| Main Title: |
Campaigning with the fighting 9th : in and out of the line with the 9BN A.I.F., 1914-1919 / by C.M. Wrench. |
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| Author: |
Wrench, C. M. (Clarence Meredith), 1897-
9th Battalions Association
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| Imprint: |
Boolarong Publications for 9th Battalions Association, 1985. |
| Collation: |
xxvi, 598 p. : ill., maps, portraits, notes, bib., index, hbk ; 25 cm. |
| Summary: |
Machine derived contents note: Chapter I Prelude To War 1 -- Chapter II Two Fathers and two Sons 8 -- Militia's Response 11 -- Off to War ii -- Training in the Desert 28 -- Chapter III The Dardanelles Campaign 37 -- Objective of the Campaign 37 -- Naval Bombardment of Forts 38 -- Third Brigade at Lemnos 38 -- Prelude to Landing 47 -- The Landing 49 -- Early Trials on Gallipoli 72 -- Rest on Lemnos 82 -- The Evacuation 83 -- Chapter IV Profiles 87 -- Chapter V Back to Egypt 105 -- Defence of Suez 105 -- Birth of 49 Battalion 114 -- Chapter VI The Western Front 120 -- Marseilles to Flanders 120 -- Rouge de Bout 123 -- Poziers 125 -- Moquet Farm 135 -- The Conscription Issue and Reinforcements 136 -- Flers and the Mud 140 -- Chapter VII Interviews 147 -- Chapter VIII The German Withdrawal 175 -- The Maze 175 -- Hoodwinked and the Follow-up 176 -- Lagincourt 178 -- Bullecourt 179 -- The Long Rest - 1st Phase (The Somme) 182 -- Chapter IX The Third Battle of Ypres 184 -- The Long Rest - 2nd Phase (Flanders) 184 -- Polygon Wood 185 -- Broodseinde 194 -- Paschendaele 197 -- Chapter X The Battle of the Railheads 200 -- Amiens 200 -- Hazebrouck 207 -- Chapter XI The Beginning of the End 216 -- Peaceful Penetration 216 -- The Big Push 249 -- Respite in Gorenflos 289 -- Chapter XII From War to Peace 307 -- The Armistice and the Long March 307 -- The King's Guard 316 -- Sojourn in Belgium 325 -- Prince of Wales Visit 329 -- Repatriation and Non-Military Employment 331 -- Break up of Battalion 336 -- Football 339 -- More Mergers 344 -- Brussels Leave 346 -- Souvenirs from the Rhine 353 -- Homeward Bound 357 -- Our Last 'Blighty' 360 -- All Aboard - Destination Australia 362 -- Chapter XIII Neligan 383 -- Maps 410 -- Appendices 414 -- No. 1 Billets and Billeting 414 -- 2 How I wrote the History - Harvey 416 -- 3 Bapaume 418 -- 4 Ribemont 419 -- 5 Lice and Scabies 422 -- 6 Rouge de Bout 424 -- 7 Cambridge 425 -- 8 Kitchener 426 -- 9 Nucleus 428 -- 10 V2 Bomb 430 -- 11 Dr. Butler's postwar interests 432 -- 12 Amiens 434 -- 13 Move of a division by rail 437 -- 13A Movement Order 9th Battalion 438 -- 14 Lessons Learnt 440 -- 15 Artillery Formation 448 -- 16 Why Australians did not move to the Rhine 450 -- 17 German Withdrawal (paraphrase) 452 -- 18 The Kings Guard 453 -- 19 Movement to Chatelet 456 -- 20 Rugby Union Football Team 459 -- 21 Battalion Soccer Team 461 -- 22 Inaugural Dinner 462 -- 23 Reorganisation of the Battalion 463 -- 24 Bath Parade 465 -- 25 Picnic Parade 466 -- 26 Entrainment order from Chatelet to le Harve 468 -- 27 The Drumsticks 469 -- 28 Modern Militia 1973 471 -- 29 The Modern Militia 1982 473 -- 30 The 9th Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment 475 -- Endnotes 482 -- No. I Lieut. Col. C.F. Ross 482 -- 2 Military District 485 -- 3 Capt. G. Jamieson 486 -- 4 Bullecourt 486 -- 5 Hindenburg Line 489 -- 6 The Two Patrols 492 -- 7 Bombs 492 -- 8 Roy Benjamin 493 -- Endnotes -- 9 Etaples - Bull Ring 495 -- 10 Capt. Ramkema 496 -- 11 Midden 496 -- 12 Looking Back 497 -- 13 Gas Gangrene 498 -- 14 Three Irishmen 499 -- 15 H.N. Knowles 500 -- 16 Cpl. Townsend 501 -- 17 Demolition of a front line 502 -- 18 Jutland 503 -- 19 Verdun 503 -- 20 Brigadier J.C. Robertson 504 -- 21 The Sunken Road 505 -- 22 Morbecque 506 -- 23 The Bonnieres family 506 -- 24 Australian Defence School 507 -- 25 Lieut. Col. Lee 508 -- 26 Mena Camp 510 -- 27 Toughness of 3rd Brigade 512 -- 28 Birdwood 513 -- 29 Lemnos Tenedos Imbros 514 -- 30 The Wrecked Torpedo Boat 515 -- 31 Sir Ian Hamilton 519 -- 32 Two Cruisers 519 -- 33 Fortifications - post war 520 -- 34 The pier at Mudros 521 -- 35 The Regimental Band (J.C. Thompson Bandmaster) 521 -- 36 The Gallipoli Message Stick 527 -- 37 W.A. Collin 528 -- 38 Gebel Habeita 529 -- 39 Conduct of Australian soldiers 529 -- 40 Desert Water Supply 533 -- 41 General Murray changed plans 534 -- 42 Major Duncan Chapman & Captain S.J. Chapman 536 -- 43 A most amazing story 537 -- 44 Major A.R. Knightley 539 -- 45 Ludendorff |
| Subject: |
Wrench, C. M. (Clarence Meredith), 1897-
Infantry Battalion, 9th
Australian Army
Biography
World War, 1914-1918
Soldiers
Battalions
Military history
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| ISBN: |
0958985502 |
| Notes: |
"First published in April 1985, by Boolarong Publications for 9th Battalions Association"--T.p. verso.
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