General, Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 20, 31 July - 15 August - 1918 - Part 6










Hymns
God Save the King!
God save our gracious King,
Long Live our noble King;
God save the King!
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious;
Long to reign over us,
God save the King!
God bless our splendid men!
Send them safe home again,
God bless our men.
Make them victorious,
Patient and chivalrous,
They are so dear to us,
God save our men.
The Song of Australia.
There is a land where summer skies
Are gleaming with a thousand dyes,
Blending in witching harmonies;
And grassy knoll, and forest height,
Are flushing in the rosy light,
And all above is azure bright-
Australia!
There is a land where, floating free
From mountain top to gurgling sea,
A proud flag waves exultingly;
And Freedoms sons the banner bear,
No shackled slave can breathe the air,
Fairest of Britain's daughters fair-
Australia!
American Battle Hymn.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored;
He hath loosed the fatal lightning of His terrible swift
sword.
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling
camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and
damps;
I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring
lamps:
His Day is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men
free!
While God is marching on.
Hymns
La Marseillaise.
Ye sons of France, awake to glory,
Hark! hark! what myriads round you rise!
Your children, wives and grand-sires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding,
With hireling hosts, a ruffian band,
Affright and desolate the land
While peace and liberty lie bleeding ?
To arms, to arms, ye brave!
Th'avenging sword unsheath;
March on, march on, all hearts resolv'd on
liberty or death.
Now, now the dangerous storm is rolling,
Which treach'rous kings, confederate, raise;
The dogs of war, let loose, are howling,
And, lo! our fields and cities blaze.
And shall we basely view the ruin,
While lawless force, with guilty stride,
Spreads desolation far and wide,
With crimes and blood his hands imbruing.
Our God, our Help.
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure ;
sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are Mko an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home.
Hymns
Litany of Penitence.
God the Father, God the Son,
God the Spirit, Three in One,
Hear us from Thy heavenly Throne,
Spare us, Holy Trinity.
Father, hear Thy children's call:
Humbly at Thy feet we fall,
Prodigals, confessing all:
We beseech Thee, hoar us.
Christ, beneath Thy Cross we blame
All our life of sin and shame,
Penitent we breathe Thy Name:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Holy Spirit, grieved and tried.
Oft forgotten and defied,
Now we mourn our stubborn pride:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Love, that caused us first to be,
Love, that bled upon the Tree,
Love, that draws us lovingly:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
We Thy call have disobey'd,
Into paths of sin have stray'd,
And repentance have delay'd:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Sick, we come to Thee for cure,
Guilty, seek Thy mercy sure,
Evil, long to be made pure:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Blind, we pray that we may see,
Bound, we pray to be made free,
Stain'd, we pray for sanctity:
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Thou Who hear'st each contrite sigh
Bidding sinful souls draw nigh,
Willing not that one should die,
We beseech Thee, hear us.
Australia's Battles
Principal Battles in which Australian Troops
have taken part.
ON GALLIOLI-
Landing at Anzac, April 25, 1915.
Krithia, May 8
Turkish Attack, May 19.
Lone Pine, August 6.
Sari Bahr, August 6 to 31.
IN FRANCE—
Fromelles (sometimes called Fleurbaix and sometimes
Laventie), July, 1916
Somme, Pozieres, and Mouquet Farm, July to September,
1916
Flers, November, 1916.
Ligny, February, 1917.
Bapaume, March, 1917.
Capture of Boursies, Hermies, Dermicourt, Reincourt,
Hindcourt, Beaumetz, Noreuil, and
Doignes, March, 1917
Lagnicourt, April, 1917.
Bullecourt, May, 1917.
Ypres and Messines, June, 1917.
Ypres, August, 1917.
Polygon Wood, September, 1917.
Broodseinde and Passchendaele, October, 1917.
Dernancourt, March, 1918.
Villers Bretonneux, April, 1918.
IN PALESTINE-
Katia, May, 1916.
Ogratina, August, 1916.
Maghdaba, December, 1916.
Rafa, June, 1917.
Gaza, March and April, 1917.
Beersheba, November, 1917.
Jerusalem, December, 1917.
Jericho, February, 1918.
This service is under the auspices of the
STATE RECRUITING COMMITTEE,
RED CRROSS SOCIETY,
TRENCH COMFORTS FUND,
ASSOCIATED KIN,
LEAGUE OF LOYAL WOMEN,
LOCAL REPATRIATION COMMITTEE,
and is organised by the
Kadina Recruiting Committee
PAUL ROACH, J.P., Chairman.
