The Spirit of the Digger
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1st Commonwealth Division 234
First Fleet 32–4
First French Division 54
1st Waikato Regiment 38
Fisher, Andrew 51
Fisher, Lord 49
Flannery, Tim
The Birth of Sydney 35
France 88, 128
Fraser, Lieutenant Simon 97
French Army 54, 87
Fromelles, Battle of 64, 88, 91, 92–9, 104, 110, 130, 154
Australian Memorial Park 97
cover-up 97–8
Diggers’ graves 97–100
Pheasant Wood 99–100
Fukuda, Lieutenant 191
Fussell, Lieutenant Michael 304
‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ 155, 263
Gallagher, Corporal Bill 257–8
Gallaway, Jack
The Odd Couple: Blamey and Macarthur at War 162
Galleghan, Brigadier ‘Black Jack’ 186, 188
Gallipoli 16, 17, 22, 29, 44, 45–84, 124, 154
casualties 82, 84
maps 46, 56
nationhood and 85–6
Shell Green cricket match 79
Game, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Philip 90
Geneva Accords 243
Geneva Convention 191
Gerke, Captain Jack 236, 237, 238
German Army 87, 91, 129
propaganda leaflets 134
Germany 126, 128, 130, 229
World War I 87
‘Ghost Battalion’ 162
Gillespie, General Ken 15
Glasgow University 99
Godley, General 87
Gona 141, 144, 157, 160, 163, 164, 170, 215, 233
Gordon, General Charles ‘Chinese’ 39
Gorton, Prime Minister John 269
Grant, Ulysses S. 28
Gratwick, Private Percy 175
Great Depression 125
Greece 133, 139, 146
Grey, Jeffrey 37
A Military History of Australia 34
Griggs, Private Wayne ‘Griggsy’ 277
Guadalcanal, Battle of 164, 169, 209–10
Guam 140, 205
Gulf War 296–7
Gusmao, Xanana 292
Habibie, President 286
Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas 89
Haking, General Sir Richard Cyril Byrne 89–91, 92, 94–5, 97
Halsey, Admiral William ‘Bull’ 164, 214
Halvorsen, Sam xiv–xvii
Hamilton, General Sir Ian 44, 53–4, 55, 66, 70
Gallipoli Diary 53
Hamilton, Private John 74
Handcock, Lieutenant Peter 43–4
Hardiman, Major ‘Basil’ 235
Harford, Barry 259
Harris, John 33
Harrison, Lieutenant Roy 64, 70, 73, 74
Hassett, Lieutenant Colonel Frank 234–6, 237–9
Hawke government 296
Heathcote, Lieutenant Charlie 184
Herring, General 163
Hill 60 (Gallipoli) 78, 79
Hindenburg Line 117
Hiroshima 227
Hitler, Adolf 126, 128, 130, 133
HMAS Adelaide 297
HMAS Bataan 230
HMAS Brisbane 297
HMAS Darwin 297
HMAS Shoalhaven 230
HMAS Success 296, 297
HMAS Sydney 297
HMAS Westralian 297
Holdsworth, Private Clinton 278
Hong Kong 140
Honner, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph 133, 139–40, 146–51, 154, 161, 164–5, 168, 170, 218–19
Hopkins, Corporal Mathew 304
Hore, General 41
Horii, General Tomitaro 144, 157–8, 160
Horner, David 165
Crisis of Command 127, 129, 130, 131–2, 165–6
Horton, Dick 210
Houston, Air Chief Marshal Angus 6–7
Howard, Prime Minister John 285, 286, 298
Howse, Captain Neville 42
humour 19
Hunt, Dr Bruce 17, 195, 196
Hunter, Governor 33
Hunter-Weston, Major General Aylmer 67
Hurley, Lieutenant General David 7
Hussein, Saddam 296–7, 298–9
Hutchins School Hobart xii
Hutchinson, Major Arthur 96
Hutton, Major General E.T.H. ‘Curly’ 40
ICE (IED Countermeasures Equipment) 12
IEDs (improvised explosive devices) 6–15
adaption to countermeasures 12
anti-IED task force 12
combat casualties from 10, 11
detection 10–11, 12
effect on morale 8, 9–10
JIEDDO definition 12
‘own goals’ 8
vehicle-borne (VBIEDs) 9
Vietnam War 254, 260
Imbros 54, 84
Imperial Bushmen 40, 42
Imperial Light Horse 39
Imperial War Office 40
An Impression which Will Never Fade 84
Inchon 231
Indigenous Australians 34
Indo-China 229
Indonesia 229, 272, 275, 276, 283–5, 288, 295
Interfet (International Force) 2, 249, 284–6, 288–92
TOPIC 290
International Monetary Fund 286
International Red Cross 99
Ioribaiwa 159–60, 165
Iraq 2, 9, 12, 13, 296–7, 298–301
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 7, 9
Iron Curtain 229
Irresistible 49
irreverence 20
Irvine, Lieutenant 113
