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HEINZE, BERNARD THOMAS. 1912.
St. Patrick's Coll., Ballarat; former student of Music.
London 24.9.14, 2/Lt. R.G.A.; to 12th Siege Bty., Ypres May 1916; Lieut. July 1916; invalided home January 1917; to 525th Siege Bty., Arras January 1918; some time A Adjt. Bexhill Gunnery Depot; A.D.C. Maj. -Gen. Sir Herbert Guthrie Smith, Gibraltar 1919-20. Demob. London 1920.
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Gave service as a representative of education in music on the Victorian Council of Public Education (1936-57), as a close associate of the AMEB, as vice-patron of the Arts Council of Australia, Victorian division, and as an active member and international representative (Belgium, 1953) of the Australian National Advisory Committee for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In Sydney, and with expanding public support for the arts, new opportunities arose. He served as vice-patron (1955-65) of the Arts Council of Australia, New South Wales division; on the executive committee (1957-66) and later as a trustee of the Sydney Opera House; and as foundation chairman of the advisory board of Commonwealth Assistance to Australian Composers (1967), and the music advisory committee of the Australian Council for the Arts (1968). From ADB entry. His papaers are held in the State Library of Victoria.