This lady was really good at a sport. ... Not soccer.
watsea said
02:48 PM Aug 3, 2023
Many Aussies partake in the particular activity, whether as recreation or as a sport. This lady was good at that activity.
watsea said
07:14 PM Aug 4, 2023
Another clue.
For the lady's sport, at a very recent World Championship, Australia won the most gold medals.
sandman55 said
09:24 PM Aug 4, 2023
I think I know who she is but I have been holding off because I don't know what my reception will be for a while. I have been hoping someone would get it with those clues.
watsea said
07:05 PM Aug 5, 2023
I thought my last clue would help people get the idea that the lady was pretty good in the water.
In case you had not noticed, it is a black and white photo, so not modern.
Santa said
11:07 AM Aug 6, 2023
I worked out who it is Watsea, pretty obscure, I have never heard of her.
watsea said
02:40 PM Aug 6, 2023
Santa wrote:
I worked out who it is Watsea, pretty obscure, I have never heard of her.
Santa,
I am not sure who you have identified yet.
I had not heard of the person either until it was my current turn to select a person for this thread. Not long before choosing I had been watching the Matildas play a great game against Canada. So women's sports identity from the past, a recent swimming championships, a little help from Google and there we go. It helps everyone learn a bit too.
Are you waiting, in case someone else can have a go?
Santa said
03:00 PM Aug 6, 2023
watsea wrote:Are you waiting, in case someone else can have a go?
Not any more.
(Sarah) Fanny Durack.
Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack (27 October 1889 20 March 1956), also known by her married name Fanny Gately, was an Australian competition swimmer.[1] From 1910 until 1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.[2]
Durack learned to swim in Sydney's Coogee Baths[2] using breaststroke, the only style for which there was a championship for women at that time. In 1906 she won her first title, and over the next few years, dominated the Australian swimming scene. In the 1910-11 swimming season, Mina Wylie beat Durack in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 100- and 220-yard freestyle at the Australian Swimming Championships at Rose Bay. The two went on to become close friends.
From late 1912 to 1920, Durack held the official women's Freestyle swimming world record for 100 metres.[4] She also held the 200M freestyle record from 1915 to 1921. Other world records held included 220 yards freestyle (1915 to 1921), 500M freestyle (1916 to 1917) and 1 mile freestyle (1914 to 1926). She also held many Australian and State records.
watsea said
03:43 PM Aug 6, 2023
Thanks Santa. It is Fanny Durack.
I guess you will have someone for us.
You added some of Fannny's bio. Here is a bit more.
" Sarah Fanny Durack was Australias first female Olympic gold medallist, winning swimmings 100m freestyle at the Stockholm Games in 1912.
The Stockholm Games was also the first-time women were able to compete in an Olympic swimming competition. Fellow Australian swimmer Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie placed second in this event.
At one point in her career, Fanny was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances, from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.
A week before the Australian team left for the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, in May 1920, Durack suffered appendicitis[8] and had an emergency appendectomy. This was followed by typhoid fever and pneumonia and she was unable to participate in the Olympic team.[2]
During World War I, The Golden Virgin statue of Mary and the infant Jesus on top of the Basilique Notre-Dame de Brebières in Albert, Somme, France, was hit by a shell on 15 January 1915, and slumped to a near-horizontal position. Australian troops nicknamed the leaning statue "Fanny", in honour of Fanny Durack as it resembled the swimmer diving off the blocks.[9]
Durack died in Sydney in 1956. She was interred in Waverley Cemetery, together with her late husband Bernard Martin Gately. Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre[10] in Petersham, Sydney, is named in her honour.
She was posthumously inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honour Swimmer" in 1967.[11] In addition to this, she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.[12]
Sarah Durack Ave at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia is named in honour of her."
In 2022, she was an inaugural inductee of the Swimming Australia Hall of Fame. [13]
John Peter FarnhamAO (born 1 July 1949) is a British-born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed until then as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.[1] His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985.[2][3]
In September 1986, his solo single "You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts.[4][5] The associated album, Whispering Jack, held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks[4][5] and is the third-highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, including No. 6 in the United Kingdom and No.1 in Sweden.[6][7]
Farnham has become one of his country's best-known and most popular performers,[1] and he is the only Australian artist to have a number-one record (album or single) in five consecutive decades (echoing that of Cliff Richard in the UK), with singles including "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" in 1967, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" in 1970, and "Age of Reason" in 1988;[4][5] and albums Whispering Jack in 1986, Age of Reason in 1988, Chain Reaction in 1990, Then Again... in 1993, 33 in 2000, and The Last Time in 2002.[4][5][8] Along with touring with numerous artists, including The Seekers and international acts like Stevie Nicks and Lionel Richie, he released various collaborative albums: Tom Jones on Together in Concert (2005); Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow, including Highlights from The Main Event (1998); Two Strong Hearts Live (2015); and Friends for Christmas (2016).[9]
Big Gorilla said
08:32 AM Aug 10, 2023
Thank you Santa. This famous man should be easy to identify !!
