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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19480-8 - Armies of Empire: The 9th Australian and 50th British Divisions in Battle 1939-1945 Allan Converse Frontmatter More information Armies of Empire The 9th Australian and 50th British Divisions in Battle 1939–1945 Armies of Empire uniquely reflects upon the experience of two divisions from different armies facing similar challenges in the Second World War. The 9th Australian Division and the British 50th (Northumbrian) Division both saw long service and suffered heavy casualties, and both encountered morale, discipline and battlefield effectiveness problems. In this illuminating, comparative study of Australian and British divisions at war, Allan Converse draws extensively on primary sources as well as recent scholarship on morale and combat efficiency. His fresh approach questions the popular mythology surrounding the Australian Digger and the British Tommy, and shows how it was a combination of leadership, loyalty and tactics, rather than intrinsic national qualities, which resulted in victory for Churchill’s armies. Allan Converse is Lecturer in the Department of History at Bentley University, USA. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19480-8 - Armies of Empire: The 9th Australian and 50th British Divisions in Battle 1939-1945 Allan Converse Frontmatter More information Other titles in the Australian Army History Series Series editor David Horner Phillip Bradley The Battle for Wau: New Guinea’s Frontline 1942–1943 Mark Johnston -
RUSI of NSW Article
Jump TO Article The article on the pages below is reprinted by permission from United Service (the journal of the Royal United Services Institute of New South Wales), which seeks to inform the defence and security debate in Australia and to bring an Australian perspective to that debate internationally. The Royal United Services Institute of New South Wales (RUSI NSW) has been promoting informed debate on defence and security issues since 1888. To receive quarterly copies of United Service and to obtain other significant benefits of RUSI NSW membership, please see our online Membership page: www.rusinsw.org.au/Membership Jump TO Article USI Vol61 No2 Jun10:USI Vol55 No4/2005 21/05/10 1:31 PM Page 24 CONTRIBUTED ESSAY Conflict in command during the Kokoda campaign of 1942: did General Blamey deserve the blame? Rowan Tracey General Sir Thomas Blamey was commander-in-chief of the Australian Military Forces during World War II. Tough and decisive, he did not resile from sacking ineffective senior commanders when the situation demanded. He has been widely criticised by more recent historians for his role in the sackings of Lieutenant-General S. F. Rowell, Major-General A. S. Allen and Brigadier A. W. Potts during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942. Rowan Tracey examines each sacking and concludes that Blameyʼs actions in each case were justified. On 16 September 1950, a small crowd assembled in High Command in Australia in 1942 the sunroom of the west wing of the Repatriation In September 1938, Blamey was appointed General Hospital at Heidelberg in Melbourne. The chairman of the Commonwealth’s Manpower group consisted of official military representatives, Committee and controller-general of recruiting on the wartime associates and personal guests of the central recommendation of Frederick Shedden, secretary of figure, who was wheelchair bound – Thomas Albert the Department of Defence, and with the assent of Blamey. -
Australians at War Film Archive Thomas Smith
Australians at War Film Archive Thomas Smith - Transcript of interview Date of interview: 25th March 2004 http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/1697 Tape 1 00:30 If you could start off by telling us a bit about where you were born and where you grew up? I was born in Glen Huon. I was born in a little cottage in the middle of an apple orchard. In those days there was no doctor in attendance, because 01:00 the nearest doctor would be four miles away. A midwife did all the deliveries in the district. My parents had come out from England in about 1920, and they were sponsored by this fruit grower, apple orchardist, by the name of Herb Browns. It was his little cottage 01:30 in the middle of the apple orchard. That’s where I was born. We were there, I suppose, twelve months, two years, before my father was settled onto a soldiers’ settlement orchard. In those days there was orchards all up the main roads, either side of the road was 02:00 just apple orchards. There was barely a bare space between all the orchards. You can imagine it was quite a sight in the spring with all the orchards out in flower. It was a wonderful sight, and smell. But then he went on this orchard. In those days, that was in 1922 02:30 when I was born, things were starting to get pretty bad, during the Depression. My early childhood, I got rheumatic fever, which I didn’t know about until well after the war years, they hadn’t told me about this. -
Australians Into Battle : the Ambush at Gema S
