Southee, Ethelbert Ambrook
Person: id 4079
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USyd
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World War I
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Family name
Southee
Given name(s)
Ethelbert Ambrook
Initials
E.A.
Gender
Male
Tertiary education
Start date
1909
Combined start dates
1909
Education notes
Rhodes scholar 1913 St John's College Oxford, Research graduate Cornell USA
Military service
Survived
Survived WWI
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Southee E.A. : Military and health.Enlisted 1 Sep 1914 - @ Oxford [ England ]Southee E.A. : Relationships.Married 12 Jun 1918 - @ St Stephen's Church : Sydney [ NSW Australia ]Southee E.A. : Life.Lived at 1919 - 1921 @ Cornell University : Ithaca [ New York USA ]Southee E.A. : Military and health.Commemorated - @ Southee Horticultural Pavilion : Sydney Showground [ Homebush Australia ]
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O.B.E., B.Sc., B.Sc.Agr.; M.A. (Oxon.), F .L .S .: Major, 23rd Divisional Train, B.E.F., France and Italy. Enlisting in Oxford in September, 1914, was commissioned to 7th Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry but transferred to R.A.S.C. in October. Crossing in May, 1915, served in France till 1917 and in Italy till early 1919. Returning to England, was demobilised in November and spent a year in U.S.A., arriving in Australia in February, 1921. Promoted captain, 1st February, 1916, and later acting major. Awarded O.B.E. in 1919 and Mentioned in Despatches twice. Rhodes Scholar, 1913. Principal, Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Early education at Cootamundra Public and Sydney High Schools.
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Parental occupation
Storekeeper
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Senior athletic champion (1907) of his high school, Southee had won the Australian long-jump championship (1911), gained Blues for Rugby Union football and athletics at the universities of Sydney and Oxford, and become 100-metres champion of the allied forces in Italy (1919). From ADB entry
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11736
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