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 10th of August 2023 08:33:08 AM
Frederick Cossom HollowsAC (9 April 1929 10 February 1993) was a New ZealandAustralian ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for people in Australia and many other countries through initiatives such as The Fred Hollows Foundation.
Looks like someone in Japanese Military during 2nd World War !!!
Santa said
09:47 PM Aug 13, 2023
I reckon you know who it is Ken.
Big Gorilla said
07:31 AM Aug 17, 2023
The only Japanese I know from the War was Tojo. Don't know his first name....
Big Gorilla said
09:05 AM Aug 17, 2023
I think he was a Prime Minister or an Army General.
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 17th of August 2023 09:06:36 AM
Santa said
10:19 AM Aug 17, 2023
Your on the money Ken, it was general Hideki Tojo, a truly evil bastard, his name will live on in infamy.
Hanging was too good for him.
Hideki TojoTj Hideki, pronounced [too çideki](listen); 30 December 1884 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for 1941 to 1944 during World War II. He assumed several more positions including chief of staff of the Imperial Army before ultimately being removed from power in July 1944. During his years in power, his leadership was marked by extreme state-perpetrated violence in the name of Japanese ultranationalism, much of which he was personally involved in.
Tojo was born on 30 December 1884, to a relatively low-ranking former samurai family in the Kjimachi district of Tokyo. He began his career in the Army in 1902 and steadily rose through the ranks to become a general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) by 1934. In March 1937, he was promoted to chief of staff of the Kwantung Army whereby he led military operations against the Chinese in Inner Mongolia and the Chahar-Suiyan provinces. By July 1940, he was appointed minister of war to the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.
On the eve of the Second World War's expansion into Asia and the Pacific, Tojo was an outspoken advocate for a preemptive attack on the United States and its European allies. Upon being appointed prime minister on 17 October 1941, he oversaw the Empire of Japan's decision to go to war as well as its ensuing conquest of much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. During the course of the war, Tojo presided over numerous war crimes, including the massacre and starvation of civilians and prisoners of war. He was also involved in the sexual enslavement of thousands of mostly Korean women and girls for Japanese soldiers, an event that still strains modern JapaneseKorean relations.
After the war's tide decisively turned against Japan, Tojo resigned as prime minister on 18 July 1944. Following his nation's surrender to the Allied powers in September 1945, he was arrested, convicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the Tokyo Trials, sentenced to death, and hanged on 23 December 1948. To this day, Tojo's complicity in atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, and human experimentation entailing the torture and death of thousands have firmly intertwined his legacy with the brutality shown by the Japanese Empire throughout World War II.
Big Gorilla said
10:59 AM Aug 17, 2023
I thought I was on the right track. Thank you Santa.
This one might not be too easy so I'll give an early clue: He was involved in Computer Science and was a famous long distance runner
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 17th of August 2023 11:11:42 AM
The photo look to have a bit of age about it, thinking computer science the only well known names that come to mind are Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Turing.
It's certainly neither Gates nor Jobs, sooooooo, I will guess Alan Turing, although not sure about the distance running.
I was waiting a while in case someone else could come in with the ID.
Anyways, maybe I am impatient.
I think it is Nancy Wake.
Santa said
11:25 AM Aug 21, 2023
Your right Ted, it is Nancy Wake, known to the gestapo as The White Mouse.
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry. The official historian of the SOE, M. R. D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her".[1] Many stories about her World War II activities come from her autobiography, The White Mouse, and are not verifiable from other sources.
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Wake grew up in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. By the 1930s, Wake was living in Marseille with her French industrialist husband, Henri Fiocca, when the war broke out. After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, Wake became a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network led by Ian Garrow and, later, Albert Guérisse. As a member of the escape network, she helped Allied airmen evade capture by the Germans and escape to neutral Spain. In 1943, when the Germans became aware of her, she escaped to Spain and then went to the United Kingdom. Her husband was captured and executed.[2]
After reaching Britain, Wake joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) under the code name "Hélène". On 2930 April 1944 as a member of a three-person SOE team code-named "Freelance", Wake parachuted into the Allier department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several Maquis groups in the Auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by Émile Coulaudon (code name "Gaspard").[3] She participated in a battle between the Maquis and a large German force in June 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, a defeat for the Maquis, she claimed to have bicycled 500 kilometers to send a situation report to SOE in London.[4][2][5][6]
Wake was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom (17 July 1945), the Medal of Freedom from the United States (1947), the Légion d'honneur from France (1970: Knight; 1988: Officer), a Companion of the Order of Australia from Australia (22 February 2004), and the Badge in Gold from New Zealand (2006).[7][8]
For the lady's sport, at a very recent World Championship, Australia won the most gold medals.
