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| x Anzacs |
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Anzacs (named for members of the all volunteer ANZAC army formations) was a 1985 5-part Australian mini series set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the Australian army in 1914, fighting...
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| x Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
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The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was formed in Egypt in 1915 and operated during the Battle of Gallipoli. The corps was disbanded in 1916 following the...
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| x Australian and New Zealand Army Corps |
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The term ANZAC originated as a telegraphic address for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought against the Turks in 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. The Australian...
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Sir Albert Ernest Coates OBE, FRCS (1895-1977) was an Australian surgeon and soldier. He served as a medical orderly in World War I serving on Gallipoli, and as a senior surgeon for the Australian Army Medical Corps in World War II in Malaya. He was...
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| x Alec Campbell |
Alec William Campbell (26 February 1899 – 16 May 2002) was the final surviving Australian participant in the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War. His death broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story.
Alec Campbell...
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| x Alexander Jobson |
Brigadier General Alexander Jobson DSO (2 April 1875 – 7 November 1933) was an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I.
Alexander Jobson was born on 2 April 1875 in Clunes, Victoria. He was educated in the public system and at the age of 14...
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| x Alfred Bessell-Browne |
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Brigadier General Alfred Joseph Bessell-Browne CB, CMG, DSO (3 September 1877 – 3 August 1947) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier-General in World War I. He retired as a Brigadier-General in 1942.
Alfred Bessell-Browne was born...
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| x Alfred Richard Baxter-Cox |
Brigadier Alfred Richard Baxter-Cox was born in Cue, Western Australia on 7 September 1898. His father, Alfred Edward Cox, was an architect practising in Perth. Baxter Cox was an architect and draftsman, and a member of the Militia, when he enlisted...
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| x Alfred Warden |
Colonel Alfred William Warden VD (1868 – 6 September 1955) was a prominent Australian soldier, military engineer and architect.
Warden was born at Ulladulla, New South Wales and was educated at Newington College, Sydney, (1884-1887). In his final...
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| x Andrew Cowper |
Andrew King Cowper MC & Two Bars (16 November 1898 – 25 June 1980) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of World War I. He shot down 19 German aircraft (3 captured, 7 and 1 shared destroyed, 2 'out of contol') between his entry into the war in...
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| x Arthur Benjamin |
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 – 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.
He was born in Sydney, but at age 3 his parents moved to...
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| x Arthur Henry Cobby |
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Air Commodore Arthur Henry (Harry) Cobby CBE, DSO, DFC & Two Bars, GM (26 August 1894 – 11 November 1955) was an Australian military aviator. He was the leading fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I, with a total of 29...
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| x Arthur Upfield |
Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 - 13 February 1964) was an Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony') of the Queensland Police Force, a half-caste Aborigine....
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| x Arthur Wesley Wheen |
Arthur Wesley Wheen (9 February 1897 – 15 March 1971), MM & 2 Bars, was an Australian who chose to live his adult life in England. In 1920 he arrived in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, awarded on the basis of academic excellence and the Military...
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| x Arthur William Murphy |
Air Commodore Arthur William Murphy DFC, AFC, FRAeS (17 November 1891 – 21 April 1963) was a senior engineer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He accompanied Captain Henry Wrigley on the first trans-Australia flight from...
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| x Bertie Cooper |
Bertie Frederick Cooper (c. 1892 - 31 August 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played 83 games for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League between 1910 and 1915, captaining the team in 1913 and 1915....
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| x Bill Lancaster |
Captain William Newton "Bill" Lancaster (14 February 1898 – 20 April 1933, Tanezrouft, Algeria) was a pioneering British aviator.
Born in Birmingham, England, Lancaster emigrated to Australia as a child prior to World War I. In 1916, he joined first...
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| x Blair Anderson Wark |
Blair Anderson Wark VC, DSO (27 July 1894 – 13 June 1941) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces....
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| x Brudenell White |
General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White KCB, KCMG, KCVO, DSO (23 September 1876 – 13 August 1940), Australian soldier, was Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Army from 1920 to 1923 and again from March to August 1940, when he was killed...
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| x Carl Jess |
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Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (16 February 1884 – 16 June 1948) was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I and World War II.
Carl Herman Jess was born on 16 February 1884 in the city of Bendigo,...
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| x Cecil Henry Foott |
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Major General Cecil Henry Foott CB, CMG (16 January 1876 – 27 June 1942) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. He was educated as an engineer, and serving with distinction through the great war was seven...
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| x Cedric Popkin |
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Cedric Bassett Popkin (1891-January 1968) is considered the person most likely to have killed German ace Manfred von Richthofen — also known as the "Red Baron" — on 21 April 1918. Popkin was an anti-aircraft (AA) machine gunner with the First...
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| x Cedric Stanton Hicks |
Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks (2 June 1892 - 7 February 1976) was an Australian Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide. During World War II Hicks founded the Australian Army Catering Corps and served as its commander...
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| x Charles Brand |
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Major General Charles Henry Brand CB, CMG, CVO, DSO (4 September 1873 – 31 July 1961) was an Australian Army brigadier-general in World War I. He retired in 1930 as a major-general.
Charles Henry Brand was born in Ipswich, Queensland, on 4 September...
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| x Charles Davidson |
Sir Charles William Davidson KBE (14 September 1897 – 29 November 1985) was an Australian politician. He attended Townsville Grammar School in 1912 and 1913. He served in World War I and on his return was a dairy farmer and later grew sugar cane....
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| x Charles Frederick Cox |
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Major General Charles Frederick Cox CB, CMG, DSO, VD (2 May 1863 – 20 November 1944) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary brigadier general in World War I. He retired in 1930 as an honorary major general.
Charles Frederick Cox was born on 2...
