LG Sir Monash's Masterpiece: The Battle of Hamel

[@EmersusTech]

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[@thelastaustralian7583]

Painted in Australian Blood.

[@crushx69]

I have watched many www1 posts on KZbin over the years, the sacrifices the Australians made were incredible, the pride I have in my country and the men that fought, Sir John Monash was an incredible man from an era were soldiers were just sent over the top in hope they break through, to first think about the safety of your men and how you can protect them but still manage the victory, I have watch were the Australian forces were only 10% of all allied forces, but commanded 1/3 of the front line, these men were giants and will never be forgotten, every year ANZAC day is bigger more people, we will never forget the men that never returned and the men that returned, the pain is unimaginable but there deeds are unforgettable, RIP Diggers, Rest in Peace. You done Australia proud.

[@EmersusTech]

crushx69, yes, I totally agree. I was impressed reading about what the Australians did (and the New Zealanders/Kiwis) in both wars. I don't believe they got enough recognition and I know that most Americans don't know about them -- well, we weren't taught about them much at all. I even took a WW2 class in college and I don't remember the Australians mentioned, but then that was a long time ago. This will give away my age somewhat, but I started that WW2 class on September 1, 1989 -- exactly 50 years after the invasion of Poland! How weird is that? Thank you for your comment and you get a heart!

[@rocnoir4233]

My great grandfather fought at Hamel with the 23rd Battalion and was gassed during the German counter-attack. He carried many scars and had a horrendous cough for the rest of his life.

[@EmersusTech]

rocnoir4233, thank you for sharing a portion of your family history! For this, you get a heart!

[@montys420-]

Now we need a video about LT GEN Harry Chauvel's desert campaign of ww1

[@EmersusTech]

montys420, I put it on my long-term list. Thank you for the idea!

[@markjohnston9017]

Chauvels / Australian light horse, campaign in the middle east was absolutely brilliant.

[@Smackedup100]

Monash, the greatest Australian to walk the planet

[@EmersusTech]

Smackedup100, I believe many other Australians in the past would agree with you! Thanks for your comment!

[@anthonyeaton5153]

That’s rather sad. It’s an admission that Australia has never produced a worthy scientist or engineer or doctor. You are hung up on WW1.

[@Andrew-df1dr]

This was a great video. As an Australian, I was please you made this video that showed respect to Sir John Monash and those he commanded. There are many places named after him in Australia including Monash University in Melbourne, the Monash City Council also in Melbourne, the Monash Freeway also in Melbourne, the Seat of Monash, the suburb of Monash in Canberra and many other places.

[@EmersusTech]

Andrew, yes, I didn't list them, but there are many roads, buildings, etc. named after him. Perhaps another video could explain all this, but I wanted to focus on the Battle of Hamel in this case. Thank you for your comment!

[@samueldavies8461]

Also on our $100 note

[@davedrewett2196]

I thought that was a really well put together video. Good level of information. It was great that what Monash worked out with combined arms doctrine. Also great that the Aussies got to be under Australian command. Unfortunately like with many attack situations it's dangerous and my poor great uncle paid the ultimate sacrifice and was KIA at Proyart on 23/8/18 during the push. He got so close to making it home . Lest we forget uncle Jimmy.

[@EmersusTech]

Dave, yes, I tend to spend a lot of time on most videos. Once in a while, a video takes less time to research. I really try hard to get all the facts straight and I review and review the video for correctness, etc. What I hate is that sometimes the sources contradict each other and then I have to research even more to find out the truth. Sorry to hear about your great uncle's sacrifice! By the way, have you seen my latest video? You may really like it: Why Was World War II Worse Than World War I? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzcYmhvopasp80 Thank you for your comment and for watching!

[@raymondhorvath2406]

What a astounding Man sir John Monash was. As a Australian Iam proud and if he was put in charge earlier maybe the war would have finished early. We have a University named after him and a local district where I live in Melbourne

[@EmersusTech]

Raymond, yes, indeed he was! There's so much about him that is not well-known, especially to this generation. Perhaps you might like these other WWI and WWII videos, if you haven't seen them: What Did Rommel and the Germans Think About Australian Soldiers in WWII? kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6O7hWSflNp3bK8 What WWI Germans Thought About Canadian Soldiers kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGjGo3l9Za-Co6M Thanks for your good comment!

[@Reg_The_Galah]

Wonderful video, makes me proud to be an Australian. Monash saved so many Allied lives, it always boggled my mind how anyone thought charging infantry men into machine gunners was a good idea. I always feel sad thinking about Ww1, utter complete tragedy how many lives lost.

[@EmersusTech]

Reg_The_Galah, thank you for your nice comment!

