Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 13, 16 August - 30 September 1916, Part 12
Sheet No. 2 Special Order (A.87/3).
After Inspection:- When the King has passed beyond
the unit next but one, each unit, in turn, will be
given by its Commander the order for Officers to take
post and the unit will prepare to march past; it will
be given the order to Form-Fours - right, and will move
off at once to the wheeling point.
The Left wheel then will be made "At the Double".
March Past: The leading Infantry will follow
the Artillery at 40 yards distance.
Horse Holders: Officers will not use their own
Grooms. These will be in the ranks. The O.C. 3rd
Divisional Train will detail 50 Horse Holders under an
Officer to proceed direct to the Brigadiers Reserved
Enclosure, via Durrington Church and Milston Ford, passing
Divisional Headquarters at 1-30 p.m. on Tuesday and
9-45 a.m. on Wednesday.
Para: 5. When Senior Officers fall out as
detailed, Brigade Majors and Senior Majors will take
Command of Formations and Units.
After the departure of His Majesty
the Officers who have been presented will rejoin their
Formations and Units.
MISCELLANEOUS:*] The Machine Gun Company and Trench Mortar Battery
of each Brigade will be formed into a four platoon Company.
This will be posted and will march past in rear
of Brigade to which it is affiliated.
STAFF OFFICERS:
(1). At the Inspection, and during the March Past,
the G.O.C. will be attended by Lieut. Simonson, A.D.C.,
G.S.O.I, and A.A. Q.M.G., Third Australian Division.
(2). D.A.A. & Q.H.G., assisted by the D.A.Q.M.G.,
Third Australian Division, will post Brigade Markers,
and see to alignment and correction of intervals for
the inspection in line.
The same Officers will superintend the movement of
troops from line and at the wheeling point.
(3). The G. S. O. 2, Third Australian Division,
will superintend the movement of troops at the point of
arrival on the Saluting Base.
He will be assisted by Three Sergeant Instructors A.S.C.,
to be detailed by the O.C. Divisional Train.
(4). The G. S. 0. 3, Third Australian Division,
will superintend the movement of Troops on the ground
past the Saluting Point, where the troops will Change
Direction South, and will ensure that no check occurs.
He will be assisted by 4 Police, to be detailed from
the Motor Transport of the Divisional Train.
(5). Lieut. Blackett will superintend the posting
of Troops on the BULFORD ---HILSTON ROAD.
(6). Captain Colman, A.D.C., will be in charge of
the Royal Enclosure. Police will be provided by the
Assistant Provost Marshal.
Sheet No. (3): Special Order. A 87/3.
(7). Lieut. Molesworth, Station Staff Officer, will be
in charge of the Brigadier's Enclosure, and Horse-holder's
enclosures. Police will be provided by the Assistant
Provost Marshal.
(8). The Provost Staff will be in charge of the two
Visitor's enclosures.
(9). The Provost Staff will be in charge of the enclosure
for the General Public.
AMBULANCES:-
First Aid Posts will be established under the
Orders of the A.D.M.S., Third Australian Division, both
North and South of Review Ground in central positions.
Positions to be notified to Regimental Medical Officers.
There will be a Conference at Divisional Headquarters
at 9-30 a.m. on Tuesday, 25th instant; for all Officers
deputed special duties in these instructions.
COPIES TO SAME UNITS AS ORDER; ALSO TO:-
A. P. M. Tidworth.
A. D. M. S. Third Aust: Division.
Lieut. FRY, 23rd Battalion.
Senior Band-Master.
Copy of Complete Instructions and Orders to Divisional
Headquarters Mess for Posting.
PASSES TO ATTEND REVIEW: -
Soldiers of any rank not detailed to attend the Review
may be given passes to be signed by C.O's or Staff
Officers; and to bear the stamp of issuing Office. Such
soldiers will use the enclosure for the General Public.
Proceeding to and from the Review, they will use the
DURRINGTON CHURCH ---MILSTON FORD Road.