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| x Charles Hawker |
Charles Allan Seymour Hawker (16 May 1894 - 25 October 1938) was an Australian politician.
Hawker was born near Clare, South Australia and educated at Geelong Grammar School, Hawker and Trinity College, Cambridge, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts...
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| x Charles Rosenthal |
Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal KCB, CMG, DSO, VD (12 February 1875 – 11 May 1954) was an Australian Major General of World War I, and later a politician elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Rosenthal was born in...
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| x David Valentine Jardine Blake |
Major General David Valentine Jardine Blake (born 10 November 1887 in Parramatta - ???) was a notable member of the Australian Army in both World War I and World war II, rising to the rank of Major General.
Blake was commissioned as a career officer...
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| x David Whitehead |
David Adie Whitehead CBE, DSO & Bar, MC (30 September 1896 – 23 October 1992) was an Australian Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II and rose to the rank of brigadier.
David Whitehead enlisted in the Australian Army as a...
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| x Dudley Williams |
Sir Dudley Williams, KBE, MC, KC (1889 – 1963), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Williams was born in Sydney, and was educated at Sydney Grammar School. He later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated...
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| x Duncan Maxwell |
Brigadier Duncan Stuart Maxwell MC (8 January 1892 – 21 December 1969) was an Australian soldier who served in the First and the Second World Wars. He was commander of the 27th Brigade during the Invasion of Malaya in the Second World War.
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| x Duncan Thompson |
Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE (born 14 March 1895 in Warwick, Queensland, died 17 May 1980 in Auchenflower, Queensland) was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator. He also fought in the First World War and has been named amongst...
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| x Edgar McCloughry |
Air Vice Marshal Edgar James Kingston McCloughry CB, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar (10 September 1896 – 15 November 1972) was an Australian World War I fighter pilot and flying ace. He shot down 21 aircraft and military balloons during the war, making him the...
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| x Edgar Thomas Towner |
Edgar Thomas Towner VC, MC (19 April 1890 – 18 August 1972) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed...
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| x Edgeworth David |
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Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (commonly known as Edgeworth David) KBE, DSO, FRS, (28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant...
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| x Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman |
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Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman CB, CMG, DSO (21 February 1884 - 1 June 1949), was born in Busselton, Western Australia. He was the son of Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman. He was a distinguished Australian Soldier, Statesman, and Judge who...
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| x Edmund Herring |
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, ED, QC (2 September 1892 – 5 January 1982) was an Australian Army officer during the Second World War, Lieutenant governor of Victoria, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of...
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| x Edward Fowell Martin |
Brigadier General Edward Fowell Martin CB, CMG, DSO (22 August 1875 – 22 September 1950) was an Australian Army Brigadier General who served in World War I.
Edward Fowell Martin was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 22 August 1875. The family moved to...
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| x Edward Root |
Eddie Root was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. A State and Australian national representative, his club career was played in Sydney with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Newtown Bluebags and the St. George Dragons....
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| x Elwyn King |
Elwyn Roy "Bo" King DSO, DFC (13 May 1894–28 November 1941) was an Australian fighter pilot and ace in World War I. He scored 26 aerial victories in combat during the war, making him the fourth best Australian pilot in terms of wins. King was also...
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| x Ernest Albert Corey |
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Ernest Albert Corey MM & Three Bars (20 December 1892 – 25 August 1972) was a distinguished Australian soldier who served as a stretcher bearer during the First World War. He enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force on 13 January 1916, and...
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| x Frank Horton Berryman |
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO (11 April 1894 – 28 May 1981) was an Australian Army officer who rose to the rank of lieutenant general during World War II. The son of an engine driver, he entered Duntroon in 1913....
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| x Battle of Jutland |
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The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War I (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak) and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31–June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the...
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| x Treaty of Versailles |
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The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand....
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| x Battle of Passchendaele |
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The Battle of Passchendaele also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Third Flanders Battle (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht) and Second Battle of Flanders (French: 2ème Bataille des Flandres) was one of the major battles of the First World War. The...
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| x Battle of Verdun |
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The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun) was one of the critical battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of...
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| x Western Front |
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Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically...
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| x Battle of Tannenberg |
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The Battle of Tannenberg was in August 1914 a decisive engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I, fought by the Russian First and Second Armies and the German Eighth Army between 23 August and 30...
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| x Battle of the Somme |
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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name . The...
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| x Battle of Vimy Ridge |
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth...
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| x Battle of Cambrai |
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The Battle of Cambrai (20 November - 3 December, 1917) was a British campaign of the First World War. Cambrai, in the Nord département (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), was a key supply point for the German Siegfried Stellung (part of the Hindenburg Line), and...
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| x Second Battle of the Marne |
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The Second Battle of the Marne (French: 2e Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July to 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. It failed when an Allied counterattack led by French...
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| x First Battle of the Marne |
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The Battle of the Marne (French: 1re Bataille de la Marne) (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914. It resulted in a Franco-British victory against the German Army under Chief of...
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| x Battle of Coronel |
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The World War I naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron...
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| x Battle of the Falkland Islands |
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The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 during the First World War in the South Atlantic. The British, embarrassed by a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a...
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| x Battle of Heligoland Bight |
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The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, after the British planned to attack German patrols off the north-west German coast.
The German High Seas Fleet remained largely in safe...
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| x Battle of Dogger Bank |
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The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle fought near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea on 24 January 1915, during the First World War, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet.
Decoded radio intercepts had given...
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| x Siege of Kut |
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The Siege of Kut was a major battle of World War I. It was part of the Mesopotamian Campaign (in what is now Iraq). The British Empire's Indian Expeditionary Force D was defeated by Ottoman forces and later surrendered.
Kut-al-Amara is a town on the...
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