The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF seated and wearing field battle-coat. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose to become Australia's only Field Marshal. During the Second World War, Blamey was appointed to command the 6th Division. Returning to Australia in 1942 he became Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces and Commander Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific. Blamey retired in 1945 but in May 1951, shortly before his death, was recalled to the active list and created Field Marshal. Hele painted General Blamey at Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt, in September 1941. Blamey had been responsible for Hele's commissioning as an official war artist, the first appointment made in the Second World War.
Portrait sketch of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose
Portrait sketch of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose
Portrait sketch of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose
Formal portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of VX1 General (later Field Marshal) Sir Thomas A Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, General Commmander-in-Chief, AMF; Middle East, Pacific, also First World War. This p
1st Australian Imperial Force, General Staff Australian Corps; Brigadier General (later Major General, then Field Marshal Sir) Thomas Albert Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, BGGS Aust Corps, then Chief of Staff
