Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 1, 6 January - 31 January 1915, Part 6

---TRANSPORT A38 "ULYSSES". ---

--LOG RECORDS.--

NOON OBSERVATIONS.

Date.          Latitude        Longitude      Course                        Distance                                      
                                                                                         Distance         (miles).                Remarks.                                                                     run           To           From
                                                              (miles).   Colombo  Albany

AW  (COPY) .
2nd Australian Convoy ,
Transport "A38" (Ulysses) ,
Colombo , 14-1-15 .
Military Censor,
COLOMBO .

Sir ,
I have the honor to request that you be so good as to
have the appended cable message transmitted to the Secretary,
Defence, Melbourne, Australia.
Thanking you in anticipation,
I have the honor to be,
Sir ,
Your obedient servant

(Signed)  J.Monash, Colonel,
Senior Military Officer,
Second Australian Convoy.

(Message) .
"DEFENCE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.- ARRIVED COLOMBO THIRTEENTH
(STOP) NUMBER FOUR EIGHT ONE BENJAMIN ACREMAN SECOND LIGHT 

HORSE AMBULANCE DIED TYPHOID BORDA FIRST JANUARY (STOP) HORSES
LOST ALL TRANSPORTS EXCEPT THIRTY-FOUR FORTY-ONE FORTY-THREE
SINCE PORTS FIRST EMBARKATION TOTAL FIFTY-EIGHT (STOP) MAJOR
STEWART FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE INVALIDED GENERAL HOSPITAL
COLOMBO ENTERIC SATISFACTORY PROGRESS (STOP) LIEUTENANT HILL
FIFTEENTH BATTALION BAGGAGE SENT ORDNANCE FROM BROADMEADOWS
DODDS ENQUIRING (STOP) SUB-ADVANCE TO JOHNSTON TWO SEVENTY
ARRANGED (STOP) WEATHER THROUGHOUT FAVOURABLE (STOP) HEALTH
TROOPS GENERALLY EXCELLENT (STOP) REPORT POSTED (STOP) NUMBER 

ONE ONE FOUR NINE C B JAEHNE TENTH BATTALION REINFORCEMENTS
DIED THEMISTOCLES PNEUMONIA COLOMBO FOURTEENTH JANUARY (STOP)
MONASH".

AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE .
SECOND AUSTRALIAN CONVOY . 
Transport "A38" ,
At Sea, 15-1-15.
CONVOY ORDER NO. 8.

by
COLONEL J. MONASH, V.D.
SENIOR MILITARY OFFICER OF THE CONVOY

DEATHS "A32".  1.  The S enior Military Officer regrets to announce
the following deaths which occurred on Transport "A32"
at Colombo on 14th instant namely :-

(a) No. 1149 Private C. D. Jaehne, Reinforcements,

10th Battalion (Pneumonia) .
(b) No. 1201 Private John McIntyre, Reinforcements,
11th Battalion (Pneumonia and Tuberculosis) .
TRANSPORT PERSONNEL -
SPECIAL TRANSFER  2. (a) The following transfers were effected on the
dates and for the reasons shewn against their respective
names :-

(b) TO "A38".
Lt. -Col Beeston, V.D., 14-1-15, from "A35"
(vide Convoy Order No. 7. para 7b) .
Captain H.C.de Low , 14-1-15, from "A36" ; for 
special duty .
No .2011 , S ergt.W.L.Nickson)     "A" Section, 4th
                                                     )      Field Ambulance,
No.2002 , Pte . H. Maynard    )     14-1-15 , from 
                                                      )     "A35" ; Hospital
No.2064 , Pte.W.T.Mitchell     )      Orderlies .

No 1016 , Pte. W. Gregg, Fourth Field Ambulance ,
14-1-15, from "A35" ; Lt.-Col. Beeston's Batman.

No . 1201, Pte. G.A. Howes , "D" company, Ist Refts.,
4th Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 14-1-15, from
"A32"; for special hospital treatment .

No .1160, Pte. O.F.McCarthy,  "D" Company , 1st
Refts., 4th Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade,
14-1-15 , from "A32; . for special hospital treatment .

Lieut . Byce , 7th Light Horse, 15-1-15, from
"A33"; for special hospital treatment.

(c) TO "A36" .
Captain H. Norton-Russell, 13th Battalion, 14-1-15
from "A38" , as O.C. Troops "A36" .

No .1371 , Pte.Barnard       ) 4th Field Amb ., 14-1-15,
                                               )  from "A31"; Hospital
No . 1306, Pte .T.F.Siggins )  Orderlies .

(4)
CONVOY NO . 8 .
SHEET 2 .
TRANSFER OF 
PERSONNEL, 
COLOMBO.   3. The following transfers to Colombo for special
hospital treatment and subsequent disposal of by G.O.C.,
Colombo , were approved by the Senior Military Officer ,
Second Australian Convoy , at Colombo, on the dates
shewn :-
Major J.E.F.Stewart, "C" Section, Fourth Field
Ambulance , Transport "A31" (enlisted 5th Military
District) enteric fever , landed 13-1-15 .
No. 1213 , Private H.C.Holmstrom, 1st Reinforcements ,
12th Battalion , Transport "A32" (enlisted
6th Military District) tuberculosis , landed 14-1-15 .
No. 1216, Driver F.Gittins, 7th A.S.C., Transport
"A39" (enlisted 2nd Military District) syphilis,
landed 14-1-15 .
No. 1004 , Driver F. Cowle, 6th A.S.C., Transport
"A39" (enlisted 2nd Military District) syphilis,
landed 14-1-15 .
No. 1201, Private John McIntyre , Reinforcements ,
11th Battalion , Transport "A32" (enlisted 1st Military
District) pneumonia and tuberculosis (not landed -
died on Transport "A32" , vide para 1 (b) hereof) .

(Signed) J.P.McGlinn , Lieut.-Colonel,
(Brigade Major , Fourth Infantry Brigade , A.I.F.) ,
Staff Officer, Second Australian Convoy .

Troopship  "A 38", At Sea,
16th January, 1915.

The Brigade Major,
4th Infantry Brigade.

Officers Class of Instruction.
I have to report that the exercise of
"Preparation of a Daily Programme of work for four weeks
"Training of a Platoon" has been completed and that
Thirty-three solutions were handed in.
Owing to the lack of study of details in
the task set, some Officers failed to grasp what was
required of them, and their work was valueless.
The results as a whole show that much
time and thought has been given to the subject and that
an all round verdict of "Fair" can well be recorded.
Each Programme has been carefully studied
by the Instructors and their marks recorded thereon for
the information of the drawer.
The Chief Instructor at a Class of
Officers dealt with a number of observed mistakes.
The following are considered the best and
are submitted for the information of the Brigadier =
No. 32 2/Lieut. Fuhrman
No. 23 Lieut. G.W. Binnie.
No.4 Lieut. K. Wallace Crabbe.
[[?]]
Lieut-Colonel.
Chief Instructor,  C.O.

18/1/15
Notes taken from
Brown's Star Atlas 1907 (J. Brown &Son, Glasgow)
(Second Edition)
Table of Meridian Times

Giving dates & hours when the stars on each Map are
on the Meridian.

 List of Stars.