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Roy Burston, the Glossary

Major General Sir Samuel Roy Burston, (21 March 1888 – 21 August 1960) was an Australian soldier, physician, and horse racing identity.^[1]

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Adelaide Club

Aboriginal Protection Board

Aboriginal Protection Board, also known as Aborigines Protection Board, Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Aborigines Welfare Board (and in later sources, incorrectly as Aboriginal Welfare Board), and similar names, refers to a number of historical Australian state-run institutions with the function of regulating the lives of Aboriginal Australians.

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Adelaide Club

The Adelaide Club is an exclusive gentlemen's club situated on North Terrace in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide.

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Ajax II

Ajax was a champion Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, who won 18 consecutive races before he was defeated at the odds of 40/1 on, causing a huge racing sensation.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Aortic aneurysm

An aortic aneurysm is an enlargement (dilatation) of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal size.

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Australia in the War of 1939–1945

Australia in the War of 1939–1945 is a 22-volume official history series covering Australian involvement in the Second World War.

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Australian Army

The Australian Army is the principal land warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is the largest union in Australia, with 274,956 members in 2018.

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Australian Red Cross

Australian Red Cross, formally Australian Red Cross Society, is a humanitarian aid and community services charity in Australia.

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Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war.

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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; MBBS, also abbreviated as BM BS, MB ChB, MB BCh, or MB BChir) is a medical degree granted by medical schools or universities in countries that adhere to the United Kingdom's higher education tradition.

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Batavia, Dutch East Indies

Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

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Battle of Messines (1917)

The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of Messines (now Mesen) in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.

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Brigadier

Brigadier is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country.

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British Commonwealth Occupation Force

The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) was the British Commonwealth taskforce consisting of Australian, British, Indian and New Zealand military forces in occupied Japan, from 1946 until the end of occupation in 1952.

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Bugle

The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore.

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Burma campaign (1944–1945)

The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of Imperial Japan, who were assisted by the Burmese National Army, the Indian National Army, and to some degree by Thailand.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world.

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Chatham (horse)

Chatham (foaled 1928) was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred by Percy Miller at the Kia Ora Stud near Scone, New South Wales.

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Chemical weapons in World War I

The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large-scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective.

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Christ Church, South Yarra

Christ Church, South Yarra is an Anglican church at 683-701 Punt Road, South Yarra in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Claude Auchinleck

Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), was a British Indian Army commander who saw active service during the world wars.

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Coalition (Australia)

The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition or the LNP, is an alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.

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Colin Hall Simpson

Major General Colin Hall Simpson, (13 April 1894 – 23 August 1964) was an Australian Army officer who rose to the rank of major general as Signal Officer in Chief during the Second World War. Roy Burston and Colin Hall Simpson are Australian generals, Australian military personnel of World War I and military personnel from Melbourne.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Cyril Chambers

Cyril Chambers CBE (1897–1975) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1958, representing the Labor Party.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.

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Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for operational gallantry for highly successful command and leadership during active operations, typically in actual combat.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.

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Dutch East Indies campaign

The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Elassona

Elassona (Ellassóna; Katharevousa: Elasson) is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, abbreviated as the post-nominal initials FRACP, is a recognition of the completion of the prescribed postgraduate specialist training programme in internal adult or internal paediatric medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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First Australian Imperial Force

The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during the First World War.

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Flight (horse)

Flight (1940–1953) was an Australian Thoroughbred racemare that was the highest stakes winning mare in Australasia.

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Flinders Street, Melbourne

Flinders Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Flying boat

A flying boat is a type of fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water.

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Frank Berryman

Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, (11 April 1894 – 28 May 1981) was an Australian Army officer who served as a general during the Second World War. Roy Burston and Frank Berryman are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Frank Kingsley Norris

Major General Sir Frank Kingsley Norris, (25 June 1893 – 1 May 1984), commonly referred to as F. Kingsley Norris, was an Australian military officer and physician. Roy Burston and Frank Kingsley Norris are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian generals, Australian military doctors, Australian military personnel of World War I, military personnel from Melbourne and people educated at Melbourne Grammar School.

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Frederick Maguire

Major General Frederick Arthur Maguire, (28 March 1888 – 10 June 1953) was an Australian physician, gynaecologist, and soldier, who spent much of his career with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the University of Sydney and in the service of the Australian Army Medical Corps. Roy Burston and Frederick Maguire are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian generals, Australian military doctors and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Frederick William Thomas (politician)

Sir Frederick William Thomas AE was Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1957 to 1959, having been persuaded to stand for Council by his friend Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey.

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Gallipoli campaign

The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.

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Gambling

Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.

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General (United States)

In the United States military, a general is the most senior general-grade officer; it is the highest achievable commissioned officer rank (or echelon) that may be attained in the United States Armed Forces, with exception of the Navy and Coast Guard, which have the equivalent rank of admiral instead.

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General practice

General practice is personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive.

