Peter Beale - Fallen Sentinel - Australian Tanks in World War II

Burnett-Smith, General Office Commanding (GOC) John 27

C

Cadillac engines 96, 100, 103, 106, 109, 110, 256, 276

Calais 30

Cambrai, Battle of 16–17, 20, 38, 42, 44

Canada 12, 116, 117, 142, 138

capital tanks 78

carriers machine-gun 70–1, 70 , 73–4, 127, 131

Australian production of 85, 92

Bren Gun Carrier 167

No. 2 Mark I 71

LP 1 70, 71

LP 2 70 , 71

LP 2A 137

3-inch mortar carrier 71

2-pdr 71, 71 , 78

Wasp flame-thrower 71

Carro Armato 11/39 tank 130

Carruthers, Brigadier 43

Casey, Richard G. 65 , 139 , 140

Cavan, Lord 22

Chamberlain, Alan 82, 106, 110

Chamberlain, Prime Minister Neville 28, 61, 62, 267

Chase, US Major General W. 59

Chifley, Ben 90 , 156

China 13, 91

Christie, J. Walter 28

Chuignolles, Battle of 54

Churchill tank 61 , 109, 267

Churchill, Winston 61 , 62, 64, 134, 154, 210

Coates, John 58

Collins, Colonel Jack 23

Colwell, H.P. 125

Comets 68, 268

communication 14, 25 , 26, 222–4, 250, 264

Coote & Jorgensen, Sydney 98

Coral Sea, Battle of 136–7

Corregidor 134, 136

Cory, Major 233

Courage, Brigadier General Anthony 44

Coxen, Brigadier 43

Crouch, Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Pittock ‘Pip’ MC 123

cruiser tanks 28, 67–8, 72, 73, 78, 140, 206 see also Australian cruiser (AC) series

A9 30 , 67, 68

A10 67, 68

A13 67 , 68, 72

Australian production of 81–2, 85–6, 92–3, 95, 97

Covenanter, the 68, 267

Crusader, the 68, 272, 267

M3 98, 109, 112, 270–2

Curtin, Prime Minister John 90 , 91, 96, 128, 140–2, 147, 150, 156 , 157, 197

Cyprus 131

D

Darwin, bombing of 134, 135

Denby, Charles 147

Denmark 66

Derrick, Sergeant Tom 216

Deverell, Sir Cyril 27, 29

Diamond T Wrecker 229

Dill, Field Marshal 140

Duncan, Major General Nigel 248

Dunkirk 66

Duntroon 58Duntroon 58

Dutch East Indies 77, 152

E

Eastern Group Supply Council 94–5

Egypt 29, 69, 130, 168

El Alamein 137, 168

Elles, Major General Hugh 18, 22, 44

engineer assistance 224–5

Evatt, Dr Herb V. 90 , 142, 156 , 182

Experimental Mechanical Force (EMF) 23–4, 25

F

Fadden, Arthur 91, 96, 127, 137

Fairbairn, James 65, 76, 80 , 81

Finschhafen 211–12, 212 , 218, 245, 260

flame-throwers (Frogs) 71, 189, 189 , 241, 242, 266

Flanders 39

Flers-Courcelette 18

Fletcher, David 15–16

Foch, General 43

Foot, Major Stephen 20

Foott, Brigadier 43

Forde, Frank 90 , 156 , 158, 182

Fortification Point 217, 218

France 13, 16, 18, 31, 38, 64, 72, 81, 85, 249–50, 256, 265, 267, 270

Fraser, Brigadier 43

Frogs see flame-throwers (Frogs)

fuel, replenishment 226

Fuller, Major General J.F.C. (John) ‘Boney’19–20, 19 , 22–3, 56

G

Gallipoli 13

General Motors diesel 6-71 95

Germany/German Army 14, 31, 33, 40–1, 48, 66, 91, 137, 143, 144, 168, 248–50, 255, 265, 271, 272, 273

