Sword and Baton
Subtitle: Senior Australian Army Officers from Federation to 2001: Volume One: 1900 to 1939
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9781925520309
Description: Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of three volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains-general, surgeons-general and British Army officers who served with the AIF or the permanent forces. Author Justin Chadwick's portrayal of these officers' careers provides a lens through which he examines trends such as the development of military skills which ensured that, by the commencement of hostilities in 1914, Australia boasted a pool of well-trained, albeit inexperienced officers. The effects of command under pressure of war and the enormous physical impact of combat are likewise portrayed in these comprehensive biographies. By the end of hostilities Australian officers had garnered immense experience and were among the best in the Allied forces. Ironically, this hard-won skill base was to be all but lost in the interwar period. Sword and Baton offers its readers more than a series of biographies. Rather, it describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the extraordinary men at its head.
Table of contents: title: Introduction..........................................................................................................5 Acknowledgements................................................................................................8 Abbreviations ........................................................................................................9; title: Major General John Macquarie Antill .................................................................12; title: Major General George Walter Barber ..................................................................18 Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett ........................................................28; title: Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood .......................................................40; title: Chaplain-General Albert Percy Bladen ................................................................47; title: Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey.............................................................51; title: Major General Charles Henry Brand...................................................................73; title: Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges ........................................................79; title: Major General Reginald Spencer Browne, ...........................................................90; title: Major General Sir Julius Henry Bruche...............................................................95; title: Major General James Burston............................................................................102 Chaplain-General Thomas Joseph Carr .............................................................107; title: General Sir Henry George Chauvel ...................................................................110; title: Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor.........................................124; title: Chaplain-General The Most Rev Dr Patrick Joseph Clune ................................130; title: Major General James Henry Courtney..................................................................133; title: Major General Charles Frederick Cox ...............................................................138; title: General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox.....................................................................143; title: Major General Walter Adams Coxen .................................................................148; title: Major General Sir George Cuscaden .................................................................157; title: Major General Thomas Henry Dodds ...............................................................162; title: Major General Major Francis Downes...............................................................171; title: Major General Rupert Major Downes ...............................................................177; title: Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman..............................................184; title: Major General William L’Estrange Eames ..........................................................193; title: Major General Harold Edward Elliott ...............................................................198; title: Major General Richard Herbert Joseph Fetherston............................................212; title: Major General Henry Finn................................................................................220; title: Major General John Keatly Forsyth ...................................................................225; title: Major General Sir George Arthur French ..........................................................230; title: Major General Sir John Gellibrand....................................................................235; title: Major General Sir Thomas William Glasgow.....................................................246; title: General Sir Alexander John Godley ...................................................................257; title: Major General Joseph Maria Gordon ................................................................263; title: Major General Harold William Grimwade .......................................................269; title: Major General Sir Charles William Gwynn.......................................................276; title: Major General John Leslie Hardie .....................................................................281; title: Major General Sir John Charles Hoad...............................................................288 Lieutenant General Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs...............................................297; title: Major General Sir Henry West Hodgson...........................................................310; title: Chaplain-General Albert Thomas Holden .........................................................314; title: Major General William Holmes ........................................................................318; title: Major General Sir Neville Reginald Howse .......................................................328; title: Major General Frederic Godfrey Hughes...........................................................340; title: General Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton .....................................................346; title: Major General Godfrey George Howy Irving ....................................................354 Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess ..........................................................360; title: Major General George Jameson Johnston............................................................372; title: General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick .........................................................380 Lieutenant General Sir John Dudley Lavarack...................................................385 Lieutenant General George Leonard Lee ...........................................................396 Chaplain-General Henry Frewen Le Fanu .........................................................400; title: Major General James Gordon............................................................................403 Chaplain-General George Merrick Long ...........................................................416; title: Major General James William Macarthur-Onslow ...............................................420 Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay ............................................................ 424 Major General James Alexander Kenneth Mackay .............................................435 Chaplain-General The Most Rev Dr Daniel Mannix .........................................441; title: Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay................................................445; title: General Sir John Monash ..................................................................................456; title: Major General Sir Newton James Moore...........................................................475 Lieutenant General John William Parnell ..........................................................479; title: Major General John Gibson Paton ....................................................................483; title: Major General Owen Forbes Phillips.................................................................489; title: Major General Gustave Mario Ramaciotti.........................................................496; title: Major General George James Rankin ................................................................500 Chaplain-General John Laurence Rentoul .........................................................508 Chaplain-General Thomas Craike Rentoul........................................................511; title: Major General John Dalyell Richardson ............................................................515 Chaplain-General Charles Owen Leaver Riley.....................................................520; title: Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal.................................................................524; title: Major General Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan........................................................533; title: Major General Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie ......................................................539; title: Major General Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim .......................................548 Chaplain-General William Floyd Shannon........................................................556; title: Major General Ewen George Sinclair-MacLagan ...............................................560; title: Major General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth.......................................................567; title: Lieutenant General Ernest Ker Squires ..............................................................572; title: Major General John Stanley ..............................................................................577; title: Major General Edwin Tivey ..............................................................................583; title: General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker ..............................................................590; title: Major General Ernest Townshend Wallack,..........................................................595; title: Major General Arthur Thomas White ...............................................................600; title: General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White .....................................................605; title: Lieutenant General John Lawrence Whitham....................................................619; title: Major General Robert Ernest Williams..............................................................625; title: Surgeon General Sir William Daniel Campbell Williams...................................631; title: Chaplain-General William Frederick Wray........................................................640 Bibliography......................................................................................................644; title: Index .................................................................................................................657