1: Back on the Somme
1 Bean, C. E. W., (ed.), Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–18 [hereafter Official History], Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Vol. V, p.5
2 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.11
3 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.17
4 11th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 25 December 1917
5 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, January summary
6 6th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 18 January 1918
7 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, pp.28–29
8 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, pp.30–31
9 Stanley, P., Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force, Pier 9, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2010, p.158
10 Gammage, B., The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1975, p.243
2: The German March Offensive: All or Nothing
1 3rd Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 21 March 1918
2 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 21 March 1918
3 14th Australian Infantry Brigade, War Diary, Appendix 12, ‘Report on enemy raid 21st March’
4 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 22 March 1918, p.28
5 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 21 March 1918, p.27
6 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 30 March 1918
7 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 23 March 1918, p.29
8 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 23 March 1918
9 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 31 March 1918
10 Gorman, Captain E., MC, With the Twenty-Second: A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion AIF, H. H. Champion, Australian Authors Agency, Melbourne, 1919, p.75
11 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 28 March 1918, p.36
12 Lynch, E., Somme Mud, Random House, Sydney, 2006, p.146
13 14th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 28 March 1918, p.37
14 White, T. A., The Fighting Thirteenth: A History of the Thirteenth Battalion AIF, 13th Battalion A.I.F. Committee, Sydney, 1924, p.122
15 Ibid.
16 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.123
17 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.128
18 13th Battalion War Diary, ‘Extract from Daily Intelligence Summaries’, 27–28 March 1918
19 13th Battalion War Diary, pp.129–30
20 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.141
21 Bann, S., The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past, p.45
22 General Haig’s Special Order of the Day, 11 April 1918
23 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.156
24 Ibid.
25 12th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 28 March 1918
26 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.360
27 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.416
3: Saving Amiens
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.175, quoted in Williams, H. R., The Gallant Company: An Australian Soldier’s Story of 1915–18, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1933, pp.183–85
2 Ibid.
3 33rd Battalion AIF War Diary, 30 March 1918
4 Lieutenant Colonel Morshead Intelligence Report of 33rd Battalion AIF, 31 March 1918, Appendix 22
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.307
8 Lieutenant Colonel Morshead Intelligence Report of 33rd Battalion AIF, 31 March 1918
9 35th Battalion War Diary, 4 April 1918
10 Quoted in Pedersen, P., Anzacs on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide, Wiley & Sons, Milton, 2012, p.327
11 Ibid.
12 33rd Battalion War Diary, Appendix
13 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.355
14 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.452
15 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.499
16 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.500
17 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.507
18 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.540
19 Ibid.
20 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.553
21 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.569
22 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.573
23 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.575
24 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.580
25 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.603
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, pp.609–10
30 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.625
31 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.626
32 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.638
33 13th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 31, p.24. Telegram from General Staff, Fourth Army, 26 April 1918
34 Edgar, P., To Villers Bretonneux, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, 2006, p.251
35 Ibid.
36 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, pp.672–73
37 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.638
38 Bean, Official History, Vol. V, p.646
39 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.132
4: Hamel: A Test of New Tactics
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.249
2 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.246
3 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.262
4 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.273
5 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.283
6 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.144
7 Browning, N., The Westralian Battalion: A History of the 44th Battalion, Advance Press, Bassendean, 2004, p.315
8 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.315
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.284
10 Marks, D. G., Sundry Jottings, Sydney, 1919, p.91
11 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.293
12 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.290
13 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.293
14 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.144
15 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.306
16 Rule, E. J., Jacka’s Mob, Military Melbourne, Melbourne, 1999, p.305
17 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.305
18 Ellis, A. D., The Story of the Fifth Australian Division, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1920, p.326
19 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.301
20 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, pp.316–17
21 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.327
22 Monash, General Sir John, The Australian Victories in France in 1918, Hutchinson, London, 1920, p.62
23 Steel, R. J. and McWilliams, J., Amiens: Dawn of Victory, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2001, p.16
24 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.335
5: Nibbling East
1 Keatinge, M. B. B., The War Book of History of the Third Pioneer Battalion, John Burridge Military Antiques, Swanbourne, 1989, p.108
2 Dollman, W. and Skinner, H. M., The Blue and Brown Diamond: A History of the 27th Bn AIF 1915–1919, Lonnen & Cope, Adelaide, 1921, p.145
