Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly KBE, CB, DSO (19 March 1913 5 January 2004) was an Australian soldier, whose career culminated with his appointment as Chief of the General Staff.Daly was born in Ballarat, the son of Thomas Joseph Daly, who later achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in World War I. The younger Daly originally planned to become a doctor. Having failed, however, to gain entry into the university course of his choice, he became interested in attending the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and entered in 1930.