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Armistice 118, 125
Arneil, Sergeant Stan 184–5, 194–5
One Man’s War 185–7, 189, 192, 194, 201, 203
Arthur, Vice Admiral Stanley 297
Aspinall, Private George 189, 191–3, 195, 196, 199, 203
Aspinall-Oglander, Brigadier General Cecil 67
Ataturk 65–6, 83
Atkinson, Corporal Richard 305
Aubers Ridge 89–91
Auchinleck, General Sir Claude 138–9
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps 52
Australian Armed Forces see also Diggers; Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF); Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
1st AIF see 1st AIF
2nd AIF see 2nd AIF
1st Battalion 72
1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) 13, 248–9, 253, 298
2/11th Battalion 146, 218
2/13th Battalion 134–6, 138, 181
2/14th Battalion ix, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 170, 171, 173, 216, 218, 233
2/15th Battalion 182, 183
2/16th Battalion 147, 156, 164
2/22nd Battalion 220
2/27th Battalion 223
2/30th Battalion 189
2/32nd Battalion 177
2/40th Battalion (Sparrow Force) 274, 276–7
2/48th Battalion 137, 175
2nd Battalion 62, 63, 72
3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) 2, 72, 231, 232–9
4th Battalion 72
5/7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (Ausbatt VII) 273–4
6th Battalion 71
7th Battalion 72
8th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (8 RAR) 269
9th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (9 RAR) 250
12th Battalion 62, 72
13th Battalion 106
15th Battalion 69
18th Battalion 78, 113
22nd Battalion 106
39th Battalion 144, 145–52, 154, 156, 165, 167–8, 218
44th Battalion 125
51st Battalion 104, 110
53rd Battalion 145–7, 151, 156–7, 167–8
57th Battalion 97
58th Battalion 96
59th Battalion 95, 110
60th Battalion 95
1st Infantry Brigade 63
3rd Brigade 54, 57
4th Brigade 105, 115
6th Brigade 106, 115
8th Brigade 94
11th Brigade 115
13th Brigade 110
15th Brigade 92, 94–5, 110
16th Brigade 129
18th Brigade 166
21st Brigade 165
1st Division 87, 101, 285
2nd Division 87, 101
3rd Division 226
4th Division 87, 101
5th Division 87, 90–1
6th Division 129, 130, 131, 133, 140
7th Division 129, 130, 140, 160, 172, 215
8th Division 140, 145, 184
9th Division 133, 138, 140, 172, 173, 178–80, 215, 226
2/4th Field Regiment 215–16
2/7th Field Regiment 174
24th Machine-Gun Company 113
1st Royal Horse Artillery 137
5th Victorian Mounted Rifles 42, 43
Light Horse 42, 75–7, 83, 109
between the Wars 120–7
compulsory military training, abolition 125–6
Militia, the 126–7, 129, 131, 142, 144, 145, 151
post-Gallipoli 85–6
Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (the Team) 244–64
Australian Bushveldt Carbineers 43
Australian War Memorial 30, 71, 123–4, 245
Hall of Memory 123
Hall of Valour 1
Red Cross Wounded and Missing files 99
Austria 126
Avery, Alan 152–3, 218–19
Ayoub, Major Dennis ‘Arab’ 21, 23, 25, 27, 241–3, 254–8, 260–1, 271
Baby 700 75
Back, Lance Corporal ‘Lofty’ 224
Badcoe, Major Peter 246
Baghdad 297
Baker, Sergeant 61–2
Bali bombings 9, 298
Balikpapan 226–7
Balkan Wars 54
Ban-Me-Thout 244
Bardia 129, 131–3
Bartlett, Norman
With the Australians in Korea 233
Barton, Edmund 43
Baton of Honour 171, 225
Bayonets Abroad 134, 135
Bean, Charles 17, 51, 2, 60, 63, 66, 69, 72, 77, 77, 84, 86, 91–2, 97, 101, 103–4, 105, 106–7, 109, 113, 114–15, 116, 117–18, 122–3
Anzac to Amiens 123
Official History of Australia in the War of 191401918 122
