STROMLO BACHELORS IN 1941



Left to Right (those who competed in the 1941 race are in red):
Noel Chamberlain (went to BMR), Hans Meyer (later formed an optical business in Sydney with Francis Lord), Walter Stibbs (later Emeritus Professor, ANU), Gus Krentler (died accidentally by cyanide poisoning in a Sydney hotel, 1944), Ted McCarthy (went into geophysics, now lives in Perth), George Frohlich (died Canberra Hospital 1942), Sidney "Ben" Gascoigne (later Professor ANU), Kurt Gottlieb (died in 1996), Ernst Freye (toolmaker, disappeared without trace after the war).





Ted Holmes, the winner in 1941 (died of leukaemia on 1st December 1962; buried in Woden Cemetery, Anglican Lawn, C494).





Walter Stibbs, the runner-up in 1941 (Emeritus Professor, ANU Astrophysical Theory Centre).


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