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

Tarakan 232, 233, 240–2

Timor 135

Tobruk 35, 130 , 131, 247

Torokina 232, 234, 237

training documents

‘A Mobile Army’ 20

Armoured lessons learned from operations in SWPA 259–64

Army Training Instruction No. 3, ‘Handling of an Armoured Division’ 33

Mechanised and Armoured Formations (‘Purple Primer’) 24–6

Modern Formations 26

‘Plan 1919’ 20

‘The tactical handling of armoured divisions’ 33

T20 149

U

USA see America

USS Tennessee 91

V

Vaire Wood, capture of 44

Valentine Mark III 95, 109, 110, 168

Vaux-en-Amienois 45, 50

Vickers-Armstrong Light Dragon Mark III 70

Vickers Light Tank Mark VI B 131

Vickers machine gun 143–4

Vickers medium Mark II 274

Victorian Railway Workshops 70

Vimy 39

W

Wasp engines 115, 116, 256

Watson, Colonel W.D. 82, 85, 86, 92, 99–102, 104, 106, 112, 185, 253, 256, 276

Watson, Major W.H.L. 40, 41

Watts, Captain Keith 59–60, 120

Wavell, Field Marshal Lord 28, 142

Western Desert 33

Western Front 43, 53

Wewak 206, 210, 224 , 225 , 232 , 233–4, 245

Whippets 17–18, 17 , 21, 44, 56

‘Julian’s Baby’ 17

Musical Box 18

White, Lieutenant General Sir Cyril 80 , 81

Whitehead, Captain Norman 169, 213

Windeyer 211, 212, 213

Winning, Major N.I. (George) 235–6

Wootten, Major General George 211, 212, 217–19, 219

World War I 14

Armistice of 11 November 1918 56

‘Hundred Days’, the 17, 20, 38, 53–4, 56, 58

tanks in 15–18

World War II 60–3

declaration of 60

Eastern Group Supply Council 94–5

Wright-Continental engine 271

Wurth, Wallace C. 129, 163

Winning with Intelligence

Judy Thomas

Duntroon

Darren Moore

The Warrior Poets

Robert Morrison

The History of the Royal Australian Corps of Transport 1973–2000

Albert Palazzo

Defenders of Australia

Albert Palazzo

The Fight Leaders

D. Butler, A. Argent and J. Shelton

Operation Orders

Pat Beale

Little by Little

Michael Tyquin

Red Coats to Cams

Ian Kuring

Bowler of Gallipoli

Frank Glen

Vets at War

Ian M. Parsonson

Only One River to Cross

A.M. Harris

The Fragile Forts

Peter Oppenheim

Hassett: Australian Leader

John Essex-Clark

Persian Expedition

Alan Stewart

The Chiefs of the Australian Army

James Wood

Never Late

Gordon Dickens

To Villers-Bretonneux

Peter Edgar

Madness and the Military

Michael Tyquin

The Battle of Anzac Ridge 25 April 1915

Peter D. Williams

Doves Over the Pacific

Reuben R.E. Bowd

The Lionheart

David Coombes

Battlefield Korea

Maurie Pears

Chemical Warfare in Australia

Geoff Plunkett

A Most Unusual Regiment

M.J. Ryan

Between Victor and Vanquished

Arthur Page

Country Victoria’s Own

Neil Leckie

Surgeon and General

Ian Howie-Willis

Willingly into the Fray

Catherine McCullagh

Beyond Adversity

William Park

Crumps and Camouflets

Damien Finlayson

More than Bombs and Bandages

Kirsty Harris

The Last Knight

Robert Lowry

Forgotten Men

Michael Tyquin

Battle Scarred

Craig Deayton

Crossing the Wire

David Coombes

Do Unto Others

Alan H Smith

Copyright © Peter Beale 2011

First published 2011

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Author: Beale, Peter.

Title: Fallen sentinel : Australian tanks in World War II / Peter Beale.

ISBN: 9781921941023 (hbk.)

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Australia--Tank warfare. Tanks (Military science)--Australia--History. Tank warfare--History.

Dewey Number: 358.180994