Bear, Corporal Lindsay ‘Teddy’ 152–3, 171, 216–17, 220, 223, 224, 225–6
recommendation for Distinguished Conduct Medal 224
Beaton, Colonel Terry 196–7, 198, 199, 201, 202–3
Beaton, Frederick Michael 197
Beatson, Major General Stuart 43
Beersheba 42, 109
Belgium 88, 129
Bell, Lieutenant Fred 42
Bell, Sublieutenant Stan 208
Belo, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes 284
Benghazi 131, 133, 134, 181
Berlin airlift 229
Bethune, Lieutenant F.P. 108
Bewes, Private Nathan 305
Bey, Major Mahmut 58
Bien Hoa-Vung Tau region 248
Bigali 57, 64
Binh Duong Province 254
Binyon, Laurence
‘For the Fallen’ 118–19
Birdwood, General Sir William 52, 53, 66, 87, 87, 106, 114
Bisdee, Trooper John 42
Bismarck Sea, Battle of 226
Bisset, Harold ‘Butch’ x, 154–5, 170
Bisset, Stan ix, x, 154–5, 170
Black Sea 45, 50
Blair, Tony 298
Blamey, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas 129, 133, 138, 162, 163, 165, 202, 227
Bligh, Governor William 37
Blitzkrieg 129
Blume, Corporal Col 160–1
Boer War 39–42
Bonin Islands 144
‘boosting’ (IEDs) 11
Borneo ix, 215, 226–7
Bosphorus, the 50
Bougainville Island 209
Boulton, Corporal Billy 277, 279, 281
Bouvet 49
Bowden, Jack 99
Bridges, General Sir William Throsby 68
Brigade Hill 158, 160
Brighton Beach (Gallipoli) 55, 65
Britain 128
Battle of Britain 130, 131, 205
impact on colony development 35–7
Britannia 248
British Army 9, 22, 39, 53, 87
Australia, in 37–8
comparison with Diggers 22, 85–6, 106–8
Eighth Army 138, 172
61st Division 90
Somme casualties 89
29th Division 53, 54, 55, 67
73rd Regiment of Foot 34
British Elgin Commission 44
British Empire Medal 159
British Expeditionary Force 87–8, 129, 130
British Imperial War Museum 99
Brown, Trooper Jason 305
Brunei landing 227
Bryant, Bill 161
Buckler, Captain Sydney Hamilton ‘Ben’ 158–9
Buick, Sergeant Bob 265–6, 269
Bullecourt, Battle of 97, 102, 105
Bulletin, The 43
Bulu, Ansin 208
Buna 141, 144, 157, 160, 163, 164, 165–6, 215
Burma 229
Burma-Thailand Railway 17, 188–200
casualties 193, 199
cholera 193–4
diseases and sickness 195–6
Hellfire Pass Museum 196, 198
map 190
Shimo Sonkurai 191, 193
Burnett, Jim 236
Burton, Corporal Alexander 74
Bush,
President George 297
Bush, President George W. 298
Butler, Charlie 161
Cairo 52, 172
Cambodia 297–8
Cambrai 117
Campbell, Captain Bill 177
Campo Concentramento No. 57 (Italy) 183
Canadian Corps 116
Canadian Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry Battalion 233
Çanakkale 47, 50
Cape Helles 67, 81
Cape Town 39, 43
Carden, Vice-Admiral Sackville 48–9
Carlyon, Major 165
Caro, Colonel Albert 164
Carter, Corporal 269
Cassels, Major General 234
Cesarit Tepe (Hill of Valour) 77
Chamberlain, Neville 126–6
Changi 185–6, 188, 200
Changi Photographer, the 189–91
Charles, Private Nathan 278
Chauvel, Lieutenant General Harry 41
Chiang Kai-shek 229
China 232, 233–4, 243
Chocolate Hill 70
Chuck, Gordon xi–xvii
Chuck, Private Ben xi–xvii, 305
Chunuk Bair 55, 65, 66
Churchill, Winston 49, 130, 138, 205, 229
CIA 245
Cimenlik Fortress 50
Citizen Military Forces 126
Clemens, Martin 210, 211
Clinton, President Bill 286
Coastwatchers, the 205–14
Coates, Dr Albert 17, 196
Coates, John
Bravery Above Blunder 179
Cold War 45, 229, 284
Collins, David 33
Colmer, Les 259
Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George 104
Commonwealth Brigade (Korean War) 231
Commonwealth Contingents 40
Commonwealth War Graves Commission 97
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 41
