Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley (Burwood

Burwood, Victoria

Burwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is largely the City of Whitehorse but includes the City of Monash in its south west corner. At the 2006 Census, Burwood had a population of 11,886.-History:The...

 1 March 1887 – Footscray

Footscray, Victoria

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 27 February 1947) was an Australian geologist. He graduated from the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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 in 1911 with a degree in mining engineering, and was a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...

 led by Sir Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

 from 1911–14. Hoadley was a member of the Western Base Party

Western Base Party

The Western Base Party was a successful exploration party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The eight-man Western Party was deposited by the Aurora on the Shackleton Ice Shelf at Queen Mary Land. The leader of the team was Frank Wild and the party included the geologist Charles Hoadley.The...

. Cape Hoadley

Cape Hoadley

Cape Hoadley is a prominent rock coastal outcrop forming the west portal of the valley occupied by Scott Glacier. Discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson in November 1912, and named by him for C.A. Hoadley, geologist with the Western Base Party....

 was named after him upon discovery by the exploration party.

From 1914–16 he lectured in engineering at Ballarat School of Mines

Ballarat, Victoria

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, before becoming the Principal at the Footscray Technical School, a post he held until his death in 1947. He was awarded the King's Polar Medal

Polar Medal

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 (1915) and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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 in 1936.

Scouting

In 1909, he founded one of the first Scout Group

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s in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria. He was Chief Commissioner of the Scout Association's Victoria Branch from 1927 to 1937, where his major achievement was the creation of Counties to take administrative duties away from Branch Headquarters. He was better known as founder and from 1924 until his death in 1947 Warden of Gilwell Park, Gembrook and a key part of Leader training, being one of the state's two first Deputy Camp Chiefs – authorised to award Scout Leader

Scout Leader

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s with the Wood Badge

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. In 1952 the new Senior Scout

Venturer Scouts (Australia)

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 competition hike was named in his honour. The Hoadley Scout Region in western Melbourne is also named after him. He was awarded the Silver Wolf Award in 1931.