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Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch ( August 12 , 1886 - October 4 , 1952 ) was an Australia n Journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch . Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1886 and was educated at Camberwell Grammar School and the London School Of Economics . After graduation, he began a career in journalism with The Age . He married Elisabeth Greene, Now Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in 1928 and they had three daughters and a son. Murdoch applied to become Australia's official war historian upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. In the ballot to decide on that position he lost out to Charles Bean . In August 1915 that Murdoch managed to get permission to visit Anzac Cove , and for the purpose of investigating the alleged mismanagement of mail sent to Australian soldiers serving in the Gallipoli Campaign . Murdoch agreed to hand deliver a letter detailing the mismanagement of the campaign from the British reporter Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett to the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith . On route to London, Murdoch was arrested by French Military Police in Marseille and the letter was confiscated. Murdoch made it to London but without the letter so he wrote a replacement to the Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher in a similar vein to the Ashmead-Bartlett letter. It is commonly believed that the letter and the fuss that it created helped bring an end to the Gallipoli campaign. ''See also'': The Herald And Weekly Times Ltd , Herald Sun |
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