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Phillip Schuler

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by Mark Baker


  Deakin, Alfred 11, 14, 15, 30–1

  Debbane, Charlotte 250

  Debbane, Max 248–51, 277

  Denholm, Dorothy see Schuler, Dorothy

  Denholm, Robin 276

  Devonport 198, 200

  Dewson, Captain Richard 228–9, 238

  Dexter, Walter 64–5, 65 Gallipoli, at 107–9

  Dowse, Colonel Richard 210, 236–9, 241, 242

  Dudley, Earl and Lady 23

  Dumas, Lloyd 294

  Dunstan, Albert 294

  Durrell, Lawrence 249

  Dyason, Ann 276

  Dyason, Edward 276–7

  Easter Rising (Dublin) 205

  Eastern Front 69

  Egypt 57, 67, 79, 147, 173, 189, 197, 226, 239

  El Alamein, Second Battle of 184

  El-Gharbi, Ibrahim 63

  El Kantara 68

  Elliott, Colonel Harold ‘Pompey’ 98

  Elsey Station 186

  Emden 52–5

  Ewart, Sir John 120

  Fetherston, Lieutenant Colonel Richard 103

  Fevzi Bey, Ahmed 123

  Fink, Theodore 294

  First World War 36–7

  censorship see censorship

  early recruits 37–8

  transport of troops 47, 51–2, 56–7

  war correspondents 39–44, 49, 85, 94–5, 99, 128, 134–9, 142–3, 149, 191, 212, 266

  Fisher, Prime Minister Andrew 40–1, 146–7, 148, 199, 212, 267

  Dardanelles Commission 206, 207–8, 211–12, 213, 215–17, 220, 241

  letter from Murdoch see Murdoch, Keith Arthur

  Fisher, Sir John ‘Jacky’ 70

  Flanders 2, 177, 180, 181, 221–34

  Fletcher, John 240

  Franz Maria, Prince 233

  French, General Sir John 72, 136

  Fromelles 223

  Gallipoli 5, 38, 42, 49, 52, 64, 145, 191, 225

  anniversary 287

  August offensive 119, 121, 123, 157, 161, 167, 173, 217, 256, 258

  campaign 69–71, 75, 85, 89, 91–2, 94–5, 151–2

  casualties 97–102, 111–12, 116–18, 133, 176, 180–1, 184, 205, 222, 300

  commission of inquiry see Dardanelles Commission

  criticism of campaign 106, 158–60, 163–4, 166

  evacuation from 176–8, 180, 195, 205, 227, 258–9

  landing 91, 96–101, 130, 131, 255

  misrepresentation of situation at 132–3, 134

  mythology 185, 284–7

  photographs 50, 108

  wounded, treatment of 101–4, 147, 202

  Gallipoli Diary 281

  Gallipoli (movie) 118, 284–5, 286

  Gallipoli: Untold stories from war correspondent Charles Bean and front-line Anzacs 287

  Garrick, Major Robert 37

  Gascon 99–101

  Gellibrand, Major General John 228

  George V, King 201–2 letter to families of war dead 242–3

  German Paddock 21

  Germany army 69, 222, 233 navy 48, 52–5

  Gibbs, Philip 232

  Gide, Andre 249

  Glossop, Captain John Collings Taswell 53, 56

  Gneisenau 48, 52

  goldrush 7, 8

  Gordon, General Charles 43, 88

  Goritzia 277, 278

  Gough, General Hubert 263

  Gourand, General Henri 164

  Grand Continental Hotel 60–1, 65, 77, 78, 189, 223

  Gray, Thomas 184

  The Great Withdrawal 203

  Gregory, Langton 77–8

  Gunn, Jeannie 187

  Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas 221–2, 262–3

  Hamel, Battle of 203, 238, 265

  Hamilton, General Sir Ian 38–9, 67, 153, 160, 261, 281–2

  Ashmead-Bartlett, and 128–9, 137, 139–43, 151, 161, 165, 166, 284, 289

  Australia in Arms, and 193–4, 201, 224

  Breaker Morant, and 286–7

  criticism of 151, 153–4, 159, 165, 168–71, 206, 257–9, 284

  Dardanelles Commission 206–11, 213, 218–20, 227, 240

  Dardanelles Commission report 253–8, 261

  Deadline Gallipoli, in 290

  diaries, publication of 266–7

  Frederick Schuler, correspondence 240–2, 267

  Gallipoli campaign 71–3, 75, 85, 91–6, 109, 119–23, 125, 127, 141, 173, 175–8, 194–5