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George Wootten

Major General Sir George Frederick Wootten, (1 May 1893 – 31 March 1970) was a senior Australian Army officer, public servant, right wing political activist and solicitor. Roy Burston and George Wootten are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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German invasion of Greece

The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II.

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Glen Iris, Victoria

Glen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Stonnington local government areas.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Governor-General of Australia

The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III.

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Hawthorn, Victoria

Hawthorn is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area.

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Heart murmur

Heart murmurs are unique heart sounds produced when blood flows across a heart valve or blood vessel.

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Hydrogen (horse)

Hydrogen was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse.

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Hylands House

Hylands House is a Grade II* neo-classical villa situated within Hylands Park a 232-hectare (574 acre) park southwest of Chelmsford in Essex in South East England.

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I Corps (Australia)

I Corps was an Australian Army corps, one of three that were raised by the Army during World War II.

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Ian Murray Mackerras

Ian Murray Mackerras (19 September 1898 – 21 March 1980) was an Australian zoologist.

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Ivor Hele

Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 1 December 1993) was an Australian artist noted for portraiture.

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Jack Stevens

Major General Sir Jack Edwin Stawell Stevens, (7 September 1896 – 20 May 1969) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the Second World War. Roy Burston and Jack Stevens are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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James Burston

Major General James Burston (1 May 1856 – 4 March 1920) was a business man, local body politician, and an Australian Army officer who served in the First World War. Roy Burston and James Burston are Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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James Cannan

Major General James Harold Cannan, (29 August 1882 – 23 May 1976) was an Australian Army brigadier general in the First World War and the Quartermaster General during the Second World War. Roy Burston and James Cannan are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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John Curtin

John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945.

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John Monash

General Sir John Monash, (27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian civil engineer and military commander of the First World War. Roy Burston and John Monash are Australian generals, Australian military personnel of World War I and military personnel from Melbourne.

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John Northcott

Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott (24 March 1890 – 4 August 1966) was an Australian Army general who served as Chief of the General Staff during the Second World War, and commanded the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in the Occupation of Japan. Roy Burston and John Northcott are Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Kokoda Track campaign

The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II.

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Larkhill

Larkhill is a garrison town in the civil parish of Durrington, Wiltshire, England.

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Latchford Barracks

Latchford Barracks is an Australian Army base in Bonegilla, located about to the east of Wodonga.

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Leslie Beavis

Major General Leslie Ellis Beavis, (25 January 1895 – 27 September 1975) was a soldier in the Australian Army, who served in the First World War and was a general during the Second World War. Roy Burston and Leslie Beavis are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Leslie Morshead

Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, (18 September 1889 – 26 September 1959) was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, whose military career spanned both world wars. Roy Burston and Leslie Morshead are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

This is a list of mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area of Victoria, Australia.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Major general (Australia)

Major general (abbreviated MAJGEN) is a senior rank of the Australian Army, and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of major general. Roy Burston and major general (Australia) are Australian generals.

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Markham, Ramu and Finisterre campaigns

The Markham Valley, Ramu Valley and Finisterre Range campaigns were a series of battles within the broader New Guinea campaign of World War II.

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Medical Journal of Australia

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 times a year.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Melbourne Club

The Melbourne Club is a private social club established in 1838 and located at 36 Collins Street, Melbourne.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse.

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Melbourne Grammar School

Melbourne Grammar School is an Australian private Anglican day and boarding school.

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Mentioned in dispatches

To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Mile End, South Australia

Mile End is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, located in the City of West Torrens, around 2 kilometres from the Adelaide city centre.

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Military funeral

A military funeral is a memorial or burial rite given by a country's military for a soldier, sailor, marine or airman who died in battle, a veteran, or other prominent military figures or heads of state.

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Milne Bay

Milne Bay is a large bay in Milne Bay Province, south-eastern Papua New Guinea.

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Mitcham, South Australia

Mitcham, formerly known as Mitcham Village, is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham.

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Moonee Valley Gold Cup

The Moonee Valley Gold Cup is a registered Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four-years-old and upwards under Set Weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 2,500 metres, held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October on W.

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Moonee Valley Racing Club

The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) was founded by William Samuel (W.S.) Cox), in 1883 is located at The Valley Racecourse on McPherson Street, Moonee Ponds (a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).

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Neil Hamilton Fairley

Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, (15 July 1891 – 19 April 1966) was an Australian physician, medical scientist, and army officer who was instrumental in saving thousands of Allied lives from malaria and other diseases. Roy Burston and Neil Hamilton Fairley are Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian military doctors, Australian military personnel of World War I and Melbourne Medical School alumni.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Operation Compass

Operation Compass (also Battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War.

