Sydney Rowell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sydney Rowell

Australian general

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1894

Place of Birth: Lockleys, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1975

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About 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.
  • As Vice Chief of the General Staff from 8 January 1946 to 16 April 1950, he played a key role in the post-Second World War reorganisation of the Army, and in the 1949 Australian coal strike.
  • However, he is best known as the commander who was dismissed in the Kokoda Track campaign. As a young officer, Rowell served at Gallipoli but was invalided back to Australia with typhoid fever in January 1916.
  • The end of the war found Rowell junior in rank to his contemporaries with more distinguished war records, but he managed to catch up in the post-war period.
  • Rowell spent five years with the British Army or at British staff colleges, establishing valuable contacts with his British counterparts.
  • In 1939 he was appointed chief of staff of the 6th Division and later I Corps, serving in that capacity in the Battle of Greece and the Syria-Lebanon campaign.
  • In 1942 he commanded I Corps in the Kokoda Track campaign but was sacked.
  • His subsequent rise to become Chief of the General Staff demonstrated that the circumstances of his dismissal in 1942 were indeed extraordinary.

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