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Tom Eastick

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Brigadier Tom Eastick in Sarawak in late 1945
Brigadier Tom Eastick in Sarawak in late 1945

Tom Eastick, CMG, DSO, ED, JP (3 May 1900 – 16 December 1988) was a senior Australian Army artillery officer during World War II and a post-war leader of the principal ex-service organisation in South Australia. He commanded a field artillery regiment during the First and Second Battles of El Alamein in the Western Desert campaign in North Africa in 1942, leading to his appointment as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Upon return from the Middle East, he commanded divisional artillery during several campaigns in New Guinea and Borneo, before being appointed military governor of the Raj of Sarawak after taking the Japanese surrender at Kuching. Post-war, he was state president of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia (the Returned & Services League from 1965) for fifteen years. He was knighted for his volunteer work on behalf of ex-servicemen. (Full article...)