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The World War I Correspondence of William Montgomery
19 BRONWYN HUGHES ‘Y’rs affectionately, Mont’: the World War I correspondence of William Montgomery William ‘Mont’ Montgomery was a 24-year-old art student at the National Gallery School when, concerned at the dire war news from France, he enlisted on 29 January 1915.1 When the new Victorian 6th Brigade was raised at Broadmeadows in late March, No. 929, Private William Montgomery was assigned to D Company, 21 Battalion.2 Over the next four years Mont fought in many major battles – Gallipoli, Pozières, Ypres and Mont St Quentin among them – learning the art of soldiering and attaining the rank of sergeant. Tragically, on 5 October 1918 and with the Allied victory so close, Mont died of wounds in the battle for Montbrehain village on the Hindenburg Line.3 It was the last day of the last battle fought by Australians on the Western Front. Y’rs affectionately, Mont Soon after entering Broadmeadows Army Camp, Mont wrote the first of hundreds of letters home, always signing off his last page – ‘Yrs affectionately Mont’. Mont wrote as if he was painting with oils or watercolour, using colourful words to capture his firsthand experience of war, from broad views of daily life in the trenches to terrifying, exhilarating, wounding battles, but without losing his humanity or wry sense of humour. Wary of the censor’s blue pencil, Mont sometimes turned his keen eye towards the sustaining beauty of landscape, the local people, architecture, customs and food, which were all so different from the sheltered Australian life he knew as a child and youth. -
Jeannie Leavitt, MWAOHI Interview Transcript
MILITARY WOMEN AVIATORS ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE Interview No. 14 Transcript Interviewee: Major General Jeannie Leavitt, United States Air Force Date: September 19, 2019 By: Lieutenant Colonel Monica Smith, USAF, Retired Place: National Air and Space Museum South Conference Room 901 D Street SW, Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20024 SMITH: I’m Monica Smith at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Today is September 19, 2019, and I have the pleasure of speaking with Major General Jeannie Leavitt, United States Air Force. This interview is being taped as part of the Military Women Aviators Oral History Initiative. It will be archived at the Smithsonian Institution. Welcome, General Leavitt. LEAVITT: Thank you. SMITH: So let’s start by me congratulating you on your recent second star. LEAVITT: Thank you very much. SMITH: You’re welcome. You’re welcome. So you just pinned that [star] on this month. Is that right? LEAVITT: That’s correct, effective 2 September. SMITH: Great. Great. So that’s fantastic, and we’ll get to your promotions and your career later. I just have some boilerplate questions. First, let’s just start with your full name and your occupation. LEAVITT: Okay. Jeannie Marie Leavitt, and I am the Commander of Air Force Recruiting Service. SMITH: Fantastic. So when did you first enter the Air Force? LEAVITT: I was commissioned December 1990, and came on active duty January 1992. SMITH: Okay. And approximately how many total flight hours do you have? LEAVITT: Counting trainers, a little over 3,000. SMITH: And let’s list, for the record, all of the aircraft that you have piloted. -
“Come on Lads”
“COME ON LADS” ON “COME “COME ON LADS” Old Wesley Collegians and the Gallipoli Campaign Philip J Powell Philip J Powell FOREWORD Congratulations, Philip Powell, for producing this short history. It brings to life the experiences of many Old Boys who died at Gallipoli and some who survived, only to be fatally wounded in the trenches or no-man’s land of the western front. Wesley annually honoured these names, even after the Second World War was over. The silence in Adamson Hall as name after name was read aloud, almost like a slow drum beat, is still in the mind, some seventy or more years later. The messages written by these young men, or about them, are evocative. Even the more humdrum and everyday letters capture, above the noise and tension, the courage. It is as if the soldiers, though dead, are alive. Geoffrey Blainey AC (OW1947) Front cover image: Anzac Cove - 1915 Australian War Memorial P10505.001 First published March 2015. This electronic edition updated February 2017. Copyright by Philip J Powell and Wesley College © ISBN: 978-0-646-93777-9 CONTENTS Introduction .................................................................................. 2 Map of Gallipoli battlefields ........................................................ 4 The Real Anzacs .......................................................................... 5 Chapter 1. The Landing ............................................................... 6 Chapter 2. Helles and the Second Battle of Krithia ..................... 14 Chapter 3. Stalemate #1 .............................................................. -
Combat Infantrymen
