List of Old Falconians - Armed Forces

Armed Forces

• Captain Walter Armitage RAN, Director of Engineering at Navy Office, Melbourne;
• Admiral Chris Barrie AC, Chief of the Australian Defence Force;
• Commodore Paul Berger LVO, Director of Naval Manpower Planning;
• Brigadier Walter Campbell MC, who as a Lieutenant in 1957 during the Malayan Emergency was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding leadership under hostile fire
• John Cash, 21-year-old RAAF pilot attached to 274 Squadron RAF in the Middle East whose sacrifice in 1941 is honoured by the John Francis Cash Memorial Chapel at Moore Theological College, Sydney;
• Brigadier Noel 'Chic' Charlesworth DSO, Chief of Staff Headquarters Field Force Command, Australian Army Attaché Washington DC, Charlesworth Place at Moree is named in his honour;
• Brigadier Sir Frederick Chilton Kt CBE DSO and Bar, in his 100th year he commanded the Anzac Day march in Sydney;
• Commodore Antony Cooper, RAN Hydrographer, former Commander of HMAS Warrego, Naval Officer-in-Charge of Northern Australia 1959–61;
• Rear-Admiral Ian Crawford AO, Head of Naval Logistics;
• Commodore Henry Hunter Gardner Dalrymple, General Manager Williamtown Naval Dockyard and subsequently Director General Naval Design at Naval HQ in Canberra;
• Midshipman Robert Davies served in the British battle cruiser HMS Repulse when it was sunk in the South China Sea off Malaya just before the fall of Singapore in 1942. Davies strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun and was still firing at Japanese aircraft as Repulse carried him under. Sydney Morning Herald of 16 April 2011 reports Davies under consideration for posthumous award of Victoria Cross;
• Colonel Anthony Delaney FACSP, Director Health Services Army Reserve – Eastern Region, team doctor of 1988 Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition;
• Brigadier Adrian d'Hage MC, author of The Omega Scroll;
• Rear-Admiral William Dovers DSC, Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet;
• Major-General David Engel AO OBE, Deputy Chief of the General Staff;
• Brigadier Conrad Ermert, Commander RAEME;
• Major-General Charles Finlay CB CBE, Commandant of RMC Duntroon;
• Major-General Timothy Ford AO, Chief of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Commander 1st Division (1996–97);
• Air Vice Marshal Roy Frost AO, Chief of RAAF Personnel;
• Air Commodore the Rev Alwyn Greenaway OBE DFC, Staff Officer RAAF Education Services;
• Brigadier David Hanlin AM, Chief Engineer for Army Construction in Australia, played three Sheffield Shield cricket matches for NSW;
• Major-General Albert Hellstrom CBE, Controller of Army Design and Inspection;
• Admiral Michael Hudson AC, Chief of Naval Staff;
• Group Captain Jack 'Congo' Kinninmont DSO DFC and Bar, Commanding Officer of 77 Squadron in Korean War, World War II fighter ace destroying 3 Japanese aircraft during the Malayan campaign;
• Brigadier David Leece, Commander 8th Infantry Brigade (1988–90), Assistant Commissioner of Natural Resources Commission of NSW;
• Colonel Allan Limburg CVO, Commander of Headquarters Supply Division, Director for 1963 Royal Visit to Northern Territory, author of Behind Enemy Lines;
• Brigadier Frederick McAlister CBE, Commander RAA 1 Corps, President of Sydney Legacy;
• Commodore Stuart Mayer CSC and Bar, Commander from 2009 of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) that is working to maintain security and restore normality in East Timor, former Commander of HMAS Canberra, "an exceptional naval officer who displayed consistent professional excellence, inspirational leadership and initiative, and outstanding dedication to duty";
• Air Vice Marshal Graham Neil AO DFC, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Personnel);
• Captain Roger Parker OBE RAN, Managing Director of Cockatoo Docks, General Manager of Williamstown Naval Dockyard;
• Dr Peter Pedersen, Graduate Royal Military College Duntroon; former analyst, Office of National Assessments; military historian and author of The Anzacs: Gallipoli To The Western Front and Monash as Military Commander;
• Colonel Philip Pike OBE ED, Commanding Officer of 17/18th Battalion, President of 2/17th Battalion AIF Association, Vice President of Sydney University Cricket Club;
• Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ramsay-Rae CB, Commander of Royal Air Force in Malaya;
• Commodore Michael Rayment AM, Director-General of Naval Programmes and Resource Management;
• Brigadier George Salmon AM, Director-General of Army Materiel (1987–93);
• Air Vice Marshal Peter Scully, Former Assistant Chief of Defence Force;
• Major-General Noel 'Red Fox' Simpson CB CBE DSO & Bar, Commander of 3rd Infantry Division;
• Rear-Admiral Peter Sinclair AC, Governor of NSW (1990–1996), Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet;
• Air Commodore Gordon Steege DSO, DFC, senior RAAF officer and fighter ace of World War II;
• Brigadier Philip Stevens, Commander of the First Military District (CMF), Winner of Sword of Honour at RMC Duntroon for exemplary conduct and performance of duties;
• Captain Norman White RAN, Commander RAN College, awarded Japanese decoration of The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, for advancement of relations between Australia and Japan;
• Colonel Tony Williams, Colonel Commandant and Director of Royal Australian Artillery;
• Major-General Arthur Wilson CBE DSO, Commander BCOF Japan;