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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. -
The Vietnam War an Australian Perspective
THE VIETNAM WAR AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE [Compiled from records and historical articles by R Freshfield] Introduction What is referred to as the Vietnam War began for the US in the early 1950s when it deployed military advisors to support South Vietnam forces. Australian advisors joined the war in 1962. South Korea, New Zealand, The Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand also sent troops. The war ended for Australian forces on 11 January 1973, in a proclamation by Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck. 12 days before the Paris Peace Accord was signed, although it was another 2 years later in May 1975, that North Vietnam troops overran Saigon, (Now Ho Chi Minh City), and declared victory. But this was only the most recent chapter of an era spanning many decades, indeed centuries, of conflict in the region now known as Vietnam. This story begins during the Second World War when the Japanese invaded Vietnam, then a colony of France. 1. French Indochina – Vietnam Prior to WW2, Vietnam was part of the colony of French Indochina that included Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Vietnam was divided into the 3 governances of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina. (See Map1). In 1940, the Japanese military invaded Vietnam and took control from the Vichy-French government stationing some 30,000 troops securing ports and airfields. Vietnam became one of the main staging areas for Japanese military operations in South East Asia for the next five years. During WW2 a movement for a national liberation of Vietnam from both the French and the Japanese developed in amongst Vietnamese exiles in southern China. -
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. -
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. -
Service in the United States Military 1909 William Q. Reno, Sr. Army
MEN FOR OTHERS Service in the United States Military 1909 William Q. Reno, Sr. Army Lieutenant Veteran World War I 1923 Neal E. Fitzgerald Lieutenant Veteran World War II 1925 Joseph A. Mendryga KIA World War II Killed in action 1928 Paul J. Schafer Army Retired World War II Somewhere in 1929 Adam B. Kronk Army Lieutenant Veteran France "suffered injuries to his legs" World War II Battalion Surgeon 1931 Stephen M. Gillespie Army Major Veteran with the 1st Army on the Wetern Front; Bronze Star World War II Participated in D- Day with the 18th Infantry 1931 William M. Moynihan Army Major Veteran Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division 1932 James G. Andary Veteran World War II 1932 Raymond M. Andries Veteran World War II 1932 Elmer J. Barton Veteran World War II Updated: January 30, 2018 Page 1 of 114 MEN FOR OTHERS Service in the United States Military 1932 James C. Berg Veteran World War II World War II Dental Corps; Served in European Theater " … 1932 Robert E. Coleman Army Captain Veteran from the Beaches of Normandy to ... Bremen, as my four battle stars will attest." 1932 C. Creedon Veteran World War II 1932 William Janecek Army Veteran World War II Dental Corps Lieutenant 1932 William R. Mulleavy Veteran World War II Colonel 1932 Casimir J. Rozak Veteran World War II 1932 Ralph S. Sharkey Army Veteran World War II 1932 F. Sward Veteran World War II World War II Decorated Naval 1932 Dawson Taylor Navy Veteran Officer "radar school before he went to sea." 1932 W. -
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. -
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. -
Highways Byways
Highways AND Byways THE ORIGIN OF TOWNSVILLE STREET NAMES Compiled by John Mathew Townsville Library Service 1995 Revised edition 2008 Acknowledgements Australian War Memorial John Oxley Library Queensland Archives Lands Department James Cook University Library Family History Library Townsville City Council, Planning and Development Services Front Cover Photograph Queensland 1897. Flinders Street Townsville Local History Collection, Citilibraries Townsville Copyright Townsville Library Service 2008 ISBN 0 9578987 54 Page 2 Introduction How many visitors to our City have seen a street sign bearing their family name and wondered who the street was named after? How many students have come to the Library seeking the origin of their street or suburb name? We at the Townsville Library Service were not always able to find the answers and so the idea for Highways and Byways was born. Mr. John Mathew, local historian, retired Town Planner and long time Library supporter, was pressed into service to carry out the research. Since 1988 he has been steadily following leads, discarding red herrings and confirming how our streets got their names. Some remain a mystery and we would love to hear from anyone who has information to share. Where did your street get its name? Originally streets were named by the Council to honour a public figure. As the City grew, street names were and are proposed by developers, checked for duplication and approved by Department of Planning and Development Services. Many suburbs have a theme. For example the City and North Ward areas celebrate famous explorers. The streets of Hyde Park and part of Gulliver are named after London streets and English cities and counties. -
