1993 Queen's Birthday Honours, awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001, and advanced to a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours. Legacy There is now a park in Iris Street, West Guildford, called "Tom Uren Park" in memory of the Labor Party local. Uren had a strong influence on Anthony Albanese, who became the Prime Minister of Australia in May 2022. Albanese stated in June 2021 that "I grew up without a dad, but not without a father. Tom Uren was my father figure." Death Uren died on 26 January 2015, aged 93. Notes References 1921 births 2015 deaths 1975 Australian constitutional crisis Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Reid Members of the Australian House of Representatives Members of the Cabinet of Australia Australian Army soldiers Australian prisoners of war Companions of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal Australian people of Cornish descent World War II prisoners of war held by Japan Burma Railway prisoners 20th-century Australian politicians Australian memoirists Australian Army personnel of World War II