File:StateLibQld 2 113844 Sir William Glasgow in Kingaroy, 1932.jpg

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English: Sir William Glasgow in Kingaroy, 1932

Sir William Glasgow talking to a group of World War I veterans at a function in Kingaroy. (Description supplied with photograph).

Sir Thomas William Glasgow was born near Tiaro, Queensland, on 6 June 1876. Educated at Maryborough, he worked as a bank clerk in Gympie while serving in the colonial militia. Enlisting in the South African War, also known as the Boer War, with the Queensland Mounted Rifles, he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded a Distinguished Service Order and Queen's Medal with five clasps. In 1904 he married Annie Isabel Stumm and they managed a cattle station west of Rockhampton. During World War I he saw action at Gallipoli and during his service on the Western Front rose to the rank of Major General eventually commanding the 1st Division during the decisive campaigns of 1918. Highly decorated for his bravery and leadership he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1920. A Queensland Senator from 1920 until 1932, he became Australia's first High Commissioner to Canada in 1940. He died in Brisbane on 4 July 1955. (Information supplied with photograph).
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