Constantinople (Istanbul) 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 66
convicts 32–35
Cook, Joseph 51
Coolburra, Billy 28
Coral attack 30, 269
Coral Sea, Battle of 158
Corlett, Peter
Cobbers 97
Cosgrove, General Peter 19–20, 21–2, 26, 248–53, 280, 281–3, 285, 286–93
Cotton, Lieutenant Malcolm 72–3
‘coupling’ (IEDs) 11
courage 17, 60–1, 85, 150, 154
court martials 43
Craig, Private Gordon 59–60
Crete 139–40, 146
Croix de Guerre 104
Crozier, Brigadier General 107
Curtin, Prime Minister John 145
Cuttle, Flight Lieutenant Robin George 112
Cyprus 295
Czechoslovakia 229
‘daisy chaining’ (IEDs) 11
Dale, Private Tomas 305
Daly, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas 248
Danisman, Hasan Basri
Bloody Ridge Diary 58
Dardanelles, the 45, 47–50, 54
Darwin 276, 277, 279, 285
de la Ray, General Koos 41
de Mello, Sergio Viera 290, 292
De Robeck, Vice Admiral 49
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste 275
Denmark 129
Deployable Joint Force (DJF) 285
Derna 133
Dervishes 39
Desert Mounted Corps 41
Diem, President Dinh 243, 244
Dien Pien Phu 243
Diggers 16–30
between the Wars 120–7
changes in 18–19
commanders 26–7
Isurava see Isurava
‘Jackmen’ 280
leadership 26–7, 28, 106, 108, 149, 170, 262
military honours 29, 96, 106
see also by individual name
missing at Fromelles 98–100
myth of 29
‘Nashos’ 261
national characteristics and 85
NCOs 24
nickname, origin of 109–10
origins 32–44
Papua New Guinea casualties 169
peacekeepers, as 294–302
see also East Timor
POWs, as 181–204
psychological and physical damage 121–2, 270–1
qualities 16–30, 85, 124, 291
sub-unit system 23–4, 217
teamwork 279–81
technology 281
unruliness 109
volunteers 18
weaponry 278
Dili 276, 285, 290
discipline 20
Distinguished Conduct Medal 104, 106, 171, 224, 226, 239
Distinguished Service Medal 96, 156, 269
Distinguished Service Order 104, 238
Doi, Shigenori 152
Donaldson, Bernadette 13
Donaldson, Brent 13
Donaldson, Greg 13
Donaldson, Trooper Mark Gregor Strang 13–15, 16, 248
citation for Victoria Cross 14
Doolan, ‘Wild Bill’ 268
Dowling, Private Jimmy 94
Dudley, Private Scott ‘Duds’ 278
Duffy, Captain Don 155
Duke of Wellington 38
Dumpu 218, 219, 226
Dunkirk 87, 130, 134
Dunlop, Sir Edward ‘Weary’ 17, 196, 201
Dunstan, Corporal William 74
Duntroon 126, 287
East Timor 2, 13, 249, 272, 273–93, 297
declaration of independence 283–4
Section Two Three Bravo 273–4, 277–9
East Timor Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation 285
Eceabat 50
Edmondson, Corporal Jack 136–7
Efe, Ahmet 47
Efe, Captain Ali 45, 47, 51, 57, 74–5, 80–1, 82
Efe, Hussein 47, 74–5
egalitarianism 22
Egypt 52, 69, 70, 84, 86, 87, 131, 135, 172
Eichelberger, Robert 164, 166
Eisenhower, General Dwight 164
El Alamein 172–80
9th Division casualties 179
Elands River 41–2
Elliott, Brigadier Harold ‘Pompey’ 92, 94, 95, 96
Emperor Bao Dai 243
Emperor Hirohito 202
endurance 17, 85, 154
Englezos, Lambis 98–100
English Channel 88
Enniskillen Dragoons 40
Er Rejima 138, 181
Ethiopia, invasion of 126
Eureka Stockade 62
Evans, Reg 213
Evatt Royal Commission 270
‘F Force’ 188, 193, 198, 201
Facey, Albert
A Fortunate Life 58–9
Fairbairn, Russ 226
Farland, Merle 211–12
Feldt, Commander Eric 206–8, 214
Ferdinand Group 206–14
Figgis, Peter 213–14
‘fire and movement’ approach 19
1st AIF 17–18, 51–2, 85–6, 125
disbanding 125
One Anzac Corps 86–7, 88
Two Anzac Corps 87, 90
Western Front casualties 103
First Boer War 1881 39