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Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell CMG, Mention in Dispatches (28 October 1914 – 19 December 1980) was an Australian Anglican bishop and World War 2 army chaplain.

Ketoba, New Guinea, 1944-01-29. Padre Sambell, Unit Chaplain of 57th/60th Battalion, conducting an impromptu prayer meeting on a track near the Boku River.

Sambell was born on 28 October 1914 at Broadford, Victoria. He was educated at Melbourne High School and studied at The University of Melbourne. He was Deacon in 1940 and ordained in early 1941. He began his ordained ministry in Malvern, Victoria, before enlisting in 1942 as an army chaplain, serving during World War 2 with the Second Australian Imperial Force in the jungles of the north western ranges of New Guinea (Service Number VX104114). He ministered first to soldiers of the 57th/60th Battalion which was raised in Victoria and then to the 2/11th Battalion raised from Western Australia. He was an extremely popular padre among the soldiers he served, and with whom he served. Sambell's studies at The University of Melbourne were interrupted by the war, and he graduated Bachelor of Arts after recommencing his studies (as so many did) after the war.

Following the war he became director of the Melbourne Diocesan Centre, Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence. He was Archdeacon of Essendon, and then of Melbourne. He was Bishop Coadjutor of Diocese from 1962 to 1969 when he was elected Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of Western Australia, posts he held to his death.

References

  1. The Times, 27 December 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60808; col F Obituary The Most Rev G. T. Sambell
  2. Colin Holden, 'Sambell, Geoffrey Tremayne (1914–1980)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sambell-geoffrey-tremayne-11606/text20723, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 28 November 2018.
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. Padre Geoffrey Sambell http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/97533-padre-geoffrey-sambell
  5. ADB
  6. World War Two Service Veteran Details: Captain Sambell, Geoffrey Tremayne http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=790403&c=WW2#R
  7. KETOBA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-01-29. VX104114 CHAPLAIN G.T SAMBELL (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) UNIT PADRE OF THE 57/60TH INFANTRY BATTALION https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C46878
  8. Padre Geoffrey Sambell http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/97533-padre-geoffrey-sambell
  9. Corfield, Robin (1991). Hold Hard, Cobbers: The Story of the 57th and 60th and 57/60th Australian Army Infantry Battalions, 1912–1990. Volume II (1930–1990). Glenhuntly, Victoria: 57/60th Battalion (AIF) Association. ISBN 0-646-04099-5
  10. Sambell Oration http://bsltimeline.pbworks.com/w/page/5584043/Sambell%20Oration
  11. Victoria Government Gazette
  12. Challen, Michael B. (1986). Occasional Paper — G.T. Sambell Memorial Trust: Parish Piety and Public Pragmatism http://library.bsl.org.au/jspui/bitstream/1/9197/1/challenm_Parish_piety_and_public_pragmatism_the_sixth_G_T_Sambell_Memorial_Oration_1986.pdf
  13. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  14. Perth Anglican Archived 2007-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Porter, A.E. (1990) Biography of Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell 1914-1980. Archbishop of Perth 1969-1980. Centre for WA history Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine

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