Lavarack Barracks
MAIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY : Theiss ARCHITECTS : Bligh Voller Nield and Conrad Gargett Architecture STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: MPN Consulting CIVIL ENGINEER : AECOM CLIENT : Department of Defence PROJECT MANAGER : Coffey Projects PROJECT END VALUE : $207.2 Million COMPLETION : February 2011 he main purpose of the Lavarack Barracks project was to provide Energy efficiency and cost effective design were a priority for the T modern facilities and infrastructure to facilitate operational and Lavarack Barracks. During the refurbishment and development, it was strategic training and deployment for the army. necessary to look at environmental issues such as design elements that would be sustainable during cyclonic conditions. Another key element Located near Townsville in Queensland, the facilities at Lavarack was the use of readily available and durable materials that would Barracks have been upgraded over three stages but there were still provide longevity and minimise ongoing maintenance. It was essential necessary works that needed to be dealt with in Stage 4. The Lavarack that the new facilities worked in line with the existing structures and Barracks showed layout inefficiencies along with cramped and temporary security requirements were met and functional at all times. LAVARACK BARRACKS working accommodation that no longer provided the necessary requirements to support a modern army. It was important to provide Founded in 1934, Thiess provides 76 years of experience and knowledge, first class facilities for defence personal to live, work and train. in the delivery of large, complex buildings. As one of Australia’s largest construction and services contractors, Thiess employs over 20,000 employees STAGE FOUR The Stage 4 works included the refurbishment of existing buildings which and has delivered more than 50 quality assured Defence facilities. -
British 8Th Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Centre for First World War Studies British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Alun Miles THOMAS Thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY School of History and Cultures College of Arts & Law January 2010 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT Recent years have seen an increasingly sophisticated debate take place with regard to the armies on the Western Front during the Great War. Some argue that the British and Imperial armies underwent a ‘learning curve’ coupled with an increasingly lavish supply of munitions, which meant that during the last three months of fighting the BEF was able to defeat the German Army as its ability to conduct operations was faster than the enemy’s ability to react. This thesis argues that 8th Division, a war-raised formation made up of units recalled from overseas, became a much more effective and sophisticated organisation by the war’s end. It further argues that the formation did not use one solution to problems but adopted a sophisticated approach dependent on the tactical situation. -
Member Magazine
March 2017 SIT-REPSIT-REP MemberCAIRNS RSL SUBMagazine BRANCH The price of liberty is eternal vigilance 1 SIT-REP KOKODA HALL 115 The Esplanade (Upstairs) Cairns 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday FREE ENTRY 2 The Returned & Services League of Australia Cairns Sub Branch SIT-REP 115 The Esplanade Cairns PO Box 55 Cairns Qld 4870 Ph: 0740515254 Fax: 0740310862 Email: [email protected] Office Bearers President Buster Todd (Air Force) Vice President Phil Warwick (Army) Treasurer Ben Hemphill (Navy) Board Peter Hayton (Air Force) Mex Cernaz (Army) Peter Blackburn (Army) Katherine Young (Navy) Staff Secretary Lara Wilde [email protected] Marketing Rebecca Milliner [email protected] Administration Cameron Vonarx [email protected] Pensions Advocacy and Welfare Services Pension Officers Phil Watson, Ian Richards, Gerry Tooth SIT-REP Editor Lara Wilde [email protected] Cover Lyn Warwicks Farewell From left: Ellen McCallum, Lyn Warwick, Norma Short 3 SIT-REP PRESIDENTS REPORT 2017 has brought many new museum is open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm. faces and ideas to the Cairns I encourage you to visit and explore with your Sub Branch. Lyn Warwick friends and family. The museum is a great credit to has retired from her position the team of volunteers who have put it together. as Secretary with Lara Wilde You will observe in this issue of Sit Rep, the date for joining the team to carry on the AGM has changed from May to April 2nd. This her work. On behalf of the date change was to allow us to meet the board I thank Lyn for her requirements of our constitution.