Any special pass issued to a soldier other than the above
must bear the A. P. M. Stamp, 3rd Australian Division.
CHEERING HIS MAJESTY:
Each Unit will Cheer three times as His Majesty
passes on his way to BULFORD, on conclusion of the Review,
the Commanding Officer giving the word, and time.
H. FARMER, Lieut-Colonel.
MARCH TABLE FOR WEDNESDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER, 1916 - No. 1
——————————————————————————————————————————
Unit or Formation Starting Point Head passes Route Remarks
Starting Point
At -
——————————————————————————————————————————
Divisional H'Quarters Cross Roads 7.49 a.m. BULFORD and Point 260
STONEHENGE INN
9th Inf. Bde " 7.50 a.m. "
10th do. " 8.14 a.m. "
11th do. " 8.40 a.m. "
3rd Aust. Pioneer Bn. " 9.5 a.m. "
A.A.S.C. Personnel " 9.11 a.m. "
Medical Personal of )
9th, 10th & 11th ) "
Field Ambulances in) 9.19 a.m "
order names )
Tail of Column passed Starting Point 9.25 a.m.
Remarks
If TIDMOUTH Contingent is met, it
will give way,
2 minute intervals between
Battalions and Brigades, and
2 minute between Infantry and
other arms These intervals will
be observed before and after
passing "Starting Point.
Usual halts at 0 minutes to
clock hour will not be observed.
" "
P.T.O.
MARCH TABLE FOR WEDNESDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER, 1916. No. 2
| Unit or Formation | Starting Point | Head passes Starting Point at - |
Route |
| Div. Headquarters |
Point 260 Five hundred |
On conclusion of parade when His Majesty has left. |
As in March Table No. 1 reversed. |
| 9th Inf. Bd |
do. |
One minute after D.H.Q. | do. ) |
| 10th do. |
do.
|
Two minutes after tail of 9th Bde. is clear. |
do . ) |
| 11th do. |
do. |
Two minutes after tail of 10th Bde. is clear |
do. ) |
| 3rd Aust. Pioneer Bn. | do. | Two minutes after tail of 11th Bde. is clear. |
do. )
|
| A.A.S.C. Personnel |
do.
|
Two minutes after tail of Pioneer Bn. is clear. |
do.
|
| Medical Personnel of ) 9th, 10th & 11th Fld. ) Ambs. in order named.) |
do.
|
Two minutes after tail of A.A.S.C. personnel is clear. |
do.
|
Diagramatically the march home will be as shown below:-
diagram - see original document
THIRD AUSTRALIAN DIVISION
List of Units, Commanders etc War Services
Divisional Commander - Major General J. Monash Gallipoli 1915, France 1916
C.S.C.I. - Bvt Lt. Col. C. H. H.Jackson D.S.O. [[?]] 1899-1900-1901-1902
The Border Regiment Gallipoli 1915, France 1916
A.A. & Q.M.G. - Temp. Lt Col. H. M. Farmer, D.S.O. [[?]] Expedition 1898, Crete
The Lancashire Fusiliers. S. Africa 1899-1900 North
China 1901, Gallipoli 1915.
Arm Brigade Unit state Commander War Services
Artillery – Brig. Gen. H.W. Grimwade Gallipoli 1915, France 1916
7th F.A.B. – N.S.W. Lt. Col. T.A. Spencer
8th " – Victoria Lt. Col. Mailer
9th " – N.S.W. Lt. Col. F .O'Mahony
23rd " – Victoria Lt. Col. Allsop
Infantry 9th Inf. – N.S.W. Brig. Gen. A.Jobson
" 33rd Battalion " [[?]]
" " " Lt. Col. L.J. Morshead Gallipoli 1915 " 34th Battalion " " " M. St. J. Lamb Gallipoli 1915
" 35th Battalion " Major R. T. Hunt Gallipoli 1915
36th Battalion " " J.W.A. Simpson M.C. Gallipoli 1915
10th Inf. – Victoria Brig. Cen. W.R. McNicoll Gallipoli 1915
D.S.O.
