Alastair Clarkson learns about Sir John Monash

[@thomaslawson801]

Great man and great leader. Very good video. Respect from America. A movie needs to be made so future generations never forget his service to Australia.

[@IanKemp1960]

I've always regarded little Tim as a complete can, but here I can see we could sit down and have a good yarn about something we agree on as Australians :-)

[@IanKemp1960]

Pretty much everyone from the top to the bottom expected the war to go on well into 1919. The Germans feared the US entry into the war, but Monash's own account points out that the American troops started off (in 1918) making the same elementary battlefield mistakes that all other forces had made, and learned from, years earlier. It would have taken them a year or maybe two to get battle savvy. But Monash's engineering approach and the 'all arms battle' he pioneered cut all that short and undoubtedly saved thousands if not tens of thousands of lives.

[@tonycittadini8041]

Australia has squandered the opportunity to celebrate all its hero's and present them as examples in the classroom to school children as well as the many waves of migrants that have come to Australia as to what to aspire to be a good Australian. Monash, Dunlop, Hollows, Kingsford Smith....the list is extraordinary.

[@colinross6259]

"John Monash was born in West Melbourne on 27 June 1865 to German-Polish Jewish parents". He had a massive intellect which cowed some of his fellow officers. He spoke fluent German which freaked out many as well. Thank goodness common sense prevailed and he got the leadership and the stupid Poms didn't send those Aussie diggers to get slaughtered with their pathetic battle plans.

[@IanKemp1960]

It's a constant puzzlement to me that in Australia we like to commemorate the pointless defeats at Gallipoli, and yet here is a marvellous story of enterprise and heroism that's much more aligned with what most people think are Aussie values.

[@larrybarnes3920]

Lest we forget 🇦🇺 Respect 🇦🇺 R.I.P Sir. 🇦🇺 Thank you.

[@floppyrogue1793]

i’m reading ‘the outside who won a war right now’ damn

[@adrianjackson2696]

General Sir John Monash was a great Corps Commander in the last months of WW1 in 1918 however his 5 divisions (205,000 men) were less than an Army (9 division) which is commanded by a General and certainly does not warrant Field Marshal rank (3 Armies) as some like Tim Fisher propose.

[@swimminlane3566]

Adrian Jackson I'm a supporter of Monash's achievements but, I don't believe in awarding a posthumous rank of Field Marshall. I think it's utter nonsense and inappropriate.

[@memoresto3480]

Adrian Jackson & swimming lane3- isn't it more impressive with what he did with 5 divisions then! What he did at Hamel was nothing short of genius, maybe a lot of jealousy from the British ranks because he was Australian...........

[@adrianjackson2696]

18tangles - Blarney was alive, just, when promoted however the WW2 army was demobilized long before. There is debate whether the scatted forces in the SW Pacific/SE Asia were all directly under his command or large enough to warrant such a rank. Finally dead and dying men command nothing.

[@adrianjackson2696]

18tangles - General Cosgrove was Chief of Defence Force (Army, RAN and RAAF) as a general. Chief of Army is a Lt General while a divisional commander, and we have two divisions, is a Major General. Even though the ADF is small someone has to have a higher rank over the subordinate generals and brigadiers as well as the chief's on Navy and Airforce in the CDF's case.

[@adrianjackson2696]

D10S - Yes impressive, but so were the 1st AIF soldiers, but he still was a corps commander. The King knighted him in the field thought.

[@Nat-uk2gi]

Then ww2 arrived and Australia’s finest general was General Blamey who served under General Monash during ww1. Well done putting this video together.

[@desfletch]

Surely you're joking . Blamey was a pompous prick hated by the troops. He told the young under-trained under-equipped militiamen at Kokoda their job was to go out there and die. When they retreated under the superior Japanese advance he said they "ran like rabbits." They got their own back when he visited the wounded in hospital they ate lettuce in front of him. In his defence , he was a good Army administrator , but crap as a commander of fighting troops.

[@trevorlewis847]

Fukn blamey,blimey mate what you been smoking,absolute tosser and Macarthur's toadie,treated heroes like cowards wander,and twit promoted to field Marshall what an insult to the great generals,moorshed Monash brudenelwhite pompey Elliott chuval shit list endless n that fat turd gets the cookies what a fukn prick fullstop

[@IanKemp1960]

If you want to know about the Australian contribution to WW2 try reading up on Tobruk, and Kokoda

[@gperrin9050]

great leader! football! war! football! football! football! football! I'm a football!

[@michaelhayden5264]

It’s very hard to read about much anti-Jewishness there was in senior Australian political and media sections. Without Monash it’s conceivable that WWI would have ended very differently.

[@desfletch]

One of the chief anti-Semitic critics of Monash was Rupert Murdoch's father Sir Keith Murdoch.

[@IanKemp1960]

Pretty much everyone from the top to the bottom expected the war to go on well into 1919. The Germans feared the US entry into the war, but Monash's own account points out that the American troops started off (in 1918) making the same elementary battlefield mistakes that all other forces had learned from years earlier. It would have taken them a year or maybe two to get battle savvy. But Monash's engineering approach and the 'all arms battle' he pioneered cut all that short and undoubtedly saved thousands if not tens of thousands of lives.

[@Smackedup100]

No greater Australian