill - View family 26 August 1904 (Age 6 months) 101 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
uncle -
John "Arthur" Lynas
half-sister -
Edith May Madill
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| Australian History | 1904 Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a sister | 15 October 1905 (Age 20 months) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Elsie Madill
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 23 months) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a sister | 11 July 1907 (Age 3) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Florence "May" Madill
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| Death of a paternal grandfather | 21 January 1908 (Age 3) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
Matthew Madill
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 3) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 4) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Marriage of a half-sister | Ethel Madill - View family 1910 (Age 5) Victoria, Australia
father's son-in-law -
George Walter Adams
half-sister -
Ethel Madill
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| Australian History | 1910 (Age 5) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Marriage of a half-sister | Elizabeth Isabel Madill - View family 1911 (Age 6) Victoria, Australia
father's son-in-law -
Angus Mc Donald
half-sister -
Elizabeth Isabel Madill
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 6) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Birth of a sister | 8 August 1912 (Age 8) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Gertrude "Rita" Madill
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 7) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Birth of a brother | 28 December 1913 (Age 9) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Frederick Lynas "Fred" Madill
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 8) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 8) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 9) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Birth of a brother | 17 May 1915 (Age 11) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Leslie George Madill
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| Australian History | 1915 (Age 10) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 11) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 12) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Education | Merit Certificate 30 December 1918 (Age 14) Undera, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 13) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Birth of a sister | 28 February 1919 (Age 15) Undera, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Phyllis Rosiland Madill
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| Australian History | 1919 (Age 14) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 15) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 16) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 17) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Family Photo | Family Photo 1923 (Age 18)David and Abina and Family |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 18) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Marriage of a sister | Abina Maude Madill - View family 1924 (estimated) (Age 19)
brother-in-law -
John "Jack" Stewart Maddock
elder sister -
Abina Maude Madill
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| Sport | Undera Football Club September 1925 (Age 21)UFC Premiers 1925 |
| Sport | Elected as delegate for Undera Football Club 14 May 1926 (Age 22)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 May 1926 Page 18 |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 21) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 22) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 23) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 24) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 25) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Death of a half-sister | 18 July 1931 (Age 27) Carnegie, Victoria, Australia
half-sister -
Edith May Madill
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| Occupation | Farmer 1931 (Age 26) Undera, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 26) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 27) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a father | 10 March 1933 (Age 29) Undera North, Victoria, Australia
father -
David Madill
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| Death of a maternal grandmother | 4 April 1933 (Age 29) 59 Martin Street, Northcote, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Ann Jane Smith
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 28) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Occupation | Farmer 1936 (Age 31) Undera, Victoria, Australia |
| Photo | Wedding 11 April 1936 (Age 32) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 31) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Occupation | Farmer 1937 (Age 32) Garfield, Victoria, Australia Address: 13 Mile Road |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 32) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 33) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 34) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 35) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Military | 11 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS WWII 1941 (Age 36) Garfield, Victoria, Australia
Note:
Service Record
Name MADILL, THOMAS MATHEW
Service Australian Army
Service Number V379925
Date of Birth 1 Feb 1904
Place of Birth MOOROOPNA, VIC
Date of Enlistment Unknown
Locality on Enlistment GARFIELD, VIC
Place of Enlistment AREA 52A, VIC
Next of Kin MADILL, EDNA
Date of Discharge 20 Sep 1945
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 11 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 36) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Occupation | Farmer 1942 (Age 37) Garfield, Victoria, Australia Address: 13 Mile Road |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 37) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 38) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 39) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 40) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 41) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 43) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 44) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 45) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 46) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 47) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Death | 10 December 1952 (Age 48) Garfield, Victoria, Australia The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 10 December 1954 Page 17 |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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27 years mother |