37th Battalion " Lt. Col. F. C Woods
38th Battalion " " C. H. Davis
39th Battalion " " R. Rankine D.S.0. Gallipoli 1915
40th Battalion Tasmania " J. E. C. Lord
11th Inf. – Queensland Colonel J. H. Cannan C. B. Gallipoli 1915, France
1916
" 41st Battalion " Lt. Col. F.J. Beard
" 42nd Battalion " " A.R. Woolcock
" 43rd Battalion S. Aust " D.D. Gordon
" 44th Battalion S. Aust " W.C. Mansbridge
D.S.0. Gallipoli 1915
Arm Brigade Unit State Commander War Services
Pioneers – – All states except Lt. Col. R Law
Tasmania
A.A.S.C. – – All states except
Tasmania & W. Aust. Lt. Col. R. Dowse S. Africa 1899-1900
A.A.S.C. – A.D.M.S ... Col. A.T. White V.D.
– 9th Fld Amb. N.S.W. Lt. Col. F.A.Maquire
– 10th " Victoria " J.E.F. Stewart Gallipoli 1915.
France 1916.
– 11th " Sth. Australia " M.H. Downey
24/9/19
Rather a literary curiosity. - The writer is a young
Greek merchant, who ran the Canteens for the
Fourth Brigade in Egypt.
J.M.
10/10/16
Cairo, Egypt
(P.O.B.896)
Sept. 24,1916.
General John Monash
England.
Dear Sir:-
I have received, with the greatest pleasure,
your kind letter and certificate dated Aug.13th, for
which I beg you to accept my fullest appreciation.
I have also perceived your promotion to Division
Commander and I seize this opportunity of congratulating
you most heartily on the occasion.
It is exceptionally exceedingly generous of you to have
thus thought of me in the terms expressed in your
testimonial, which, you may rest assured, will prove of
the greatest help to me.
I write to you out of sincere feeling, stimulated
by the sweet acquaintance which I count myself
fortunate in having made with you when in Egypt;
out of that sense of courtesy and gratitude for the
helping hand you have kindly extended to me; and
finally it is out of that loving and subordinate feeling,
accompanied by a sense of relief, which is felt by
a child towards his father when relating his grievances
to him.
It is out of these and many other mixed feelings
that I now venture to relate to you in brief, at
the risk of intruding on your valuable time, the real
facts connected with my partnership with the Knaiders.
We were three partners two Knaiders and myself,
agreed to participate proportionately in the
profits.
You might have noticed, I think, as might
have many of your subordinates as well, that Knaider
had practically no existence. They were mere
"Hommes du Bois", as it were. Our firm was not so
well recognized by the commercial world as was supposed
to be, or rather as I endeavoured to make others
so believe. For it was my duty and to my advantage,
from a business point of view, to speak highly of our
firm, even sometimes at the risk of much exaggeration.
-2-
Our work with the Fourth Brigade was the first and last
of its kind, and we did well. It was with great difficulty
that I had persuaded one of the Knaiders to resign
his position as interpreter and join with me, with
his brother Antoine, as partners, to undertake canteen
contracts on the arrival of the A.I.F. in Egypt. Not
that I needed them for assisting in management, for one
of them is wholly ignorant of any foreign language whatever,
while the other, with his primary French education,
could hardly speak, or better still, massacre the English
language. My purpose in taking them in with me, however,
was in order that they might look after the purchasing
of supplies and maintain our head office at Ismailia.
Moreover I had the impression that they were
honest.
They must have considered themselves very fortunate
indeed ––- a fact which they admitted later –
to have had the chance of doing business together. Nor
was it a matter for surprise that they were pleased with
my partnership, as I have had a full four years' course
of commercial education.