W. LUKE, Secretary.
SERGT. E. W. A. VIRGO, J.P.,
Recruiting Officer.
Volunteers
ANY MAN willing to ENLIST may
do so. Firstly write in your
name on one of the above spaces,
then bring this Souvenir Programme to
the Recruiting Officer, or any member
of the Kadina Recruiting Committee, who
will initial it, and you can keep it as a
Souvenir.
Vardon & Sons Ltd., Adelaide
[*Received from I at G.H.Q.| 6/8/18*]
Possible Reinforcement of the SOMME - MONTDIDIER front
by German reserve disivions as identified on 6th
August, 1918.
1. Within 24 Hours.
Only local reserves may be expected to be engaged. These
amount to 5 fit and 2 tired divisions, as follows:-
108th Divn. Resting near PERONNE since 9th July.
Very tired and ( 107th Divn. [*Relieved by 27 Div opposite III Corps*]
not likely to ( 21st Divn. Recently relieved at CASTEL,
be engaged. ( possibly near CAMBRAI.
( 6th Res. Divn. Recently relieved near BRACHES.
82nd Res. Divn. Withdrawn from CANTIGNY.
8th Res. Divn. Withdrawn from COURCELLES, in
close reserve near AVRE on
24th July.
54th Divn.
26th Res. Divn. From YTRES.
None of these divisions are of very good quality. The last
4 divisions have been withdrawn, probably to replace the reserves
put into the AISNE - MARNE battle front and to give more depth
to the defence between MOREUIL and the OISE.
2. With 48 Hours [*1112 43rd Div. by tactical trains from Cambrai*]
[*1111*] Further reinforcements will have to be brought by train.
There are two double track broad guage lines which feed this area:
(a) CAMBRAI - PERONNE - CHAULNES.
(b) LE CATEAU - ST. QUENTIN - HAM - CHAULNES.
Each of these lines will, un der pressure, take one division
every 2 days.
Divisions from the CAMBRAI - LE CATEAU area can commence
detraining at the selected railheads on the morning after zero day.
Within 48 hours, battalions of 2 more divisions (probably
185th and 21st Res. Divisions) may be engag ed, i.e. a total of 5
divisions and elements of 2 more divisions.
3. Within 72 Hours
The first two divisions arriving by train can be fully detrained
and engaged within 72 hours, i.e. a total reinforcement
of 8 divisions.
4. Further reinforcements may be expected at the rate of 2
divisions every 2 days. Summarising the reinforcements are:
Within 24 hours (1 day) 5 divisions
" 48 " (2 days). 5 divisions and elements of
2 divisions
" 72. " (3 days) 8 divisions.
" 96 " (4 days) 10 divisions
Note. (i) Owing to the large number of battered divisions, which
have not yet been located since they were withdrawn
from the AISNE front, some of these may be met in addition,
possibly in the initial attack, if the latter
is a complete surprise.
(ii) Previously the Germans have used these battered div-
- 2 -
isions for 'roulement: with fresher divisions in line
near the front of attack. In this case, tired divisions
from the AISNE might be put in to relieve divisions
on the MONTDIDIER - OlSE front. It is doubtful if more
than one of these divisions would be available within
72 hours. The moves would probably be carried out by
lorries.
WIRING PER 1000 YARDS OF FRONT.
SINGLE DOUBLE Wire. Screw Pickets. Lorry. Tank Man Hours. Man Hours
APRON. No. Coils. Long Short. Loads. Loads. by night. by day.
200 400 800. 2 1¼ 600 400 [*100 men - 5 sappers
Allows for equal number of men wiring-
and carrying from small dumps along the
line of wire.
W e i g h t - T o n s .
2.5 1.07 0.9 4.47.
DOUBLE DOUBLE. 400 800 1600 4 2½ 1200 800
APRON. Allows for equal number of men wiring-
and carrying from small dumps along the
line of wire.
W e i g h t - T o n s .
5.0 2.14. 1.8 8.94.
JB/WE. 6/8/1918.
[[Johnli Burnieu Capt AE?]]
Brigadier-General.
Chief Engineer Australian Corps.
[*No1*]
SECRET.
R.A.F. INFORMATION FOR GROUND SERVICES FOR FORTHCOMING OPERATIONS.
Corps Work. Northern Sector Centre Sector Southern Sector
Squadron No.35 Squadron 3rd Sqdn A. F. C. No. 5 Squadron
Location FLESSELLES FLESSELLES BOVELLES.
Advanced Aerodrome - - AIMENS DRILL GROUND
Aeroplane A.W. R.E.8. R.E.8.