3 Cutlack, F. M., Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Vol. VIII, The Australian Flying Corps, p.308
4 Cutlack, Official History, Vol. VIII, p.309
5 Green, F. C., The Fortieth: A Record of the 40th Battalion, AIF, Naval Military Press Ltd, Sandhurst (UK), 2007, p.146
6 Ibid.
7 Gorman, E., With the Twenty-Second, p.88
8 Harvey, W. J., The Red and White Diamond: The Authorised History of the 24th Battalion AIF, p.246
9 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.259
10 19th Battalion War Diary, Intelligence Report Appendix s
11 Lynch, Somme Mud, p.221
12 Lynch, Somme Mud, p.259
13 13th Battalion War Diary, August 1918 Part 1, Summary of Operations 31.7.1918 to 4.8.1918, Appendix 9
14 Marks, D., Diary, Entry 1 August 1918, p.94
15 Dean, A. and Gutteridge, E. W., The Seventh Battalion AIF: Resume of the Activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War 1914–1918, p.145
16 Keatinge, The War Book of History of the 3rd Pioneers, p.109
17 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.340
18 Gorman, E., With the Twenty-Second, p.80
19 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, pp.257–58
6: The Days Before the Allied Offensive
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.505
2 Ibid.
3 Browning, N., Fix Bayonets: The History of the 51st Battalion AIF, p.186
4 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, July 1918, Appendix 29, image 81
5 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, July 1918, Appendix 29, image 82
6 From his citation for the Distinguished Conduct Medal, which he received in this action.
7 Ellis, A. D., The Story of the Fifth Australian Division, p.319
8 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.522
9 Ibid.
10 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.523
11 Polanski, I. L., We Were the 46th: History of the 46th Battalion in the Great War 1914–18, p.79
12 Lynch, Somme Mud, p.177
13 Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division, p.327
14 Ibid.
15 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.504
16 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.525
17 Serle, G., John Monash: A Biography, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982, p.343; and Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.525
18 Bean, Official History, Vol VI, p.525. See also 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 7
19 Green, F. C., The Fortieth, p.149
20 Carne, W. A., In Good Company: History of the 6th Machine Gun Company AIF, p.328
21 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.346
22 Paterson, A. T., The Thirty-Ninth: The History of the Thirty-Ninth Battalion AIF, p.214
23 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.529
24 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.345
7: Der Schwarze Tag: The Black Day
1 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.348
2 Doneley, B., Black over Blue: The 25th Battalion, AIF at War 1915–1918, p.145
3 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.531
4 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.348
5 Dollman, V. D. and Skinner, H. M., The Blue and Brown Diamond: History of the 27th Battalion AIF 1915–1919, p.151
6 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.543
7 Keatinge, War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion, p.113
8 Longmore, C., Eggs-a-Cook: The Story of the Forty Fourth, p.155
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.533
10 MacKenzie, K. W., The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion AIF, p.260
11 Doneley, Black over Blue, p.145
12 Doneley, Black over Blue, p.262
13 Dollman and Skinner, The Blue and Brown Diamond, p.153
14 Longmore, Eggs-a-Cook, p.156
15 Green, F. C., The Fortieth, p.150
16 Lynch, Somme Mud, pp.258–59
17 Longmore, Eggs-a-Cook, p.156
18 Longmore, Eggs-a-Cook, p.157
19 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.355
20 Ibid.
21 Browning, N., Leane’s Battalion: The History of the 48th Battalion AIF 1916–1919, p.280
22 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.572
23 Ibid.
24 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, pp.570–71
25 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.150
26 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.151
27 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.569
28 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.277
29 While the train’s complete undercarriage, bogies and gun were returned to Australia after the war and displayed, everything but the barrel was dismantled and disposed of in the early 1960s. Today, the barrel can be seen at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
30 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.562
31 Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division, p.336
32 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.606
8: Pushing on from the Blue Line
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.614
2 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.606
3 McNicol, N. G., The Thirty-Seventh: History of the Thirty-Seventh Battalion AIF, Modern Printing Co., Melbourne, 1936, p.218