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Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)

The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is an order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Phar Lap

Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a New Zealand-born champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Physician to the King

Physician to the King (or Queen, as appropriate) is a title (as postnominals, KHP, QHP) held by physicians of the Medical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Ploegsteert Wood

Ploegsteert Wood was a sector of the Western Front in Flanders in World War I, part of the Ypres Salient.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Qantas

Qantas Airways Limited, or simply Qantas, is the flag carrier of Australia, and is the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations in Australia and Oceania.

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Red hair

Red hair, also known as orange hair or ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations.

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Residency (medicine)

Residency or postgraduate training is a stage of graduate medical education.

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Rip current

A rip current (also rip) is a specific type of water current that can occur near beaches where waves break.

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Robert Menzies

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966. Roy Burston and Robert Menzies are Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Robert Risson

Major General Sir Robert Joseph Henry Risson, (20 April 1901 – 19 July 1992) was an Australian engineer, soldier, and tramway administrator. Roy Burston and Robert Risson are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath and Australian generals.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ronald McNicoll

Major General Ronald Ramsay McNicoll, (15 September 1906 – 18 September 1996) was an Australian Army general who served in the Royal Australian Engineers. Roy Burston and Ronald McNicoll are Australian generals and military personnel from Melbourne.

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Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

The Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (RAAMC) is the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel.

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Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination.

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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) is a medical royal college in Scotland.

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Royal Humane Society

The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention.

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Rupert Downes

Major General Rupert Major Downes, (10 February 1885 – 5 March 1945) was an Australian soldier, surgeon and historian. Roy Burston and Rupert Downes are Australian generals, Australian military doctors, Australian military personnel of World War I, Knights of Grace of the Order of St John and Melbourne Medical School alumni.

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Salamaua–Lae campaign

The Salamaua–Lae campaign was a series of actions in the New Guinea campaign of World War II.

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Sam Burston

Sir Samuel Gerald Wood Burston OBE (24 April 191514 July 2015) was an Australian grazier who represented the rural sector as President of a forerunner of the National Farmers' Federation, and served as a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Science and Technology Council.

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Second Australian Imperial Force

The Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF, or Second AIF) was the volunteer expeditionary force of the Australian Army in the Second World War.

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Siege of Tobruk

The Siege of Tobruk took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, during the Western Desert campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War.

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Small box respirator

The Small Box Respirator (SBC) was a British gas mask of the First World War and a successor to the Large Box Respirator.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South Australian Cricket Association

The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) is the peak body for the sport of cricket in South Australia.

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South Australian Register

The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper.

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South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command (SEAC) was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during the Second World War.

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South Yarra

South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas.

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Springvale Botanical Cemetery

The Springvale Botanical Cemetery is the largest crematorium and memorial park in Victoria, Australia, located in the southeastern Melbourne suburb of Springvale.

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St John Ambulance

St John Ambulance is the name of a number of affiliated organisations in mostly Commonwealth countries which teach and provide first aid and emergency medical services, and are primarily staffed by volunteers.

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St John Ambulance Australia

St John Ambulance Australia (also known as St John) (SJAA) is a charitable organisation, dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.

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Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.

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Sydney Rowell

Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Fairbairn Rowell, (15 December 1894 – 12 April 1975) was an Australian soldier who served as Chief of the General Staff from 17 April 1950 to 15 December 1954. Roy Burston and Sydney Rowell are Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath, Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Syria–Lebanon campaign

The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon (then controlled by Vichy France) in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane.

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The Northern Territory Times

The Northern Territory Times was a newspaper in Darwin established in 1873 and closed in 1932.

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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) is an acute care teaching hospital in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The West Australian

The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia.

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Thomas Blamey

Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, (24 January 1884 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars. Roy Burston and Thomas Blamey are Australian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, Australian generals and Australian military personnel of World War I.

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Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Thoroughbred horse racing is a spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a very popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB).

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Trinity College, Melbourne

Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, the first university in the colony of Victoria, Australia.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi.

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University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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Victor Harbor, South Australia

Victor Harbor is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located within the City of Victor Harbor on the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, about south of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Volunteer Officers' Decoration

The Volunteer Officers' Decoration, post-nominal letters VD, was instituted in 1892 as an award for long and meritorious service by officers of the United Kingdom's Volunteer Force.

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W. S. Cox Plate

The W. S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres (approximately 1m 2f), that is held by the Moonee Valley Racing Club at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October.

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Weight for Age

Weight for Age (WFA) is a term in thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race.

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Western District (Victoria)

The Western District comprises western regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during the First World War.

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William Dargie

Captain Sir William Alexander Dargie (4 June 1912 – 26 July 2003) was a renowned Australian painter, known especially for his portrait paintings. Roy Burston and William Dargie are military personnel from Melbourne.

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William Refshauge

Major General Sir William Dudley Duncan Refshauge, (3 April 1913 – 27 May 2009) was an Australian soldier and public health administrator. Roy Burston and William Refshauge are Australian generals, medical doctors from Melbourne and Melbourne Medical School alumni.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Burston

Also known as Ginger Burston, Samuel Burston.

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