( (C.P) Black streamers on (C.P) Square black discs (C.P) Square black discs
( struts; coloured streamer on trailing edge of wings; trailing edge of wings;
Markings. ( tail.. black line under wings black line under wings.
( (Art.Liaison) 2 streamers
( on tail.
Call for Flares A's on Klaxon;White Very's A's on Klaxon; white Very's A's on Klaxon;white Veryś
light. lights. light.
Counter attack ( White parachute flare over White parachute flare over White flares on wing tips
indication ( objective. objective. smoke bomb over objective.
Tank Work
Squadron No.35 Squadron No.8 Squadron No. 8 Squadron
Location As above VIGNACOURT VIGNACOURT.
Aeroplane do A.W. A.W.
Markings ( do Black band under tail plane (Inf.tanks) Black band under
( both sides. tail near (left) side.
( (Cav.tanks) Black band under
( tail off (right) side
Signals do Green light low over Green light low over
dropping station. dropping station.
Counter Attack. ( do Disc signals on plane Disc signals on plane
indication. ( preceded by red light. preceded by red light.
Coloured smoke bombs on Coloured smoke bombs on
objective (purple, yellow objective (purple, yellow
and light blue) and light blue).
Cavalry Work.
Armoured Car Work
Squadron . . . . . . No.6 Squadron
Location . . . . . BOVELLES
Advanced Aerodrome. . . . . . . AIMENS DRILL GROUND
Aeroplane . . . . . . R.E.8
Markings . . . . . . Coloured streamers on
struts
Call for flares . . . . . . A's on Klaxon;white Verys
lights.
Counter attack . . . . . .
indications.
Ammunition Dropping.
Squadron No. 9 Squadron No. 9 Squadron
Location QUEVAUVILLERS QUEVAUVILLERS
Advanced Aerodrome AMIENS DRILL GROUND AIMENS DRILL GROUND
Aeroplane R.E.8 R.E.8
Markings Outer 2½ feet of planes Outer 2½ feet of planes Nil
painted black painted black.
Method Max. of 20 boxes S.A.A. at Max. of 40 boxes S.A.A. at
Zero + 7 hours on demand Zero + 7 hours on demand
("V" on ground) ("V" on ground)
Smoke Screen. [*5*] [*above*]
Squadron Nill No.9 Sqdn. (as above) No.9 Sqdn (as in Col.3)
At Zero + 4 hrs.10mins [*(*] & [*possibly*]
Method . . . At zero + 4hrs, + 5 hrs, + 4 hrs30mins[*)*] on
+ 6 hrs, on selected selected points.
points.
Ground strafing.
Squadrons No.80 Sqdn "Camels" No.801 Sqdn "Camels" No.209 Sqdn "Camels"
No.48 Sqdn "Bristol Fighters" No.84 Sqdn "S.E.5" No.23 Sqdn "Dolphin"
No.41 Sqdn "S.E.5" No.24 Sqdn "S.E.5"
[*No 65 Sqdn "Camels"*]
5th Brigade, R.A.F
6th Aug: 1918.
6/8/18
Map Square
X.7 VAUVILLERS (Billets and Detraining Point)
R.20 PROYART (Reserve troops billets, hospital
and Div. H.Q. )
R.10 CHUIGNOLLES (Div. H.G., hospital, and reserve
troops in valley north of)
X.3 FRAMERVILLE (Corps H.Q. and 2 hospitals)
R.34 RAINECOURT (Billets and 2 hospitals)
G.25 CAPPY (Billets, artillery and infantry
dump, aerodrome and artillery
H.Q.)
L.36.c. and a. (Aerodrome and Hospital)
M.9 FONTAINE (Div. H.Q. and Dump)
R.30.c. (Hospitals)
M. 26, 27, 32 FOUCAUCOURT (Corps H.Q., Dump, Billets)
S.4 and 5 CHAULNES (Hospital)
A.17 (Dump)
B.7 and 8 OMIECOURT (Dumps and-Hospital)
7/8/18
Materials required for 15000 x of
Double Double Apron
6000 coils wire
12000 long corkscrews
24000 short "
Total weight 135 Tons
= say 25 Lorries, each two trips
or 15 Tanks Each two trips
I hope I have more than the above
quantitiy of material in Poulainville
by 6pm. tonight; this after meeting all
(?)demands and keeping up normal
daily requirements.
7/8/18
CF
Ce
General Hobbs
Maclagan
Rosenthal
Gillibrand
I wish you and your troops
the best of luck and all possible
Success. (?)
General Monash.

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