Thomas William Glasgow (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Thomas William Glasgow, KCB, CMG, DSO (6 June 1876 - 4 July 1955), was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian Senate, representing Queensland as a Nationalist Party member from 1919 - 1931. Thomas William Glasgow was born at Tiaro, near Maryborough, Queensland, on 6 June 1876, the fourth child an Irish farmer. He was educated at One Mile State School in Gympie, Queensland, and Maryborough Grammar School. After leaving school he went to work as a junior clerk in the office of a mining company in Gympie. Later he worked as a clerk in the Queensland National Bank in Gympie. Glasgow joined the Wide Bay Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry while still a teenager, with nineteen others he travelled to London in 1897 to represent Queensland at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.