Major General William Throsby Bridges

G'day mate. Ehaes Him. Who do you have dor us?

Cheers.

Sir William Throsby Bridges
William Bridges, pictured here in 1914.
Born	18 February 1861 Greenock, Scotland
Died	18 May 1915 (aged 54) At sea
Allegiance	Australia
Service/branch	Australian Army
Years of service	18851915
Rank	Major General
Commands held	Chief of the General Staff (1909) Royal Military College, Duntroon(191014) 1st Division (191415)
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War Gallipoli Campaign
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Mentioned in dispatches

Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB, CMG (18 February 1861 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Armyofficer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the General Staff. During the First World War he commanded the 1st Australian Division at Gallipoli, where he died of wounds on 18 May 1915, becoming the first Australian general officer to be killed during the war. He was the first Australianand the first graduate of Kingstonto reach the rank of major general, the first to command a division, and the first to receive a knighthood. He is one of only two Australians killed in action in the Great War to be interred in Australia.

I thought he would be a tricky one so time for a clue he has something in common with this guy

 

You've got it BG I thought it might be a hard one. over to you.

Ian William Chubb AC (born 17 October 1943) is an Australian neuroscientist and academic, who was the Chief Scientist of Australia from 23 May 2011 to 22 January 2016.

Career

Chubb has a Masters in Science, a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an honorary doctorate of science from Flinders University and an honorary doctorate of laws from Monash University.

He was Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Wollongong (19861990), Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University (19931995) and Vice Chancellor of Flinders University (19952000).

In 1999 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia "for service to the development of Higher Education policy & its implementation at state, national & international levels, as an administrator in the Tertiary Education sector, & to research, particularly in the field of neuroscience".^[1] In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society through tertiary education and university administration".^[2] In 2006 he was appointed a Companion of the Order "for service to higher education, including research and development policy in the pursuit of advancing the national interest socially, economically, culturally and environmentally, and to the facilitation of a knowledge based global economy".^[3]

He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University from 2001 to 2011.

He is a former president of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, chairman of the Group of Eight university lobby group, and president of the International Alliance of Research Universities (20062009).

In April 2011, Chubb was announced as the Chief Scientist of Australia following the resignation of Penny Sackett from that role.^[4]

Named ACT Australian of the Year 2011, Chubb was recognised for three decades of service to tertiary education and university governance in Australia, and internationally.^[5]

In 2012 he was appointed a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority.^[6]

Chubb's term as Chief Scientist ended on 22 January 2016. Alan Finkel was appointed as his replacement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Chubb

Fats Domino.

Thanks BG.   This one should be easy too.

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Sheba.

English Comedy.

No way Tony.  Bernard was a lot skinnier. .

Same Era though.   Think School-girls.

-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 9th of April 2018 08:24:56 PM

Off you go Sandy.

 

Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty, but quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. He also appeared in more than fifty British films, starting in 1935.

After a series of false starts, including a spell as a jobbing labourer and another as a clerk in a local government office, Sim's love of and talent for poetry reading won him several prizes and led to his appointment as a lecturer in elocution at the University of Edinburgh in 1925. He also ran his own private elocution and drama school, from which, with the help of the playwright John Drinkwater, he made the transition to the professional stage in 1930.

Despite his late start, Sim soon became well known on the London stage. A period of more than a year as a member of the Old Vic company brought him wide experience of playing Shakespeare and other classics, to which he returned throughout his career. In the modern repertoire, he formed a close professional association with the author James Bridie, which lasted from 1939 until the dramatist's death in 1951. Sim not only acted in Bridie's works, but directed them.

In the later 1940s and for most of the 1950s, Sim was a leading star of British cinema, appearing in more than fifty films. They included Green for Danger (1946), Hue and Cry (1947), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Scrooge (1951), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) and An Inspector Calls (1954). Later, he made fewer films and generally concentrated on stage work, including successful productions at the Chichester Festival and regular appearances in new and old works in the West End.

Is it Kenneth Williams, an actor from the "Carry On" films, by any chance, Sandy

Looks like it is time for a clue, he is half of a comedy duo.

You've got it Cadpete over to you

Ernest Wiseman, OBE (27 November 1925 21 March 1999), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

Early life and education

Ernest Wiseman, born in Bramley (a district of Leeds) to Harry and Connie Wiseman (née Wright) who married in St Thomas Stanningley,^[1] was the eldest of five children, and changed his surname (as did his future partner) to go into show business. He attended Thorpe Infant and Junior School, and then East Ardsley Boys' School, but entered the entertainment industry in 1933, appearing as an actor and singer in music hall. His father, Harry, a railway lamp man, was also a semi-professional singer, and they appeared together under the name "Bert Carson and his Little Wonder". He started making solo appearancessinging, dancing, and telling jokesin 1936, and, in autumn of 1938 he came to the attention of Bryan Michie, a leading juvenile talent spotter, who recommended him to the impresario Jack Hylton.

Performing career

In 1940, the year he met Eric Morecambe, then known as Eric Bartholomew, he appeared with British comedian Arthur Askey in his Band Waggon radio show, billed as Britain's Mickey Rooney. Gradually, Wise and Morecambe formed a close friendship, and, in 1941, they began their comedy double act, which was to last until Morecambe's death in 1984. They made their debut together as "Bartholomew and Wise" on Thursday 28 August 1941, at the Liverpool Empire. A change of name followed in the autumn: after agreeing that the combination of their respective places of birthMorecambe and Leedswould make the act sound too much like a cheap day return, they settled on "Morecambe and Wise"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Wise

Must be time for a clue.  Inventor of a self propelled weapon - there, I'm sure that will help a lot

 

Don't be shy Rocky , you know who it is don't you ...