He was born in 24 January 1884 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia , and He was dead in 27 May 1951 in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
He began his military career as a "civilian soldier" and served as commander at Gallipoli (Turkey). The height of his career was during the Second World War as Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Forces, serving simultaneously as Allied Commander-in-Chief of the forces landed in the Pacific Southwest under the command of the American General, Douglas MacArthur. On 2 September 1945, Blamey was with General MacArthur on the USS Missouri and signed the document of the Japanese capitulation as representative of Australia. He then flew to the island of Morotai and personally accepted the capitulation of the Japanese remaining in the South-West Pacific. The First World War Blamey is the seventh of the 10 children. After a few failures in agriculture, his father operates a small farm and works as a cattle ranger and monster controller. Blamey joined forces with his father in the company and became a very good rider. He was an effective and hard-fought member of the Cadet Army at school. He passed a test and became a police officer, the test included shooting targets, etc.
Blamey began working in 1889 as a trainee professor in the Wagga Wagga area before moving to western Australia in 1903 to continue his teaching career. He was assigned to the cadet school as a teacher at Wagga Wagga.
He was surprisingly a great womanizer and a great drinker long before, but was afterwards a person who never drinked alcohol and belonged to the Methodist Church. Very early in 1906, he was encouraged by the church leader in Western Australia to enroll in the formation of minister, who was ready to do so.
However, when the Australian military cadet training was created, he saw it as a new opportunity. He passed the entrance examination and came third in Australia, but missed the appointment because there are no vacancies in Western Australia. After persuasive correspondence with the military authorities, he was appointed Lieutenant in Victoria, beginning in November 1906.
Blamey married Minnie Millard on September 8, 1909. Her first child, a boy named Dolf, was born on June 29, 1910. Her second child, a boy named Thomas, was born four years later.
Blamey was promoted to captain in 1910. In 1911, after his candidacies failed, he was the first Australian officer to make a claim for access to tests at the British Staff College, which involved officers for the top commandment. He began his studies at Quetta's staff college in India in 1912 accompanied by his wife and his first child. He accomplished his task very well, completing classes in 1913.
First World War
Blamey served in the 1st AIF during this war. In the middle of 1914, Blamey went to Great Britain in the staff of the Wessex division. In November he sailed to Egypt to join the Australian contingent to become an intelligence officer in the Australian 1st Division headquarters for the Battle of Gallipoli (Turkey). During the disembarkation at Anzac Cove, Blamey was sent to assess the reinforcement requirements of Colonel M 'Cay's of the 2nd Brigade on plateau 400.
In July 1915 Blamey was promoted to lieutenant colonel and joined the staff of the newly formed 2nd Australian Division in Egypt. When the Australian forces were transferred to France in 1916, Blamey returned to the 1st division headquarters and was involved in the Battle of Pozières.
Blamey briefly commanded a battalion and a brigade between the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917, but his experience as a staff officer was considered too valuable to put him in positions like these. He was promoted to Brigadier-General on June 1, 1918, and became Chief of Staff of Lieutenant General John Monash's. He played an important role in the success of Monash's corps in the final months of the war. Indeed, Monarsh's considers him the key factor of the success of his body.
Between-two-war
Blamey returned to Australia at the end of 1919. Blamey then became Director of Military Operations of the Army Headquarters. In May 1920 he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff. The first important task of Blamey was the creation of the Australian Air Force. In August he was sent to London as representative of the Imperial General Staff.
In 1923, the Chief of the General Staff, Major General Cyril Brudenell White withdrew. Blamey was expected to become the Chief of the General Staff. However, Inspector General Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel was appointed in his place, Blamey was appointed second Chief of the General Staff.
On September 1, 1925, Blamey resigned from regular forces and was appointed as Commissioner of the Victoria Police, where a scandal broke out. During a police raid in a brothel, one of his friends was found in possession of his police card.
He led the "political police" to break the meetings of the movements of unemployed workers.
The treatment of trade unionists was typical of his anti-communist beliefs and as such his relations with the left of the government were tense. With a lot of army officer and ex-officer, he was a member leader of the far right clandestine organization "National Security League." The National Security League was a reaction to the awakening of communism in Australia. Its members were ready to take up arms in the depots to stop the communist revolution.
Second war
The most controversial actions of Blamey concern the period after the declaration of war of Japan and that the American general Douglas MacArthur leave from Australia. MacArthur had a bad opinion of the Australian soldiers and highly criticized their performance at the Battle of New Guinea. Blamey appears to be enthusiastic and not hostile towards MacArthur and not publicly speaking discordant. For example, in a speech to the 21st Brigade of the 2nd AIF in 1942, he accuses the men of "running rabbits".
His treatment of senior officers was also controversial. The many biographers of Blamey of the Second World War, including generals Lavarack, Rowell, Allen and Morshead, in addition to Brigadier Potts, all claimed that their subjects were treated unfairly and some cruelly by Blamey
Blamey left the army in 1946, and was promoted marshal on his deathbed.
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