  journalists, and 86–90, 105–6, 129, 138, 142–3, 148–9, 216

  Murdoch, and 148–9, 219–20, 266–7

  Phillip Schuler, and 85–6, 89–90, 105–6, 191–4, 199, 201, 220, 224–5, 227, 229–31, 237, 239–40, 290

  Russo-Japanese war 80, 86, 129

  writings 86–8, 281

  Hamilton, Major General Hubert Ion Wetherall 287

  Hammersley, General Frederick 120, 123

  Hampshire 208

  Hankey, Lieutenant Colonel Maurice 69, 160, 166–9, 171, 177, 181, 219

  Hardie, Reverend Andrew 19

  Hassia, Madame 249

  Hastings, Guy 196

  Hawthorn 3, 20–1, 183, 188

  Helwan 1, 77–8, 80, 81, 247, 248, 249

  Henderson, Gerard 285

  Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) 294

  Hill 60 232

  Hoad, General John 25

  Hogue, Oliver 42–3

  Holman, Premier William 238

  Holmes, Major General William 3, 238

  Hororata 97

  hospital ships 99–102, 184

  Howard, Charles 187, 270–1, 273

  Howard, Edward 187

  Howard, Joyce 270–1

  Howard, Max 269–70, 273

  Howard, Meg 270, 271, 273

  Howard, Noel 188, 269

  Howard, Polly (nee Pym) 2, 187–90, 269–73

  Schuler, relationship with 188–90, 204, 270–2

  Howard, Richard 271

  Howard, Tom 269, 270

  Howard, Tony 269

  Howitt, Charles 226

  Howse, Colonel Neville 104, 107

  Hozier, Blanch 128

  Hughes, Brigadier General Frederic 118, 296, 299

  Hughes, Brigadier General William 163

  Hughes, Prime Minister William ‘Billy’ 146, 174, 212–13

  Dardanelles Commission 207

  Murdoch, and 262, 265

  Western Front, visit 264, 265

  Hunscraft 204

  Ibuki 52

  Imbros 92–4, 96, 100, 105, 121, 137, 138, 142, 148, 150, 159, 160, 164, 169, 174, 261, 281, 291

  Inflexible 74, 75

  Irresistible 75

  Ismailia 68

  Jonquil 121, 122

  Josipovici, Gabriel 250, 252

  Kahanamoku, Duke 33

  Kamel, Hussein 67

  Kannengiesser, Colonel Hans 122

  Kemal, Colonel Mustafa ‘Ataturk’ 123–5

  Keyes, Commodore Roger 179–80, 281

  Kipling, Rudyard 88, 180

  Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord Herbert 69–73, 95, 119, 120, 136, 141–2, 158, 162, 176–7, 180, 257–8

