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John Monash

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General Sir John Monash, (27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was a civil engineer and an Australian military commander of the First World War. [1]

163 relations: A. J. P. Taylor, Aircraft, Alexander Godley, Alexander Morrison (headmaster), Allies of World War I, Anzac Day, Armentières, Armistice, Arthur Currie, Artillery, Australian Army, Australian Army Reserve, Australian Corps, Australian one hundred-dollar note, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Battalion, Battle of Amiens (1918), Battle of Arras (1917), Battle of Broodseinde, Battle of Hamel, Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli), Battle of Messines (1917), Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, Battle of Pozières, Battle of Sari Bair, Battle of St Quentin Canal, Bayonet, Bernard Montgomery, Billy Hughes, Brigadier general, Brighton Cemetery, Broadmeadows, Victoria, Bushranger, Cadre (military), Canberra, Carl Jess, Cathy McGowan (politician), Caulfield East, Victoria, Caulfield Racecourse, Chancellor (education), Charles Bean, Château de Bertangles, Chuignes, City of Monash, Civil engineer, Colin MacInnes, Courtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Croix de guerre (Belgium), Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France), ..., David Mitchell (builder), Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Dictionary of National Biography, Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Doctor of Engineering, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Egypt, Erich Ludendorff, Field marshal, Field marshal (Australia), First Australian Imperial Force, First Battle of Passchendaele, Gallipoli Campaign, General (Australia), George V, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Group races, Hargicourt, Somme, Harry Chauvel, Harry Lawson, Heliopolis, Cairo, Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, Heritage interpretation, Hindenburg Line, Ian Hamilton (British Army officer), Infantry, Ingleside, New South Wales, Institution of Civil Engineers, Israel, James Barrett (academic), James Gordon Legge, James Whiteside McCay, Jerilderie, Jerilderie Shire, Jews, John Gellibrand, John Monash Scholars, John Monash Science School, Josh Frydenberg, Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson, Keith Murdoch, Kfar Monash, Kingdom of Prussia, Krotoszyn, Legion of Honour, Lemnos, Lieutenant general, Machine gun, Major general, Malcolm Turnbull, Melbourne, Melbourne University Publishing, Mentioned in dispatches, Monash Freeway, Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, Monash, Australian Capital Territory, Monash, South Australia, Mortar (weapon), Multinational state, National Archives of Australia, Ned Kelly, New South Wales, New Zealand and Australian Division, Northern Beaches, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Order of the Crown (Belgium), Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, Péronne, Somme, Pope's Hill, Prejudice, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Province of Posen, Random House, Reinforced concrete, Riverina, Scotch College, Melbourne, Shrine of Remembrance, Sir John Monash Centre, Sir John Monash Stakes, South Australia, State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Suez Canal, Sydney, Tank, Thomas Blamey, Tim Fischer, University of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victorian Institute of Engineers, Villers-Bretonneux, Volunteer Officers' Decoration, West Melbourne, Victoria, Western Front (World War I), William Birdwood, William Glasgow (general), William Heneker, Yallourn, Zionist Federation of Australia, 12th Brigade (Australia), 13th Battalion (Australia), 13th Brigade (Australia), 14th Battalion (Australia), 15th Battalion (Australia), 16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment, 1923 Victorian police strike, 1st Division (Australia), 3rd Division (Australia), 4th Brigade (Australia), 4th Division (Australia). Expand index (113 more) »

A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.

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Aircraft

An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Alexander Godley

General Sir Alexander John Godley, (4 February 1867 – 6 March 1957) was a senior British Army officer.

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Alexander Morrison (headmaster)

Alexander Morrison (3 February 1829 – 31 May 1903) was Headmaster of Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia, for 47 years.

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Allies of World War I

The Allies of World War I, or Entente Powers, were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War.

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served".

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Armentières

Armentières (Armentiers) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Arthur Currie

General Sir Arthur William Currie, (5 December 1875 – 30 November 1933) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force.

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Australian Army Reserve

The Australian Army Reserve is a collective name given to the reserve units of the Australian Army.

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Australian Corps

The Australian Corps was a World War I army corps that contained all five Australian infantry divisions serving on the Western Front.

