Simpson and Duffy WW1 Australian Hero Gallipoli Children's Book Not Only a Hero: An Illustrated Life of Simpson, the Man with the Donkey A is for ANZAC - Primary School Gallipoli Book 100 Days To Victory DVD Brief History of the Third Reich By M. Whittock Passchendaele | Australian WW1 Book | No 28 Campaign Series Winning World War One The … One of the reasons that this battle worked so well is again Plumer understands that the days of a battle being dominated by infantry as the queen of the battlefield and artillery as the supporting arm is over, it’s a combined effect by all sorts of areas, and aviation provide the one thing that at this stage the commander doesn’t have which is visibility of his battlefield. Haig gets a lot for criticism for his plan however I believe the only really justifiable criticism that can be levelled at him is that he was a rubbish weather forecaster. In dealing with heavily entrenched German defenders, many protected inside a complex and dense system of interlocking concrete pillboxes, a new German offensive strategy which was designed specifically to deal with the sort of attack that was launched at Menin Road with the appalling terrain – that’s a good example, that’s just [Vestook] 6:57 in – just short of the objective – sorry, just past the objective of the northern attacking Australian division – the Australian infantry performed exceptionally well, demonstrating a dramatically improved level of tactical skill over most of its performances in 1916. Menin Road is where the Australians, Plumer and 2nd army come together. There’s four of these slides, I’ll roll through them as I keep talking. The fire plan to support – in support of the Australian attack at Menin Road was complex and in two phases. That’s true, yes. The barrage would not commence until the assault troops had begun to form up in no man’s land, trying to achieve a small element of tactical surprise. There were also seven VCs in case people forget awarded to British soldiers for bravery on the same day.

Enjoy a CovidSafe visit to the National Library. R:        Was de rigueur, was it? https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E97 The other interesting thing is that machine guns are now fully integrated into the artillery fire plan in a way that they were not in 1916 so you’ve got all the massed, biggest machine guns firing on fixed ranges well outside – they’re not firing on visible lines, they’re firing indirectly and they are a fully integrated pattern. Places of Pride, the National Register of War Memorials, is a new initiative designed to record the locations and photographs of every publicly accessible memorial across Australia. Most of them were either in trucks – it was the British who first mounted them in tanks with tracks so they could go there and they tended to be behind the lines. There’s a lot in this sort of thing and this is what makes this a success. To be honest we used to send out email messages and Aaron Pegram, our Secretary, still does but the email address is becoming a bit out of date and in any case the National Library do our promotions for us now so we’ve gone a bit quiet on the emails but if you do want to get messages from the Estaminet ‘cause Aaron does send out messages about the future meetings then come and sign the book and that way you can be sure of getting a message for the next meeting. More emphasis however was placed in the orders on being accurate than on either the rate or weight of fire for the first time in any of the command orders that I’ve read for this battle – for this war. By breaking up these large German counterattack formations and in some cases even preventing the dedicated and highly trained German counterattack divisions from even getting to the battlefield because they interdicted their lines of approach. In all the battle of Menin Road, 11 infantry divisions advance at dawn on the 20th of September of which only two are Australian. Over the last roughly 20 years Roger Lee has been in charge of that unit, a very small unit of other army, 20 people? It was an attempt to take sections of a curving ridge called the Ypres Salient, which the Menin Road crossed. Generals in battle are there for one thing which is to coordinate, they are to move people to points where it’s threatening - to either fail or threatening to succeed, they are there to provide assets to an – to a unit which is in a position to use that asset effectively. Anyway so the National Library have graciously given us a copy of The Crying Years which deals with Australia’s Great War so Roger, do the honours. But the British are always recognising that if you’re going to win on the battlefield you’ve got to be able to – what’s the German technique? So the Army History Unit is a really important institution for fostering and supporting and disseminating and understanding of the Australian army’s history. In five hours the Australians had taken all their objectives and consolidated their positions. Haig, coming under considerable political, allied military and timing pressures, put a lot of pressure on [Haig] 12:43 in turn to recommence the main attack as soon as possible even if the Gheluvelt remained in enemy hands. They were told they were on the objective line but what if their navigation was bad so another of the group aircraft was called contact aircraft and these were very brave men who would fly at low level up and down the trench line sounding a Klaxon horn and saying look at me and the infantry would then wave a flag as Andrew and I found in the thing recently – what was it called? Everyone thinks that gunners had a really cushy life and they only had to worry about gunners’ ear. If you look at all the photographs of every officer in the British army in world war 1 they all had moustaches, it was very trendy. It made good progress but the Gheluvelt Plateau on its southern flank – that’s this area of high ground. Unless you bury them deeply telephone wires are susceptible to damage by enemy shelling but most of the damage I understand in these battles came when the advancing troops tore it up with their boots, just ripped it out. The red line is the first objective, the blue line is the second objective and the green line is the third objective as will become apparent as I proceed.