Isurava, Battle of 17, 141–2, 144, 146, 149–54, 157–8, 160, 167, 170, 216, 217, 218, 225
Memorial 154
spirit of the Digger 154–6
Italy 126, 128
Iwo Jima 227
Jacka, Albert 17
Jackson, Lance Corporal Frank 184, 185, 187–8, 188
James, Lawrence 37
Warrior Race 36, 107–8, 109
Japan 126, 129, 140, 145, 227, 274–5
surrender 227
Japanese Army 142, 150–1
attitude to POWs 183
Nankai Shitai (South Seas Force) 144, 157, 160, 169
144th Regiment 152
Jenkins, Private 138
Johns, Vera 61–2
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) 11–12
Josselyn, Henry 210
Jungle Training School 262
jungle warfare 142, 260, 264
Jury, Bill 177–8
Kandahar Province 3
Kanlisirt (Bloody Ridge) 47, 71–5
Kapa Kapa Track 162
Kapyong 30, 232
Karkawici, Lieutenant 187
Kavieng 207, 208, 209
Keating, General Michael 289
Kemal, Lieutenant Colonel Mustapha 65–6, 83
Kemp-Welsh River 159
Kennedy, Donald 210, 211–12
Kennedy, John F. 212–13
Kenney, General George 215–16
Keysor, Lance Corporal Leonard 74
Kilitbahir Fortress 50
King George V 104
Kingsbury, Bruce 17, 152–3, 154, 217
Kirby, Private Grant 305
Kirby, Second Warrant Officer 269
Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert 41, 49, 53, 87
Knyvett, Lieutenant Hugh 95
Koepang 276
Kokoda Track ix, x, 17, 29, 124, 141–71, 215, 226, 263
map 143
Kolambangara Island 213
Korean War 30, 228, 229–39, 243
Australian casualties 239
Krithia 67
Kumbarum 223
Kumusi River 160
Kuwait 296
Laffin, John 52–3, 109–10
Digger 22
Lalor, Captain Joseph Peter 62–3
Lalor, Peter 62
Lancashire Fusiliers 67
Lang, Jack 90
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Lark Force 144, 213
larrikinism 19, 52
Lavarack, Major General 129
Le Hamel, Battle of 115–16
leadership 26–7, 106, 108, 149, 170
Leaf, Munro
The Story of Ferdinand 206
League of Nations 126
Legacy 122
Lemnos 54, 84
Lewis, Major General Duncan 294–5, 296, 299, 300, 301–2
Libya 7, 131, 133–4, 146
Ligertwood, Captain Bill 175–6
Lille 88, 89, 94
Little, Sergeant K.M. 52
Locke, Sergeant Matthew 303
London, Brian 24
Lone Pine 47, 70, 71–5, 79, 80, 81, 84
Memorial 74
Long Tan, Battle of 30, 264–7
Lord Haw Haw 138
Love, Colonel Ted 28, 263
Ludendorff, General 116, 117
Luxembourg 129
Lyons, Joe 126
MacArthur, General Douglas 160, 161–4, 166, 169, 227, 230–2
McAuley, Lex
The Battle of Long Tan 265–6, 267, 269
McCallum, Corporal Charlie 17, 155–6, 158
citation for Distinguished Service Medal 156
McCarthy, Dudley 167–8
South West Pacific Area – First Year 172
McCarthy, Signaller Sean 303
McCay, Major General James Whiteside 96–7
McDermott, Colonel Mike 24, 244, 245, 261
McFadzean, Private Jim 236, 237
MacFarlan, Sublieutenant Don 210
McGregor, Major Sandy 27, 242, 253–4, 256, 257, 258–9
No Need for Heroes 258
Mackay, Major General 129
Mackell, Lieutenant Austin 136–7
MacKinney, Lance Corporal Jared 305
McMahon, Private Matthew ‘Macca’ 278
Macquarie, Governor Lachlan 34
Madhi, the 39
Mafeking 41
Magarey, Major Rupert 155
Malaya 140, 229, 246
Malone’s gully 62
Manchester, William 164, 227
Manchuria, invasion of 126, 142
Manefield, Captain E.T. 116–17
Mao Tse Tung 229
Marchant, William 212
Marine Corps 32, 34
Marks, Lance Corporal Jason 303
Marne, Battle of 87
Marshall Plan 229
Maryang San, Battle of 30, 234–9
Battle of Maryang San, The 234–5
Mason, Lieutenant Lindsay 170–1
Mason, Paul 209–10, 214
mateship 16–17, 62, 72, 85, 154, 185, 194–5, 201
rescues of dead/wounded 95–6, 255
Maugham, Barton 179
Mauku 38
Maygar, Lieutenant Leslie 42
Medal for Gallantry 1, 2–3, 301
Medal of Australia 248
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 53
Mehmet II 50
Mentioned in Despatches 223, 224, 239
Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (Afghanistan) 6, 304
Menzies, Prime Minister Sir Robert 128, 133, 230, 244, 261
Metson, John 17, 158–9
Meuse River 87
Middle East ix, 109, 130, 132, 145
Military Cross 106, 245, 248, 249, 268, 287
Military Medal 106, 152, 171, 217, 224, 226, 227, 239, 269
