Garnet Malley


Garnet Francis Malley, MC, AFC was an Australian fighter ace of World War160I, credited with six aerial victories. He was an aviation adviser to Chiang Kaisheks government in China during the 1930s, and an intelligence officer in World War160II.

Garnet Francis Malley, the second youngest of six children of Clara Ellen Merritt and Francis Malley, was born in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney, on 2160November 1892. His father, an ironworker originally from Gosford, founded the whitegoods firm Malleys. He later served two terms as alderman of Mosman Council. Garnet Malley attended the Church of England Preparatory School in Mosman, The School in Mount Victoria, and Hawkesbury Agricultural College in Richmond. At the outbreak of World War160I he was an apprentice mechanic at Malleys.

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