I think I know who she is but I have been holding off because I don't know what my reception will be for a while. I have been hoping someone would get it with those clues.
In case you had not noticed, it is a black and white photo, so not modern.
I worked out who it is Watsea, pretty obscure, I have never heard of her.
Santa,
I am not sure who you have identified yet.
I had not heard of the person either until it was my current turn to select a person for this thread. Not long before choosing I had been watching the Matildas play a great game against Canada. So women's sports identity from the past, a recent swimming championships, a little help from Google and there we go. It helps everyone learn a bit too.
Are you waiting, in case someone else can have a go?
Not any more.
(Sarah) Fanny Durack.
Sarah Frances "Fanny" Durack (27 October 1889 20 March 1956), also known by her married name Fanny Gately, was an Australian competition swimmer.[1] From 1910 until 1918 she was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.[2]
Life and career
Fanny Durack, Stockholm Olympics, 1912 [3]
Durack learned to swim in Sydney's Coogee Baths[2] using breaststroke, the only style for which there was a championship for women at that time. In 1906 she won her first title, and over the next few years, dominated the Australian swimming scene. In the 1910-11 swimming season, Mina Wylie beat Durack in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 100- and 220-yard freestyle at the Australian Swimming Championships at Rose Bay. The two went on to become close friends.
From late 1912 to 1920, Durack held the official women's Freestyle swimming world record for 100 metres.[4] She also held the 200M freestyle record from 1915 to 1921. Other world records held included 220 yards freestyle (1915 to 1921), 500M freestyle (1916 to 1917) and 1 mile freestyle (1914 to 1926). She also held many Australian and State records.
I guess you will have someone for us.
You added some of Fannny's bio. Here is a bit more.
" Sarah Fanny Durack was Australias first female Olympic gold medallist, winning swimmings 100m freestyle at the Stockholm Games in 1912.
The Stockholm Games was also the first-time women were able to compete in an Olympic swimming competition. Fellow Australian swimmer Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie placed second in this event.
At one point in her career, Fanny was the world's greatest female swimmer across all distances, from freestyle sprints to the mile marathon.
A week before the Australian team left for the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, in May 1920, Durack suffered appendicitis[8] and had an emergency appendectomy. This was followed by typhoid fever and pneumonia and she was unable to participate in the Olympic team.[2]
During World War I, The Golden Virgin statue of Mary and the infant Jesus on top of the Basilique Notre-Dame de Brebières in Albert, Somme, France, was hit by a shell on 15 January 1915, and slumped to a near-horizontal position. Australian troops nicknamed the leaning statue "Fanny", in honour of Fanny Durack as it resembled the swimmer diving off the blocks.[9]
Durack died in Sydney in 1956. She was interred in Waverley Cemetery, together with her late husband Bernard Martin Gately. Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre[10] in Petersham, Sydney, is named in her honour.
She was posthumously inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honour Swimmer" in 1967.[11] In addition to this, she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.[12]
Sarah Durack Ave at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia is named in honour of her."
In 2022, she was an inaugural inductee of the Swimming Australia Hall of Fame. [13]
Thanks Ted,
This one should present little difficulty.
He would be a young John Farnham
That's him Ken, who do have next?
John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British-born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed until then as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.[1] His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985.[2][3]
In September 1986, his solo single "You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts.[4][5] The associated album, Whispering Jack, held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks[4][5] and is the third-highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, including No. 6 in the United Kingdom and No.1 in Sweden.[6][7]
Farnham has become one of his country's best-known and most popular performers,[1] and he is the only Australian artist to have a number-one record (album or single) in five consecutive decades (echoing that of Cliff Richard in the UK), with singles including "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" in 1967, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" in 1970, and "Age of Reason" in 1988;[4][5] and albums Whispering Jack in 1986, Age of Reason in 1988, Chain Reaction in 1990, Then Again... in 1993, 33 in 2000, and The Last Time in 2002.[4][5][8] Along with touring with numerous artists, including The Seekers and international acts like Stevie Nicks and Lionel Richie, he released various collaborative albums: Tom Jones on Together in Concert (2005); Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow, including Highlights from The Main Event (1998); Two Strong Hearts Live (2015); and Friends for Christmas (2016).[9]
Thank you Santa. This famous man should be easy to identify !!
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 10th of August 2023 08:33:08 AM
Looks like Fred Hollows to me Ken.
