General, Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 19, 23 June - 7 July 1918 - Part 8

11. Artillery grouping.

12. Compilation of Barrage(??) Time Table & notes.

14. Issuing Barrage Maps.

15. Inter-Brigade relief to keep clear of Zero day.

16. Fiscal decision re No. of Tanks, & duplicating Tanks.

17. Scrutinize(??) Tank orders. 

18. All enforcing material, for the Consolidation, dumped.

19. Artillery smoke, North of Somme

20.  do do, to screen Marcelclave & Warfusee

21. Percentage of smokes in rolling barrage.

22. Percentage of Hits & Shrapnel in rolling barrage. 

23. Counterbattery work by Aust Corp.

24.   do   da by 3rd Corps

25.   do    do by French.

26. Bridging Cable.

27. Future Consolidation Agenda.

28. Administrative 'itters' n.e.i

29. Corps Medical Arrangements - in view involving 3 Divs.

30. Divisional do  do

General Godley

22^nd Corps

Cordial thanks and Prisoners already 

exceed 1000 ^and more coming in and our casualties

were light aaa There was no hitch of any kind aaa

Attack was carried out by three ^Australian Brigades, 1000 Americans

and 52 Tanks. - aaa General Monash. 

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10.16AM

4/7/18

66. [[Sabot?]] new Area

69. Clearing battlefield

68. Arrangements for transmission of Information.

69. Specialty [[?]] signal service as to priority of battle traffic

70. Arrangement for feeding troops on the blue line

71. Moving forward A.A. defences

72. Arrangements for signalling to Contact planes, what?

73. Supply of S.O.S. signal to blue line

74. Straggler posts

75. On reaching blue line, form reserves & supports

76. Make list people to attend final Conference.

77. Arrangements for relief of battle troops

78. Maclagan's Defensive front responsibility after Zero hour.

79. Interbrigade [[?]] up on blue line - joint posts

80. L.H. escorts to prisoners

81. Arty traffic in Construction funding Infty Appch march

82. Arty- Smoke to mark halts

83. How long on Protective Barrage - ? rate

General Birdwood

5^th Army

Your splendid message much appreciated and

transmitted to all troops engaged aaa There was 

no hitch of any kind aaa Prisoners already

exceed 1000 and more coming in aaa Our Casualties

believed very light aaa Shall telegraph you fullest later

fullest details for transmission to Melbourne 

aaa General Monash

Aust. Corps.

ADC 23

1021AM

4/7/18 

31. Air Force - Contact planes

32. do Counter attack planes

33. 30 - Low-flying reconnaissance planes

34. do Bombing

35. Normality of procedure prior to Zero & Drilling enemy

Arty; M.G.' ; Smoke; air activity.

36. Necessity for identifications - close before Zero. ([[?]] central

37. Forward munition dumps

38. Equipment of Assaulting Infantry

39. Organisation of platoons - [[?]] basis

40. Corps Liaison

41. Divisional Liaison

42. Brigade & [[?]] Liaison

43. Location of Tank Bgde H.Q. 

44. Special Corps observation of Battle, & Counterattack

45. Measures to deceive enemy as to frontage of attack.

46. Issue this agenda list

General Birdwood

5^th Army

Following further information for cable to Melbourne

supplementing official telegrams already sent you 

during day aaa Troops engaged were as follows aaa

Main operation fourth sixth and eleventh Brigades 

and one thousand Americans ^Infantry all under Maclagan aaa

Artillery under Coxen and Burgess aaa Also 52 new

type Tanks and Subsidiary operations by seventh, 

fourteenth and fifteenth Brigades aaa Whole series
completely successful everyth aaa No hitch of any kind aaa

Prisoners exceed 1300 also over 120 machineguns, two 

field guns and 14 Mortars aaa our Casualties about 600

injured mostly majority walking wounded aaa Territory captured

is of particular tactical value to us aaa Consolidation 

already well advanced aaa Troops in highest spirits aaa

Prisoners state enemy losses in killed have been very 

severe aaa General Monash

ADC 24

7.37PM

4/7/18

Prime Minister of Australia

Versailles Council

Both Messages from yourself and ^that from Minister

for Navy. have been received by me with greatest

satisfaction and will be ^immediately promulgated to ^all the

troops who will be greatly stimulated and 

encouraged by your ^generous recognition of their efforts

aaa On their behalf and my own I thank you 

sincerely. aaa General Monash. -

Australian Corps.

ADC 25

9.25PM

4/7/18

Army Form C, 2123.

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4/7/18 269

"O" Form.

MESSAGES AND SIGNALS. No. of Message..........

Prefix OB Code .... Words   Received. Sent, or sent out.  Office Stamp.

 f. s. d. From ..........At.......... m Aud 4.11.18

Charges to Collect  By ........... To    Telegraphs

Service Instructions  Pl   By 

Handed in at Versailles MO Office 4.45pm. Received4.30pm

To Major Gen Monash

Australian Army HQ

BE F France

* Sender's Number. Day of Month. In reply to Number.  AAA

On behalf of Prime Minister of Britain also of 

Prime Ministers of Canada

New Zealand and New Foundland 

attending Versailles Council I am 

Commissioned to offer you warmest 

Congratulations upon brilliant

success of Austln Forces under

your command and to 

say that the victory

achieved by your troops

is worthy to rank

with greatest achievements

of Aust Armies

 

FROM Hughes Prime Minister

PLACE & TIME Australia

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success of battle aaa

please convey to officers

and men participating in

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traditions of Australian Army

I am sure that 

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