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  ENDNOTES

  Prologue

  1. AWM Honours and Awards Database, citation for J.H. McDonald.

  2. 20th Battalion War Diary, August 1918, Part 2.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Francis Brewer, Papers 1917–1919, MLMSS 1536/2 and 1536/3.

  5. Claude Sowden, Memoir (unpublished), copy held by the author.

  6. War Service Records, NAA Series B2455 1914-1920, J.H. McDonald.

  Introduction

  1. Michael Tyquin, Madness and the Military: Australia’s Experience of the Great War, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, Sydney, 2006, pp. 2, 9.

  2. Marina Larsson, Shattered Anzacs, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009, pp. 264, 272.

  3. See Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010, especially pp. 11–12.

  4. Peter Stanley, Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death, Scribe, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 14–15.

  5. C.E.W. Bean, 3DRL 8042, Item 111h.

  6. C.E.W. Bean, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. I: The Story of Anzac from the Outbreak of War to the end of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign 4 May 1915, 11th Edn, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1941, p. 48, available online at www.awm.gov.au

  7. Stephen Badsey, ‘Ninety years on: Recent and changing views on the military history of the First World War’ in Ashley Ekins (ed), 1918: Year of Victory, Exisle, Auckland, 2010, p. 252.

  8. Robin Prior, Gallipoli: The End of the Myth, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009, Introduction xvi, p. 252.

  9. Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley, Myth Maker: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Wiley, Milton, QLD, 2005, pp. 256, 262.

  10. C.E.W. Bean, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. II: The Story of Anzac from 4 May 1915 to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, 11th Edn, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 19
41, pp. 909–10, available online www.awm.gov.au

  11. John Monash, Australian Victories in France in 1918 (revised edn), Lothian, Melbourne, 1923, Dedication.

  12. Archibald Montgomery, The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919, pp. vii, xii.

  13. John Terraine, To Win A War: 1918, the Year of Victory, Macmillan, London, 1986 (1978), p. 13.

  14. J.P. Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 545.

  15. William Hawkins, Diary and Papers 1916-1968, SLV MSB 477.

  16. C.E.W. Bean, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. VI: The AIF in France: May 1918-The Armistice, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1983 (1942), p. 1099.

  17. Brigadier Chris Roberts (Retd) in correspondence with the author, November 2010–January 2011.

  18. 19th Battalion War Diary, August 1918.

  19. Monash, Australian Victories in France in 1918, p. 132.

  Chapter 1

  1. Monash, Australian Victories in France in 1918, p. 31.

  2. Lyn Macdonald, To the Last Man: Spring 1918, Penguin, London, 1998, pp. 332, 328, 335–6.

  3. Elizabeth Greenhalgh, ‘A French Victory 1918’ in Ekins, 1918: Year of Victory, p. 93; Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War, p. 486; Tim Travers, How the War was Won, Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2005 (1992), p. 107.

  4. Douglas Haig, Special Order of the Day 11/4/18.

  5. Gary Sheffield, Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities, Headline (Review), London, 2002, p. 234.

  6. Erich Ludendorff, My War Memories 1914-1918, Vol. 2, Naval and Military Press, Uckfield, 2005, p. 679.

  7. Sheffield, Forgotten Victory, pp. 237, 239.

  8. Peter Pedersen, Monash as Military Commander, Melbourne University Press, 1992 (1985), pp. 260–1.

  9. Bean, Official History, Vol VI, p. 753.

  10. Ibid., p. 740.

  11. Ibid., p. 736.

  12. Monash, Australian Victories in France in 1918, p. 170.

  13. John Monash, letter 21/9/18, MS 1884 Box 73 Folder 504, NLA.

  14. Cleve Potter, Not Theirs the Shame Who Fight: Edited Selections from the World War 1 Diaries, Poems and Letters of 6080 Private R.C. (Cleve) Potter ‘A’ Company 21st Battalion AIF, Ginninderra Press, ACT, 1999, 23/9/18, p. 182. A small section of the gun now forms a plaque on the Amiens gun at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.