Still nothing from Sheba?
I knew it was too easy. Over to you Santa.
No, haven't heard anything from Sheba
Frederick Cossom Hollows AC (9 April 1929 10 February 1993) was a New ZealandAustralian ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for people in Australia and many other countries through initiatives such as The Fred Hollows Foundation.
9 April 1929
Gabi O'Sullivan (m.19801993; his death)
Thanks Ken.
Who is this?
Looks like someone in Japanese Military during 2nd World War !!!
I reckon you know who it is Ken.
The only Japanese I know from the War was Tojo. Don't know his first name....
I think he was a Prime Minister or an Army General.
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 17th of August 2023 09:06:36 AM
Your on the money Ken, it was general Hideki Tojo, a truly evil bastard, his name will live on in infamy.
Hanging was too good for him.
Hideki Tojo Tj Hideki, pronounced [too çideki] (listen); 30 December 1884 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for 1941 to 1944 during World War II. He assumed several more positions including chief of staff of the Imperial Army before ultimately being removed from power in July 1944. During his years in power, his leadership was marked by extreme state-perpetrated violence in the name of Japanese ultranationalism, much of which he was personally involved in.
Tojo was born on 30 December 1884, to a relatively low-ranking former samurai family in the Kjimachi district of Tokyo. He began his career in the Army in 1902 and steadily rose through the ranks to become a general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) by 1934. In March 1937, he was promoted to chief of staff of the Kwantung Army whereby he led military operations against the Chinese in Inner Mongolia and the Chahar-Suiyan provinces. By July 1940, he was appointed minister of war to the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.
On the eve of the Second World War's expansion into Asia and the Pacific, Tojo was an outspoken advocate for a preemptive attack on the United States and its European allies. Upon being appointed prime minister on 17 October 1941, he oversaw the Empire of Japan's decision to go to war as well as its ensuing conquest of much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. During the course of the war, Tojo presided over numerous war crimes, including the massacre and starvation of civilians and prisoners of war. He was also involved in the sexual enslavement of thousands of mostly Korean women and girls for Japanese soldiers, an event that still strains modern JapaneseKorean relations.
After the war's tide decisively turned against Japan, Tojo resigned as prime minister on 18 July 1944. Following his nation's surrender to the Allied powers in September 1945, he was arrested, convicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the Tokyo Trials, sentenced to death, and hanged on 23 December 1948. To this day, Tojo's complicity in atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, and human experimentation entailing the torture and death of thousands have firmly intertwined his legacy with the brutality shown by the Japanese Empire throughout World War II.
I thought I was on the right track. Thank you Santa.
This one might not be too easy so I'll give an early clue: He was involved in Computer Science and was a famous long distance runner
-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Thursday 17th of August 2023 11:11:42 AM
The photo look to have a bit of age about it, thinking computer science the only well known names that come to mind are Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Turing.
It's certainly neither Gates nor Jobs, sooooooo, I will guess Alan Turing, although not sure about the distance running.
Well done Santa. You got it. Over to you :
Thanks Ken, this lady shouldn't be all that difficult.
Anyways, maybe I am impatient.
I think it is Nancy Wake.
Your right Ted, it is Nancy Wake, known to the gestapo as The White Mouse.
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry. The official historian of the SOE, M. R. D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her".[1] Many stories about her World War II activities come from her autobiography, The White Mouse, and are not verifiable from other sources.
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Wake grew up in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. By the 1930s, Wake was living in Marseille with her French industrialist husband, Henri Fiocca, when the war broke out. After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, Wake became a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network led by Ian Garrow and, later, Albert Guérisse. As a member of the escape network, she helped Allied airmen evade capture by the Germans and escape to neutral Spain. In 1943, when the Germans became aware of her, she escaped to Spain and then went to the United Kingdom. Her husband was captured and executed.[2]
After reaching Britain, Wake joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) under the code name "Hélène". On 2930 April 1944 as a member of a three-person SOE team code-named "Freelance", Wake parachuted into the Allier department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several Maquis groups in the Auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by Émile Coulaudon (code name "Gaspard").[3] She participated in a battle between the Maquis and a large German force in June 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, a defeat for the Maquis, she claimed to have bicycled 500 kilometers to send a situation report to SOE in London.[4][2][5][6]
Wake was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom (17 July 1945), the Medal of Freedom from the United States (1947), the Légion d'honneur from France (1970: Knight; 1988: Officer), a Companion of the Order of Australia from Australia (22 February 2004), and the Badge in Gold from New Zealand (2006).[7][8]
Thanks Santa.
Next one. Who is this fella?
First clue. He is an Aussie, very well known in his field.
More clues.
Born in Mount Gambier.
Regularly on a stage and in movies.'