4 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.614
5 Ibid.
6 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.615
7 8th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 8 August 1918
8 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, #3, report on operations, 11 August 1918, Appendix 8
9 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Image 5
10 4th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Image 6
11 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 9 August 1918
12 Dollman and Skinner, The Blue and Brown Diamond, p.157
13 Downing, W. H., To the Last Ridge, p.148
14 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.440
15 1st Battalion War Diary, Appendix 8, ‘Report on Operations on the 9/8/18’
16 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.651
17 Jordan, L., Stealth Raiders, Penguin Random House, Sydney, 2017, p.191
18 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.682
9: Green Slopes Above the River
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.687
2 McNicol, N. G., The Thirty-Seventh, p.219
3 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.687
4 Ibid.
5 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.363
6 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.691
7 Ibid.
8 McNicol, The Thirty-Seventh, p.223
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.699
10 51st Battalion War Diary, August 1918, Appendix 12
11 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.711
12 Harvey, N. K., From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line: The History of the 9th Battalion, p.233
13 Harvey, From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line, p.237
14 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.153
15 Wanliss, N., The History of the Fourteenth Battalion AIF, p.331
16 Ibid.
17 34th Battalion War Diary, 20 August 1918
18 Beaver, E., Short History of the 34th Battalion AIF, p.41
19 9th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 22 August 1918
20 Short History of the 34th Battalion AIF, 34th Bn Association, p.41
21 Ibid.
22 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.768
23 9th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 28 August 1918
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Bean, Vol VI, p.776
10: Eastwards on the Roman Road
1 Green, The Fortieth, p.154
2 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.710
3 Brahms, V., The Spirit of the Forty-Second, p.92
4 6th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 36 (Image 78), titled ‘Report on Operations, 8th–19th August 1918’
5 MacNeil, A. R., The Story of the Twenty-First: Being the Official History of the 21st Battalion AIF, p.21
6 Ibid.
7 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.153
8 Ibid.
9 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.154
10 Monash, Australian Victories, p.163
11 Ibid.
12 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.733
13 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.736
14 Wren, E., Randwick to Hargicourt: History of the 3rd Battalion AIF, p.319
15 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.740
16 1st Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, August 1918, Appendix 11, ‘Report on Operations in Proyart Sector 22nd–27th August 1918’
17 Ibid.
18 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.753
19 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.754
20 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.759
21 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.761
22 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.769
23 Lock, C. B. L., The Fighting 10th: Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF 1914–1919, p.100
11: Mont St Quentin: What Presumption
1 Monash, Australian Victories, p.168
2 Monash, Australian Victories, p.217
3 Quoted in Serle, John Monash, p.353
4 Quoted in Serle, John Monash, p.352
5 Quoted in Serle, John Monash, p.355
6 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.822
7 Monash, Australian Victories, p.181
8 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.805
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.806
10 17th Battalion War Diary entry for 31 August 1918
11 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.809
12 Mackenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, pp.281–82
13 17th Battalion War Diary, 31 August 1918, ‘Report on Operations 27–31 August 1918’, Appendix 15
14 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.809n
15 Ibid.
16 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.811
17 Mackenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, p.283
18 Quoted in the 20th Battalion War Diary, 31 August 1918
19 Ibid.
20 Mackenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, p.283
21 18th Battalion War Diary, 31 August 1918
22 Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate, 5 September 1918, p.5
23 Mackenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, p.286
24 Casualties in the 40th Battalion were one officer and 29 other ranks killed, and six officers and 123 other ranks wounded. Green, The Fortieth, p.184
25 Green, The Fortieth, p.181
26 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.829
27 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.813
28 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.815
29 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.873n
30 Telegram from General Rawlinson to the 2nd Division, 5th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, September 1918, Appendix 4, p.26
31 Serle, John Monash, p.355
32 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.817
33 Ibid.
34 Warwick Examiner and Times, 4 September 1918, p.5
12: Taking Péronne
1 Ross St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire: 54th Australian Infantry Battalion 1916–1919, p.210
2 St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.211
3 St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.212
4 From his citation for the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
5 Quoted in St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.214
6 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.282
7 The battalion history notes that the ‘more than usual proportion of killed to wounded was due to the fact that there was little or no shelter for a man when once hit’. Ibid.