Here commences the sad part of the story. My
hands were always full, owing to our contract with your
Brigade having continued, without any interruption, up
to the last day of your departure from Egypt. Then
considering that failure to keep up supplies for even a
couple of days meant a fair decrease in profits, to say
nothing of the bad impression which such failure would
create in the minds of the troops, I could not find
time to organize our business on a more sound and legal
basis.
Moreover, the uncertainty of the duration of
our contract with the Fourth Brigade, and by far the most
important of all reasons, the exceptionally great deal of
confidence I placed in my partners owing to old family
acquaintance, all tended to make me unconscious of the
danger that was ahead. The result was, as you might
have well by this time anticipated, disasterous to me.
Not having kept regular books, the two treacherous
brother partners, not only settled up with me on a
profit basis much lower than the actual amount of money
made, but have deliberately chosen to, and actually did
steal a sum of £E 725, which I had drawn from them on
account. This incident happened, happily for me, in
the presence of an honest man and his wife, and a few
other indirect witnesses.
Although I have not got very strong evidence
against this unspeakable crime, owing to its very nature
and the circumstances under which it was committed,yet
I trust God that my rights may be revealed and the
criminals receive the punishment which is their due.
-3-
I now blame myself, not for having trusted my
partners, for I shall still continue to take it for grant-
ed that people are honest, though not unfrequently they
prove the contrary, but for not having done my duty to-
wards the principles learnt in my commercial education.
I ought to have known better.
I shall probably set at work in search of
some business of the same nature, if available, and shall
be very much obliged to hear from you. Your words
and advice will, I am confident, console me, having thus
had my sacred rights trodden under by unscrupulous
partners, whom I mistook for trustworthy friends.
Again apologizing for having unduly intruded
on your precious time by writing about a distinctly
private and rather annoying matter, allow me, Sir, to
offer my best respects to you.
Yours very respectfully,
signature
[[?]]
24/9/16
Courts Martial
Lecture to Residents
1. Introductory: - not a lecture on Military Law
nor on Procedure, & how to
but talk on Exercise of the Judicial function by the members of D.C.M. infuse proper doctrines & principles.
Need for such a talk has been shown, in this Division. Take it myself - because sections -
2. Reasons: - (a) Uptake Creation & upholding of discipline, in a New Division
{i. majority good & honorable citizens
in civil life {ii. Small presenting as incorrigable
{iii. Intermediate class - only deterred by punishment.
Policy of punishment – deterrent /Spare rod, spoil child -
/ You can't have discipline, without punishment
∴ Importance of making certain that evil doer is punished. -
∴ Certainty of primitive effect of C.M., is pretext factor in discipline
(b) Inexperience in weighing evidence, & exercising judgement.
leads to i. Curious paralysis of recovering facilities,
officers overawed by responsibility.
failure to apply sense principles.
(c). Employment of professional solicitor as prisoners' friends
– awe – dragooning – browbeating
(d) Employment of unskilled prosecutors
& badly prepared cases. –
3. Main Object of a Court: - 1. to see that punishment in duly visited on the guilty
2. to protect the innocent of against persecution or trumped up charges.
[Protection afforded by confirming authority, & by D.J.A.G.]
(a) Court responsible to get all ∧available evidence necessary to decide the issue.
X Man falling out - saw doctor - doctor not called.
(b) Court not to regard matter as a game bet, Counsel. -
e.g. Umpire in a sport, or a dispute
(c) Court responsible to arrive at a reasonable opinion. -
even if evidence not absolutely conclusion conclusive or complete
4. Nothing abstruse. But - Benefit of doubt — reasonable doubt. / e.g identity.
A conflict of two theories
Why theories — because nobody ever sees.
(a) Theory of prosecution - Accused must have
done this, because ∧the facts elicited or his acts
& conduct & words are inconsistent
with innocence
(b) Theory of defence / (in Cornish's address) - always some tale put up - always plausible.
Question of possibility. — Always a possible tale [if accepted could never convict
Real question in probability X fowl & corn.
X Case of altered pass
X Case of bloody Knife
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