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Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell
CMG ,
Mention in Dispatches (28 October 1914 – 19 December 1980
[1] ) was an
Australian Anglican
bishop and World War 2 army chaplain.
Ketoba, New Guinea, 1944-01-29. Padre Sambell, Unit Chaplain of
57th/60th Battalion , conducting an impromptu prayer meeting on a track near the Boku River.
Sambell was born on 28 October 1914 at Broadford, Victoria.
[2] He was educated at
Melbourne High School and studied at The
University of Melbourne . He was Deacon in 1940 and ordained in early 1941.
[3]
[4] He began his ordained ministry in
Malvern, Victoria , before enlisting in 1942 as an
army
chaplain ,
[5] serving during World War 2 with the
Second Australian Imperial Force in the jungles of the north western ranges of New Guinea (Service Number VX104114).
[6] He ministered first to soldiers of the
57th/60th Battalion which was raised in
Victoria
[7] and then to the
2/11th Battalion raised from
Western Australia .
[8] He was an extremely popular padre among the soldiers he served, and with whom he served.
[9] Sambell's studies at The
University of Melbourne were interrupted by the war, and he graduated
Bachelor of Arts after recommencing his studies (as so many did) after the war.
[10]
Following the war he became director of the Melbourne Diocesan Centre,
[11] Director of the
Brotherhood of St Laurence .
[12] He was
Archdeacon of
Essendon , and then of
Melbourne .
[13] He was
Bishop Coadjutor of
Diocese from 1962 to 1969 when he was elected
Archbishop of Perth
[14] and
Metropolitan of
Western Australia ,
[15] posts he held to his death.
References
^
The Times , 27 December 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60808; col F Obituary The Most Rev G. T. Sambell
^ Colin Holden, 'Sambell, Geoffrey Tremayne (1914–1980)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sambell-geoffrey-tremayne-11606/text20723 , published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 28 November 2018.
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
ISBN
0-19-200008-X
^ Padre Geoffrey Sambell
http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/97533-padre-geoffrey-sambell
^
ADB
^ World War Two Service Veteran Details: Captain Sambell, Geoffrey Tremayne
http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=790403&c=WW2#R
^ KETOBA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-29. VX104114 CHAPLAIN G.T SAMBELL (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) UNIT PADRE OF THE 57/60TH INFANTRY BATTALION
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C46878
^ Padre Geoffrey Sambell
http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/97533-padre-geoffrey-sambell
^ Corfield, Robin (1991). Hold Hard, Cobbers: The Story of the 57th and 60th and 57/60th Australian Army Infantry Battalions, 1912–1990. Volume II (1930–1990). Glenhuntly, Victoria: 57/60th Battalion (AIF) Association.
ISBN
0-646-04099-5
^ Sambell Oration
http://bsltimeline.pbworks.com/w/page/5584043/Sambell%20Oration
^
Victoria Government Gazette
^ Challen, Michael B. (1986). Occasional Paper — G.T. Sambell Memorial Trust: Parish Piety and Public Pragmatism
http://library.bsl.org.au/jspui/bitstream/1/9197/1/challenm_Parish_piety_and_public_pragmatism_the_sixth_G_T_Sambell_Memorial_Oration_1986.pdf
^
“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London,
A & C Black , 1991
ISBN
0-7136-3457-X
^
Perth Anglican
Archived 2007-08-31 at the
Wayback Machine
^ Porter, A.E. (1990) Biography of Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell 1914-1980. Archbishop of Perth 1969-1980.
Centre for WA history
Archived 13 September 2009 at the
Wayback Machine
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