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Francis Edward de Groot (24 October 1888 – 1 April 1969) was an Irish-Australian soldier and furniture maker. He is best known for dramatically interrupting the official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, attempting to slash the ribbon with a military sword while on horseback.
Captain de Groot declares the Sydney Harbour Bridge open in March 1932. The New Guard was a paramilitary group, [3] [7] [8] its military capability was extremely limited and vastly overstated by its leadership. [5]: 148–150 It was amateurish, ineffectual and likened to the Keystone Cops.
Captain de Groot declares the Sydney Harbour Bridge open in March 1932. The Australian far right rose out of the monarchist and anti-communist movements. Formed in Sydney on 16 February 1931, the New Guard was the first and largest fascist organisation in Australia.
The ribbon was hurriedly retied and Lang performed the official opening ceremony and Game thereafter inaugurated the name of the bridge as Sydney Harbour Bridge and the associated roadway as the Bradfield Highway. After they did so, there was a 21-gun salute and an Royal Australian Air Force flypast. The intruder was identified as Francis de ...
Just as Lang was about to cut the ribbon to open the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Captain Francis de Groot, a member of the paramilitary New Guard movement, rode up and broke the ribbon. The New Guard also planned to kidnap Lang, and plotted a coup against him during the crisis that brought Lang's premiership to an end.
Francis de Groot lunges forward to beat Premier Jack Lang to the cutting of the ribbon to declare the Sydney Harbour Bridge open. The population reached one million in 1926, after Sydney had regained its position as the most populous city in Australia. [ 79 ]
Grace Cossington Smith's painting The Bridge in Curve shows the Harbour Bridge under construction. 1931 – Collapse of Government Savings Bank and amalgamation with Commonwealth Bank. [86] Aerial view of Sydney, 1932. 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opened, with horseman de Groot cutting ribbon ahead of the premier.
Francis de Groot (1888–1969), Irish Colonel who "upstaged" New South Wales Premier, Jack Lang during opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge; Frederik de Groot (born 1946), Dutch actor; Guillaume de Groot (1836–1922), Belgian sculptor; Harry de Groot [de; nl] (1920–2004), Dutch composer, accordionist and singer