8 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Report of Operations 1–5 September 1918, Appendix 1, p.3
9 History of the 59th Battalion, p.19
10 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.857
11 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.861
12 15th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Report of Operations 1–5 September 1918, Appendix 1, p.8
13 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.854
14 Quoted in St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.227
13: The Hindenburg Outpost Line
1 The Forty First, compiled by members of the Intelligence Staff, p.127
2 Ibid.
3 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.383
4 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.379
5 Bean referred to this as ‘the first recorded mutiny in the AIF’ in Official History, Vol. VI, p.875
6 59th Battalion War Diary, 5 September 1918, p.10
7 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.875. Bean in fact quoted the wrong date. It was not 14 September but 5 September.
8 Longmore, Eggs-a-Cook, p.166
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.886
10 Lynch, Somme Mud, pp.297–98
11 Longmore, Eggs-a-Cook, p.170
12 Wallace, N. V., quoted in Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.302
13 Ibid.
14 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.156
15 Ibid.
16 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.305
17 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.898
18 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.911
19 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.306
20 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.309
21 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.157
22 Ibid.
23 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.158
24 The German 58th I.R. (119th Division) had twenty-seven men killed or wounded, and twelve officers and 294 other ranks captured.
25 Chataway, T. P., History of the 15th Battalion 1914–1918, p.313
26 Lynch, Somme Mud, p.293
27 Lynch, Somme Mud, p.294
28 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.909
29 Chataway, History of the 15th Battalion, p.232
30 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.914
31 Harvey, From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line, p.245
32 Ibid.
33 Wren, Randwick to Hargicourt, p.326
34 The 46th Battalion history states they captured seventeen officers and 496 other ranks. Polowski, We Were the 46th, p.92
35 Polowski, We Were the 46th, p.91
36 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.926
37 Rule, Jacka’s Mob, p.327
38 Wanliss, The History of the Fourteenth Battalion AIF, p.341
39 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.316
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.906
43 Gill, I., Fremantle to France: 11th Battalion AIF 1914–1919, p.68
44 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.931
45 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, pp.931–32
46 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.933
47 Ibid.
14: Taking the Hindenburg Line
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.942
2 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.943
3 Green, The Fortieth, p.191
4 The History of the 39th Battalion AIF, p.233
5 30th Battalion War Diary, 26 September 1918
6 30th Battalion War Diary, 28 September 1918
7 Ibid.
8 Green, The Fortieth: A Record of the 40th Battalion AIF, p.193
9 Fairey, E., The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF, p.78
10 ‘Narrative of Operations carried out by 38th Battalion from 1900 on 27/9/18 to 2/10/18’, Appendix 5, p.1
11 Fairey, The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF, p.78
12 Fairey, The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF, p.79
13 Fairey, The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF, p.81
14 Fairey, The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF, p.235
15 Green, The Fortieth, p.194
16 29th Battalion War Diary, 29 September 1918
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 30th Battalion War Diary, 29 September 1918
20 Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division, p.370
21 Ibid.
22 Yockelson, M., Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command, 1918, p.189
23 Yockelson, Borrowed Soldiers, p.184
15: Montbrehain: The Last Attack
1 58th Battalion War Diary, Appendix 1, Narrative of Operations carried out.
2 McMullin, R., Pompey Elliott, Scribe, Melbourne, 2002, p.494
3 10th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Narrative Report on Operations, Appendix 12
4 Appendix 2; Narrative of Operations of ‘D’ Coy 30th Battalion AIF attached to 32nd Battalion during the attack and capture of Joncourt, 1st October 1918, p.2
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 These were introduced in early 1918 and, by the end of the war, 15,800 had gone into service.
10 5th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 6, p.4
11 7th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, ‘Report on Operations on October 3rd 1918’, Appendix 4a, October 1918
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1021
15 Maxwell had already been awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal and a Military Cross, but his actions on this day were to see him awarded the Victoria Cross.
