first aviation unit to leave for active service is sent to New Guinea. 21 December – Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood arrives in Egypt to take command of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Arts and literature 4 September – William Henry Strahan published "The Bugle Call" Sport 6 April – The Hawthorn Football Club joins the Victorian Football Association. During the 1914 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand the British win the 3rd and deciding Ashes Test. The 1914 NSWRFL Premiership is won by South Sydney 3 October – The Port Adelaide Football Club defeats Carlton to be crowned Champions of Australia for a record fourth time and becoming the only League club in Australian football to go through its entire season undefeated. Births 2 January – Jack Beaton (died 1996), rugby league player 11 February – Clyde Cameron (died 2008), politician 14 February – Norman Von Nida (died 2007), golfer 14 March – Robert Royce (died 2008), botanist 20 March – Tom Derrick (died 1945), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient 26 March – Ray Robinson (died 1965), cricketer 28 March – Kenneth Richard Norris (died 1983), entomologist 24 April – Moi-Yo Miller, assistant to magician Dante (died 2018) 4 April – David W. Goodall, botanist and ecologist (died 2018) 6 April – Gordon Stone (died 2015), rugby union player 10 April – Jack Badcock (died 1982), cricketer 7 May – Scobie Breasley (died 2006), jockey 21 May – Rhodes Fairbridge (died 2006), geologist 3 June – Sydney Edward Wright (died 1966), academic, pacifist, pharmacist, pharmacy college head and teacher 30 June – Bill Monti (died 1977), rugby union player 9 July – Mac Wilson (died 2017), Australian rules footballer 1 August – Hughie Edwards (died 1982), pilot, Victoria Cross recipient and Governor of Western Australia 3 August – Gordon Bryant (died 1991), politician 6 August – Gordon Freeth (died 1994), politician 18 August – Arthur Tange (died 2001), public servant 9 September – John Passmore (died 2004), philosopher 24 September – John Kerr (died 1991), 18th Governor-General of Australia 25 September – Ted Humphries (died 1994), NSW politician 4 October – Jim Cairns (died 2003), politician 20 October – Fred Chaney (died 2001), politician 7 November – Geoffrey Blackburn, (died 2014), Baptist minister 8 December – Ernie Toshack (died 2003), cricketer 16 December – Jo Gullett (died 1999), soldier and politician 21 December – Frank