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Buttons show the colour patches of the first ten infantry battalions AIF, then first ten light horse regiments when moused over.
The Gallipoli 100 Team
The Gallipoli 100 Organisation is composed of a group of passionate surfers who also share an interest in military history and have experience in managing surfing events and overseas tours.
The initial team is made up of Paul Murphy's company, Military History Tours, all information on it is at the website at
www.militaryhistorytours.com.au. Representing the G100, Paul visited Turkey in February 2009, and found nothing but enthusiasm for the G100 concept. The other side of our team is Dr Paul Cooper, boat captain at Tamarama SLSC in Sydney who together with Mark Walton, ex Duntroon Graduate and recently retired from full time army service, and also a Tamarama boatie, came up with the G100 concept.
As a team, we have combined active surf club members with Australia’s leading Military History tour
company.
Gallipoli 100 is supported by Surf Life Saving Australia
Select the show/hide buttons below for detailed personal biographies of the team members:
Paul Cooper
 Born in 1954 in Sydney. Married with two children. Living in Sydney.
Educated via the public system in Sydney and subsequently graduating university with BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD. I am currently employed by The Scots College as the Director of Cocurricular where I have worked for the last thirty years teaching science and chemistry. I have coached a variety of sports in that time and been involved in its cadet programme since day one. I have lead seven Kokoda Trail Expeditions and will be doing my eighth in the 2009 June - July vacation. I am currently 2IC of the Unit. I have received a Cadet Forces Service Medal for my efforts.
I joined Tamarama SLSC in the 1968-69 season and have been a member ever since and elected as Life Member in the early 90s and have also received a National Medal for service. I am still actively patrolling and assisting with the Nippers programme. I have held many committee positions in that time and am currently the Boat Captain and have been continuously since 1987. I have been a member of a boat crew since 1969 for most of that time, enjoying participating in two Brewarrina to Bourke Outback Surfboat Classics and one Wolingat to Winda Whoppa.
Dr Paul S Cooper BSc MSc PhD Contact 
Paul Murphy
 I was born in Sydney in 1945. I am married with a married daughter and two grandchildren. I have worked in the Travel Industry for 47 years and have run military history tours to Europe and Asia for the last 20 years. My company's most successful programme was last year following our proposal to the then Australian government that a Dawn Service on ANZAC Day at Villers-Bretonneux in France be held. It is now an annual Commemoration. We looked after 800 Australians on that tour. My company has run tours continuously to Gallipoli since 1989, and in this time has made many valuable contacts who are providing the assistance to make our G100 a huge success.
I served for 35 years in the Australian Army Reserve. My rank on retirement was Lieutenant Colonel. I hold a Reserve Force Decoration, (RFD), a defence force medal, and am an accredited Travel
Manager, (TM). In 2008, I received a nomination for Australian of the Year.
I received my bronze medallion in 1965, and when I ceased active surf club duty, due largely to overseas travel
commitments, I had earned my instructor’s and examiner’s certificates. I spent several years in the Tamarama boat crew in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
I am currently a member of North Bondi Surf Club.
Paul Murphy RFD Contact  CLICK to show, then CLICK to hide.
Mark Walton
 I was a late baby boomer and enjoyed the latter part of the 50’s (oh, and all the 60’s and the first part of the 70’s) in the south western parts of Sydney on a farm in what was then a very rural Campbelltown.
Spent Nipper days at North Curl Curl and when we found that the south coast beaches were cleaner, at Thirroul and
Austinmer
Believing that a military life was a ‘good thing’ I applied for and was selected for Army training at the Royal Military College in 1974. What followed was 30 years of serious stuff and a whole lot of fun.
During those 30 years there were lots of moves all over the country but I was in most cases able to hook up with a surf club to maintain my love of wood on water (the boats were wood then) and can count Cairns, Eddy Bay, Magnetic Island, Gove (for a one-off stint), Broadbeach in that mix. The Army sent me to Sydney where I joined
Queenscliff before being ‘persuaded’ to take up a boatie position with Tamarama – Aussies, 2009 marked a 20 year association as a Boatie with them .
I live with Marcia, (and my mum kinda lives next door) in the Blue Mountains where I can enjoy my other passion of ropes and rock, but the call of early morning surf training has never gone un-answered.
It was being in the military and being a boatie that made me passionate about the 2015 Anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign – I could not see any other more appropriate means of representing the long association of surf and soldiering than by having Australian Surf Boats, which look so similar in profile to the original landing boats, holding silent position in 2015 on that Peninsular. Couldn’t get the Government to make it happen so through the Gallipoli 100 we are working like mad to make it happen
Markham StClair Walton AKA “JB” Contact |
