History Dinner 

with Ted Blamey  

(Grandson of Field Marshal Blamey) 

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 6.30 pm 

HCA Members $90 | Guests $100 

"Australia’s Fighting Field Marshal"

- the story of Field Marshal Thomas Blamey through two World Wars

After drawing full houses at both the Australian and the Melbourne Clubs, this event is arriving at Sydney's Union University and Schools Club.

Australia’s Fighting Field Marshal 

 Sydney 's UUSC is offering HCA members to join their members for an evening with dinner featuring an address on one of Australia's most influential, yet controversial leaders, our nation's youngest, oldest and most decorated General Officer, our only Field Marshal, the only allied General to retain command from the beginning to the end of World War Two.

The address will take us through the extraordinary career of Sir Thomas A. Blamey, from his most  humble of beginnings, through his remarkable World War I achievements, his inter-war service as Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police, his recall to the army at the outbreak of the second World War to form the 2nd AIF, those turbulent years in the Middle East and the Southwest  Pacific, his decisive role in saving our nation from occupation to the crowning achievement of a military career. 

It will also be observed that, despite all that and his civil initiatives, the nationwide reputation he held at the time of his death has, in recent decades, been subject to populist criticism to the  extent that, outside military circles, he is scarcely known or commemorated these days.

Thomas E. (Ted) Blamey

Our speaker is Mr. Thomas E. (Ted) Blamey, grandson of Sir Thomas.  Harvard Club Life Member, Ted, MBA 1970, is a former McKinsey & Company consultant, global cruise ship line President/CEO, Port Authority Chair and  CEO of Australia’s largest retail travel collective. He founded CHART Management Consultants  in 1997 to advise senior levels of government, ports, companies and investors in the global cruise  ship industry. 

He has also been an Adjunct Professor for Boston University, is a Visiting Fellow of the Seatrade  Academy, runs management development courses for cruise executives in Asia and is a regular  speaker and moderator at global cruise conferences and conducts case studies for executive groups. Ted is a Past President of the American Club in Sydney.