CHAPTER 1 1 AUSTRALIANS INTO BATTLE : THE AMBUSH AT GEMA S ENERAL Percival had decided before the debacle at Slim River G that the most he could hope to do pending the arrival of further reinforcements at Singapore was to hold Johore. This would involve giving up three rich and well-developed areas—the State of Selangor (includin g Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States), the State of Negr i Sembilan, and the colony of Malacca—but he thought that Kuala Lumpu r could be held until at least the middle of January . He intended that the III Indian Corps should withdraw slowly to a line in Johore stretching from Batu Anam, north-west of Segamat, on the trunk road and railway , to Muar on the west coast, south of Malacca . It should then be respon- sible for the defence of western Johore, leaving the Australians in thei r role as defenders of eastern Johore. General Bennett, however, believing that he might soon be called upo n for assistance on the western front, had instituted on 19th December a series of reconnaissances along the line from Gemas to Muar . By 1st January a plan had formed in his mind to obtain the release of his 22nd Brigade from the Mersing-Jemaluang area and to use it to hold the enem y near Gemas while counter-attacks were made by his 27th Brigade on the Japanese flank and rear in the vicinity of Tampin, on the main road near the border of Malacca and Negri Sembilan . Although he realised tha t further coastal landings were possible, he thought of these in terms of small parties, and considered that the enemy would prefer to press forwar d as he was doing by the trunk road rather than attempt a major movement by coastal roads, despite the fact that the coastal route Malacca-Muar- Batu Pahat offered a short cut to Ayer Hitam, far to his rear . -
Major General James Harold CANNAN CB, CMG, DSO, VD
Major General James Harold CANNAN CB, CMG, DSO, VD [1882 – 1976] Major General Cannan is distinguished by his service in the Militia, as a senior officer in World War 1 and as the Australian Army’s Quartermaster General in World War 2. Major General James Harold Cannan, CB, CMG, DSO, VD (29 August 1882 – 23 May 1976) was a Queenslander by birth and a long-term member of the United Service Club. He rose to brigadier general in the Great War and served as the Australian Army’s Quartermaster General during the Second World War after which it was said that his contribution to the defence of Australia was immense; his responsibility for supply, transport and works, a giant-sized burden; his acknowledgement—nil. We thank the History Interest Group and other volunteers who have researched and prepared these Notes. The series will be progressively expanded and developed. They are intended as casual reading for the benefit of Members, who are encouraged to advise of any inaccuracies in the material. Please do not reproduce them or distribute them outside of the Club membership. File: HIG/Biographies/Cannan Page 1 Cannan was appointed Commanding Officer of the 15th Battalion in 1914 and landed with it at ANZAC Cove on the evening of 25 April 1915. The 15th Infantry Battalion later defended Quinn's Post, one of the most exposed parts of the Anzac perimeter, with Cannan as post commander. On the Western Front, Cannan was CO of 15th Battalion at the Battle of Pozières and Battle of Mouquet Farm. He later commanded 11th Brigade at the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Broodseinde in 1917, and the Battle of Hamel and during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918. -
The Thermopylae Line
CHAPTER 6 THE THERMOPYLAE LINE ENERAL Wavell arrived in Athens on the 19th April and immediately e Gheld a conference at General Wilson's quarters . Although an effectiv decision to embark the British force from Greece had been made on a higher level in London, the commanders on the spot now once agai n deeply considered the pros and cons . The Greek Government was unstable and had suggested that the British force should depart in order to avoid further devastation of the country. It was unlikely that the Greek Army of Epirus could be extricated and some of its senior officers were urging sur- render. General Wilson considered that his force could hold the Ther- mopylae line indefinitely once the troops were in position.l "The arguments in favour of fighting it out, which [it] is always better to do if possible, " wrote Wilson later,2 "were : the tying up of enemy forces, army and air , which would result therefrom ; the strain the evacuation would place o n the Navy and Merchant Marine ; the effect on the morale of the troops and the loss of equipment which would be incurred . In favour of with- drawal the arguments were : the question as to whether our forces in Greece could be reinforced as this was essential ; the question of the maintenance of our forces, plus the feeding of the civil population ; the weakness of our air forces with few airfields and little prospect of receiving reinforcements ; the little hope of the Greek Army being able to recover its morale . The decision was made to withdraw from Greece ." The British leaders con- sidered that it was unlikely that they would be able to take out any equip- ment except that which the troops carried, and that they would be lucky "to get away with 30 per cent of the force" . -
The Final Campaigns: Bougainville 1944-1945