[@l1a146]

Thanks very much for this video about Monash. Initially he had opposition at some higher levels due to his family background. But as a leader of men there have been none who did more to change the face of modern warfare, insofar that infantrymen were no longer expected to be cannon fodder in desperate infantry only attacks. As an ex Australian Infantry Soldier, thats something we are pretty grateful for. 😂 A brilliant man, whose innovation and meticulous nature, achieved objectives without the anywhere near as much of the wholesale slaughter of his own troops that had been the case previously.

[@EmersusTech]

l1a146, yes, I wanted to shine a light on "the forgotten ANZAC" (according to an Australian source). Most people don't know about WW1 or Sir John Monash and I thought it would be a great story idea. Thank you for your comment!

[@NoName-ds5uq]

I feel the need to add that the opposition towards Monash was largely both because of him being Jewish and Prussian, and remained for quit a long time through his ascendancy. The 2 main protagonists in the effort to remove him were Charles Bean(“Official War Historian”) and a newspaper owner named Keith Murdoch(yes, Rupert’s father). They tried to get him removed by direct correspondence to Prime Minister Billy Hughes, who on meeting Monash in France prior to the Hamel offensive decided that Bean and Murdoch were full of shit. Monash was a great and innovative leader! His story deserves to be told! I’m former RAN(30+ years ago), so I can only try to imagine how it could be in the trenches of WWI or even a modern land battle.

[@StuartTurner582]

thanks for your service 🙏

[@edgaraquino2324]

A very nice video! I liked how you colorized the pictures,the one at 9:07 being a good example...I also enjoyed how you used his image & words to further the narrative...the pictures of his knighthood were most enjoyable as it was a very rare occurrence...the picture of the King in color next to them was a nice bonus....To think, if Monash's methods of CO were used by more imaginative officers like himself, the slaughter would be have been greatly reduced....I hope this particular campaign is run on the sand tables at Sandhurst & at West Point, where Brecourt Manor is run as a perfect example of how to take fortified gun emplacements...Thanks!😊

[@EmersusTech]

Edgar, yes, I do most of the colorizing of the black and white photos. However, I didn't do that particular one. Colorizing and "cleaning up" some of these old photos is extremely labor intensive, but it's really worth it. I may spend an hour on just one photo that shows up for 10 seconds or less in the video. That's not the only reason why creating videos takes so long -- there's the research, organization, audio synching, on and on. There are so many steps that most people wouldn't believe it. But it's a labor of love. I enjoy my own results and actually like to watch my own videos. Thanks for your comment!

[@EmersusTech]

Once again, you get a heart!

[@edgaraquino2324]

@@EmersusTech thanks!...& you are most welcome!

[@pshehan1]

Great presentation. My great grandfather and a great uncle were part of the AIF. I visited Le Hamel and other battlefields on the western front in 2018.

[@EmersusTech]

pshehan1, thank you very much for you compliment! I worked hard on this video!

[@peterhollingbery5159]

A Great man, very under rated. Brilliant mind.

[@EmersusTech]

Peter, thank you very much for commenting and for watching the video!

[@grandpanurgle]

Criminally under viewed video

[@EmersusTech]

grandpanurgle, yes, I don't understand why most of my videos take a long time to get off the launchpad. There are some really good ones that very few people have seen relatively. Thank you for your wonderful comment! You get a heart for it!

[@Wombat-gm4ne]

Monash's took his "All arms strategy" so successfully used at the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918 and used the same tactics at the much bigger Battle of Amiens which included the two of the British Armies crack army Corps the Australian and Canadian Corps fighting side by side for the first time during WW1. Amiens started on 8 August 1918 was a massive success, with the biggest territory gains of any allied offence during WW1 and described by the commander of the German Army as their "black day, the Germans realised they'd lost the war, Amiens was the beginning of the last 100 days to victory. Following the battle of Amiens Monash received spontaneous congratulations from a series of visitors to his head quarters including British munitions minister Winston Churchill, British Imperial Staff Chief Sir Henry Wilson, British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief Supreme allied commander in Chief Marshall Foch and the Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau French finance minister and finally, King George V visited Monash’s Head quarters asked for a sword and knighted Monash there and then, it was the first time since 1743 that a British monarch had conferred a knighthood on the field of battle. At this time Australia had a total population of only 4 million. Monash was born in Australia to German Jewish immigrants spoke and wrote fluent German, was only a part time soldier and was a very accomplished civil engineer in civilian life.

[@EmersusTech]

Wombat-gm4ne, thank you for watching and for your good comment! Obviously, you've read up on Monash! :) You get a heart!