Militia, the 126–7, 129, 131, 142, 144, 145, 151
Mills, Dr Roy 17, 196
Milne Bay 158, 161, 170
Mission Ridge 158
Missouri 227
Mobile Strike Force Battalion 246–7
Moerland, Sapper Jacob 6, 304
Monash, General Sir John 107, 114–15, 117
Monash Gully 68
Mont St Quentin 102, 116
Montagnard tribes 244
Montgomery, Lieutenant General Bernard 172, 173, 179
Moor, Captain Hatherly 40
Moore, Lieutenant 170
Morant, Lieutenant Harry ‘Breaker’ 43–4
Morlancourt 106, 115
Morshead, Captain Leslie 62, 134, 178
Mouquet Farm 102, 104–5
Stormy Trench 104, 105–6
Murray, Colonel Don 79
Murray, Corporal Vic 181
Murray, Joan 78
Murray, Lieutenant Colonel Henry William ‘Harry’ 104–5
citation for Victoria Cross 105–6
Mussolini, Benito 126, 130, 133
Nagasaki 227
Nago Island 208
NCOs 24
Nek, the 70, 72, 75–7, 80, 84
Netherlands 129, 276, 283, 295
New Britain Island 207, 215
New Georgia Island 211
New Guinea ix, x, 143, 144, 215–26 see also Papua New Guinea
New Ireland 207
New South Wales Corps 37
New South Wales Lancers 39, 41
New South Wales Medical Corps 42
New South Wales Mounted Police 38
New Zealand Air Force 285
New Zealand Divisions 87
New Zealand 161 Battery 267
New Zealand Maori Wars 38
New Zealand volunteers in World War I 52
Ngaiterangi Tribe 38
Nicholas, Private Joshua ‘Nicko’ 277, 281
Nicholas II 53
Night Watch 33
Nitua, Ivan 154
Niville, General Robert 87
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) 229
North Beach (Gallipoli) 82
North Korea 230, 232
North Vietnam 243
Northern Ireland 9
Norway 129
Nui Dat 264, 266
Nusatenggara Timor province 276
Nye, Captain Claude 170
Obama, President Barack 12
Ocean 49
O’Daniel, Lieutenant General John ‘Iron Mike’ 234
O’Dea, Gerry 218, 219
Odgers, George
100 Years of Australians at War 266
Ogilvie, Sergeant Angley 182
Okinawa 227
O’Neill, Robert 233
Operation Catalyst 300
Operation Commando 234
Operation Crimp 254, 257, 258
Operation Desert Storm 297
Operation Falconer 300
Operation Slipper xi, 2
Operation Warden 285
Oruzgan Province 13
Owen, Lieutenant Colonel Bill 144
Owen Stanley Range 141
Pacific Islands 205–6
Pacific War Encyclopedia 163
Packbot, the 12
Page, Cornelius ‘Con’ 207–9
Palestine 109, 129
Pallier, Lieutenant Nolan ‘Noel’ 216–26
Mentioned in Despatches citation 223
Pallier’s Hill 223, 224, 225, 227
Palmer, Private Scott xi, 304
Pamponito 200
Papua New Guinea 141, 142, 144–5, 154, 206, 275, 283 see also New Guinea
Paris 87, 88, 109, 130
Payne, Warrant Officer Keith 246–8
citation for Victoria Cross 247
peacekeeping missions 294–302
Pearce, Trooper David 303
Pearl Harbor 140, 144, 205, 207, 276
Pears, Lieutenant Maurie 236, 238
Petersen, Captain Arthur Barry 244–5
Philippines, the 140
Phillip, Governor Arthur 32, 33
Pita, Simogan 214
Plugge’s Plateau 65, 84
Poland 128, 229
Popkin, Sergeant Cedric 113
Port Jackson 32
Port Macquarie 100
Port Moresby 132, 141, 144, 145, 157, 158, 165, 215, 216
Porter, Selwyn 156–7
Portugal 276
Pottinger, George 220
POWs 139, 181–204, 205
> Australian and British, comparison 192–3, 194
Pozières 98, 101–4
Presidential Unit Citation 234, 268
Pyongyang 231, 232
Queensland Mounted Infantry 40, 41
Rabaul 144, 145, 207, 208, 209, 213, 214, 215
Rafferty, Lieutenant Arthur 78, 79
Ramos-Horta, José 284, 290, 292
Ranaudo, Private Ben 304
Rats of Tobruk 17, 135–9
Raws, Lieutenant John 92, 101–2
Read, Jack 209–10
Reconstruction Task Force (Afghanistan) 303–5
Red Baron, the 113
Rencher, Private ‘Pom’ 267
repatriation post-World War I 120–1
Returned Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Imperial League of Australia 122
Rhee, Dr Syngman 231
Rhoades, Snowy 210
Rhoden, Colonel Phil 153, 159–60, 169–70, 173, 216, 219
Ridgeway, General Matthew 232
River Clyde 67
River Lys 88
Roberts, Pat 174
Roberts, Tom 174
Will We be Disappointed – After? 174–6, 177–8
Roberts-Smith, Corporal Ben 1–5, 248
citation for Medal for Gallantry 3
citation for Victoria Cross 4