Gordon, Harry, 1925 November 9-

Journalist, sportswriter, author and historian. Combining a career as a war correspondent with sportswriter, Gordon went from reporting on the Korean War in 1950 and 1951, to the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952, to the Rome Olympics in 1960. He helped plan for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and the Sydney 2000 Olympic torch relay. Gordon was chairman of Australian Associated Press, and served on the Council of the Australian War Memorial, the Australia-China Council and the Australia-Japan Foundation. He has published several books including, The embarrassing Australian: the story of an Aboriginal warrior (1962), An eyewitness history of Australia (1976), and, Australia and the Olympic Games (1994). Gordon was the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committee and in 1999 he received the Committee's highest award, the Order of Merit. In 2006 the International Society of Olympic Historians awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Chief engineer of the Western Department in North America instructed by General Gage, Commander in Chief of the English forces to travel from Pittsburg down the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi to New Orleans in order to assess means of defense and the best way of securing the Indian trade for the English. He was accompanied by Thomas Hutchins who eventually became the Geographer General of the United States and used much of the information from this trip to make his "Map of the Western Parts". George Croghan, the Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, George Morgan of the Philadelphia trading house of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan, and a large party of Indians of the Six Nations accompanied.