[@seanlander9321]

It’s recorded that Haig wept for a day on meeting Monash, he realised that his way of waging war for years had achieved nothing in comparison with Monash in a few weeks.

[@wheresthegovernance4350]

I have a diary of an Australian Sergeant who was attached to the Intelligence Officer of the 14th Battalion..... some Interesting points in it. I will be in Le Hamel later this year..... Very likely to spend the night in the nearby woods.

[@EmersusTech]

wheresthegovernance4350, I hope they cleared out the mines! :) Thank you for taking the time to comment and for watching! By the way, have you seen my latest video? You may really like it: Why Was World War II Worse Than World War I? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzcYmhvopasp80

[@billrich9722]

Holy shit. That "deep fake" thing with the computer voice was creepy. Cool video. That was one Hell of a battle.

[@EmersusTech]

Bill Rich, I figure people will love it or hate it. Sometimes you have to step out of your boundaries a bit. I wasn't trying to creep anyone out -- but just have it where Sir John Monash speaks to the words, like he was speaking to you directly. Thanks for your compliment! The reaction on that was negative, so I doubt you'll see that in future videos. Thanks for watching!

[@billrich9722]

@@EmersusTech Oh, I wouldn't say to get rid of it. It's creepy, sure. But I think it was mostly creepy because of the chat voice you picked. And even if it's creepy, who cares? It's neat. Do what you like with your channel, man. Be the one to push people outside of their comfort zones for lols. Might get a following for it.

[@seanlander9321]

Interestingly it was Lloyd George who decided with the King that Monash would replace Haig in early 1919; the armistice intervened in what would have been the greatest upheaval in the allied armies since 1914. In particular the Americans would have felt the full brunt of Monash’s contempt for Pershing and his exasperation at their incapacity to achieve anything worthwhile on the battlefield. He would have also boxed in the butcher Currie to stop the waste of Canadian men.

[@EmersusTech]

Sean, I can't speak to what you wrote, but it seems plausible. Thanks for watching and for your comment!

[@michaelhayden5264]

The last soldier/general to be knighted in the field by the King.

[@EmersusTech]

Michael, thank you for your comment!

[@vincentlavallee2779]

Another nice video, although a bit short. I would have liked to hear about what else that group of Australian solders did up to the end of the war, and did they fight alongside with Americans again? I had not known anything about this battle, nor anything about Australians being in WW I. This is Vincent, the one who gave you a very long set of comments on your 'What British Soldiers Thought About American Soldiers in World War II?' episode. Thanks for this link! Got any more on WW I?

[@EmersusTech]

Vincent, I plan on doing more videos on Sir John Monash later. There might be more information about this same group. Here are other titles that you might like: What WWI Germans Thought About Canadian Soldiers kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGjGo3l9Za-Co6M Conscientious Objectors -- World War One kzbin.info/www/bejne/qabVYZaObdV9hNk How Did George Washington's Small Army Defeat the British Empire? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaa8eGqYp72Di9k Should the Continentals Have Retreated From Charlestown in 1780? kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4umo4aqjr2Kga8 American Revolution: Portrait of a Traitor kzbin.info/www/bejne/onSreq1mobKdmtk Russian Japanese War 1905 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYqwl6SCh8yfeJI The Twisted and Tragic Tale of General Douglas MacArthur’s Mistress kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGHbeXSBgJ6ladk Thank you for your comment!

[@markjohnston9017]

Mate you need to read more, Australia was in ww1 from the start.

[@blueycarlton]

Australia fired the first Allied shot in WW1. On declaration of war a German ship the Pflatz? was sailing towards the Heads at Port Phillip Bay trying to escape. It carried documents and staff from the German Embassy in Melbourne. There were forts at the Heads and when the telegram arrived, the fort at Point Nepean fired a shot across the ship's bow. The pilot told the captain to stop as the next shot would be at the ship. That ship was taken over, renamed, and used as a troop transport.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Thanks mate

[@EmersusTech]

Wayne, I enjoyed making the video and appreciate that you liked it!

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@EmersusTech Cheers well done

[@grekiely6245]

Great Video - "tanks" for the recommendation.

[@EmersusTech]

grekiely6245, you're very welcome -- and I like the play on words! Especially for this video!

[@grekiely6245]

@@EmersusTech No problems, you have great content.

[@kimbaldunsmore4633]

Monash was an absolute genius. By all accounts he hated war and learnt after the Gallipoli campaign to achieve objectives quickly with minimum loss of life. An engineer by trade, he also invented modern reinforced concrete able to carry railway and vehicular traffic. Many of his bridges still exist in Australia and his academic work led to an Australian university (and a golf course??) being named for him and also the Melbourne war memorial, a monolithic but beautiful building that is very poignant. He was also a naughty boy and had a mistress through much of his marriage, who was known to his wife!! The shame was that as a German Jew by heritage, he was shunned by elites in Australia - but not by his former troops who adored him - and died relatively young without proper recognition in this country in my view.