16 Carlyon, L., The Great War, Macmillan, Sydney, 2006, p.721
17 5th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 6, Report on Operations 27 Sept/3 October 1918, p.6
18 Ibid.
19 Harvey, Red and White Diamond, p.295
20 6th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 22, Report on Operations 5th October 1918, p.7
21 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1034
22 6th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 22, Report on Operations 5th October 1918, p.7
23 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1037
24 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1040
25 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1037
26 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1036
27 Ibid.
28 24th Battalion Report on the attack on Montbrehain by the 24th Battalion 5th Operations, Appendix 2, p.3
29 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1042
30 Ibid.
31 24th Battalion Report on the attack on Montbrehain by the 24th Battalion 5th Operations, Appendix 2, p.3
32 24th Battalion Report on the attack on Montbrehain by the 24th Battalion 5th Operations, Appendix 2, p.10
16: The Final Ten Days to Victory
1 24th Battalion War Diary, 6 October 1918
2 A German 37-millimetre revolving barrelled anti-aircraft gun which discharged five flares in rapid succession.
3 Molkentin, M., Fire in the Sky: The Australian Flying Corps in the First World War, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010, p.319
4 Woodward, O. H., Personal Diary, Vol. II, p.111
5 Woodward, O. H., Personal Diary, Vol. II, p.112
6 Australian War Memorial Encyclopedia Statistics – Military
7 Cutlack, Official History, Vol. VIII, The Australian Flying Corps, p.384
8 Molkentin, Fire in the Sky, pp.336–37
9 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1048
10 Trueman, C. N., ‘November 11th 1918’
17: Armistice at Last
1 Sloan, H., The Purple and Gold: A History of the 30th Battalion, p.222
2 McGuinness, P., Boldly and Faithfully: History of the 19th Battalion AIF, p.308
3 Wren, Randwick to Hargicourt, p.329
4 McNicol, The Thirty-Seventh, p.257
5 Kahan, H. K., The 28th Battalion AIF: A Record of War Service, p.103
6 Keatinge, War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion, p.142
7 McNicol, The Thirty-Seventh, pp.259–60
8 McNicol, The Thirty-Seventh, p.260
9 Lee, J. E., The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF, p.75
10 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.308
11 Polanski, We Were The 46th, p.96
12 Newton, L. M., The Story of the Twelfth: A Record of the 12th Battalion during the Great War, p.200
13 Browning, The Westralian Battalion, p.403
14 With the 27th Battery in France, p.167
15 11th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, 11–12 November 1918
16 Lynch, Somme Mud, pp.311–12
17 Hunter, D. J. My Corps Cavalry, p.94
18 Gorman, With the Twenty-Second, p.103
19 MacKenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, p.297
20 Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Division, p.394
21 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.309
22 Taylor, F. W. and Cusack, T.A., Nulli Secundus: A History of the Second Battalion AIF 1914–1919, p.337
23 Kahan, The 28th Battalion AIF, p.103
24 White, The Fighting Thirteenth, p.163
25 Sloan, The Purple and Gold, p.222
26 St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.244
27 Taylor and Cusack, Nulli Secundus, p.337
28 Corfield, R., Hold Hard, Cobbers, Vol. 1, p.188
18: The End of the End
1 Lynch, Somme Mud, pp.314–15
2 9th Australian Infantry Brigade War Diary, Appendix 10
3 Chataway, History of the 15th Battalion, p.235
4 Woodward, O. H., The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, AIF, p.125
5 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.314
6 Browning, Leane’s Battalion, p.332
7 Gorman, With the Twenty-Second, p.105
8 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1057
9 St Claire, Our Gift to the Empire, p.244
10 Ibid.
11 Bean, Official History, Vol. VI, p.1072
12 13th Battalion War Diary, May 1918
13 Davies, W., The Boy Colonel, Random House, Sydney, 2013, p.394
14 The Thirty-Ninth: The History of the 39th Battalion AIF, p.245
15 Dean and Gutteridge, The Seventh Battalion AIF, pp.132–33
16 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.316
17 MacKenzie, The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion, p.298
18 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.317
19 Harvey, The Red and White Diamond, p.315
20 MacNeil, The Story of the Twenty-First, p.25
21 Green, The Fortieth, p.203
22 Lynch, Somme Mud, pp.330–34