  Breaker Morant story 286, 287

  Dardanelles Commission 207, 254, 256–7, 292

  death 208–9

  Gallipoli, at 178

  turning against Hamilton 160, 169–72

  Kut-al-Amara 195, 205

  Lambie, William 43

  Larkhill Camp 198–201, 204, 272

  Law, Andrew Bonar 171, 213

  Lawrence, Lester 137

  Lawrence, T.E. (Lawrence of Arabia) 61

  Lawson, Sir Harry 128, 129, 155

  Le Havre 204

  Lemnos 92, 93, 99, 100

  Lesbos 94

  Lindt, John William 22–3

  Lindt’s Hermitage 22, 23

  Lisson Grove 3, 20–1, 24, 27, 28, 183, 274, 275, 276

  Livingstone, Dr David 11, 60

  Lloyd George, David 158–9, 160, 166, 171, 213, 222, 258

  Logue, Lionel 30

  London 130

  Lone Pine, B
attle of 110–12, 119, 150, 296

  photographs 184

  Longford, Raymond 33

  Lord Nelson 74

  Ludwig III of Bavaria, King 233

  Luffman, Bogue 25

  Macdonald, Ranald 16

  McCubbin, Fred 28, 275

  McGarry, Private 117, 299

  Mackenzie, Compton 130, 141, 167

  Mackenzie, Sir Thomas 206, 213

  McNicoll, Brigadier General Walter Ramsay 228, 235–6, 239

  McNicoll, David 236

  McNicoll, Major General Ron 236

  McNicoll, Vice Admiral Alan 236

  ‘Magnum Opus’ operation 228

  Mahon, Lieutenant General Sir Bryan 120

  Majestic 140

  Makarius, Dr Shahin 68

  ‘Malford’ 20

  Manchester Guardian 143

  Massey, William Thomas 67, 89, 94

  May, Sir William 206

  Mears, Grimwood 210, 258

  Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) 71

  Melba, Dame Nellie 24, 39

  Melbourne 26, 32–3, 66, 187, 274, 275

  Melbourne 52

  Melbourne Grammar School 25, 27, 184, 185, 235

  Melbourne Herald 265, 266–7, 274, 293, 294

  Melbourne Savage Club 35–6, 195, 196, 236, 244

  Mena Camp 60, 65–6

  Menzies, Prime Minister Robert 293

  Merriyula 186–7, 190, 270, 271

  Mertens, General 259–60

  Mesopotamia 194–5, 205, 206

  Messines, Battle of 3, 228, 230–4, 235, 238, 264

  Millen, Edward 40

  Minnewaska 92

  Minotaur 51–2

  Monash, Lieutenant General John 3, 39, 49, 66

  AIF 3rd Division 197, 200–3, 223, 228–9, 233, 235, 263–5

  Australia in Arms 200–1

  honours 203

  Murdoch and Bean campaign against 163, 263–5

  Schuler, and 227–8

  Monash Gully 113, 296, 299

  Moorehead, Alan 70, 257, 281–2

  Morant, Harry ‘Breaker’ 286–7

  Morgenthau, Henry 259–60

  Morrison, George 11

  Morshead, Lieutenant General Sir Leslie 184

  Moseley, Sydney 143

  Mouquet Farm 222

  Mudros 92, 93, 130, 162

  Munro, General Sir Charles 177–8, 180

  Munro-Ferguson, Sir Ronald 36

  Murdoch, Dame Elisabeth 286

  Murdoch, Keith Arthur 5, 30–2, 145, 166–7, 173, 174, 180, 181

  Anzac Corps, formation of 262–3

  Dardanelles Commission 206, 207–8, 210–20, 241, 254, 261, 292

  Deadline Gallipoli, in 289–91

  Director General of Information 293–4

  eulogising 283–6, 289–92

  Gallipoli, at 145, 149–50, 162, 214

  Hamilton, and 148–9, 219–20, 266–7

  Hughes, and 262

  letter 157–9, 161–7, 169, 171, 172, 199, 208, 211, 213–14, 218, 261–2, 283, 285–6, 287, 292

