Lew Border
{{Short description|Australian public servant and diplomat}}
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Lewis Harold Border {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|LVO}} (16 April 1920 – 11 March 2011) was an Australian public servant and diplomat. From 1977 to 1980, Border was Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand.
Life and career
Lew Border was born on 16 April 1920 in Bundarra, New South Wales.{{citation|url=http://honouringveterans.org/veteran.php?id=223352&t=ww2|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129220905/http://honouringveterans.org/veteran.php?id=223352&t=ww2|archivedate=29 January 2016|title=World War Two Veteran: Border, Lewis Harold|publisher=Australia Remembers Ltd |work=Honouring Veterans}} He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, the Ven Archdeacon H. Border, of Gunnedah.{{citation|url=http://aussieobserver.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/new-england-university-rugby-team-1939.html|first=Paul|last=Barratt|author-link=Paul Barratt|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226205335/http://aussieobserver.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/new-england-university-rugby-team-1939.html|archivedate=26 February 2015|title=New England University Rugby Team 1939 |date=2 January 2011}} The younger Border attended The Armidale School between 1934 and 1937, then University of Sydney at the New England College.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136926349|title=Australia appoints new man in Saigon|date=8 June 1966|page=1|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT}}{{citation|url=http://alumni.une.edu.au/members/default.asp?id=2375764|title=Lewis H. Border|publisher=University of New England|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129215122/http://alumni.une.edu.au/members/default.asp?id=2375764|archivedate=29 January 2016}} He obtained a Bachelor of Arts.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104255569|title=Diplomatic postings|date=11 January 1963|page=3|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT}}
Border enlisted in the Australian Army on 22 August 1942 at the rank of Bombardier. He was discharged on 20 April 1945.{{citation|url=http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=A&VeteranId=224684|title=Service Record|publisher=Australian Government|date=2002|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129222004/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=A&VeteranId=224684|archivedate=29 January 2016}} After his military service, Border joined the Department of External Affairs in 1945.
In January 1963 then External Affairs Minister Garfield Barwick announced Border's appointment as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar. In June 1966 then Minister for External Affairs Paul Hasluck announced that Border was to be Australian Ambassador to South Vietnam. Over the course of his two-year posting, Border described that he had seen a "noticeable strengthening" of South Vietnam's resolve to resist the challenge of Hanoi and the Vietcong.{{cite news|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=1 July 1968|page=9|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107060660|title=Ambassador leaves|location=ACT}}
Border's next post, starting 1968, was as High Commissioner to Pakistan.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107056000|date=6 June 1968|title=New envoy appointed|newspaper=The Canberra Times|page=5|location=ACT}} That year he was also appointed Australia's first Ambassador to Afghanistan whilst resident in Pakistan.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136961814|title=Diplomatic relations established|date=18 December 1968|page=8|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT}}
In 1977 Border was announced as the next Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand. The relationship between Australia and New Zealand at the time of his posting was seen by media as "rather uncertain".{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110855789|title=Top-ranking envoy for NZ post|first=Bruce|last=Juddery|author-link=Bruce Juddery|date=20 July 1977|page=10|newspaper=The Canberra Times|location=ACT}}
Awards
Border was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order during the Queen's visit to the Australian embassy in Washington in October 1957.{{citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1106714|publisher=Australian Government|work=itsanhonour.gov.au|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129215210/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1106714&search_type=quick&showInd=true|archivedate=29 January 2016|title=Search Australian Honours: BORDER, Lewis Harold, The Royal Victorian Order - Lieutenant}}
Border was named an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 1979 in recognition of his public service.{{citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885262|publisher=Australian Government|work=itsanhonour.gov.au|archivedate=29 January 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129214522/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=885262&search_type=quick&showInd=true|title=Search Australian Honours: BORDER, Lewis Harold, Officer of the Order of Australia}}
References
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{{s-bef|before=F.T. Homer|as=Chargé d'affaires}}
{{s-ttl|title=Australian Ambassador to Myanmar|years=1963–1965}}
{{s-aft|after=Frank Milne}}
{{s-bef|before=H.D. Anderson}}
{{s-ttl|title=Australian Ambassador to Vietnam|years=1966–1968}}
{{s-aft|after=Ralph Harry}}
{{s-bef|before=Bill Cutts|as=High Commissioner to Pakistan}}
{{s-ttl|title=Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan
Australian Ambassador to Afghanistan|years=1968–1970}}
{{s-aft|after=Francis Hamilton Stuart}}
{{s-bef|before=Ralph Harry}}
{{s-ttl|title=Australian Ambassador to Germany|years=1975–1977}}
{{s-aft|after=Max Loveday}}
{{s-bef|before=Colin Moodie}}
{{s-ttl|title=Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand|years=1977–1980}}
{{s-aft|after=James Webster}}
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Category:People from New South Wales
Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Afghanistan
Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Germany
Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Myanmar
Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Vietnam
Category:High commissioners of Australia to New Zealand
Category:High commissioners of Australia to Pakistan