by Will Davies
Chapter 18: After the Earthquake
1 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 595
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid., p. 679
4 Royal Engineers’ Institute, Military Mining, p. 42
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., pp. 42–43
7 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 954
8 Quoted from a report by Oberstleutnant Otto Füsslein and taken from Heinrici, Paul, Das Ehrenbuch der Deutschen Pioniere, 1931, p. 541
9 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 82
Chapter 19: A New Role and a New Danger
1 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 90
2 Ibid.
3 Bean, Official History, Vol. IV, p. 761
4 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 94
5 Reid, Richard, Beaucoup Australiens Ici, p. 24
6 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 96
7 Ibid., p. 97
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., p. 98
11 Ibid., p. 100
12 Ibid., p. 101
13 Ibid., pp. 101–102
14 Ibid., p. 102
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid., p. 103
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid., p. 106
Chapter 20: The Last Battle
1 Woodward, Vol. II, p. 83
2 Ibid., p. 108
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid., p. 111
5 Ibid., p. 113
6 Supplement to the London Gazette (31089), 9 December 1919, p. 15295
7 AWM Encyclopaedia Statistics – Military
8 Woodward, Vol. II, pp. 114–115
9 Ibid.
Chapter 21: Going Home
1 Woodward, Vol. II, pp. 117–118
2 Ibid., p. 117
3 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 119
4 Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 118–119
5 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 125
6 Ibid., p. 126
7 Ibid., p. 135
8 Ibid., p. 136
Epilogue
1 Woodward, Vol. V, pp. 7–8
2 Woodward, Vol. I, p. 34
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