Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, KBE, CStJ, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPE, FRS (15 July

1891 – 19 April 1966) was an Australian physician, medical scientist, and army
officer who was instrumental in saving thousands of Allied lives from malaria and
other diseases.

A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Fairley joined the Australian Army

Medical Corps in 1915. He investigated an epidemic of meningitis that was occurring
in Army camps in Australia. While with the 14th General Hospital in Cairo, he
investigated schistosomiasis (then known as bilharzia) and developed tests and
treatments for the disease. In the inter-war period he became renowned as an expert
on tropical medicine.

Hinault started cycling as an amateur in his native Brittany. After a successful

amateur career, he signed with the Gitane–Campagnolo team to turn professional in
1975. He took breakthrough victories at both the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic and
the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race in 1977. In 1978, he won his first two
Grand Tours: the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France. In the following years, he
was the most successful professional cyclist, adding another Tour victory in 1979
and a win at the 1980 Giro d'Italia. Although a knee injury forced him to quit the
1980 Tour de France while in the lead, he returned to win the World Championship
road race later in the year. He added another Tour victory in 1981, before
completing his first Giro-Tour double in 1982. (Full article...)

Pentland served in the fledgling Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and later the
Royal Air Force, before going into business in 1927. His ventures included
commercial flying around the goldfields of New Guinea, aircraft design and
manufacture, flight instruction, and charter work. In the early 1930s, he was
employed as a pilot with Australian National Airways, and also spent time as a
dairy farmer. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, he re-enlisted in the RAAF,
attaining the rank of squadron leader and commanding rescue and communications
units in the South West Pacific. Perhaps the oldest operational pilot in the
wartime RAAF, Pentland was responsible for rescuing airmen, soldiers and civilians,
and earned the Air Force Cross for his "outstanding courage, initiative and skill".
He became a trader in New Guinea when the war ended in 1945, and later a coffee