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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: John Monash, Vernon Sturdee, William Wardell, Edward Richardson, Frederick Mills, Rob Leslie-Carter, George Temple-Poole, C. Y. O'Connor, Lawrence Hargrave, George Christian Darbyshire, Peter Gration, John Field, Lindesay Clark, Stephen Gumley, A. Richard Newton, Jeremy Burgess, Clement Wilks, Clive Steele, George Julius, Russell Dumas, James Harrison, David Lennox, John Holland, Hubert Chanson, John Shaw, John O. Limb, Oliver Woodward, Dennis Jensen, Peter Scratchley, Dick Dusseldorp, Don Fry, Louis Brennan, Anthony Michell, Lancelot De Mole, Dennis B Gibson, Henry Deane, Chris Dyer, Phil Irving, Clarence Herbert Smith, Richard Bowyer Smith, William Henry Warren, Florence Violet McKenzie, Donald Victor Darwin, Martin Green, John C Climie, David Higgins, Alexander Bain Moncrieff, William Zeal, Alexander Kennedy Smith, Doug Rickard, William Charles Kernot, Peter Harold Cole, Arthur James Arnot, William Hudson, Kevin Robert Elz, Liangchi Zhang, Thomas Higinbotham, John Whitton, Richard Krege, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, William Calder, Alan Parkinson, Abraham Fitzgibbon, Armin Aberle, Francis Webb Sheilds, Edward Frederick Robert Bage, Andrew O'Keefe, Robert William Chapman, Lawrence Ennis, Walter Bassett. Excerpt: Second World War: Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee KBE, CB, DSO (16 April 1890 - 25 May 1966) was an Australian Army commander who served two terms as Chief of the General Staff. A regular officer of the Royal Australian Engineers who joined the Militia in 1908, he was one of the original Anzacs during the First World War who participated in the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. In the campaign that followed, he commanded the 5th Field Company, before going to lead the 8th Field Company and 4th Pioneer Battalion on the Western Front. In 1918 he was seconded to General Headquarters (GHQ...