NOTES

One: Good-bye Sydney Town, Good-bye

1. Adam-Smith, Patsy, The Anzacs, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1978, p. 9

2. Bean, C. E. W. (ed.), Official History of Australia in the Great War of 1914–1918, vol. III, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1942, p. 48

Two: France and Fritz

1. Lee, Major J. E., The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF, Australian Defence League, 1924, p. 36

Three: Holding the Line

1. Bean, Official History, vol. III, p. 921

2. Bean, Official History, vol. III, p. 920

3. 45th Battalion War Diary for January 1917

Seven: Straightening the Line

1. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 37

Nine: The Carrying Party

1. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 40

2. Bean, Official History, vol. III, p. 956

3. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 41

4. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 39

5. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 69

Ten: Mixing it at Messines

1. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 599

2. Ibid.

3. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 595

4. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 48

5. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 673

6. Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Records

7. Ibid.

8. Bean, Official History, vol. IV, p. 679

Eleven: A Quiet Innings

1. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 49

2. Letter in the AIF personal file of Lt. William Gocher, NAA Records

3. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 48

4. 45th Battalion War Diary for August 1917

Twelve: Passing it on at Passchendaele

1. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 50

2. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 53

Thirteen: Digging in at Dernancourt

1. Pedersen, Peter, Villers Bretonneux: Somme, Battleground Europe series, Pen and Sword, Barnsley UK, 2004, p. 67

2. Pedersen, Villers Bretonneux, from the diary of Private Robert Cude, p. 41

3. Pedersen, Villers Bretonneux, p. 22

4. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 59

5. Beaucoup Australiens Ici: The Australian Corps in France 1918, Department of Veterans Affairs, Canberra, 1999, p. 24

6. Beaucoup Australiens Ici, p. 25

7. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 360

8. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 416

9. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 62

10. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 404

11. AIF personal file of Lt J. S. Terras, NAA Records

12. AIF personal file of Private A. D. Wells, NAA Records

Fourteen: Around Villers-Bret

1. Bean, Official History, vol. I, p. 16

2. Rule, E. J., Jacka's Mob: A Narrative of the Great War, Carl Johnson and Andrew Barnes (eds), Military Press, Melbourne, 1999, p. 127

3. Private John Hardie, 33rd Battalion, quoted in Pedersen, Peter, Villers Bretonneux, p. 34

4. Pedersen, Peter, Villers Bretonneux, p.113

5. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 603

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 604

9. 45th Battalion War Diary for 25 April 1918

10. Bean, Official History, vol. V, p. 674

11. McMullin, Ross, Pompey Elliot, Scribe, Melbourne, 2002, p. 409

Fifteen: Hammering at Hamel

1. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 65

2. Ibid.

3. Cooper, Duff, Haig, vol. II, p. 292, quoted in Bean's Official History, vol. VI, p. 157

4. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 262

5. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 66

6. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 270

7. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 279

8. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 285

9. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 290

10. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 291

11. Ibid.

12. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 304

13. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 305, quoted in Bean's Official History, vol. VI, p. 304

14. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 306

15. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 309

16. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 328

17. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 335

Sixteen: Leap-frogging to Victory

1. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p.128

2. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 327

3. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 339

4. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 340

5. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 345

6. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 482

7. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 518

8. Ibid.

9. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 525

10. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 529

11. Ibid.

12. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 531

13. Rule, Jacka's Mob, p. 534

14. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 70

15. Ibid.

Seventeen: Following Fritz

1. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 614

2. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 873

3. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 908

4. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 906

Eighteen: Fini la Guerre

1. Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Pan Books, London, 1975, p. 49

2. Lee, Chronicle of the 45th Battalion, p. 75

3. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p.1053

4. 45th Battalion War Diary for March 1919

Nineteen: A Dinner to the Troops

1. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 1057

2. Kent, David, From Trench and Troopship: The Experience of the Australian Imperial Force 1914–1919, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1999, p. 196

3. Bean, Official History, vol. VI, p. 1073