Anzac's Dirty Dozen (47 page)

expanded to five divisions
59

formation of
29

in coalition with allies
231

misbehaviour in Cairo
54
–
55

Australian Labor Party, defence policies
78

Australian Light Horse Brigade
54

Australian Military Board
78

Australian military personnel
see also
names of units

as ‘special force'
78
–
79

assigned to ‘mopping-up' campaigns
138
–
164

Australian Army Training Team
224

Australian Flying Corps casualties
61

brought to war by alliances
238
–
239

capabilities of
7
–
8
,
213
–
214

casualties
225
–
226
,
272

colonial troops
11
–
34

early army reforms
26
–
28

early navy
28
–
29

exceptionalist claims
46

in Vietnam War
196

killed while POWs
125

numbers by gender
105
–
106

numbers by service arm
170

Nursing Service
103
–
105

withdrawn from New Guinea
142
–
143

Australian National Audit Office
254

Australian
newspaper
87

Australian Special Operations Task Group
227

Australian Strategic Policy Institute
212
–
213

Australian Victories in France
36
–
37

Australian War Memorial

appropriateness of focus
262

colonial galleries
14

disregarded by MDA
281

genealogical information
277

Henderson Smith letters
260

naval records
174

non-military casualties recorded by
272

on colonial military actions
12

records of atrocities
121
–
123

Australian Women's Army Service
107

Automedon
239

Auxiliary Territorial Service (UK)
108

awards
see
decorations and awards

BAE systems
254

Balaclava, Battle of
22

Balikpapan, Borneo
158
,
160
–
163

Ball, Desmond
245

Ballard, John R.
218

Baria, Battle of
188
,
190
–
191

Barr, Chris
261

Barrett, John
27

Barter, Margaret
131

Bartolomeo Colleoni
167

Bassett, Jan
105

‘Battle of the Wasser'
55

Bayonet Trench attack
126
–
128

Bean, Charles

Naval coverage by
169

on Anzacs
212
,
292

on atrocities
115
–
118
,
123
–
126

on Australia-NZ cooperation
57
–
58

on Cairo brawls
55

on Gallipoli landing
264
–
265

on volunteer armies
37
–
38

Belleau Wood
, USN
217

Benson, Sergeant S.E.
140

Berlin Airlift
63

Berryman, Lieutenant General Frank
149
–
151

Binh Bah, Battle of
134
,
189
,
191
,
195

Birdwood, William
59

Bismarck Sea, Battle of
132
–
133

Black Week
24

Blainey, Geoffrey
87

Blair, Admiral Dennis
216

Blair, Dale
viii
,
5

Blamey, General Sir Thomas

in Pacific campaign
140
–
148
,
161
–
162

in World War
I
47

in World War
II
61
–
62

on Japanese enemy
128

on New Zealand
62
–
64

relations with Chifley
156
–
158

relations with Curtin
153
,
155
–
156

relations with Menzies
146
–
147

Boeing
254

Boer War

Australian involvement
14
,
23
–
27
,
86

Breaker Morant incident
14
,
25
–
26
,
114
–
115

memorial to proposed
12

motives for participation
87

Bongiorno, Frank
87

Borneo campaigns

in Confrontation with Indonesia
92

in World War
II
139

motives for participation
162

Operation OBOE One
154
–
155

Operation OBOE Two
158
–
160

Bougainville campaign
129
–
130
,
145
–
149
,
156
–
157
,
161
–
162

Bourke, Joanna
120

Braund, Lieutenant Colonel G.F.
57
–
58

Bridges, Major General William
54

Bridging Train, RAN
169
–
170

British Commonwealth Light Division
65

British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan
90

British Empire
see
imperial defence policy; United Kingdom

British Expeditionary Force
119
–
120

British High Commissioner in Malaya
91

British West Indies Regiment
35

British XXII Corps, New Zealanders transferred to
60

Brooke-Popham, Rupert
240

brown paper, as clothing insulation
182

Bruce, Stanley
78
,
82

Brunei Bay, Borneo
154
,
160

brutality
see
atrocities

Bryce, Quentin
279

Buick, Bob
136

Buick, Mike
278
,
283

Buin, Bougainville
148