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Australian one hundred-dollar note

The Australian one-hundred-dollar banknote was first issued in 1984 as a paper note.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.

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Battalion

A battalion is a military unit.

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Battle of Amiens (1918)

The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy (3ème Bataille de Picardie), was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which began on 8 August 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that ultimately led to the end of the First World War.

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Battle of Arras (1917)

The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front.

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Battle of Broodseinde

The Battle of Broodseinde was fought on 4 October 1917 near Ypres in Belgium, at the east end of the Gheluvelt plateau, by the British Second and Fifth armies and the German 4th Army.

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Battle of Hamel

The Battle of Hamel (4 July 1918) was a successful attack by Australian Army and US Army infantry, supported by British tanks, against German positions in and around the town of Le Hamel, in northern France, during World War I. The attack was planned and commanded by Lieutenant General John Monash, commander of the Australian Corps and Australian Imperial Force.

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Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli)

The Battle of Hill 60 was the last major assault of the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Battle of Messines (1917)

The Battle of Messines was conducted by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front near the village of Messines in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.

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Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin

The Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin was a battle on the Western Front during World War I. As part of the Allied counteroffensives on the Western Front in the late summer of 1918, the Australian Corps crossed the Somme River on the night of August 31, and broke the German lines at Mont Saint-Quentin and Péronne.

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Battle of Pozières

The Battle of Pozières (23 July – 3 September 1916) took place in France around the village of Pozières, during the Battle of the Somme.

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Battle of Sari Bair

The Battle of Sari Bair (Sarı Bayır Harekâtı), also known as the August Offensive (Ağustos Taarruzları), was the final attempt made by the British in August 1915 to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Battle of St Quentin Canal

The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American forces operating as part of the British Fourth Army under the overall command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson.

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Bayonet

A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a knife, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of a rifles muzzle, allowing it to be used as a pike.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.

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Billy Hughes

William Morris Hughes, (25 September 186228 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1915 to 1923.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general (Brig. Gen.) is a senior rank in the armed forces.

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Brighton Cemetery

Brighton General Cemetery is located in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield South, Victoria, but takes its name from Brighton, Victoria.

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Broadmeadows, Victoria

Broadmeadows is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west from Melbourne's central business district.

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Bushranger

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.

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Cadre (military)

A cadre is the complement of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of a military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Carl Jess

Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess, (16 February 1884 – 16 June 1948) was an Australian Army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars.

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Cathy McGowan (politician)

Catherine McGowan AO (born 29 November 1953) is an Australian politician and independent MP for the rural Victorian seat of Indi since the 2013 federal election, defeating Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella.

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Caulfield East, Victoria

Caulfield East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.

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Caulfield Racecourse

Caulfield Racecourse is one of Melbourne, Australia's best-known horse-racing tracks.

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Chancellor (education)

A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

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Charles Bean

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 – 30 August 1968), usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an Australian World War I war correspondent and historian.

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Château de Bertangles

The Château de Bertangles, also named Château de Clermont-Tonnerre, is a historic castle in Bertangles, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France.

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Chuignes

Chuignes is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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City of Monash

The City of Monash is a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne with an area of 81.0 square kilometres and a population of 182,618 people in 2016.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Colin MacInnes

Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976) was an English novelist and journalist.

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Courtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Courtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.

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Croix de guerre (Belgium)

The Croix de guerre (French) or Oorlogskruis (Dutch), both literally translating as "War Cross", is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Belgium established by royal decree on 25 October 1915.

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Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)

The Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (War Cross) is a French military decoration, the first version of the Croix de guerre.

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David Mitchell (builder)

David Mitchell (16 February 1829 – 25 March 1916) was a Scottish-Australian builder.

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Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

The Deputy Prime Minister of Australia is the second-most senior officer in the Government of Australia.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)

The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military award of the United States Army that is presented to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the United States military, has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility.

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Doctor of Engineering

The Doctor of Engineering, or Engineering Doctorate, (abbreviated Eng.D., D.Eng., D.Engr., Dr.Eng., or Dr.-Ing.) is a doctoral degree awarded on the basis of advanced study and research in engineering and applied sciences.

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928), was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Erich Ludendorff

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg.