1st Cavalry Division Association Non-Profit Organization 302 N. Main St. US. Postage PAID Copperas Cove, Texas 76522-1703 West, TX 76691 Change Service Requested Permit No. 39 SABER Published By and For the Veterans of the Famous 1st Cavalry Division VOLUME 69 NUMBER 4 Website: www.1CDA.org JULY / AUGUST 2020 This has been a HORSE DETACHMENT by CPT Siddiq Hasan, Commander THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER year different from We thundered into the summer change of command season with a cavalry Allen Norris any other for most of charge for 3rd ABCT’s change of command at the end of June. Our new First (704) 483-8778 us. By the time you Sergeant was welcomed into the ranks at the beginning of July at a key time in [email protected] read this Cathy and I our history with few public events taking place due to COVID-19 but a lot of will have moved into foundational training taking place. We have taken this opportunity to conduct temporary housing. Sometime ago Cathy and I talked about the need to downsize. intensive horsemanship training for junior riders, green horses and to continue Until this year it was always something to consider later. In January we decided with facility improvements. The Troopers are working hard every day while that it was time. We did not want to be in a retirement community. We would like taking the necessary precautions in this distanced work environment to keep more diversity. Also, in those communities you have to pay for amenities that we themselves and the mounts we care for healthy. -
Historical Records of the 79Th Cameron Highlanders
%. Z-. W ^ 1 "V X*"* t-' HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE 79-m QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS antr (Kiritsft 1m CAPTAIN T. A. MACKENZIE, LIEUTENANT AND ADJUTANT J. S. EWART, AND LIEUTENANT C. FINDLAY, FROM THE ORDERLY ROOM RECORDS. HAMILTON, ADAMS & Co., 32 PATERNOSTER Row. JDebonport \ A. H. 111 112 FOUE ,STRSET. SWISS, & ; 1887. Ms PRINTED AT THE " " BREMNER PRINTING WORKS, DEVOXPORT. HENRY MORSE STETHEMS ILLUSTRATIONS. THE PHOTOGRAVURES are by the London Typographic Etching Company, from Photographs and Engravings kindly lent by the Officers' and Sergeants' Messes and various Officers of the Regiment. The Photogravure of the Uniform Levee Dress, 1835, is from a Photograph of Lieutenant Lumsden, dressed in the uniform belonging to the late Major W. A. Riach. CONTENTS. PAGK PREFACE vii 1793 RAISING THE REGIMENT 1 1801 EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN 16 1808 PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN .. 27 1815 WATERLOO CAMPAIGN .. 54 1840 GIBRALTAR 96 1848 CANADA 98 1854 CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN 103 1857 INDIAN MUTINY 128 1872 HOME 150 1879 GIBRALTAR ... ... .. ... 161 1882 EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN 166 1884 NILE EXPEDITION ... .'. ... 181 1885 SOUDAN CAMPAIGN 183 SERVICES OF THE OFFICERS 203 SERVICES OF THE WARRANT OFFICERS ETC. .... 291 APPENDIX 307 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, SIR JOHN DOUGLAS Frontispiece REGIMENTAL COLOUR To face SIR NEIL DOUGLAS To face 56 LA BELLE ALLIANCE : WHERE THE REGIMENT BIVOUACKED AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO .. ,, 58 SIR RONALD FERGUSON ,, 86 ILLUSTRATION OF LEVEE DRESS ,, 94 SIR RICHARD TAYLOR ,, 130 COLOURS PRESENTED BY THE QUEEN ,, 152 GENERAL MILLER ,, 154 COLONEL CUMING ,, 160 COLONEL LEITH , 172 KOSHEH FORT ,, 186 REPRESENTATIVE GROUP OF CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 196 PREFACE. WANT has long been felt in the Regiment for some complete history of the 79th Cameron Highlanders down to the present time, and, at the request of Lieutenant-Colonel Everett, D-S.O., and the officers of the Regiment a committee, con- Lieutenant and sisting of Captain T. -
Air & Space Power Journal
July–August 2013 Volume 27, No. 4 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective The Air Advisor ❙ 4 The Face of US Air Force Engagement Maj Gen Timothy M. Zadalis, USAF Features The Swarm, the Cloud, and the Importance of Getting There First ❙ 14 What’s at Stake in the Remote Aviation Culture Debate Maj David J. Blair, USAF Capt Nick Helms, USAF The Next Lightweight Fighter ❙ 39 Not Your Grandfather’s Combat Aircraft Col Michael W. Pietrucha, USAF Building Partnership Capacity by Using MQ-9s in the Asia-Pacific ❙ 59 Col Andrew A. Torelli, USAF Personnel Security during Joint Operations with Foreign Military Forces ❙ 79 David C. Aykens Departments 101 ❙ Views The Glass Ceiling for Remotely Piloted Aircraft ❙ 101 Lt Col Lawrence Spinetta, PhD, USAF Funding Cyberspace: The Case for an Air Force Venture Capital Initiative ❙ 119 Maj Chadwick M. Steipp, USAF Strategic Distraction: The Consequence of Neglecting Organizational Design ❙ 129 Col John F. Price Jr., USAF 140 ❙ Book Reviews Master of the Air: William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift . 140 Robert A. Slayton Reviewer: Frank Kalesnik, PhD Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II . 142 Steve Call Reviewer: Scott D. Murdock From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience, 3rd ed . 144 Donald M. Snow and Dennis M. Drew Reviewer: Capt Chris Sanders, USAF Beer, Bacon, and Bullets: Culture in Coalition Warfare from Gallipoli to Iraq . 147 Gal Luft Reviewer: Col Chad T. Manske, USAF Global Air Power . 149 John Andreas Olsen, editor Reviewer: Lt Col P. -
