User:darkfalls Dyk

...that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott (pictured) lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
...that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
... that the Salvation Army officer, Sir Arthur McIlveen, was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II, and was the unofficial padre to many brigades?
...that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
... that Sir John Ramsay was the first Australian surgeon to apply heart massage to revive a dead man?