Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in both Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life and career of "Red Robbie," it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and the professional officer corps. It is also the first account of the occupation of Japan from a senior officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second World War. This episode is set in the context of the continuing relationship between Britain and the Pacific dominions.
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Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colourful and controversial generals. Australian Brass not only charts the life of 'Red Robbie', it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and professional officer corps.
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Horace Robertson was a unique Australian, and brought to his military career the qualities of detailed planning and leadership at a time when they were most needed. He did not play the internal political game which had brought some of his colleagues to higher rank earlier than Robertson, but concentrated on meticulous training and development of the troops under his command. Jeffrey Grey's biography reminds us of the important role that Robertson played during and after the Second World War, and highlights the legacy which Robertson left for future generations of military leaders. As he should be, he is remembered through the naming of the forward Darwin Army Base, after one of our most important and successful soldiers.
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Horace Clement Hugh Robertson was born on 29 October 1894, in Warrnambool on the coast of western Victoria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reinforcement depot, light horse brigades, light horse regiment, staff corps, mounted brigades, district bases, base organisation, liaison mission, armd div, war diary, postwar army, armoured division, armoured formations, defence cooperation, machine gun section, base troops, horse regiments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, British Commonwealth, Middle East, United Kingdom, First World War, Second World War, Western Australia, Red Robbie, United States, Australian Imperial Force, Military Board, Korean War, New Guinea, New South Wales, Yeomanry Mounted Division, Small Arms School, Anzac Mounted Division, Gavin Long, General Robertson, Western Front, Far East, Royal Military College, Cavalry Division, George Vasey, Northern Territory New!
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Horace Clement Hugh Robertson was born on 29 October 1894, in Warrnambool on the coast of western Victoria. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reinforcement depot, light horse brigades, light horse regiment, staff corps, mounted brigades, district bases, base organisation, liaison mission, armd div, war diary, postwar army, armoured division, armoured formations, defence cooperation, machine gun section, base troops, horse regiments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, British Commonwealth, Middle East, United Kingdom, First World War, Second World War, Western Australia, Red Robbie, United States, Australian Imperial Force, Military Board, Korean War, New Guinea, New South Wales, Yeomanry Mounted Division, Small Arms School, Anzac Mounted Division, Gavin Long, General Robertson, Western Front, Far East, Royal Military College, Cavalry Division, George Vasey, Northern Territory New!
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- Fall of General Gordon Bennett by A. B. Lodge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Korean War (Twentieth-Century Wars (Palgrave Paperback)) by Peter Lowe in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- British Part in the Korean War by Anthony Farrar-Hockley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Commanders: Australian Military Leadership in the Twentieth Century by D. M. Horner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- John Monash: A Biography by Geoffrey Serle in Back Matter
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