OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 21605, 18 January 1932, Page 5

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN JACKA, V.C. (United Press Assn. —By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.5 a.m.) Melbourne, January 17. Tlie death has occurred of Captain Albert. Jacka, the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross in the Great War. Captain Jacka was born in 1592 at Wedderburn, Victoria. He was employed in the Forestry Department, and joined the 14th Battalion, A.1.F., at the outbreak of the Great War. He served first in Egypt, and took part in the Gallipoli campaign. On the night, of May, 19-20, 1915, a British trench was violently attacked. When his four comrades had been killed or wounded, Jacka, then a lance-corporal, defended himself and the trench single-handed against seven Turks, five of whom he shot. He bayoneted the other two. For this he was awarded the V.C. and £5OO and a gold medal promised by John Wren, an Australian, to the first Australian to win the V.C. in the Great War. THE HON. VICARY GIBBS. London, January 14. Tlie death is announced of the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, B.A. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, 8.A., was born in 1853. He was a partner in Antony Gibbs and Sons, merchants and bankers From 1892 to 1904 he was Conservative member for St. Albans Division, Herts. MR WALTER TYRWHITT. London, January 14. The death has occurred of Mr Walter Tyrwhitt. Mr Walter Tyrwhitt, painter in water colours, was 72 years of age. After graduating at Oxford he spent three years l in the Queensland bush, returning to England in 1886. He served in an architect’s | office, but never practised, later taking up I painting in water colours. Eleven of his ' pictures have been exhibited at the Royal 1 Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He was one of the founders of the Oxford Art Academy, and twelve at the Royal Society. His publications include “The New Chum in the Queensland Bush.” MR HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE. London, January 14. I The death is announced of Mr Halliwell I Sutcliffe, the novelist. Mr Halliwell Sutcliffe, B.A. (Cantab.) was born in 1870, and had been entirely occupied with literary work since 1893. He lived in London some of the time, but mostly in the country. AU his serious work was concerned with the moors and fells of West Yorkshire, with the moorfolk and fell-folk. Among his more recent publications are “The Heritage,” “Wrack o’ Doon,” “Storm,” “The Master Passion,” "The Winds of March,” and “The Staiding Dales.”