[@EmersusTech]

kimbaldunsmore4633, yes, I know about the mistress, but that would take an entire video -- and it's not in context during a "battle video". Thank you for your wonderful comment! You get a heart!

[@sandrajohnstone5813]

Mr Tim Fischer, former Australian Deputy Prime Minister and another legend, now deceased, fought hard to gain more recognition for Monash.

[@blueycarlton]

When Monash died in the 1930s his funeral procession gathered the most people ever to watch it in Australia. He also said when he was child he met the infamous bushranger Ned Kelly in Jerilderie when the Kelly Gang stuck up the bank, robbed it and destroyed debtors mortgage documents.

[@suzannebury3595]

My great grandfather was killed during this battle. He was buried but the Germans bomb the cemetery. So he has no known resting place.

[@EmersusTech]

Suzanne, that's so unfortunate! What country did he fight for?

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

Monash had been to the US before the war & was very impressed with Americans, noting their can do attitude from the beginning. So he was sure they would rise to the occasion with their Australian comrades, especially considering this being their 1st offensive operation, & on 4-7-18 too. He was not disappointed. Using both tanks & aircraft para drops for resupplying the infantry on the attack, something not done on this level before. Also he made a point of regularly smoking the Germans with a little bit of gas, so they got so used to it that they automatically masked up whenever they were smoked, a big handicap. So on D day they were only smoked but they habitually masked up too, really slowing them down. Also used aircraft & artillery to masked the sound of the tanks.

[@EmersusTech]

mickvonbornemann3824, I liked reading your summary of the action and about Monash! For this, you get a heart!

[@seanlander9321]

No Monash was not impressed with the Americans at all. In fact he was furious at their incompetence, which Rawlinson also recognised and wanted them removed from the front as they were not only a danger to themselves, but also those they fought alongside. Monash also had a particular menace for Pershing, who after disobeying his orders at Hamel to run away, nevertheless accepted battle honours with Haig from Foch for the victory.

[@hardyakka6200]

Poms still say Haig and Rawlings planned that battle. They were shown the way by a (cough splutter) Colonial. Monash was knighted not the two before-mentioned losers.

[@EmersusTech]

hardyakka6200, yes, the Aussies still haven't gotten their due in history, imo. You might like these other two videos: What Did Rommel and the Germans Think About Australian Soldiers in WWII? kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6O7hWSflNp3bK8 What British Soldiers Thought About American Soldiers in World War II? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHq3ZYl_lsSUhNU Thanks for your comment!

[@JanLotherington]

My Grandfather fort on the Western Front. He was gassed and lost an eye & had terrible stomach problems all of his life. LEST WE FORGET

[@currawongee1]

Well made doco mate, tks for your work.

[@EmersusTech]

currawongee1, thanks for your compliment! I'll keep it up for viewers like you! :) Have you seen this one? What Did Rommel and the Germans Think About Australian Soldiers in WWII? kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6O7hWSflNp3bK8

[@dannywlm63]

Good video mate, just not into Aussie's today after the Ashes 😂

[@EmersusTech]

Danny, thank you for your good comment! Have you seen this one? What Did Rommel and the Germans Think About Australian Soldiers in WWII? kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6O7hWSflNp3bK8

[@currawongee1]

I can imagine.

[@Andrew-df1dr]

I wonder what Monash would have been like as a Prime Minister. I gather he would have built a lot of things, including a rail line to Melbourne Airport (then Essendon airport).

[@EmersusTech]

Andrew, yes, there's so much named after him that Monash surely could've had a greater influence as a Prime Minister. Thank you for your comment!

[@Thepigfromthepot]

Australians can get shit done under Australian command

[@EmersusTech]

Thepigfromthepot, yes, they can! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@bishop6218]

Nice vid, but my advice would be to drop the AI animated monologues. I find it unnecessary, and honestly creepy AF ! 😮

[@EmersusTech]

bishop6218, I was trying something different to see what people thought about it. This is the only video that I've ever done that on. Thanks for your advice!

[@bishop6218]

@@EmersusTech let’s just say the tech is still underwhelming for now 😉

[@StuartTurner582]

excellent video very proud Australian lest we forget

[@EmersusTech]

Stuart, thank you for your good comment!

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Great info but the creepy CGI of a reanimated dead man talking was just awful, it added nothing, had to bail...

[@EmersusTech]

t.j.payeur5331, sorry you felt that way! Thanks for giving your comment!