  London, in 30–1, 146–7, 158, 212–13, 229, 261, 265, 282

  Melbourne Herald, editorship 265, 266, 293

  Monash, campaign against 163, 263–5

  war correspondent, as 42, 89, 145, 148–52, 154–6, 229

  Western Front, on 229, 262

  Murdoch, Reverend Patrick 31, 146

  Murdoch, Rupert 282–6, 289, 292

  Myerstown 8

  Narrows 74, 170, 179, 259

  Nek, Battle of the 98, 112–19, 123, 168, 284–5

  Schuler’s account 295–300

  Nemec, Danilo 278, 279, 280

  Nemec, Miriam 278

  Nemec, Rihard 278, 279

  Netta (Sustic, Antonia) 1, 84, 277–80

  Nevinson, Henry 87, 128, 129, 137, 143, 154–5, 218

  Australia in Arms, on 224–5

  New Guinea 11, 22, 184

  German 40, 238

  News of the World scandal 283

  Nicholson, Field Marshal William ‘Old Nick’ 206–7, 213, 258

  Northcliffe, Lord 158, 159, 166, 212, 213, 265–6

  Ocean 75

  Orvieto 47–51, 54, 59

  Palestine 42, 49, 67, 94

  Parkhouse 199

  Parsons, Private S.H. 3

  Pasha, General Fahretein 260–1

  Pasha, Ismael 62

  Pasha, Ismael Enver 260

  Pasha, Prince Halim 78

  Paterson, Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ 40, 43–4

  Pearce, George 41, 44, 147, 148, 149, 156, 163

  Perham Downs 199

  Persic 197, 198, 226, 238

  Phaeton 74

  Pickford, Sir William 206, 213–15, 217–18, 220

  Plug Street Wood 230

  Plumer, General Sir Herbert 223, 228, 232–3

  politics 15–16

  reporting 10–11, 17, 30, 32, 146, 241

  Pope’s Hill 108, 113, 123, 296

  Pozières 222

  Pratt, Ambrose 13, 16

  Purves, James 14

  Pym, Charles Lamb 187

  Pym, Colleen Mary see Howard, Polly

  Pym, Jack 187

  Queen Elizabeth 71, 74

  Quinn’s Post 113, 117, 119, 123, 295, 296, 298

  Rabinovitch, Adolph 80

  Rabinovitch, Alexandra ‘Sacha’ 2, 77, 78, 83, 247–52, 277–8

  Rabinovitch, Alexis ‘Ali’ 80–3, 84, 230, 250, 277

  Rabinovitch, Jacques 82

  Rabinovitch, Nelly (nee Rossi) 77–8, 197, 223, 277

  death 250, 251, 277, 279

  death of Schuler 1–2, 3, 5, 237–8

  Debbane, marriage to 248–50

  engagement to Schuler 85, 230, 272, 280

  first marriage 80–1, 84

  relationship with Schuler 77, 174, 203, 226, 247–8, 250, 272, 278–80

  religion 245, 247–8

  Schuler’s will 195

  Rabinovitch, Rachel 80

  Rabinovitch, Vera ‘Chickie’ 2, 77, 78, 81, 247–52, 277–8

  Rawlinson, Henry 120

  Reid, Sir George 57

  Renwick, George 67, 94

  Reuters 137, 143

  Reynell, Lieutenant General Thomas 168

  Reynell, Major Carew 167–8

  Robertson, General William 213

  Roch, Walter 213, 218, 254

  Ross, Malcolm 143

  Rossi, Nelly see Rabinovitch, Nelly

  Rossi, Teophile 79, 251

  Rossi Bey, Elia 78–9

  Royal Australian Navy (RAN) 48

  Russell, Herbert 143

  Russell, Thomas 63

  Russia 69, 194, 195, 208

  Russo-Japanese war 80, 86, 129

  Salisbury Plain 198–201, 223

  royal review 201–2, 203

  Sari Bair 110, 113, 121, 124, 260, 295, 296

  Sarrail, General Maurice 170

  Savage, Robert 35

  Savage Club 35–6, 195, 196, 236, 244

  Sayers, C.E. 12, 17

  Scharnhorst 48, 52

  Schreiner, George A. 259–60

  Schuler, Catharine 7, 8