Austria, unification with 60

‘Black Day’ 38

Holland, France and Belgium, invasion of 64, 66

Prague, occupation of 60

Russia, invasion of 90, 137

Spring Offensive of 1918 42, 53

surrender of Sixth Army 174

Gilbert and Marshall Islands 210

Glasgow, Colonel T.W. 142 , 143, 218, 228

Gordon, General 13

Gort, Lord 29, 31

Gough, General 39–40

Gowrie, Governor-General Lord 90 , 156

Great War see World War I

Green, Colonel G.A. 181–2, 186, 255, 278

Guadalcanal 137

Guiberson engine 95, 96, 103, 256, 270, 276

Gullet, Sir Henry 65

guns and gunnery 143–4

design 144

Lewis 41

17-pdr gun 145–6

training 124 , 124–5

25-pdr field gun 143, 145, 146, 148

H

Haig, Field Marshal Douglas 18, 42, 45, 57

Hamel, Battle of 14, 17, 38, 42 , 47–53, 54, 57–8, 266

Accroche 52–3

Pear Trench, capture of 48

plan for 42–7

Hartnett, Mr 99–102, 104, 105, 106, 276, 277

heavy tanks 78

Hendecourt 40

Hindenburg line 39, 40, 94

Hinton, Brigadier F.B. 126

Hitler, Adolf 60, 61, 62, 87, 90 see also Germany/Germany Army; Nazi

Hobart, Percy 22, 26, 29, 33, 248

Holland 13, 64

Holt, Harold 128

Hopkins, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald 59–60, 59 , 76–7, 83, 93, 114, 118–19, 120, 121, 126, 143, 247, 250, 265

Hordern, Major Sam 213, 215

Hore-Belisha, Leslie 28, 29

Horner, David 63

horses 137–8

Hughes, Billy 65

Huntingdon, Private Sydney 51

Huon Peninsula 206, 210–20, 220 , 224

I

India/Indian Army 12, 94, 130

Indonesia 232

infantry tanks 78, 109

analysis 172

Churchill tank 61 , 109, 267–8

Infantry Tank Mark II (Matilda) see Matilda tanks

Infantry Tank Mark III (Valentine) 95, 109, 110, 168

instruction manuals see training documents

Italy/Italian Army 33, 34, 62, 69, 91, 130, 130 , 131, 174

Ives, Captain Cecil 120

J

Jackson, General Sir Louis 57

Japan/Japanese Army 13, 30, 59 , 62, 91, 137, 154, 158, 163, 165, 186, 271

anti-tank measures 226–8, 226–7

Australia, attack on 134–6, 135

Bougainville 234–5

declaration of war with 90 , 157

Ha-Go light tanks 211

Pearl Harbour, bombing of 64, 90 , 91, 91 , 134, 152

tank forces 66, 113 , 143, 251 , 252

jeeps 226, 228

Jensen 185, 186

Jivevenang 214

Jolly, Alan 35, 77

Blue Flash 35–6

K

Kavieng 210

Kendall, James 98, 102, 114

Kennedy, Major General John 27

Kiggell, Lieutenant General Launcelot 18

King, Prime Minister William MacKenzie 142 , 143

King George V 57

Khartoum 13

Kokoda Track 137, 167

L

Lae 210 , 211, 212, 231

Lamperd, Lieutenant E.W. 59

Landing Ship Tank (LST) 212 , 213, 263

Langemak Bay 211, 213

Lend-Lease authorities 146, 147, 181, 255

Lewin, Colonel 23

Lewis, Essington 99–102, 99 , 104, 105, 106, 111, 144, 146, 181–2, 276, 277

Libya 129

Liddell Hart, Basil 22, 26, 28, 29

Light Aid Detachment (LAD) 196

Light Field Ambulance 196, 208, 208 , 209

light tanks 78, 108, 140, 167 , 274, 277

British ‘obsolete’ light tanks 137

Light Tank Mark VI 76, 274

M2 A4 270

M3 (Stuart) 103, 103 , 109, 110, 111, 112, 137, 140, 143, 144, 145, 169, 170 , 172, 175, 177, 179, 187, 188, 198, 207, 245, 270–1

Marmon-Herrington light combat tank 273, 274

Lindsay, George 22, 23, 26

List of Reserved Occupations 87–8, 163, 164

Lloyd, Lieutenant Colonel Hardress 40

Locke, Brigadier W.J.M. 126

Long, Gavin 64

Lyons, Major Russell 235

M

M26 (Pershing) 257

machine-gun carriers see carriers machine-gun