P:         Well good evening, ladies and gentleman. R:        This has got to be soppy social history stuff. Plumer requested them as a replacement for his worn-out II Corps which had been doing battles and I’ll talk about that in a minute. The advancing barrage won the ground; the infantry merely occupied it, pouncing on any points at which resistance survived.”. And to be honest too the Australian corps in particular but others had been doing it, the Australian corps in particular had been annoying the Germans by going out every night and capturing their outpost line so you know the Germans’d put another company out on outpost duty and the Australians’d go out that night and capture the lot so they’d come out in the morning, where’s our outpost line?

I don’t obviously have the time to go through the strategic [arguments] 9:37 of the campaign but in summary it was launched for four basic reasons. P:         Well you can see why we invited Roger to give this talk, he knows his stuff and he tells you in detail.

As well as infantry reinforcements 2nd army’s artillery assets were also greatly increased. You will have noticed – that’s those of you who are still awake – that the green line had two battalions in nearly all of them except for this one – this one doesn’t but the others have got two battalions assigned.

The two AIF Divisions sustained 5,013 casualties in the action. Additional field artillery brigades came from army reserve. Consequently while the preliminary bombardment was very heavy and intended to locate and destroy German artillery and as many German fixed defences, pillboxes, barbed wire entanglements, entrenched strong points as possible, it was done in a manner that quote appeared routine. Find out more It was one of the few that had actually worked, it was amazing. https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/campaigns/26 A couple of them then proceeded to shoot the Australian soldier coming to take them prisoner and found out that’s not a good idea ‘cause they weren’t allowed to surrender after that. We don’t seem to have a microphone today so if you want to ask a question please wave and when you get picked speak up and Roger will no doubt respond expertly.

No, okay. Gough launched his first attack, the Battle of Pilkem Ridge, and just - this is a scan from the official history, the British official history so I apologise – you’ve got to take this map and sort of stick it on top of there to get the full north-south, it doesn’t fit onto an A4 page. P:         Well we promised you deep knowledge and that’s what you got but delivered in a very economical timeframe so the best of both worlds. We pay our respects to elders past and present. But in the heat of the moment many of the 2nd and 3rd waves pressed closely behind the leading attackers and basically followed them into the third objective. R:        Every battle has to have an objective set, you just don’t keep advancing unless you achieve a breakthrough where there’s no enemy resistance and away you go but in the planning stage you can’t assume that so every battle – if you look at every battle in the first world war they had set lines of objectives. I look forward to her research with some interest. R:        It was a personal problem, they all tried. War Intelligence Corps but he had a powerful line in myth-busting so here we go for Graham Wilson’s – they’re all apricot so just –. Use this login for Shop items, and image, film, sound reproductions, throughout Australia. Whilst a classic example of how a well-prepared and well supported infantry could take and hold ground, Roger Lee explores why this tactic would never win the war on the Western Front. The late Jeffrey Grey edited a terrific series of five volumes, the Oxford Centenary History of Australia and the Great War and of the five volumes this is the one most relevant to tonight because Bob Stevenson who is – often comes to the Estaminet but he’s –, R:        He’s actually on the battlefields as we –.

Don’t forget he’s going to not only do the Menin Road attack, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde and then the two Passchendaele battles were all part of Plumer’s plan just to clear the southern flank. Roger, you’ve made me feel a lot better about this battle. You know in Canberra.

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