Showing posts with label Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Show all posts
Saturday, July 7, 2018
World War I Chronology, July 1918: Allied Cooperation in Amiens Sector
JULY 4
AMIENS-SECTOR
First instance of U.S. (33rd Infantry Division)- British (Australian) close cooperation.
They captured Hamel and repulse three counterattacks.
First real use of British tanks and machine guns as close infantry-support weapons.
Strength of the two sides: Germany: 5,600 Allies: 7,000
Casualties' Germany: 2,000 killed, 1,600 captured Allies: 1,400 killed or wounded
--Cooter
Monday, April 18, 2016
Britain Insists Australia and New Zealand Represented in World War I Centenary Plans
From the January 1, 2014, Global Post.
Prime Minister David Cameron said it is "completely wrong" to suggest ANZAC troops were being airbrushed out of the centenary events in favour of troops from other parts of the former empire.
Reports from Australia suggest otherwise.
From 1914 to 1918 62,000 Australian and 18,000 New Zealand troops died.
These ANZAC troops will be fully honoured next year on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings in Turkey.
British Spellings. --Cooter
Prime Minister David Cameron said it is "completely wrong" to suggest ANZAC troops were being airbrushed out of the centenary events in favour of troops from other parts of the former empire.
Reports from Australia suggest otherwise.
From 1914 to 1918 62,000 Australian and 18,000 New Zealand troops died.
These ANZAC troops will be fully honoured next year on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings in Turkey.
British Spellings. --Cooter
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
ANZACs: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
From Wikipedia.
For those of you unfamiliar with what an ANZAC is.
Herbert Leach was an ANZAC.
This was the first World War Army Corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, formed in Egypt in 1915 of units from Australia and New Zealand. They operated during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Disbanded in 1916 after withdrawal from Gallipoli. Reformed as the I and II ANZAC Corps.
Also fought in Second World War.
--Cooter
For those of you unfamiliar with what an ANZAC is.
Herbert Leach was an ANZAC.
This was the first World War Army Corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, formed in Egypt in 1915 of units from Australia and New Zealand. They operated during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Disbanded in 1916 after withdrawal from Gallipoli. Reformed as the I and II ANZAC Corps.
Also fought in Second World War.
--Cooter
Monday, April 13, 2015
Names of 731 Anzacs Found at Naours Cave in France: "Merely a Private"
From the April 6, 2015, AuWorld "Rge Names of 731 Anzacs found in cave under World War I battlefield in France' by Greg Keller.
ANZACs were soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Allied soldiers left similar inscriptions in the tunnels of Arras and Vimy, but Naours, well back from the front lines in World War I, were not used as shelters and hospitals like other Western Front quarries.
Naours is just a few miles from Vignacourt, a town used as a staging area for troops moving up to and back from the Somme battlefield to the east. Young soldiers would take a break for some sightseeing and these were nearby.
The diary of Wilfred Joseph Allan Allsop, 23, private from Sydney noted on Jan. 2, 1917, "At 1 pm 10 of us went to the famous caves near Naours where refugees used to hide during time of Invasion."
Herbert John Leach, 25, from Adelaide wrote his name, a message and the date, "H.J. Leach. Merely a private. 13/7/16. SA Australia." Sadly, he was killed August 23, 1916, at the Battle of Pozieres barely a month after he left his message.
On his grave at the Australian Cemetery in nearby Flers, his father inscribed this on his marker "Duty Nobly Done."
--Cooter
ANZACs were soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Allied soldiers left similar inscriptions in the tunnels of Arras and Vimy, but Naours, well back from the front lines in World War I, were not used as shelters and hospitals like other Western Front quarries.
Naours is just a few miles from Vignacourt, a town used as a staging area for troops moving up to and back from the Somme battlefield to the east. Young soldiers would take a break for some sightseeing and these were nearby.
The diary of Wilfred Joseph Allan Allsop, 23, private from Sydney noted on Jan. 2, 1917, "At 1 pm 10 of us went to the famous caves near Naours where refugees used to hide during time of Invasion."
Herbert John Leach, 25, from Adelaide wrote his name, a message and the date, "H.J. Leach. Merely a private. 13/7/16. SA Australia." Sadly, he was killed August 23, 1916, at the Battle of Pozieres barely a month after he left his message.
On his grave at the Australian Cemetery in nearby Flers, his father inscribed this on his marker "Duty Nobly Done."
--Cooter
Monday, April 22, 2013
What If New Zealand Had Not Fought in World War I?
From Voxy.co.uk.
Anzac Day is approaching (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), a historian is looking into what might have happened had the country stayed out of the war.
New Zealand sent 100,000 men to fight for Britain and 18,000 of those died.
It is hard to imagine the country not joining the war effort. The country had already developed a strong sense of national identity.
Many of New Zealand's casualties came at Gallipoli.
The efforts of New Zealand and Australia in the First World War are too often overlooked. And for that matter, all the countries of the British Empire.
Cooter
Anzac Day is approaching (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), a historian is looking into what might have happened had the country stayed out of the war.
New Zealand sent 100,000 men to fight for Britain and 18,000 of those died.
It is hard to imagine the country not joining the war effort. The country had already developed a strong sense of national identity.
Many of New Zealand's casualties came at Gallipoli.
The efforts of New Zealand and Australia in the First World War are too often overlooked. And for that matter, all the countries of the British Empire.
Cooter
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