Alan Robert StarrittAge: 421915–1957
- Name
- Alan Robert Starritt
- Given names
- Alan Robert
- Surname
- Starritt
| Birth | 22 February 1915 39 33 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1915 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 10 months) 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 22 months) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 25 August 1918 (Age 3) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Catherine Gregg
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 2) 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. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 3) 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. |
| Birth of a sister | 13 December 1920 (Age 5) Australia
younger sister -
Phyllis Marjorie Starritt
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 4) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 22 January 1921 (Age 5) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
Robert Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 5) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 6) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 7) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 10) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 11) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 12) 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 13) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 14) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 15) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 16) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a father | 7 April 1933 (Age 18) Australia
father -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 17) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Sporting | Tennis 1934 (Age 18)Tennis 1934 |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 20) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 6 October 1937 (Age 22) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
Ivie Stewart
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 21) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 22) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 23) 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 24) 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. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 25) 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. |
| Military | 16 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS WWII 28 June 1942 (Age 27) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
Note:
Service Record
Name STARRITT, ALAN ROBERT
Service Australian Army
Service Number V395122
Date of Birth 22 Feb 1915
Place of Birth SHEPPARTON, VIC
Date of Enlistment 28 Jun 1942
Locality on Enlistment NORTH WEST MOOROOPNA, VIC
Place of Enlistment TATURA, VIC
Next of Kin STARRITT, JEAN
Date of Discharge 1 Oct 1945
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 16 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 26) 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 27) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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 32) 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 33) 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. |
| Death of a mother | 4 January 1950 (Age 34) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 34) 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 35) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 36) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 38) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 39) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 40) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 41) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Death | 27 June 1957 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia |
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6 years mother |
Birth 10 March 1881 28 24 North West Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 4 January 1950 (Age 68) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 30 October 1907 — Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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9 months #1 elder sister |
Birth 30 July 1908 33 27 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 August 1983 (Age 75) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
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14 months #2 elder sister |
Birth 20 September 1909 34 28 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 12 February 1997 (Age 87) Forbes, New South Wales, Australia |
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20 months #3 elder brother |
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4 years #4 himself |
Birth 22 February 1915 39 33 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 27 June 1957 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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6 years #5 younger sister |
Birth 13 December 1920 45 39 Australia Death Age: 89 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Jean Beryl Anderson - View family |
| himself |
Birth 22 February 1915 39 33 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 27 June 1957 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
| wife |
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| #1 son | |
| #2 son |
Alan Robert Starritt has 22 first cousins recorded
Father's family (17)
Parents Richard Harry Thomas + Sarah Ann Starritt
Parents James Buchanan Rankin Sr. + Ellenor Mary Starritt
Parents George Starritt OBE + Amanda Rathjen
Parents Alfred Edward Rathjen + Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt
Mother's family (5)
Parents Alexander John "Jack" Stewart + Catherine Thompson
Parents John Fairbairn Dunolp + Naomi Eliza Stewart
Parents Charles Edwin Mc Donald + Florence "Floss" Stewart
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Military | Service Record
Name STARRITT, ALAN ROBERT
Service Australian Army
Service Number V395122
Date of Birth 22 Feb 1915
Place of Birth SHEPPARTON, VIC
Date of Enlistment 28 Jun 1942
Locality on Enlistment NORTH WEST MOOROOPNA, VIC
Place of Enlistment TATURA, VIC
Next of Kin STARRITT, JEAN
Date of Discharge 1 Oct 1945
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 16 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No |
| 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. |
| Australian History | Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement |
| Australian History | Television in Australia is launched. |
| Australian History | The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. |
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