A man who was a keen sportsman, amiable and one of Victoria's most popular and well-known governors, Sir Dallas Brooks

Was he an unlucky leader or in over his head, a wishy-washy well-meaning fellow who had risen above his level of competence or the victim of circumstance, this week we find out about the 2nd Governor of NSW, John Hunter

He took Australia through perhaps one of the darkest periods during WWII ... a war that cost him his son's life.