Please refer to the Bibliography for full details of the works cited here.
PART ONE:
WORLD WAR I – ON THE PATH TO GALLIPOLI
Chapter 1: The Unlikely Assassin
1. National Archives of Australia: Service record, Saville George (‘Mick’) Sunderland, service number 711.
Chapter 2: The Shaping of a War Hero
1. Russell, p. 20.
Chapter 3: Love and War
1. National Library of Australia, Canberra: John Monash letter to Jim Lewis, 12 February 1899, Series 1. Monash papers. Manuscript section ms 1884.
2. ‘Anzac Day Commemoration’, anzacday.org.au/anzac-day-commemoration.
3. Ibid.
4. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige.
5. Russell, p. 31.
Chapter 4: The Long Road to War
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Lilian, March 1915.
2. Ibid., letter to Lilian, August 1915
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
Chapter 5: Gallipoli
1. Gellert.
2. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, August 1915; National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
Chapter 6: The Great Escape
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to relative, 28 December 1915.
2. Bean, The Story of Anzac: From 4 May 1915 to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, p. 866.
3. ‘The Evacuation of Anzac, December 1915’, anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/gallipoli-and-anzacs/events/north-beach-and-sari-bair-range/evacuation-anzac.
4. A.L. Guppy, quoted in Wanliss.
PART TWO:
WORLD WAR I – THE WESTERN FRONT
Chapter 8: France
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letters to Lilian, 31 March and 11 April 1916.
Chapter 9: At Pozières
1. National Archives of Australia: Monash papers, Series 5.
2. The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 19 December 1916. More than 700,000 soldiers from both sides were dead, wounded or missing by the end of the worst and most prolonged conflict of the Great War.
3. Rule, p. 61.
4. Wiltshire Diary.
5. German Bundesarchive (military archive) Nachlass Müller, N 159/3, p. 241.
6. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
Chapter 10: Through Pozières
1. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917.
2. Carlyon, p. 194.
3. Birdwood papers, letters, 1919.
Chapter 11: Mouquet Farm
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter, September 1916.
Chapter 13: Blunders and Ebullience at Bullecourt
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Lilian, May 1917.
2. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige.
3. Savige, ‘“A Soldier’s Battle”: Second Bullecourt’.
Chapter 14: Second Battle of Bullecourt
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, Second Battle of Bullecourt.
2. Ibid.; Savige, ‘“A Soldier’s Battle”: Second Bullecourt’, p. 32.
3. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, undated.
4. Ibid., May 1917.
5. Savige, ‘“A Soldier’s Battle”: Second Bullecourt’.
6. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917, p. 487.
7. Ibid., p. 488. Bean must have been writing about efforts to that point on 4 May 1917. He may have forgotten the Battle of Amiens in August 1918.
8. Harvey, p. 69.
9. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917, p. 245.
10. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, May 1917.
11. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917, p. 256.
Chapter 15: Broodseinde and the Monash Emergence
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Lilian, 5 October 1917.
2. Ibid., diary, 7 October 1917.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
Chapter 16: Passchendaele Fail
1. Sheffield and Bourne, p. 185.
2. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, October 1917.
3. Australian War Memorial: Monash papers, letter, October 1917; National Library of Australia: Monash papers.
4. Ibid.
5. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Lilian, October 1917.
6. Ibid., November 1917; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, November 1917.
7. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, November 1917.
PART THREE:
WORLD WAR I – THE PERSIAN PROJECT
Chapter 17: Stan in Iran
1. Harvey.
2. Russell, p. 92.
3. Bean, The Australian Imperial Force in France During the Allied Offensive, 1918, p. 476.
4. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Lilian, February 1918; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
Chapter 18: Turks and Kurds in the Way
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige.
2. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 8.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., Ch. 9.
6. Ibid., Ch. 10.
Chapter 19: The Legend Inspires
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 1.
2. Ibid., Ch. 15.
3. Ibid., Ch. 16.
4. Ibid., Ch. 14.
5. Ibid., Ch. 17.
6. Ibid., Ch. 17; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, notes on the first draft of Stalky’s Forlorn Hope.
Chapter 20: Compassion and Culture Clash
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 20
2. Ibid., Ch. 21; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, notes on the first draft of Stalky’s Forlorn Hope.
