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Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (Victoria Police), Police Officers on dinner event, 1920s
... sir thomas blamey; chief commissioner of police... blamey, thomas chief commissioner sir thomas blamey; chief ...Black and white photograph mounted on grey frame. Passport 3x4 photograph stuck on top right of larger photograph - middle age men, unknown. 9 men on photograph are in dinner event. On the far left, possibly former Chief Commissioner Thomas Blamey, on army uniform. Other men are in formal suits, younger looking one in glasses faces the camera cheerfully. 2 men standing on the back, one with piece of paper and the other smoking a cigarette.Handwritten: EP 1victoria police museum, police officers, police academy, police force, victorian police association, police council, blamey, thomas, chief commissioner, sir thomas blamey; chief commissioner of police -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police car), Kodak
... sir thomas blamey; chief commissioner of police...; wireless patrol sir thomas blamey; chief commissioner of police ...Daimler registration 2-690 with a group of nine men at an outdoor location including Rupert Bastin, Wireless Operator, Ron George, Driver and CCP Blamey, circa 1936police vehicles; transport; motor police branch; daimler car; wireless patrol, sir thomas blamey; chief commissioner of police -
Melbourne Legacy
Document - Speech, Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey Commemorative Luncheon. Address by Legatee R T Eldridge
A copy of the text an address by Legatee R T Eldridge at a Legacy event on 24 January 1984 to honour Sir Thomas Blamey who had been a patron of Legacy. The speech summarises his life, including his war service in both world wars and inter war years as Chief Commissioner of Police, Victoria. In World War 2 the speech outlines he was in the middle east before returning to Australia and had some difficulties with US General McArthur and also the Press. The penultimate paragraph says "Nobody but Blamey could have been appointed Commander in Chief, held McArthur at bay and influenced the Australian Government through Curtin. On this 'national level he showed wisdom, fortitude, loyalty and a degree of tact. He was indifferent to public opinion, was abrupt, intolerant of little men, had poor opinion of the politicians and the press which created difficulties and detractors." The article was part of an album of past presidents from 1965 to 1989. The folder included biographical details and obituaries, eulogies and death notices of prominent Legatees. The items have been catalogued separately.A record of a speech made by Legatee Eldridge about Legacy Patron, Sir Thomas Blamey. The information was collected to record the lives of prominent legatees in a folder.Photocopy of 3 pages of an address by Legatee R T Eldridge in 1984.speech, thomas blamey, patron