CHAPTER S1V the First Attack on the 1St Australian Division's New Front At
CHAPTER S1V THE BATTLE OF THE LYS-(11) APRIL llTH-%TEI THE first attack on the 1st Australian Division’s new front at Hazebrouck was made shortly after midnight of the 13th’ when a company of Germans came marching up a cross- country lane leading from Verte Rue to the Rue du Bois, across the Australian front. Behind a hedge bordering this lane was a Lewis gun post’ of Lieutenant Murdoch’s’ platoon of the centre company (Captain Fox’sS), 8th Battalion. The approaching troops, who were seen at some distance, were allowed to march without alarm to within twenty yards, when the Victorians blazed at them from every barrel, and continued to pour a withering fire into the Germans, whose survivors panicked and fled. Murdoch and some of his men went out and found a German officer and twenty men of the 141st Infantry Regiment dead, (Attack shown by artow.) and five abandoned machine-guns. Two nights later a sixth gun was found. The history of the I4rst I.R. (35th Division) states that on.ApriU 13, when the I and I1 Battalions of the regiment were held up after taking Verte Rue, the reserve battalion-the 111-was ordered to advance northwards on their right and seize Rue du Bois4 The battalion advanced in almost full force, with only the 10th company in reserve. “ Unfortunately,” says the history, “ no attack patrols were ahead of the front, and so it happened that, when the road had nearly been reached, machine-gun fire struck against the leading company. Many pressed back. -
This Index Lists the Army Units for Which Records Are Available at the Eisenhower Library
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY ABILENE, KANSAS U.S. ARMY: Unit Records, 1917-1950 Linear feet: 687 Approximate number of pages: 1,300,000 The U.S. Army Unit Records collection (formerly: U.S. Army, U.S. Forces, European Theater: Selected After Action Reports, 1941-45) primarily spans the period from 1917 to 1950, with the bulk of the material covering the World War II years (1942-45). The collection is comprised of organizational and operational records and miscellaneous historical material from the files of army units that served in World War II. The collection was originally in the custody of the World War II Records Division (now the Modern Military Records Branch), National Archives and Records Service. The material was withdrawn from their holdings in 1960 and sent to the Kansas City Federal Records Center for shipment to the Eisenhower Library. The records were received by the Library from the Kansas City Records Center on June 1, 1962. Most of the collection contained formerly classified material that was bulk-declassified on June 29, 1973, under declassification project number 735035. General restrictions on the use of records in the National Archives still apply. The collection consists primarily of material from infantry, airborne, cavalry, armor, artillery, engineer, and tank destroyer units; roughly half of the collection consists of material from infantry units, division through company levels. Although the collection contains material from over 2,000 units, with each unit forming a separate series, every army unit that served in World War II is not represented. Approximately seventy-five percent of the documents are from units in the European Theater of Operations, about twenty percent from the Pacific theater, and about five percent from units that served in the western hemisphere during World War II. -
CHAPTER XXIII the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps Was
CHAPTER XXIII THE RELIEF BY THE MARINES THEAustralian and New Zealand Army Corps was originally to have been reinforced by Major-General Cox’ with the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, which had been garrisoning the Canal at Suez. When the plans for the landing were being first drawn up, Hamilton intended to add a Gurkha brigade to the N.Z. and A. Division as its third brigade in place of the light horse and mounted rifles who were being left in Egypt. He was eventually promised Cox’s brigade, consisting of mixed Indian troops, but it had not yet arrived when the A. and N.Z. Corps left I-eninos for the landing. On Tuesday, April 27th, a message from Sir Ian Hamilton was circulated by the Corps Staff. “Well done, Anzac,” it said. “You are sticking it splendidly. Twenty-ninth Division has made good progress, and French Division is now landing to support it. An Indian brigade is on the sea and will join Anzac on arrival.” Rirdwood expected Cox’s Indians to arrive on April 27th and 28th; on the 30th he was still looking for them. Hamilton, however, quite rightly at the time, was far more anxious to use them in reaching Achi Baba while the Turks were still few in that quarter; and his diary shows that, if they had arrived on April 28th, they would have been thrown in at Helles. Hamilton did not realise that Birdwood’s Corps had until Wednesday been Withstanding nearly the whole of the Turkish striking force in the south of the Peninsula. -