Chapter 21: The Big Project
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch 30; Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, notes on the first draft of Stalky’s Forlorn Hope.
2. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 33.
3. Ibid., Ch. 34.
4. Ibid., Ch. 35.
5. Ibid., Ch. 36.
Chapter 22: Saving the Missionaries
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 36.
2. Ibid.; ‘Karawaran: Persia, 6–7 August 1918’, alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog/1887665/karawaran-persia-august-6-to-7-1918/; Shedd papers, notes from the diaries of William Ambrose Shedd.
3. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 36; ‘Karawaran: Persia, 6–7 August 1918’, alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog/1887665/karawaran-persia-august-6-to-7-1918/.
4. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Chs 36–37; ‘Karawaran: Persia, 6–7 August 1918’, alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index. blog/1887665/karawaran-persia-august-6-to-7-1918/.
Chapter 23: Rear-guard Resilience
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 37.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., Ch. 38.
Chapter 24: Retreat to Victory
1. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 38.
2. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003 (quoted from an interview with Savige).
3. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 41.
4. Ibid.; author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003; Shedd papers, notes from the diaries of William Ambrose Shedd.
5. Savige, Stalky’s Forlorn Hope, Ch. 40. Mrs Shedd later removed his body and interred it in the Christian cemetery in Tabriz.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., Ch. 41.
8. Ibid., Ch. 42
9. Ibid., Ch. 44.
10. Ibid.
PART FOUR:
BETWEEN THE WARS
Chapter 25: Home, Surreal Home
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter, March 1919.
2. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
3. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter, 12 November 1918.
Chapter 26: The Readjustment
1. The wedding reception was at Sergeant’s Restaurant in Elizabeth Street. The groomsmen were Captain A.A. (‘Tonto’) Ball, DCM, and Lieutenant Ted Pittard, MC. The best man was Captain George Bowden, MC, later Member of the House of Representatives for Gippsland. The bridesmaids were Miss R. Stockton, Miss F. Davis and Miss Gladys Savige.
2. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Alf Carrick, May 1922.
3. National Library of Australia: Monash papers, Series 1B.
Chapter 27: Melbourne’s ‘War’ of 1923
1. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Major Warren Perry, 12 October 1933.
2. Major Warren Perry interview with Savige, January 1934.
3. Ibid.
4. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Major Warren Perry, 12 October 1933.
5. The Argus, 6 November 1923.
6. National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, letter to Major Warren Perry, 12 October 1933.
7. Major Warren Perry, ‘The Police Strike in Melbourne 1929’, address to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 28 October 1969.
Chapter 28: Dictatorship Thwarted
1. Lyons, p. 69.
2. Stanley James later adopted Savige’s surname.
3. The old Anzac House site on Collins Street in Melbourne, now the T&G Building.
4. National Library of Australia: Monash papers, Series 1B, letter, 23 December 1930.
Chapter 29: Savige’s Alibi and the Badge in the Bordello
1. Horner, Blamey, p. 80.
2. Ibid., p. 81.
3. The Age, 28 November 1925; The Argus, 28 and 29 November 1925; author interview with Major Warren Perry, January 2003.
Chapter 30: The Rise of the Fascists
1. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, January 2003.
2. Ibid., March 2003.
3. Blamey papers.
4. Ibid.
5. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
6. Bulletin, 3 December 1930.
7. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
8. National Library of Australia: Monash papers, Series 1B.
9. Ibid.
Chapter 32: Blamey’s Downfall
1. Russell, p. 149.
2. Testimony according to Bill Donnelly, former chief of Melbourne’s Homicide Squad; Rintoul; Perry, The Fight for Australia, p. 173.
3. Rintoul.
4. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, March 2003.
5. Hetherington, p. 259.
Chapter 33: ‘Will You Command?’
1. Keating, pp. 31–32; author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003; Horner, Blamey, pp. 120–125.
2. Matthew 23:12, Revised Standard Version.
3. Keating, pp. 31–32; author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003; Horner, Blamey, pp. 120–125.
4. Records of Gavin Long, item 2/11, diary no. 11, pp. 21–22.
5. Keating, pp. 31–32; author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003; Horner, Blamey, pp. 120–125.
6. Ibid.
Chapter 34: Hitler Attacks, Australia Reacts
1. Reconstruction from author interview with Major Warren Perry and other sources.
2. Birdwood papers, letters.
3. Records of Gavin Long, item 3/348, draft of To Bengazi, p. 156.
PART FIVE:
WORLD WAR II – NORTH AFRICA, GREECE AND SYRIA
Chapter 35: Into the Battle Zone
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, diary, January 1941.