Birth 10 July 1882 40 34 Hanna Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 6 July 1963 (Age 80) Traralgon, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1898 — 66 Herbet Street, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #1 elder sister |
Birth 10 September 1900 45 18 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 19 May 1993 (Age 92) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #2 elder brother |
Birth 28 February 1903 47 20 Albert Park, Victoria, Australia Death 7 August 1982 (Age 79) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
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11 months #3 himself |
Birth 1 February 1904 48 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 10 December 1952 (Age 48) Garfield, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #4 younger sister |
Birth 15 October 1905 50 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 2 June 1995 (Age 89) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #5 younger sister |
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5 years #6 younger sister |
Birth 8 August 1912 57 30 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 21 December 1978 (Age 66) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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17 months #7 younger brother |
Birth 28 December 1913 58 31 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death August 2007 (Age 93) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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17 months #8 younger brother |
Birth 17 May 1915 59 32 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 6 June 1971 (Age 56) Numurkah, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #9 younger sister |
Birth 28 February 1919 63 36 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 4 July 2011 (Age 92) |
| Father’s family with Adelaide Annie Briggs - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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5 months step-mother |
Adelaide Annie Briggs
Birth 1856 22 21 Ararat, Victoria, Australia Death 11 December 1879 (Age 23) Ararat, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1877 — Clunes, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #1 half-sister |
Birth 9 August 1879 24 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 27 November 1956 (Age 77) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
| Father’s family with Mary Ellen Ryan - View family |
| father |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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5 months step-mother |
Mary Ellen Ryan
Birth 1856 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 1898 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: about 1881 |
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16 months #1 half-sister |
Birth 16 May 1882 26 26 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 18 July 1931 (Age 49) Carnegie, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #2 half-sister |
Birth 4 January 1884 28 28 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 18 April 1976 (Age 92) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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23 months #3 half-sister |
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21 months #4 half-sister |
Birth 25 August 1887 32 31 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 16 October 1970 (Age 83) Rosebud, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #5 half-sister |
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2 years #6 half-sister |
Birth 14 September 1891 36 35 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1970 (Age 78) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #7 half-brother |
Birth 27 June 1893 37 37 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 12 July 1983 (Age 90) Berrigan, Victoria, Australia |
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23 months #8 half-sister |
Birth 6 June 1895 39 39 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 15 May 1978 (Age 82) Finley, New South Wales, Australia |
| Family with Edna Mary Norton - View family |
| himself |
Birth 1 February 1904 48 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 10 December 1952 (Age 48) Garfield, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years wife |
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| #2 son |
Thomas Matthew Madill has 32 first cousins recorded
Father's family (21)
Parents John Sherry + Ann Jane Madill
Parents James Alfred Bilson + Mary Ellinor Madill
Parents James Henry Ryan + Margaret Ann Madill
Mother's family (11)
Parents William James Lynas + Ellen Rose North
Parents Vincent Scott Moran + Sara Elizabeth Lynas
Parents John "Arthur" Lynas + Edith May Madill
Parents Frederick Victor Lynas + Jane Sellwood
| Australian History | A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital |
| Australian History | Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country |
| Australian History | The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | The Royal Australian Navy is founded |
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Australian History | Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | Western Australia celebrates its centenary |
| Australian History | Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings |
| Australian History | Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |
| Australian History | Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
| Military | Service Record
Name MADILL, THOMAS MATHEW
Service Australian Army
Service Number V379925
Date of Birth 1 Feb 1904
Place of Birth MOOROOPNA, VIC
Date of Enlistment Unknown
Locality on Enlistment GARFIELD, VIC
Place of Enlistment AREA 52A, VIC
Next of Kin MADILL, EDNA
Date of Discharge 20 Sep 1945
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 11 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| Australian History | 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. |
| Australian History | Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese |
| Australian History | Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. |
| Australian History | Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. |
| Australian History | the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. |
| Australian History | Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme |
| Australian History | Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Australian History | Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins |
| Australian History | 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. |
| Australian History | Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
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