John Treloar (1894–1952) was an Australian archivist who was the director for almost 30 years of the Australian War Memorial (AWM), the country's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have participated in war. Prior to World War I he worked as a clerk in the Department of Defence and, after volunteering for the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1914, served in staff roles for most of the war's first years. Treloar was selected to command the Australian War Records Section in 1917. In this position, he improved the AIF's records and collected a large number of artefacts for later display in Australia. Treloar was appointed the director of what eventually became the AWM in 1920, and was a key figure in establishing the Memorial and raising funds for its permanent building in Canberra. He headed the Department of Information during the first years of World War II, and spent the remainder of the war in charge of the Australian military's history section. Treloar returned to the AWM in 1946, and continued as its director until his death.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1675:
German polymath Gottfried Leibniz employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
1813:
War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the latter to give up their attempt to capture Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crysler%27s_Farm
1918:
Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski
1940:
World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Atlantis
1975:
During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
rumpty: (New Zealand) Having a quality below standard; in a state of disrepair. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rumpty
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. --Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut