Originally Posted by JoeBob
York is the easy answer but apparently, it was some guy named Harry Murray.


You mean Lieutenant Colonel Murray VC, CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM of the Australian Army...He enlisted as a Private in 1914 and was promoted "in the field" a number of times until he reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the wars end.

Not bad for a farm boy from rural Tasmania!

In WW2, although in his 60's, he served again as CO of a reserve Unit..