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Ken Short AO was born in Kenya on July 6, 1927. He spent 3 years in the army, including two years as Commander Lieutenant with the Commonwealth Occupying Forces in Japan, from 1946-1948. He studied at Moore College from 1949-1951. He was ordained in 1952 and served in the parishes of Mosman and Pittwater before missionary service in what was then Tanganyika (later Tanzania). On his return, he served as General Secretary of CMS and then had as rector of Vaucluse from 1971-1975. He was consecrated as bishop in 1975 and served as Bishop of Wollongong until 1982, then Bishop of Parramatta from 1982-1989. He was concurrently Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 1979-1989, and Army Chaplain General from 1979-1981. In 1988 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. He retired in 1992.
References: https://www.smh.com.au/national/ken-short-obituary-trusted-bishop-and-family-man-with-a-gift-for-counsel-20141112-11kwz9.html https://sydneyanglicans.net/news/sydneys-elder-statesman-dies

Les Nixon was a pilot, photographer and evangelist who founded Outback Patrol. He joined Open Air Campaigners in 1947 and played the accordion. In 1954 he attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1955 he married Martha Chastain and in 1959 they travelled across Australia with the Billy Graham Crusades. He founded Outback Patrol in 1961.

Donald W. Howard is the retired minister of St Peter’s Church of England, Sydney, Australia. After experience in agriculture, The Royal Australian Air Force, and journalism, Donald Howard studied Theology at Moore College, Sydney and then served for many years in the pastoral ministry. While at St. Peter’s, his first wife, Diana, died of cancer at the age of forty-six in 1977. After an active preaching ministry since his retirement in 1992, he and his second wife Nan became members of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Reference: https://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/d-howard/

Norman C. Deck was a photographer and missionary in the Solomon Islands.