Notes/Interpretation: • Sir John Monash was born on the 27th of June 1865 in West Melbourne. He died on the 8th of October 1931, aged 66. Several generations of John's paternal ancestors used to live in Krotoschin (Krotoszyn), Posen province (Poznan, Poland), Prussia. John's grandfather Baer-Loebel Monasch was a learned publisher and printer. John Monash grew up bilingually. He spoke English and German. • He commanded the Australian Corps in 1918, The 3rd division from 1916 to 1918, the 4th Infantry Brigade from 1914 to 1916 and the 13th Infantry Brigade from 1913 to 1914. • After the war, he worked in many prominent civilian positions. He was most notably head of the Victorian State Electricity Commission. He was a leading and loved public …show more content…
Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria, is named after him. The suburb of Monash in Canberra is also named after him. Fill in the table to demonstrate everything you know about your chosen individual. Family History • General John Monash is of Prussian Jewish ethnicity who was born in Melbourne. He could speak German. Location • In the years leading to 1918, he and his troops were involved in many confrontations, including the Battles of Messines, the third battle of Ypres, and Polygon Wood. Experience before War • He was educated at Scotch College. After school he studied law, arts and engineering at Melbourne University. Reason for Enlistment • He wanted to join the military after university. • He began his enlistment in 1887. Role in the War • He was a leading Australian military commander in …show more content…
Quentin Canal. • John Monash was known as unlikely war hero. He was of Prussian-Jewish heritage, heavily cultured and fussy. He was a middle-aged, overweight citizen-soldier with no active war experience when trouble broke out in 1914. Yet he was the leader Australian soldiers needed both during and after the war. • Because of his overweight figure, he learnt the hard way. During battle at Gallipoli, he learnt that this wasn’t a war in which to be overweight. He was so overweight he could not fit through some of the trench tunnels. • His strategic military planning and discipline ensured strong leadership and guidance for the Australians in Gallipoli. He proved himself as the right man for the war. • After the war, when Monash returned home to relative neglect, Monash strived to ensure soldiers received due honour, recognition and assistance for their hard work and sacrifice. As part of his campaign he played a pivotal role in creating Anzac Day commemorations. Without Monash, this annual commemoration most likely would not
Division. He led the “Red Patch” at Mount Sorrel, through the horror of the Somme in 1916 and at Vimy Ridge, Arleux, and Fresnoy in the spring of 1917. In June, Currie had been knighted and named commander of the Canadian Corps, now four divisions strong.
The soldiers are remembered for maintaining courage and determination under hopeless conditions. The ANZAC legend owes much to wartime correspondents who used the Gallipoli landing to generate a specifically Australian hero. Among the many reports, which reached Australia, were those of Ashmead-Bartlett. His Gallipoli dispatches described Australians as a 'race of athletes ... practical above all', whose cheers, even in death, 'resounded throughout the night'. Ashmead-Bartlett helped in...
He was dynamic and thus in due course very effective. His success as Minister of Munitions led to him becoming Prime Minister in December 1916, where he replaced Herbert Asquith. Most Liberal ministers resigned with Asquith, and about half the Liberal MPs (120) supported the old Prime Minister rather than the new. While the war continued it was said that he was ‘acting more like a president than a prime minister, his leadership style, was accumulating enemies, and thus storing up trouble in the future.
Private James Charles Martin is known as the youngest Australian soldier ever to die from active service. His enlistment papers state that he was born on 3rd January 1901 in Hawthorn New South Wales. At first only his parents and best friend Cec Hogan who was 16 at the time knew that James was 14 and 3 months when he joined the army because he looked a lot older for his age and his voice had already broken.
Thesis: During World War 1, the amount of Australians enlisting decreased due to the realisation that war was not as it was portrayed to the public
Although, most of it is accounted by the war itself, the suffering of many Australian veterans had much to do with...
In World War 1 (WW1), 1914-1918, Australian troops became involved in order to give support to the "Mother Country". Great Britain only became involved after Germany did not respect the neutrality of Belgium. In the first world war, Australian soldiers participated in some of the bloodiest and most enduring battles known to man, and soon developed a courageous name for themselves. Of the 330 000 Aussie soldiers who took part in WW1, there were 211 500 casualties and over 60 000 deaths, a casualty rate much higher than that of several other participants.
...rned the essential plans that a leader would need to lead him troops. He also had the morale and spirits to keep the troops ready to fight for the freedom they wanted, as well as his ability to command such troops in placement and tactics.
Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli can in every sense of the phrase be called an ‘Australian classic’. The impact and effect this film has had upon the psyche and perspective of several generations of Australians has been significant. Whilst it can be argued that every Australian is aware of the ANZAC legend, and the events that occurred on the Turkish beaches in 1915, Weir’s film encapsulates and embodies a cultural myth which is now propagated as fact and embraced as part of the contemporary Australian identity. The film projects a sense of Australian nationalism that grew out of the 1970’s, and focuses on what it ‘means’ to be an Australian in a post-colonial country. In this way Gallipoli embodies a sense of ‘Australian-ness’ through the depiction of mateship and through the stark contrast of Australia to Britain. A sense of the mythic Australia is further projected through the cinematic portrayal of the outback, and the way in which Australia is presented in isolation from the rest of the world. These features combined create not only a sense of nationalism, but also a mythology stemming from the ANZAC legend as depicted within the film.
Stanley Bruce was born on 15th of April 1883 in St Kilda. He was the youngest of five children. His father John Bruce had emigrated from Ireland to Australia in 1858 when he was 18. His mother, Mary Henderson, was Irish and had married her cousin John after migrating to Australia in 1872 at the age of 24 John Bruce was a very talented businessman. A good golfer, he was one of the founders of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. John was an early supporter of future prime minister, Alfred Deakin. John's success ensured that Bruce, his sister Mary and brothers Ernest, William and Robert were born into affluence. Shortly after Bruce's birth the family moved to Toorak. However, John was an aloof and remote figure in the lives of his children, as Bruce later recounted. Despite their family's Presbyterian faith, Bruce was sent to Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Bruce would start to become an Anglican. Bruce was an average student but extremely active in the sporting life of the school. He was captain of the school football team, and captain of the school itself in 1901.
Aboriginal soldiers returned to their country where they had no citizenship rights, controlled by the government policies which prevented them from living in towns, socialising with other Australians and voting. This is evident in phrases such as, “He returned to the outback, no mates did he find. If he had a beer he was jailed and then fined,” and, “Confused and alone he wandered around, Looking for work though none could be found. The Anzac marches he badly neglected, Would show to his comrades how he was rejected.” This informs the reader about how the Aboriginal soldiers did not receive the same benefits as the European soldiers did, even though they made the same sacrifices during the
He was an exceptionally great soldier during the war and as one of his friends, Alex Thomson said on the 29th October 1917 “…I owe to Paddy Bugden for is bravery in rescuing me…” (as cited from the Queensland Museum).
Of the many battles that took place he was involved in was the First Battle of Krithia, the first Allied attempt to advance at Gallipoli. Commencing on 28th April, three days after the AIF landing at Cape Helles, the plan of attack was for the French to hold position on the right whilst the British line would pivot and capture Krithia (Australian War Memorial London, 2014). However, the further up the peninsula the troops advanced, the more difficult the terrain became, as they encountered the four great ravines running from the heights around Achi Baba towards the cape. (Australian War Memorial London, 2014). Although the planning of the battle looked good on paper, the attack broke down due to the defensive power of the opposing Turkish Ottoman forces, poor leadership and planning, lack of communications and exhaustion and demoralisation of the troops. (Duffy, 2009). The vast and desertless wastelands that the First Battle of Krithia took place in can be seen in Appendix 5, Source 1 (Australian War Memorial London, 2014). This primary pictorial source photographed in 1915 by an unknown photographer was taken from the London Australian War Memorial’s reliable and creditable history site (last updated in 2014). From this pictorial source it can be concluded that the soldiers
The Anzac spirit is not defined by any simple term; it is defined by the acts of valour and heroism of a person or group of Australians. The first Australian to be recognised with the highest award of bravery was Sir Neville Howse after the Boer war in South Africa (1900). The Highest medal available to troops, The Victorian Cross is awarded to a person who “in the presence of the enemy, displays the most conspicuous gallantry; a daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice; or extreme devotion to duty.” Howse was once again sent to fight for his country in World War 1 where he demonstrated his Australian clout for the second time in war. Howse demonstrated the Anzac attitude throughout his whole life leading him to things like serving as the Commonwealth Minister of Health. Howse demonstrated the values of someone worthy of the Victorian Cross through everything he did, thus allowing a spark of the soon to be dubbed Anzac spirit to be kindled and kept alight throughout the rest of Australian
By doing this he showed his love for his country, and history itself, he would do everything to the fullest. He raised his family to the best of his ability, he was a good family man, and a hard worker that endured whatever confronted him. This is why he is my hero, because of his strength and his will to make sacrifices.