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“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 .............................................................. -
Making 'The One Day of the Year': a Genealogy of Anzac Day to 1918
Making ‘the One Day of the Year’: a Genealogy of Anzac Day to 1918 Mark Hamilton Cryle BA (Honours I) A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Queensland in 2015 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Abstract This thesis examines the early years of Anzac Day, providing an account of its troubled history from 1915 to the 1918 commemorations. It examines Anzac Day in the context of an ongoing desire for a ‘national day’, the commemorative patterns that were extant at the time, the rhetoric that was in circulation, and the diverse needs and desires of the ruling elites, the bereaved, and an increasingly war-weary and divided populace. Anzac’s emergence can be traced to a commemorative lacuna which had been articulated in Australia since Federation. By April 1916 a discursive and performative script for the commemoration was in place, derived from wartime public patriotic events and organised by loyalist elites who sought to prosecute the war with the utmost vigour. Their endeavours were inspired as much by the desire to promote recruiting and to mobilise the home front around the war effort as they were to memorialise the casualties from Gallipoli. The intent was to focus national energies on the war and to contain and manage the public grief that followed the campaign so that it did not compromise Australians’ commitment to the struggle. The evidence shows that, in its formative years, the occasion was freighted with the rhetoric of national birth and married with national swagger and self-congratulation around the military achievements of the Anzacs. -
1St Anzac Corps and the Battle of Pozières Ridge, 1916
1st Anzac Corps and the Battle of Pozières Ridge, 1916 Meleah Elizabeth Hampton Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy University of Adelaide Department of History April 2014 i Abstract The first major action of the 1st Anzac Corps on the Western Front was the Battle of Pozières Ridge, which was conducted from 23 July to 3 September 1916. During this time the three divisions of 1st Anzac Corps rotated in and out of the line twice, each time conducting one or more offensive operations against heavily-defended German positions. At its conclusion, the fighting around Pozières and Mouquet Farm had to its record a very high casualty rate for only the most modest of territorial gains. This thesis examines the series of operations conducted by 1st Anzac Corps during the six weeks of the Battle of Pozières Ridge. These operations are more representative of the Somme than the large attacks like the ill-fated first day or the night attacks of 14-15 July. On any given day during the Battle of the Somme only a small percentage of the line was engaged in fighting the enemy – almost invariably in the same kind of limited, set-piece attacks made by 1st Anzac Corps at Pozières and Mouquet Farm. The particular focus of this thesis is on the agency of mid to low levels of command in the military hierarchy during this battle. Detailed reports, orders and message of the battle survive in the archives in the Australian War Memorial which are in so many cases simply unavailable for other contemporary British or Dominion formations. -
Conservatism and Change : the RSL and Australian Society, 1916-1932
\q'R Conservatism and change : the RSL and Australian society, 1916-1-932 David Hood Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degiree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History of the University of Adelaide May :.994 É.w,.r,.i.'{ ì''\'þ rl_ Tab1e of ContentE Abstract iii Statement v Acknowl-edgments vi Preface vl_ l- Introduction t_ Chapter 1: Winning the war 25 Chapter 2: Breaking ranks 59 Chapter 3: There is only the war L28 Chapter 4: 'A great many temptations for men in a neutral position' 188 Chapter 5: Defence and immigration 234 Chapter 6 ¿ The RSL, labour, and the 'middle \^ray' 2'73 Chapter 7: Loyalty and disloyalty 329 Chapter 8: Looking ahead, 1932-1-939: a survey 362 Conclusion 388 Bibliography 397 Figuree Figure 1: Alphabetical list of South Australian state councillors, 1,920 -1,924 153 Figure 2¿ State and national- RSL membership figures, L920-1-939 364 l_ l_ l_ Abstract Conservatism and change : the RSL and Australian society, a9L6-1932 This thesis has two main themes: a history of the RSI-, in its formative years, and a study of the RSL and conservatism in Australia between L9L6 and 1932. By looking at the RSL as an agent of both reaction and change, the thesis hopes to contribute Lo an understanding of what it meant to be conservative in Australia during and after the first world war. The thesis argues that while many of the RSL's values, particularly the belief that political change should be gradual not sudden, conformed to those central to conservative ideology, in certain domestic matters such as repatriation and social welfare the RSL contributed significantly to change in Australian society. -
Journal of the Melbourne Cricket Club Library Issue 41, Autumn 2010
Journal of the Melbourne Cricket Club Library Issue 41, Autumn 2010 in this issue : 1942 - The Secret MCG SPORT AND WAR • Evolution of Football Rules 1872-1877 This Issue This edition of The Yorker contains the eagerly awaited second half of Trevor Ruddell’s research on the evolution of the rules of Australian football up to 1877. The fi rst installment, published in Yorker #39, received critical acclaim for Trevor’s landmark research. To coincide with ANZAC Day 2010 we publish two articles by Alf Batchelder. The fi rst, Sport and War, looks at how the traditional sporting values of the time (such as honour, esprit de corps and self sacrifi ce) were exhibited by MCC members who served on the battlefi elds of the Great War. The second piece sheds light upon an era of the MCG’s history that until now has remained cloaked in secrecy: the occupation of the ground in 1942 by the United States Army’s Fifth Air Force. For this we are most grateful to Mr Bob Shields, one of the US servicemen who called our stadium home, who donated more than 70 photographs taken at the time. THE EDITORS A visit from Richie Library staff members were thrilled to receive a special visit from Richie Benaud on the second day of the 2009 Test match. MCC vice-president Bob Lloyd and Peter French, assistant to the CEO, escorted Richie and his fellow Cricket Hall of Fame selector Mike Coward to inspect the Benaud tribute exhibition after the annual ACHOF meeting. Richie expressed his delight at the exhibition, which contained items he had never seen, such as a selection of Benaud trade cards.