2. John Hetherington, Herald (Melbourne), 12 November 1943.
3. National Library of Australia: Monash papers, Series 5.
Chapter 36: Bardia: Brilliance and Blunders
1. Records of Gavin Long, item 3/348, draft of To Bengazi.
2. Ibid., p. 14, including Savige’s notes on his meeting with Mackay.
3. Vasey papers, Box 2, Folder 12, letter to Mrs Vasey, 1 March 1941.
Chapter 37: To Tobruk
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, diary, March 1941.
2. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
Chapter 38: Italy Out, Germany In
1. Records of Gavin Long, item 1/5, interview with Savige, 20 July 1944.
2. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
3. Records of Gavin Long, item 3/348, part 1, draft of To Benghazi, pp. 22–23.
4. Ibid., item 1/5, interview with Savige, 20 July 1944.
Chapter 39: The Greek Fiasco
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, item 127, p. 3, contributing notes to Gavin Long’s draft of Greece, Crete and Syria; National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier, other commentary from author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, March 2003.
Chapter 40: Backward Steps of Courage
1. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, June 2005; notes from Private Jim Moody, family archive; Perry, Horrie the War Dog.
2. Long, Greece, Crete and Syria, draft, Chs 17–18.
3. Ibid., p. 110.
4. Ibid., Chs 17–18.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
Chapter 41: Costa Rica Calamity
1. Unpublished diary of Private Jim Moody, p. 129; Perry, Horrie the War Dog, p. 176.
2. Unpublished diary of Private Jim Moody, p. 131; Perry, Horrie the War Dog, p. 176.
3. Perry, Horrie the War Dog, p. 176.
4. Ibid., p. 204.
5. Long, Greece, Crete and Syria, draft, Chs 17–18.
Chapter 42: Australia’s War with the Vichy French
1. Perry, The Australian Light Horse.
2. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, item 127, pp. 17–27, contributing notes to Gavin Long’s draft of Greece, Crete and Syria; National Archives of Australia: Savige personnel dossier.
3. Ibid.
4. Horner, ‘Vasey in Greece’, p. 30.
5. Long, Greece, Crete and Syria, draft, Chs 17–18.
6. Horner, ‘Vasey in Greece’, p. 30.
PART SIX:
WORLD WAR II – THE PACIFIC
Chapter 43: Return To ‘Sleepy Hollow’
1. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, item 127, pp. 31–35.
2. Ibid., pp 39–41.
3. Russell, p. 250.
4. Written Records, 1939–1945 War, item 587/7/27, Savige letter, 17 July 1943.
Chapter 44: Japan Attacks
1. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
2. ‘Bombing of Darwin – Report by Mr Justice Lowe’.
3. Author interview with Padre Richards, October 1974; ‘The Bombing of Darwin’ – Fact Sheet 195.
4. ‘Bombing of Darwin – Report by Mr Justice Lowe’.
5. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.
Chapter 45: In Defence of Home Territory
1. Hetherington, p. 315.
2. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, item 77, communications between Blamey and Savige, 3 January 1943.
3. Ibid., item 130, pp. 5–6; Russell, p. 266.
Chapter 46: The Man for the Job
1. Russell, p. 279.
2. Perry, The Fight for Australia, p. 364.
3. Russell, p. 279.
4. Berryman papers, item 4, diary entry, 21 August 1943.
5. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, March 2003; Perry, The Fight for Australia, p. 365.
6. Russell, p. 270.
7. Australian War Memorial: Blamey papers, item 2/136/47.
Chapter 47: The General On Bougainville
1. Russell, p. 136.
2. Australian War Memorial: Blamey papers, item 2/134.38.
3. Berryman papers, item 5, diary, 24 to 26 March 1945.
4. Russell, p. 136.
5. Australian War Memorial: 3DRL 2529 – Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, item 84, communications between Sturdee and Savige, 15 and 18 July 1945.
Chapter 48: A Grand Legacy
1. Australian War Memorial: Blamey papers, item 2/136.45, letter to Savige, 24 January 1946.
2. Author interview with Major Warren Perry, February 2003.