University of Wollongong Thesis Collections University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Year The final campaigns: Bougainville 1944-1945 Karl James University of Wollongong James, Karl, The final campaigns: Bougainville 1944-1945, PhD thesis, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 2005. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/467 This paper is posted at Research Online. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/467 The Final Campaigns: Bougainville 1944-1945 A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree Doctor of Philosophy from University of Wollongong by Karl James, BA (Hons) School of History and Politics 2005 i CERTIFICATION I, Karl James, declare that this thesis, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy, in the School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, is wholly my work unless otherwise referenced or acknowledged. The document has not been submitted for qualifications at any other academic institution. Karl James 20 July 2005 ii Table of Contents Maps, List of Illustrations iv Abbreviations vi Conversion viii Abstract ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 ‘We have got to play our part in it’. Australia’s land war until 1944. 15 2 ‘History written is history preserved’. History’s treatment of the Final Campaigns. 30 3 ‘Once the soldier had gone to war he looked for leadership’. The men of the II Australian Corps. 51 4 ‘Away to the north of Queensland, On the tropic shores of hell, Stand grimfaced men who watch and wait, For a future none can tell’. The campaign takes shape: Torokina and the Outer Islands. -
7468 .The London Gazette, December 28, 1877
7468 .THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1877. Name. Rank. Regiment. Amount. £ s. d. Clarke, Alexander . ... • Private ... •« 1st West India Regiment 074 Cock, Thomas Private ... •• 2nd Battalion, 10th Regiment .. 1 12 7 Conn, Robert ... ... .. Private ... .. .1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment 9 1 11 Connell, Thomas .*. .. Private 72nd Regiment 10 15 t Dwyer, Simon ... ... .. Private ... .. 45th Regiment ... ..i .. 3 11 5 Fitzpatrick, John Private ... .. 108th Regiment... ' ... .. 23 19 6 Flinn, Thomas Private 44th Regiment 14-5 Gillott, H. ... - ... Gunner ... .. 2nd Brigade, Royal' Artillery .. 459 Goodwill, John .... ... Private ... .. 96th Regiment ... ... .. 315 Griffiths, Theodore Private ... 45th Regiment ... ' ... 6 9 O Hill, Thomas E.... ... .. Private 80th Regiment 1 11 7 Hogan, Patrick Private ...• 1st Battalion, 2 1st Regiment .. 32 7 2 Hoy, Thomas Private 94th Regiment 0 18 11 Mansell, Charles... ... .. Gunner ... .. 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery .. 3 9 10 Matthews, Patrick Gunner .. .. 16th Brigade, Royal Artillery .. 464 May, George; ... ... .. Private .. .. 62nd Regiment 3 13 5 Mehan, Daniel Private .. .. 66th Regiment ... ... .. 3 14 3 Murray, James ... ... Private .. •> 45th Regiment ... ... 104 McGrath, Richard Private .. ' ... 40th Regiment ... 2 11 4 McKay, James ... Private 2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment ... 15 4 5 McKenna, Patrick ... ... Private .. ... 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment ... 529 McKeon, Bartholomew ... ... Gunner .. ... 5th Brigade, Royal Artillery ... 29 19 6 McKinstry, William Gunner .. Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery... 32 12 5 McWhiney, Thomas ... ... Private .. 36th Regiment ... ... ... 542 Nicholas, James Gunner ... Dep6t Brigade, Royal Artillery... 138 O'Farrell, Michael Warder Military Prison ... ...' • ... 424 Parker, Thomas Gunner ... .... 3rd Brigade, Royal Artillery ... 0 17 4 Peel, Thomas ... • ... ... Private ... - ... 1st Battalion, 17th'Regiment ... 4 17 6 Prendible, Charles Private 85th Regiment 212 9 Rabbitt, James B. -
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7 Australian Infantry Division (1940 – 41)]
14 January 2019 [7 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY DIVISION (1940 – 41)] th 7 Australian Infantry Division (1) Advanced Headquarters. 6th Australian Division, Signals & Employment Platoon Rear Headquarters, 6th Australian Division & Signals th 18 Australian Infantry Brigade (2) Headquarters, 18th Australian Infantry Brigade, ‘J’ Section Signals & 47th Light Aid Detachment 2nd/9th Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/10th Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/12th Australian Infantry Battalion 21st Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters, 21st Australian Infantry Brigade, ‘K’ Section Signals & 59th Light Aid Detachment 2nd/14th Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/16th Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/27th Australian Infantry Battalion 25th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters, 25th Australian Infantry Brigade, ‘L’ Section Signals & 44th Light Aid Detachment 2nd/25th Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/31st Australian Infantry Battalion 2nd/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion Divisional Troops 7th Australian Divisional Cavalry Regiment (H.Q., ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ Squadrons, ‘G’ Section Signals and 50th Light Aid Detachment) ©www.BritishMilitaryH istory.co.uk Page 1 14 January 2019 [7 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY DIVISION (1940 – 41)] th Headquarters, Royal Australian Artillery, 7 Australian Division (7) 2nd/4th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (H.Q., 7th & 8th Field Batteries and 51st Light Aid Detachment) 2nd/5th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (H.Q., 9th & 10th Field Batteries and 52nd Light Aid Detachment) 2nd/6th Field Regiment, Royal Australian -