  Schuler, Deborah (nee Strahan) 19–20, 24–5, 188, 195, 241, 248, 275

  blindness 20, 275

  Schuler, Dorothy Sarah Katrina 20–3, 25–6, 27, 195, 226, 275, 276, 279

  Schuler, Gottlieb Frederick Heinrich 7–8, 21, 44

  character 12–13, 18, 21–3, 274

  children, relationship with 21–3, 27, 28, 44–5, 204, 240

  death 274

  death of Phillip 239, 240–2, 274

  editor of The Age 17, 18, 25, 29–30, 146, 192, 207, 274

  education 8

  German heritage during wartime 192–3

  Hamilton, correspondence 240–2, 267

  journalist 8–11, 17, 25

  marriage 19

  Railways case 13–15

  Schuler, Jacob 7, 8, 186

  Schuler, Olga 8, 24

  Schuler, Pauli
ne see Bindley, Pauline

  Schuler, Phillip Frederick Edward ‘Peter’ 271

  birth 20

  character 27

  childhood 20, 21, 22

  Dardanelles Commission 210–11, 220, 240

  Deadline Gallipoli, in 289, 290

  death 2, 3, 4, 236–7, 273

  education 25–7

  Gallipoli, at 105–18, 138, 174, 288

  Glasgow, visit to 203

  journalism 29, 33

  London, in 199

  Melbourne, return to 175

  memorial plaque 244–5, 247

  military service 26, 38, 190–2, 197–201, 223, 225–6, 235–6

  partying 26–7, 32, 35–6, 61–2

  personal effects 242

  photography 23, 49–50, 54, 66, 108, 184, 195, 287–9

  public lectures 185

  service medals 243

  sport 25, 27

  tributes 243–5

  war correspondent, as 40, 44–5, 85–6, 92–4, 99, 103, 104, 107, 113, 143, 243–4, 287–8

  Western Front, on 223, 225, 234, 236–7

  will 195

  writer, as 5, 183, 229–30, 239, 240–1, 245, 288, 295–300

  Schuler, Wilhelmina Henrietta ‘Minna’ 20–4, 28, 195, 226, 275–7

  Scratchley, Sir Peter 22

  Sellheim, Colonel Victor 25

  Shaw, General Frederick 120

  shell shock 102

  Shepheards 60

  Sicilia 99

  Silas, Ellis 194

  Sinai Peninsula 68

  Smith, Charles Patrick 66–7, 85, 105, 143, 145, 174

  Smith, Sir Keith 266

  Smith, Sir Ross 266

  Somme 229, 285

  Battles 205, 221–2, 223, 233

  Speight, Richard 13–15

  Spring Offensive 263

  Springthorpe, Lieutenant Colonel John 102, 202

  Stanley, Henry Morton 11, 60

  Steenwerck 4, 223, 237

  Stevens, G.T. 94

  Stigwood, Robert 285

  Stopford, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick 120–3, 164, 168, 170–1, 256, 260

  Storrs, Ronald 62

  Strahan, Deborah see Schuler, Deborah

  Strahan, Dr Sep 20, 27

  Strahan, Dr Ted 20

  Strahan, Edward 20

  Strahan, Ina 27

  Strahan, Isobel 25

  Strahan, Laura 203, 226

  Stuart, Lieutenant 300

  Stuermer, Harry 259

  Suez 59, 68, 77, 181, 197

  Sun 42, 146, 148, 151

  Sustic, Antonia see Netta

  Suvla Bay 110, 150, 162, 177, 178

  offensive 119, 121–4, 161, 164, 168–9, 170, 256, 260–1

  Swinton, Ernest 136–7

  Sydney 52, 53–6

  Sydney Morning Herald 36, 40, 42, 224, 293

  Syme, David 9–13, 30, 274

  character 12, 16–17, 18, 99

  Railways case 13–15

  Syme, Geoffrey 18, 31, 274

  Syme, Lieutenant Colonel George 99, 101

  Tainsh, William 35

  Tekke Tepe 123

  Thonemann, Eric 186

  Thonemann, Frederick Emil 186

  Thonemann, Julius 186

  Tidworth 199

 

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