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Ivan Champion was born on 9 March, 1904 in Port Moresby, Papua, is an Australian public servant. Discover Ivan Champion's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March 1904
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace Port Moresby, Papua
Date of death 12 August, 1989
Died Place Canberra, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1904

Ivan Francis Champion (9 March 1904 – 12 August 1989) was an Australian public servant in Papua New Guinea.

Champion was born in Port Moresby in 1904, the eldest son of Herbert William and Florence Louise May Mary Chester Champion (née Foran).

1911

He attended Port Moresby European School from 1911 to 1914, Manly Public School in Sydney in 1915, and then the Southport School in Queensland from 1916 to 1922.

Unable to fulfil his ambition to join the navy due to poor eyesight and discouraged from becoming a patrol officer in Papua by his father, who was concerned about accusations of nepotism, he began working for Union Bank in Sydney.

1913

His father served as Government Secretary of the Territory of Papua from 1913 to 1942.

1923

However, he was able to join the Papuan civil service following a 1923 meeting with Papua's Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray, becoming a cadet clerk the following May.

He was initially posted to Kerema, before being transferred to Kambisi to help run a new police post the following year.

1926

After impressing his superior Charles Karius, he was chosen as Karius' assistant for an attempt to cross New Guinea across the Central Range in 1926–27.

1927

Although the first attempt ended in failure, a second attempt in 1927–28 was successful.

Following the expeditions, he served in Kambisi, Ioma, Misima Island, Rigo and the Trobriand Islands.

1929

In September 1929 he married Elsie May Sutherland Ross in Port Moresby.

1932

He subsequently published a book about the patrols, Across New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik, in 1932.

1936

In 1936 he led a mission to establish a patrol post at Lake Kutubu, where he remained as officer-in-charge from 1937 until January 1940.

He was then appointed acting resident magistrate at Kikori, before being transferred to Misima later in the year.

1941

In 1941 he was transferred to Rigo and then back to Misima.

1942

Following the Japanese invasion in January 1942, Champion joined the militia in February, before being appointed a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve.

He became commanding officer of HMAS Laurabada and helped evacuate soldiers from Jacquinot Bay in April 1942, earning a promotion to lieutenant in June.

He then became commander of HMAS Paluma, surveying the north-eastern coast of Papua and dropping off coastwatchers at their stations.

1945

He was demobilised in October 1945 and rejoined the civil service as a district officer in Western District.

1946

In 1946 Champion was appointed assistant director of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, before serving as acting director from 1949.

1951

He served as a member of the Legislative Council between 1951 and 1963.

In 1951 he was in charge of the relief operations following a volcanic eruption at Mount Lamington.

Later the same year he was appointed to the Legislative Council alongside his brother Claude.

1952

He became chief commissioner of the Native Land Commission in 1952, and was awarded an OBE in 1953.

1963

After becoming senior commissioner of the Land Titles Commission in 1963, he retired the following year.

He then became commander of the Laurabada again, now a civil ship, and took up contracts surveying the coasts of Australia and Bangladesh.

1989

He moved to Brisbane, Banora Point and then Canberra, where he died in Woden Valley Hospital in August 1989.