Ralph Honner

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ralph_Honner an entity of type: Thing

Lieutenant Colonel Hyacinth Ralph Honner DSO, MC (17 August 1904 – 14 May 1994), known as Ralph Honner, was a distinguished Australian soldier during the Second World War. He is considered particularly notable for his leadership during the Kokoda Track Campaign, during which he commanded the 39th Battalion, which fought a series of delaying actions as the Japanese advanced towards Port Moresby. In 1943 Honner was wounded during the fighting in the Ramu and Markham Valleys and, as a result, was discharged from the Army in early 1945. In his later life, he worked as an administrator on the War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal. He was also President of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) from 1961 to 1963, and served as the Australian ambassador to Ireland between 196 rdf:langString
rdf:langString Ralph Honner
rdf:langString Ralph Honner
rdf:langString "Jump"
rdf:langString Ralph Honner
rdf:langString Sydney, New South Wales
rdf:langString Fremantle, Western Australia
xsd:integer 13781586
xsd:integer 1094940062
xsd:integer 1924 1936
rdf:langString Chargé d'affaires
rdf:langString Australia
rdf:langString K. I. Gates
xsd:date 1904-08-17
rdf:langString Captain Ralph Honner in Libya, 1941.
xsd:date 1994-05-14
rdf:langString "Jump"
xsd:integer 1969
rdf:langString Lieutenant Colonel Hyacinth Ralph Honner DSO, MC (17 August 1904 – 14 May 1994), known as Ralph Honner, was a distinguished Australian soldier during the Second World War. He is considered particularly notable for his leadership during the Kokoda Track Campaign, during which he commanded the 39th Battalion, which fought a series of delaying actions as the Japanese advanced towards Port Moresby. In 1943 Honner was wounded during the fighting in the Ramu and Markham Valleys and, as a result, was discharged from the Army in early 1945. In his later life, he worked as an administrator on the War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunal. He was also President of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division) from 1961 to 1963, and served as the Australian ambassador to Ireland between 1969 and 1972. He died in 1994, aged 89.
xsd:integer 2 39
rdf:langString Ambassador to Ireland
xsd:string Australia
xsd:gYear 1927
xsd:gYear 1924
xsd:nonNegativeInteger 15787
xsd:string 2/14th Battalion(1943)
xsd:string 39th Battalion(1942–43)

data from the linked data cloud