General, Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 22, 1 February - 10 April 1919- Part 9

RD
24/3/19 
Salaustra
Tidworth
For McGlinn aaa For news bulletin
- aaa Quota seventeen ^second Division crosses
channel and Quote nineteen ^fourth Division
entrains at Charlessi today aaa Czar and
Cherry Castle sailed yesterday aaa Monash
Demobaust

RD
24/3/19
Colonel Davis
A.B.D. Havre
Reference your letter seventeenth telegraph one full
list by ranks personnel you still require complete
your staffs and replace temporary and inefficient
men aaa I shall then obtain them ^immediately from Corps out of late
date category men likely remain x till completion.
aaa Monash
Demobaust.

27/3/19
RD
Salaustra.
Telegraph me suggestions for best programme
for Senator Pearce pay short visit to your
Depôts aaa Monash any day near future. -
Demobaust.
[*No. 58095
Sent on 27/3/19
at 1 pm
Repeated on 29/3/19
HBT
29/3*]
 

RD
27/3/19
Salaustra
For news bulletin :- Quota number
twenty ^from fifth Division arrive Havre Quota number
twenty one from first Corps Group on rails to Havre
aaa Quota number eighteen from third Division
crossed Channel today yesterday aaa Monash
[*No. 58094
Sent on 27/3/19
at 1 pm*]

RD
28/3/19
Donnelly
3^rd Echelon
Australian Section
France
Posted you 17^th Inst message and 
photograph AAA Telegraph if not
received AAA Monash. Demobaust AAA
[*No. 58308
sent on 28/3/19
at 11 Am*]
 

RD
29/3/19
Q.M.G; G.H.Q
For Demobaust Liaison aaa You may fix entrainment
dates for ten additional Quotas commencing
with number thirty two aaa Acknowledge aaa Monash
aaa Addressed Demobaust Liaison repeated Australian
Corps, A.B.D. Havre, Salaustra Tidworth, Searail War Office.
Demobaust.
[*D58579*]
 

29 MAR 1919
29/3/19
Prime Minister

s//3/2
From December first to present date I have
embarked fifty thousand comprising soldiers
dependents and munitions aaa Monash
Demobaust.
Despatched 11.15 am 29/3/19
JJ Borwick LtCol

31/3/19
RLC
Conference
(Weekly & Demob.)
1. Lesslie - Adequacy of [[April?]] programme
See paper annexed.
2. McGlinn - Advance parties. - procedure
3. McGlinn - Space for incoming Quotas. -

RD
Australian Corps.
For Hobbs aaa Ask Tivey for copy of letter from
Private Gray which he sent me aaa This suitable for
your news sheet. aaa Monash
Demobaust.
 

RLC
NOTES ON A CONFERENCE HELD AT 54 VICTORIA STREET,
1.4.19.
Present . D.G, D.D.G, Major Norman and Major Ryan.
1. The first matter discussed was the repatriation of
Dependants.
2. D.G. stated that the first consideration was shipping space.
Priority of passage must be given to actual members of A.I.F.
Wives and dependants must be considered later.
3. D.G. stated that the second consideration was the definition
of the term "Dependant".
(a) Legal Dependants.- i.e., Wife, widow and
children whether legitimate or not.
(b) Dependants other than these. This became a
question of fact. A mother or sister might
in fact be a dependant.
(c) There was then the question of degree of dependency.
A sister might be more dependent on a man than
the man's wife.
4. D.G. directed that Major Norman should submit a minute on
the subject of Dependants for the Minister of Defence.
[*Classification in order of precedence
of non-dependants*]
5. The Conference then discussed the question of Australian
Women War Workers in England.- i.e., Non-dependants.
6. The decisions arrived at in regard to these are set out in
Annexure A.
C H Foott
Brig.-General.
D/Director-General.
Repatriation & Demobilisation Dept, A.I.F.
2.4.19.
D.G. √
D.D.G.
2.D.
S.O. to Minister for Defence.
Chief of staff, A.I.F.
Liaison to P.M.
War Diary (3)