Documents & Sources

The London Gazette, Supplement No. 37386, p. 6075 (1945)

Military Cross citation for Lieutenant A.F. MacKelden, The Buffs.

The London Gazette, Supplement No. 36301, p. 5622 (1943)

Commission of A.F. MacKelden as Second Lieutenant (Infantry), 13 November 1943.

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Special Issue No. S8, 26 January 1995

Australia Day Honours 1995 — Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

NSW Government Gazette, Issue No. 175, 14 December 1984, p. 6100

Appointment of Alec Frank MacKelden as Chairman, NSW Egg Corporation.

NSW Government Gazette, Issue No. 156, 2 October 1987, p. 5575

Appointment of successor as NSW Egg Corporation Chairman, recording MacKelden's departure.

Cleveland Standard, Saturday 2 June 1945, p. 4

'With Our Forces Overseas: Local Officer's Dashing Attack'. By a Military Observer. Via British Newspaper Archive.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 7 April 1977, p. 6

'In tomato-sauce land, it really works'. By Lee Glendinning. Via Newspapers.com.

The Sunday Australian, 28 March 1971

Profile of Alec MacKelden, Managing Director of Cerebos Australia. (Family archive.)

UK Mail (date unknown)

'How Alec brought the teabag to Australia'. By Desmond Zwar. (Family archive.)

Sinclair, James. Steamships Trading Company 1918–2018: A History

Published by Alan Caudell and Associates / Plantone Pty Limited, Palm Cove, Queensland, 2008. ISBN 978-0-646-48511-9. Authorised by Steamships Trading Company Limited. Pages 308, 324 and 347 record MacKelden's appointment as Director (29 September 1984), describe him as "a particularly active Director", and record his retirement from the board at the AGM in November 1989.

Skin and Cancer Foundation of Australia, Annual Report 2022

Names MacKelden as past chairman, awarded the OAM.

Tracesofwar.com

Biographical military record.

Australian Food Timeline

'1959 Lipton Tea Bags Arrive in Australia'. By Jan O'Connell.

Trove (National Library of Australia)

Contemporaneous 1959 Lipton tea bag advertisement.

MacKelden, Alec Frank. 'A Quite Wonderful Day': The 1922–87 Memoirs of Alec MacKelden AM MC

Gold Coast: Bob E. Collins Hand Binder, c.1996. (Private family publication.)

The Dragon, regimental newsletter of The Buffs, No. 530, January 1944

(Family archive.)

Cerebos employment contracts, 1963 and 1972

(Family archive.)