- SURNAME
Syme
- FORENAME
Hugh Randall
- UNIT
HMS Vernon,Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
George Cross,George Medal and bar
- PLACE
England 1941 (GM) England 1942 (bar GM) England 1942-43 (GC)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 20.2.1903 Kew,Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
son of John Herbert and Ethel Maud (nee King) Syme
educated Scotch College
educated University of Melbourne
journalist,The Age in civilian life
commissioned 17.9.1940 (Sub Lt,RANVR)
to England
HMS King Alfred
Lieutenant 17.12.1940
HMS Vernon
returned to Australia 1943
HMAS Cerberus
discharged 8.2.1944
general manager,The Age 1944-47
general manager,David Syme and Co.Ltd 1948-63 (Director until death)
Director,Victorian Broadcasting Network Ltd
Director,Anti-Friction Bearings Ltd (President 1959)
Director,Australian Newspapers Council
Chairman,Newspaper Proprietors' Asociation of Melbourne
married Olive Alyson Clark 12.5.1931 (divorced 1940) (no children)
died 7.11.1965 Epworth Hospital,Richmond,Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
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