Moshe Goldberg Eulogy 2
EULOGY FOR MOSHE (MORRY) GOLDBERG GIVEN AT HIS FUNERAL ON SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2013 Morry Asher GOLDBERG was born at Jerusalem, Palestine on 12 APRIL,1926 and originally enlisted and served in the Militia as N479345 prior to enlisting and serving as NX178973 PRIVATE Morry GOLDBERG in the 2nd/48th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF at Cowra NSW on 1st July 1944, then just 18 years of age. During his service with the Battalion, Morry was promoted to Corporal, taking part in its heavy fighting against the Japanese on Tarakan as part of Operation ‘Oboe’ in the South West Pacific Theatre. Morry was discharged on 10th March, 1947. The 2/48th Battalion AIF was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army raised in August 1940 at the Wayville Showgrounds in Adelaide, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Victor Windeyer, (later Major General Sir Victor Windeyer, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, PC KC) a former Militia officer 9and later a Judge of the high Court of Australia) who had previously commanded the Sydney University Regiment. Together with the 2/23rd and 2/24th Battalions the 2/48th Battalion formed part of the 26th Brigade and was initially assigned to the 7th Division, although it was later transferred to the 9th Division in 1941 when it was deployed to the Middle East. While there, it saw action during the siege of Tobruk where it suffered the loss of 38 men killed in action and another 18 who died of their wounds and the Second Battle of El Alamein before being returned to Australia in order to take part in the fighting in New Guinea following Japan’s entry into the war. -
CHAPTER JX Ll-Rr Rr2e the Left of the 3Rd .4Ustralian Division Was A\\Istiiig
CHAPTER JX MORLANCOURT-MARCH 28~~AND 30~11 ll-rrrr2E the left of the 3rd .4ustralian Division was a\\istiiig the 35th British Division to repel tlie attacks on 'I'reus. its right was watching rather perplesedly, from the folds aliove the Somme, scattered evidences of a hattle \\hich was apparently proceeding across tlie region southward f roni the rivet- At the saiiie time preparations were 111 progress for immediately mdertnking the projected advance of the division's line. Brigadier-General Cannan, who was visited during :he niorning by his divisional commander, General Motlash, obtained from him the impression that this advance \vas intended rather as a demonstration-to itnpress the Germans with the fact that their progress in that sector was at an end. Cannan accordingly put forward a plan, already prepared, for a patrol action. The 43rd, holding the higher part of the slope above the Soninie, would try to steal, by daylight patrols, the un- occupied portion of the knuckle in its front and possibly part of tlie nest spur, in front of Morlan- court. The ground so occupied would afterwards be consolidated Monash also visited General McNicoll, commanding his northern brigade. the xotli. and arranged for an advance on its front also. Tt was probably after these visits. 1)ut before noon, that Monash received from VI I Corps an important communication. It had been made known that the conference at Doullens had arrived at the decision--welcomed with intense satisfaction throughout the British Army-to give suprenie control over 212 z6th-28th Mar., 19181 MORLANCOURT 213 the Allies’ forces on the Western Front to a single leader- the French general, Foch. -
Orders, Medals and Decorations
Orders, Medals and Decorations To be sold by auction at: Sotheby’s, in the Lower Grosvenor Gallery The Aeolian Hall, Bloomfield Place New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Day of Sale: Thursday 1 December 2016 at 12.00 noon and 2.30 pm Public viewing: Nash House, St George Street, London W1S 2FQ Monday 28 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Tuesday 29 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Wednesday 30 November 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Or by previous appointment. Catalogue no. 83 Price £15 Enquiries: Paul Wood, David Kirk or James Morton Cover illustrations: Lot 239 (front); lot 344 (back); lot 35 (inside front); lot 217 (inside back) Tel.: +44 (0)20 7493 5344 Fax: +44 (0)20 7495 6325 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mortonandeden.com This auction is conducted by Morton & Eden Ltd. in accordance with our Conditions of Business printed at the back of this catalogue. All questions and comments relating to the operation of this sale or to its content should be addressed to Morton & Eden Ltd. and not to Sotheby’s. Online Bidding This auction can be viewed online at www.the-saleroom.com, www.numisbids.com and www.sixbid.com. Morton & Eden Ltd offers an online bidding service via www.the-saleroom.com. This is provided on the under- standing that Morton & Eden Ltd shall not be responsible for errors or failures to execute internet bids for reasons including but not limited to: i) a loss of internet connection by either party; ii) a breakdown or other problems with the online bidding software; iii) a breakdown or other problems with your computer, system or internet connec- tion.