Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales

Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (21 July 1860 – 29 December 1936) was an Australian novelist and war correspondent.

Hales was born at Kent Town, Adelaide, the son of Frederick Greenwood Hales, a wood-turner, and his wife Sarah Leigh, née Veal.

He went to Bulgaria and fought in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Turks in 1903 in the band of general Ivan Tsonchev – the leader of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

References

  • Serle, Percival (1949). "Hales, Alfred Arthur Greenwood". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  • Donald Grant, 'Hales, Alfred Arthur Greenwood (1860–1936)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 9, MUP, 1983, pp 159–160