Australian Army/Related Articles

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Parent topics

  • Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
  • Commonwealth of Nations [r]: An international organisation that evolved out of the British Empire. [e]

Subtopics

  • Thomas Blamey [r]: (1884-1951) The only Australian Army soldier ever to rise to the rank of Field Marshal, with a distinguished World War I record, controversy between the wars as Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria, returned to the military and built the forces to be used in WWII; even though senior Australian officer, overshadowed by Douglas MacArthur in effect on WWII Australian policy [e]
  • John Monash [r]: (1865-1931) Originally a civil engineer, Australian Army lieutenant general in the First World War; considered, with Arthur Currie of Canada, the best allied brigadiers at the start of the war; postwar contributor to a wide range of activities in Australia [e]
  • Stanley Savige [r]: An Australian Army officer involved in the establishment of a war widows and orphans benefit fund [e]