John matriculated from Adelaide Boys High School, is a Graduate of the Royal Military College, the Joint Services Staff College and the Australian College of Defence and Strategic Studies. John became a Life Governor of the RAAHS/RAAHC in 1993, and he is Chairman of the History Sub Committee of the RAA Regimental Committee. He conceived and led an ‘Australia Remembers’ project to create the ‘Defence of Sydney Monument’ at North Head. While Director he was Chairman of the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Society. He was Commanding Officer of the 8th/12th Medium Regiment at Holsworthy in 1991-1992 and the Director of Artillery 1993-1995. He currently specialises in implementing improved governance and management of Defence’s total workforce. John served in the Permanent Army from 1968 to 2003, and continues to work as a Reserve Member. He is a Registered Company Auditor, a Registered Tax Agent, and a Certified Fraud Examiner, an Official Liquidator appointed by the Supreme Court of NSW and a Registered Trustee in Bankruptcy appointed by the Federal Court of Australia. Bus (Acc) University of Technology, Sydney Grad Dip Mgt., University of Canberra, and psc(r) Australian Command and Staff College, Canberra. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. His professional role has seen him in numerous leadership and command roles including Chairman Western Sydney Itec Ltd, Senior Vice President Western Sydney Business Connection, Chairman Hawkesbury Business Connection, Chair NSW Public Practice CPA Australia, and President of the Royal Australian Artillery Association (NSW) Inc. He is well recognised within the profession as a leading advisor and media spokesperson. Schon has a career spanning more than 40 years in the Accounting, Turnaround and Military professions. Schon is currently also the President of the Parramatta Chamber of Commerce. Schon Condon is Managing Principal of the Condon Group, former Commanding Officer of 23rd Field Regiment RAA and remains a project Officer within Defence. Czar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their children were subsequently arrested and later murdered by the Bolsheviks.Chairman, Governance Committee member, Finance Committee Also in 1917, he made the controversial decision to deny asylum in Britain to another of his cousins, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and his family, after the czar abdicated during the Russian Revolution. During one visit to France in 1915, he fell off a horse and broke his pelvis, an injury that plagued him for the rest of his life. In order to demonstrate further solidarity with the British war effort, George made several visits to survey the troops at the Western Front. As a result, on June 19, 1917, the king decreed that the royal surname was thereby changed from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, also a grandson of Queen Victoria, was the king’s cousin the queen herself was German. With the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, strong anti-German feeling within Britain caused sensitivity among the royal family about its German roots. When his father died in 1910, George ascended to the British throne as King George V. As the new Duke of York, George was made to abandon his career in the navy he became a member of the House of Lords and received a political education. The couple had six children, including the future Edward VIII and George VI (who took the throne in 1936 after his brother abdicated to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson). The following year, George married the German princess Mary of Teck (his cousin, a granddaughter of King George III), who had previously been intended for Edward. The second son of Prince Edward of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark, and the grandson of Queen Victoria, George was born in 1865 and embarked on a naval career before becoming heir to the throne in 1892 when his older brother, Edward, died of pneumonia. On June 19, 1917, during the third year of World War I, Britain’s King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with the use of German titles and surnames, changing the surname of his own family, the decidedly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
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