commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. He came from a
military family, his forebears having served in the Boer War and the
First World War. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during
the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being
commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New
Guinea in 1944 and 1945. His younger brother Harry also joined the Army,
and was killed in 1942. After the war, Saunders was demobilised and
returned to civilian life. He later served as a company commander with
the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, during the Korean War,
where he fought at the Battle of Kapyong. Saunders left the Army in 1954
and worked in the logging and metal industries, before joining the
Office (later the Department) of Aboriginal Affairs as a liaison officer
in 1969. In 1971, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British
Empire for his community service. He died in 1990, aged 69.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Saunders>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1671:
Irish-born Colonel Thomas Blood was caught trying to steal the
English Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood>
1873:
Panic of 1873: The Vienna Stock Exchange crashed, following two
years of overexpansion in the German and Austro-Hungarian economies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873>
1915:
British forces launched the Battle of Aubers Ridge, an
offensive on the Western Front which was part of the larger French
Second Battle of Artois.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aubers_Ridge>
1961:
In a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC
chairman Newton N. Minow described commercial television programming as
"a vast wasteland".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_Interest>
2005:
Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his
predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required
after the nominee's death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatification_of_Pope_John_Paul_II>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
green gown:
(now archaic, historical) A dress that has been stained green from
rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity,
especially a woman's loss of virginity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green_gown>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by
obligations, not by rights.
--José Ortega y Gasset
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset>
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