Bullwinkel, Vivian
280

Burnett, Captain J.
173

Burstall, Terry
135
–
136

Bush, George W.
247

‘bush craft'
197

Butler, A.G.
106
–
107

cadet movement
27

Camel Corps
60

Camp David Accord
68
–
69

Canada
39
,
66
,
227
–
230

Canberra
, HMAS
167
,
175

Canberra Times
152
,
280
,
283

Cape Corps
41

Caribbean campaigns
41

Casey, R.G.
81

casualties of war

Boer War
26
,
31

Bougainville campaign
149

Canadian, in Afghanistan
229

civilian deaths
266
–
267
,
272
–
273

East Timor
215

frontier wars
18
,
31

importance in history
263
,
265
–
266

Iraq, by country
225
–
226

Korean War
90

naval collisions
167
,
183

non-military
267
–
269

Pacific theatre, World War
II
148

Vietnam War
190
–
191
,
197
–
198
,
207
–
208

Caulfield, Michael
134
–
135

Cavell, Edith
104

Centenary of Anzac Commission
276
–
277
,
284

Central Bureau Signals Intelligence
151

Charlton, Peter
140

Chauvel, Major General Harry
60

Chaytor, Major General Edward
60

Chifley, Ben
156
–
158

Chinese troops
66
,
244

Christian Science Monitor
27

Churchill, Winston
81
,
239

CIMIC personnel in East Timor
217

civilian casualties
266
–
267
,
272
–
273

Clark, Chris
viii
,
4

Clark, Helen
70

claymore mines
196
–
197

Clinton, Bill
216

close inshore operations
181

Clothier, Sergeant Les
153

Cold War
91
–
92
,
94
,
236
–
237

collective security policy
90
colonial troops
11
–
34

‘coloured' troops
40
–
42

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
272

Communism, perceived threat from
91
–
92
,
94
,
236
–
237

community resistance to conscription
44

Confrontation with Indonesia
92
–
93
,
267

Connor, John
viii
–
ix
,
4
,
16

conscription
36
,
38
–
39

‘contacts' with enemy troops in Vietnam
191
–
192
,
198
,
201

convicts, military action against
18

Cooper, Alistair
ix
,
6

Cosgrove, General Peter
93
–
94
,
211
,
214
–
215

counter revolutionary warfare
192

counter-insurgency
187
–
188
,
192
,
196

Crete campaign
131

Cullen, General Paul
128

Curtin, John

Australia Day broadcast
138

death of
161

relations with Blamey
153
,
155
–
156

relations with MacArthur
141
–
144
,
159

Curtin Labor government
63

Cutler, Roden
280

D445 Vietnamese Local Force Battalion
189
–
190

Damousi, Joy
109
,
263

Dardanelles campaign
see
Gallipoli landing

Darian-Smith, Kate
109

Darwin, civilians killed at
272

Davies, Andrew
253

Day, David
76

Deakin, Alfred
86

Dean, Peter
154

death, causes of
267
–
268
, 271
see also
casualties of war

Dechaineux
,
HMAS
211

decorations and awards

for Bayonet Trench attack
127
–
128

for naval service
172

HMAS
Murchison
172
,
178

Victoria Cross
20

Deeds That Won the Empire
29
–
30

Defence Contract Audit Agency (US)
253

Defence Department, procurement fraud in
254
–
255

Defence ‘White Papers'
215
,
235
,
240

Defense Authorization and Appropriation Bills (US)
253

Department of Veterans' Affairs
263
,
274
,
279

Derrick, Lieutenant Tom ‘Diver'
160

Dhi Qar province, Iraq
224
–
225

Dibb, Paul
245

‘digger' myths
2
,
275
, 288
see also
Anzac legends

‘diggers', New Zealanders as
51

Director of Military Prosecutions
113
–
114

Dollard, Commander Allen
180
–
181

‘Domino theory'
94

Draper, Theodore
256

dreadnought crisis
28

drug use, casualties due to
270

Duntroon training college
53

‘duty' and enlistment
44
–
45

East African campaign
41
–
42

East Timor independence campaign
7
,
69
–
70
,
213
–
219

Eden, Anthony
80

Egypt, troop misbehaviour in
54
–
56

Eire
38
–
40
,
76

el Gorah, Sinai
69

el-Alamein campaign
131
,
138

Elands River Post, Battle of
14
,
30

Elliott, Brigadier General ‘Pompey'
123
–
124

Emden
, sinking of
167

Empire Air Training Scheme
79
,
88
–
89