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Field marshal

Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is a very senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks.

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Field marshal (Australia)

Field marshal is the highest rank of the Australian Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of field marshal.

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First Australian Imperial Force

The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during World War I. It was formed on 15 August 1914, following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, initially with a strength of one infantry division and one light horse brigade.

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First Battle of Passchendaele

The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October 1917, in the Ypres Salient of the Western Front, west of Passchendaele village.

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Gallipoli Campaign

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 17 February 1915 and 9 January 1916.

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General (Australia)

General (abbreviated GEN) is the second-highest rank, and the highest active rank, of the Australian Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of general; it is also considered a four-star rank.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship (in Polish: Województwo Wielkopolskie), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland.

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Group races

Group races, also known as Pattern races, or Graded races in some jurisdictions, are the highest level of races in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Hargicourt, Somme

Hargicourt is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Harry Chauvel

General Sir Henry George Chauvel, (16 April 1865 – 4 March 1945), more usually known as Sir Harry Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War.

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Harry Lawson

Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG (5 March 1875 – 12 June 1952), Australian politician, was the 27th Premier of Victoria.

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Heliopolis, Cairo

Heliopolis (مصر الجديدة,,, "New Egypt") was a suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo as a district of the city and is one of the more affluent areas of Cairo.

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Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson

General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, (20 February 1864 – 28 March 1925), known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, 2nd Baronet between 1895 and 1919, was a British First World War general best known for his roles in the Battle of the Somme of 1916 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918.

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Heritage interpretation

Heritage interpretation refers to all the ways in which information is communicated to visitors to an educational, natural or recreational site, such as a museum, park or science centre.

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Hindenburg Line

The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung or Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position of World War I, built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front, from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne.

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Ian Hamilton (British Army officer)

General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, (16 January 1853 – 12 October 1947) was a senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign.

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Infantry

Infantry is the branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot, distinguished from cavalry, artillery, and tank forces.

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Ingleside, New South Wales

Ingleside is a suburb in northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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James Barrett (academic)

Sir James William Barrett (27 February 1862 – 6 April 1945) was an Australian ophthalmologist and academic administrator.

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James Gordon Legge

Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge (15 August 1863 – 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World War and was the Chief of the General Staff, Australia's highest ranking army officer between 1914 and 1915 and again between 1917 and 1920.

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James Whiteside McCay

Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay, (21 December 1864 – 1 October 1930), who often spelt his surname M’Cay, was an Australian general and politician.

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Jerilderie

Jerilderie is a town in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Jerilderie Shire

Jerilderie Shire was a local government area in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Gellibrand

Major General Sir John Gellibrand, (5 December 1872 – 3 June 1945) was a senior Australian Army officer in the First World War, Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police from 1920 to 1922, and a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Tasmanian Division of Denison for the Nationalist Party from 1925 to 1928.

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John Monash Scholars

The John Monash Scholarships are prestigious postgraduate scholarships awarded to outstanding Australians with leadership potential who wish to study at any university overseas.

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John Monash Science School

John Monash Science School is a state government coeducational specialist selective school in Victoria, Australia.

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Josh Frydenberg

Joshua Anthony Frydenberg (born 17 July 1971) is an Australian politician.

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Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson

Joshua Thomas Noble (Noble) Anderson (J T N Anderson) (1865–1949) was an engineer practising in Melbourne, Australia, and New Zealand during the difficult times in the Depressions of the 1890s and 1930s, but still practised innovative engineering in these periods.

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Keith Murdoch

Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (12 August 1885 – 4 October 1952) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the current CEO and Chairman of News Corp.

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Kfar Monash

Kfar Monash (lit. Monash Village) is a moshav in central Israel.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Krotoszyn

Krotoszyn (Krotoschin, קארטשין Kortshin) is a town in central Poland with 30,010 inhabitants.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lemnos

Lemnos (Λήμνος) is a Greek island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general, lieutenant-general and similar (abbrev Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries.

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Machine gun

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm designed to fire bullets in rapid succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of 300 rounds per minute or higher.

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Major general

Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian politician serving as the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2015.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Mentioned in dispatches

A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Monash Freeway

The Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in Victoria, Australia, linking Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the Gippsland region.

