 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 2 November 1892 . His father , an <unk> originally from Gosford , founded the <unk> firm Malley 's . 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 War I he was an apprentice mechanic at Malley 's . 
