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George Burrows GreggAge: 841905–1989

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George Burrows Gregg
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George Burrows
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Birth about 1905 45 35
 

Australian History 1906 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a brother 28 June 1907 (Age 2)
 

younger brother - Finley Gregg
Birth of a brother about 1908 (Age 3)
 

younger brother - William Gregg
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.
Australian History 1910 (Age 5)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Birth of a brother 8 July 1911 (Age 6)
 

younger brother - John Gregg
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.
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
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.
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
Death of a brother about 1916 (Age 11)
 

elder brother - Richard Gregg
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.
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.
Marriage of a brotherRobert Gregg - View family
1 December 1919 (Age 14)
 

elder brother - Robert Gregg
sister-in-law - Isabella Blair
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
Australian History 1923 (Age 18)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
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
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
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
Death of a father 1936 (Age 31)
 

father - Robert Gregg
Australian History 1936 (Age 31)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 32)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Birth of a son
#1		 about 1938 (Age 33)
 

son - Robert Allan Marshall Gregg
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.
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.
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.
Australian History 1954 (Age 49)
 

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 50)
 

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 51)
 

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 52)
 

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 of a sister about 1960 (Age 55)
 

elder sister - Sarah (Sadie) Gregg
Australian History 1962 (Age 57)
 

Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.
Note: Malayan Insurgence ends
Death of a mother 1964 (Age 59)
 

mother - Mattie Burrowes
Australian History 1964 (Age 59)
 

Note: The Beatles tour Australia;
Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne;
Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity;
Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old;
Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War.
Australian History 1965 (Age 60)
 

Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History 1966 (Age 61)
 

Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;
Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
Australian History 14 February 1966 (Age 61)
 

Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History 1967 (Age 62)
 

Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;
Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton;
Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings;
Note: Talkback radio is introduced;
Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney;
Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party;
Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
Australian History 1968 (Age 63)
 

Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;
Australian History 1969 (Age 64)
 

Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;
Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die;
Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney;
Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958
Death of a brother 12 November 1970 (Age 65)
 

elder brother - Robert Gregg
Australian History 1970 (Age 65)
 

Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History 1971 (Age 66)
 

Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;
Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon
Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest.
Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian History 1972 (Age 67)
 

Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.
Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves
Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam
Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China
Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving.
Australian History 1973 (Age 68)
 

Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened
Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled
Note: Vietnam War ends
Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18
Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans'
Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Australian History 1974 (Age 69)
 

Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy
Australian History 1975 (Age 70)
 

Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister
Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988.
Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development.
Australian History 1976 (Age 71)
 

Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
Australian History 1977 (Age 72)
 

Note: Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem
Note: Granville rail disaster killed eighty-three people
Australian History 1978 (Age 73)
 

Note: The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney
Australian History 1979 (Age 74)
 

Note: Australian women win the right to maternity leave
Note: Kakadu National Park and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are both proclaimed.
Australian History 1980 (Age 75)
 

Note: Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election.
Australian History 1981 (Age 76)
 

Note: A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built.
Australian History 1982 (Age 77)
 

Note: Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened.
Death of a brother 19 March 1983 (Age 78)
 

younger brother - Finley Gregg
Death of a wife 9 May 1983 (Age 78)
 

wife - Winnifred Agnes Elaine Wright
Australian History 1983 (Age 78)
 

Note: Australia wins the America's Cup;
Note: Bob Hawke defeats Fraser and leads Labor back to government.
Note: The Australian Dollar is floated.
Note: The Ash Wednesday fires kill 71 people.
Death of a brother 22 February 1984 (Age 79)
 

younger brother - John Gregg
Australian History 1984 (Age 79)
 

Note: Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem.
Note: The one dollar coin is introduced.
Note: Labor wins the 1984 Australian federal election.
Note: Medicare is established.
Australian History 1985 (Age 80)
 

Note: The government grants the freehold title of a large area of land in central Australia, including prominent landmarks Uluru and Kata Tjuta, to the Mutitjulu people, who in turn give them a 99-year lease.
Note: The last state to do so (New South Wales) abolishes capital punishment.
Australian History 1986 (Age 81)
 

Note: The Australia Act removes the right of appeal from State courts to the British Privy Council, making the High Court the final court of appeal in Australia. The Act also removes all remaining rights of the UK parliament to pass law for Australia. Anita Cobby murder in Sydney. Russell Street Bombing in Melbourne. Crocodile Dundee is released in Australia.
Australian History 1987 (Age 82)
 

Note: Hoddle Street Massacre kills 7 victims and injures 19,
Note: Queen Street Massacre kills 8 victims and injures 5.
Note: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland after 19 years at the top.
Australian History 1988 (Age 83)
 

Note: Australia celebrates its bicentenary, with large celebrations and major funding for capital works projects. The new Parliament House opens. Federal referendums on 4-year parliamentary terms, recognition of local government and other issues are defeated. Brisbane hosts World Expo '88.
Australian History 1989 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Newcastle Earthquake kills 13 people.
Note: ACT gains self-Government.
Note: The Kempsey bus crash and Grafton bus crash kill a total of 56 people.
Note: Queensland commences three-year trial of Daylight Saving.
Note: Rosemary Follett (Australian Labor Party) becomes the first Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and the first woman to become head of government in an Australian state or territory.
Death January 1989 (Age 84)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Robert Gregg

Birth 1860  

Death 1936 (Age 76)  

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10 years
mother
Mattie Burrowes

Birth 1870  

Death 1964 (Age 94)  

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Marriage: 30 August 1889
8 months
#1 elder brother
Robert Gregg

Birth May 1890 30 20  

Death 12 November 1970 (Age 80)  

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3 years
#2 elder sister
Eliza Jane (Betty) Gregg

Birth 23 October 1892 32 22  

Death 25 January 1995 (Age 102)  

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19 months
#3 elder sister
Isabella Gregg

Birth 12 May 1894 34 24  County Donegal, Ireland

Death 2 October 1998 (Age 104)  

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20 months
#4 elder brother
Richard Gregg

Birth about 1896 36 26  

Death about 1916 (Age 20)  

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2 years
#5 elder sister
Anne Gregg

Birth about 1898 38 28  

Death yes  

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#6 elder sister
Mary Ellen Gregg

Birth 16 February 1900 40 30  

Death 8 October 1994 (Age 94)  

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22 months
#7 elder sister
Sarah (Sadie) Gregg

Birth about 1902 42 32  

Death about 1960 (Age 58)  

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3 years
#8 himself
George Burrows Gregg

Birth about 1905 45 35  

Death January 1989 (Age 84)  

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3 years
#9 younger brother
Finley Gregg

Birth 28 June 1907 47 37  

Death 19 March 1983 (Age 75)  

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6 months
#10 younger brother
William Gregg

Birth about 1908 48 38  

Death yes  

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4 years
#11 younger brother
John Gregg

Birth 8 July 1911 51 41  

Death 22 February 1984 (Age 72)  

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Family with Winnifred Agnes Elaine Wright - View family
himself
George Burrows Gregg

Birth about 1905 45 35  

Death January 1989 (Age 84)  

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4 years
wife
Winnifred Agnes Elaine Wright

Birth 18 November 1908 32 25  Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Death 9 May 1983 (Age 74)  

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#1 son
Robert Allan Marshall Gregg

Birth about 1938 33 29  

Death 23 April 2006 (Age 68)  

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#2 son
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#3 son
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Parents Robert Smyth + Sarah Burrowes
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