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Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centre (MMC) is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

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Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Monash, Australian Capital Territory

Monash (postcode 2904) is a suburb in the district of Tuggeranong, Canberra, Australia.

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Monash, South Australia

Monash is a town in the Riverland area of South Australia.

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Mortar (weapon)

A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount.

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Multinational state

A multinational state is a sovereign state that comprises two or more nations.

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National Archives of Australia

The National Archives of Australia is an Australian Government agency that collects, preserves and encourages access to important Australian Government records.

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Ned Kelly

Edward "Ned" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand and Australian Division

The New Zealand and Australian Division was a composite division raised for service in the First World War under the command of Major General Alexander Godley.

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Northern Beaches

The Northern Beaches is an area in the northern coastal suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the Pacific coast.

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Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918

The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War.

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Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as regent for his father, King George III.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.

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Order of the Crown (Belgium)

The Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne, Kroonorde) is a national order of the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Péronne, Somme

Péronne is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Pope's Hill

Pope's Hill is a hill and a small village situated in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire within the parish of Littledean.

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Prejudice

Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.

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Prince Maximilian of Baden

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm; 10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929),Almanach de Gotha.

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Province of Posen

The Province of Posen (Provinz Posen, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia from 1848 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 until 1918.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Riverina

The Riverina is an agricultural region of South-Western New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

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Scotch College, Melbourne

Scotch College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Shrine of Remembrance

The Shrine of Remembrance (commonly known among locals as The Shrine) is a war memorial in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road.

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Sir John Monash Centre

The Sir John Monash Centre is a museum and interpretive centre that commemorates Australian servicemen and women who served on the Western Front during the First World War.

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Sir John Monash Stakes

The Sir John Monash Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 3 Thoroughbred horse race held under weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in July.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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State Electricity Commission of Victoria

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV, ECV or SEC) is a government-owned electricity supplier in Victoria, Australia.

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Suez Canal

thumb The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat, with heavy firepower, strong armour, tracks and a powerful engine providing good battlefield maneuverability.

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Thomas Blamey

Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, (24 January 188427 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal.

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Tim Fischer

Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC (born 3 May 1946), is a former Australian politician and diplomat who served as leader of the National Party from 1990 to 1999.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian Institute of Engineers

The Victorian Institute of Engineers (VIE) was founded in 1883 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

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Villers-Bretonneux

Villers-Bretonneux is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Volunteer Officers' Decoration

The Volunteer Officers' Decoration, post-nominal letters VD, was instituted in 1892 as an award for long and meritorious service by officers of the United Kingdom's Volunteer Force.

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West Melbourne, Victoria

West Melbourne is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, north-west and adjacent to Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.

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William Birdwood

Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951) was a British Army officer.

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William Glasgow (general)

Major General Sir Thomas William Glasgow (6 June 1876 – 4 July 1955) was a senior Australian Army officer and politician.

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William Heneker

General Sir William Charles Giffard Heneker, (22 August 1867 – May 1939) was a Canadian-born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in West Africa, India, and then later on the Western Front during the First World War.

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Yallourn

Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex.

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Zionist Federation of Australia

The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA), also simply known as The Zionist Federation was established in 1927 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people.

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12th Brigade (Australia)

The 12th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army.

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13th Battalion (Australia)

The 13th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

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13th Brigade (Australia)

The 13th Brigade is an Army Reserve formation of the Australian Army.

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14th Battalion (Australia)

The 14th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

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15th Battalion (Australia)

The 15th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

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16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment

The 16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment (16 RWAR) is an Australian Army reserve infantry battalion located in Western Australia and one of the two battalions of the Royal Western Australia Regiment.

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1923 Victorian police strike

The 1923 Victorian Police strike occurred in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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1st Division (Australia)

The 1st Division is the main formation of the Australian Army and contains the majority of the Army's regular forces.

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3rd Division (Australia)

The 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army.

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4th Brigade (Australia)

The 4th Brigade is a brigade-level formation of the Australian Army.

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4th Division (Australia)

The Australian 4th Division was formed in the First World War during the expansion of the Australian Imperial Force infantry brigades in February 1916.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash

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