Bernard Callinan

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Sir Bernard Callinan
Second World War
Awards
Mentioned in Despatches
Other workPresident, Melbourne Cricket Club
President, Institute of Engineers
Chairman, GHD

Sir Bernard James Callinan,

DSO, MC
(2 February 1913 โ€“ 20 July 1995) was an Australian soldier, civil engineer, businessman, and sport administrator.

Early life

Born in Melbourne on 2 February 1913, after attending St Kevin's College Callinan completed a Bachelor of Civil Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Upon graduating in 1935, he joined the embryonic consulting practice of Gordon Gutteridge, which became Gutteridge, Haskins and Davey a few years later and is now known as GHD.[1]

Military service

Callinan was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Citizens Military Force in June 1940, being appointed into the Royal Australian Engineers.[2] In March 1941, he volunteered for overseas service and joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, taking up a posting as an instructor at the Demolitions Wing, at the 7th Infantry Training Centre. He was promoted to captain in July 1941, and subsequently posted as the second-in-command to the 2/2nd Independent Company, deploying with them to Timor as part of Sparrow Force in December 1941. He subsequently led the commandos during their campaign on the island and in July 1942 was temporarily promoted to major.[2]

Upon returning to Australia, his promotion to major was confirmed and he served on the headquarters of the

Mentioned in Despatches.[2]

Professional career

Returning to

Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to engineering. The following year he was presented with the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal from the Institution of Engineers Australia. In 1977 he was knighted for services to engineering and retired from GHD in 1978, after 44 years of service.[1] Callinan led the company through a period of rapid expansion, as it grew to 500 employees with offices around Australia and began to establish a global footprint.[1]

Callinan held many positions in the commercial field, including director of CSR Ltd, director of

British Petroleum Company of Australia, chairman of the new Federal Parliament House Construction Authority, commissioner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SEC), deputy chancellor of La Trobe University and president of the Institute of Engineers Australia. From 1963 he served as Commissioner of the SEC Victoria.[5]

Sport administration

Callinan joined the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) committee in 1966 and served as president from 1980 to 1985. He fought to retain the Victorian Football League (VFL) grand final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), and was a long-serving Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) Patron-in-Chief.[6]

Later life

He died in 1995. His five children and his wife, Naomi, survived him.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "A Firm Foundation". GHD. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "VX50081 (382001) Lieutenant Colonel Bernard James Callinan". People. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Callinan, Bernard James". World War II Nominal Roll. Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b Lloyd, Brian (2008). Engineering in Australia: A Professional Ethos (PDF). Melbourne, Victoria: Histec. pp. 117โ€“118. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2016.
  5. ^ "McHale one of six inducted into Old Paradians Hall". Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  6. ^ "MCG Room Names". Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.

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