Frederick Osborne
Politician
1909 – 1996
Who was Frederick Osborne?
Frederick Meares Osborne CMG DSC and Bar VRD was an Australian politician and government minister.
Osborne was born in Orange, New South Wales, and educated at North Sydney High School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He graduated with a degree in law from the University of Sydney. He joined the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938, and with the outbreak of World War II, he was seconded to the Royal Navy in 1940. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in 1940 for "bravery and devotion to duty" while assisting the evacuation of forces from Norway as a sub-lieutenant on the St Loman, an armed trawler. He then served on the HMS Gentian, HMS Peacock and HMS Vanquisher escorting ships between the United States and Canada and the United Kingdom in the Battle of the Atlantic. He crossed the Atlantic 22 times and was the only Australian to rise to the command of a Royal Navy destroyer during the war. In 1945 a bar was added to his DSC for sinking of a German U-boat.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1909
Orange - Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Sydney
- Died
- Jul 23, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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