Air Force Training: Further Analysis and Planning Needed to Improve Effectiveness, GAO-16-635SU (Washington, D.C.: Aug
United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees September 2016 AIR FORCE TRAINING Further Analysis and Planning Needed to Improve Effectiveness GAO-16-864 September 2016 AIR FORCE TRAINING Further Analysis and Planning Needed to Improve Effectiveness Highlights of GAO-16-864, a report to congressional committees Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found For more than a decade, the Air Force The Air Force establishes combat aircrew training requirements for the full range focused its training on supporting of core missions based on an annual process, but these requirements may not operations in the Middle East. The Air reflect current and emerging training needs, because the Air Force has not Force has established goals for its comprehensively reassessed the assumptions underlying them. Specifically, combat aircrews to conduct training for assumptions about the total annual live-fly sortie requirements by aircraft, the the full range of core missions. Both criteria for designating aircrews as experienced or inexperienced, and the mix the Senate and House Reports between live and simulator training have remained the same since 2012. For accompanying bills for the FY 2016 example, Air Combat Command has set the same minimum number of live-fly National Defense Authorization Act sortie requirements across aircraft platforms, but has not conducted the analysis included a provision for GAO to review needed to determine if requirements should differ based on the number of core the Air Force’s training plans. missions for each platform. Reassessing the assumptions underlying annual This report discusses the extent to training requirements would better position the Air Force to meet its stated goals which the Air Force has (1) determined for its forces to achieve a range of missions for current and emerging threats. -
THE ROCK Lajes Field Newsletter
THE ROCK Lajes Field Newsletter February 13, 2015 DOD Air Force USAFE Lajes Field US Embassy, Portugal Youtube Facebook ‘Resilient Relationship’ tested By Staff Sgt. Zachary Wolf Communication is essential and can help grow relationships, which 65th Air Base Wing Public Affairs is one reason why this program focuses on it. A couple from Lajes put the new program “Resilient Relationships” “Sometimes a person can be under a bit of stress,” Williams said. to the test when Tech. Sgt. Andrew Williams deployed to Kosovo for “Keeping it to yourself is never a good thing. Whether it’s about four months with his fellow 65th Security Forces Squadron defend- what’s going on with your job, family or just daily life in general, ers. talking it out with your spouse helps you out. That other person can One of the features of this program involves spouses watching videos provide a different point of view you may not have thought of. “ online and talking about what they saw and how it might apply in In addition to communication, spending time together is equally as their lives. important. This is another way relationships grow, even if it is spend- “After watching the videos we made sure we stayed in touch as much ing time through technology as family members may be separated by as possible,” said Debbie Williams, 65th Air Base Wing administra- a move or deployment. tion assistant. “I learned communication with your spouse is key to “One event that stuck out was when we were able to spend Christmas keeping a good relationship.” together using Skype,” Williams said. -
Main Command Post-Operational Detachments
C O R P O R A T I O N Main Command Post- Operational Detachments (MCP-ODs) and Division Headquarters Readiness Stephen Dalzell, Christopher M. Schnaubelt, Michael E. Linick, Timothy R. Gulden, Lisa Pelled Colabella, Susan G. Straus, James Sladden, Rebecca Jensen, Matthew Olson, Amy Grace Donohue, Jaime L. Hastings, Hilary A. Reininger, Penelope Speed For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR2615 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this publication. ISBN: 978-1-9774-0225-7 Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2019 RAND Corporation R® is a registered trademark. Limited Print and Electronic Distribution Rights This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions. The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org Preface This report documents research and analysis conducted as part of a project entitled Multi- Component Units and Division Headquarters Readiness sponsored by U.S.