Battle Instructions No. 21
NOTIFICATION OF DATE AND TIME OF BATTLE
1. Reference paragraph 1 of General Staff Memo. No. AC/42, dated 7th instant, ZERO will be 4.20 a.m. 8th instant.
INDEX
Administrative Services, [12].
Aeroplanes first used to carry small arms ammunition, [59].
As noise camouflage, [105].
Air Force, [13], [171].
Albert, [30], [36], [79].
Allied Offensive, Aug. 8th:
Conference at Flexicourt, [73].
Outline of plan, [73]-[80].
Three phases, [84].
Disposition of brigades, [93]-[94].
Artillery calibration, [102].
Tanks, [104].
Armoured cars, [107].
Intelligence Service, [112].
Air Squadron, [113].
Day before battle, [119].
Zero hour, 4.20 a.m., [120].
Guns begin, [121].
First phase completed, [122].
"Outwards" telegrams, [123].
Enemy completely surprised, [125].
Third Corps failed to reach objective, [126].
Armoured cars, sensational report, [127].
Guns and booty captured, [129].
Ludendorff's comments, [130].
General meeting at Villers-Bretonneux, [132].
The King at Bertangles, [132].
American Army's first great attack, [206], [259].
First offensive battle, Hamel, [59].
Second Corps, [235].
To join Fourth British Army, [236], [243], [254].
1,200 taken prisoners, [262].
131st Regt., [136], [143].
27th Div., [275], [278].
30th Div., [275], [278].
33rd Div., [52].
Amiens, defence of, [26] et seq.
Anzac, First and Second Corps, [7].
Corps, abolition of, [9].
Day, 3rd anniversary, [37].
Arcy Wood, [161], [163].
Armistice requested by enemy, [280].
Army Corps improvised, [2].
Constitution and scope, [3].
Artillery barrage, [228]-[229].
Classification of, [12].
Assevillers, [221], [247].
Aubigny, [31].
Australian Army Corps constituted, [9].
United, [10].
Australian Corps Headquarters, Bertangles, [35].
Australian Soldier's high moral, [288].
Adaptability, [291].
Instinct for "square deal," 292.
Australian Staff watchword, "Efficiency," 295.
Australia's five Divisions, [5].
Authie, [25].
Bapaume, [198].
Basseux, [24].
Battles on grand scale finished, [281].
Beaurevoir, [218], [258], [276].
Bell, Maj.-Gen. John, [52], [136].
Bellenglise, [219].
Captured, [260].
Bellicourt taken, [261].
Bellicourt Tunnel, [219], [237].
Bertangles, Australian Corps H.Q., [35], [52], [132].
Biaches, [198].
Bingham, Lt.-Col., [106].
Birdwood, Gen., [9], [36], [40], [132].
Birdwood, Gen. Sir William:
Commands First Anzac Corps, [7].
Appointed Commander Australian Imperial Force, [10].
Appointed Commander Fifth British Army, [10], [40], [209].
Blamey, Brig.-Gen., [296].
Bony captured, [267].
Bouchavesnes, [182].
Bourlon Wood, [259].
Braithwaite, Lieut.-Gen., [204], [221].
Brancourt, [259].
Bray, [137], [148], [155], [158], [195].
Brie, [196], [198].
Brigade reductions, [15].
British Fifth Army, [40], [219].
Brown, Corpl. W., captures officer and 11 men, [66].
Bryce, Lt.-Col., [106].
Bussy, [62].
Butler, Gen., Third Corps, [73], [136], [221].
Byng, Gen., [27], [134].
Calibration, [102].
Cambrai, [259].
Canadians, [73], [75], [76], [115], [122], [129], [133], [134], [136], [139], [140], [198], [259].
Canadian Troops, fixed constitution, [5].
Cannan, Brig.-Gen., [27].
Cappy, [137], [157], [166].
Captive Balloon Service, [14].
Carter, Lieut.-Col. E. J., [108].
Cavalry first employed, [201].
Cerisy, [136].
Cessation of hostilities, [281].
Chamier, [22].
Château-Thierry, [72].
End of German offensive, [72].
Chipilly, [126], [136], [137].
Chuignes, [152], [156].
Churchill, Mr. Winston, [209].
Clemenceau, M.:
Speech to troops after Hamel battle, [62].
After Aug. 8th, [132].
Cléry, [170]-[180].
Combles, [198].
Commanders and Staffs, [16]-[17].
Congreve, Gen., his first order, [26].
Contact aeroplanes, [171].
Cook, Sir Joseph, [55].
Corps Cavalry, [11].
Corps Commander's responsibilities, [4].
Corps Conferences, [150].
Corps Signal Troops, [11].
Corps Troops, [11].
Couin, [25].
Courage, Brig.-Gen., [50], [106], [222].
Couturelle, [24].
Cox, Maj.-Gen. Sir H. W., [9].
Crossing the Somme, plan for, [178].
Cummings, Brig.-Gen., [29].
Curlu, [170].
Currie, Gen., [73], [132], [140].
Dernancourt, [31], [33].
Difficulties of Army in retreat, [280].
Disorganized British retreat, [23].
Division, the fighting unit, [2].
Division I., [18], [34], [40], [43], [73], [117], [134], [139], [140], [146], [152], [166], [203], [205], [221], [232], [243], [281].
Last fight, [233].
Division II., [18], [34], [40], [43], [65], [67], [71], [86], [115], [122], [135], [139], [146], [165], [170], [184], [257], [266], [270], [275], [277], [279].
Last fight, [279].
Division III., [18], [20], [31], [37], [40], [53], [86], [115], [122], [126], [137], [142], [146], [155], [158], [165], [170], [184], [191], [200], [201], [205], [235], [253], [261], [263], [265], [268], [270].
Last fight, [270].
Division IV., [18], [24], [30], [33], [65], [89], [115], [117], [126], [137], [146], [164], [203], [205], [221], [232], [233], [243], [281].
Last fight, [233].
Division V., [18], [34], [65], [76], [89], [115], [134], [146], [165], [169], [184], [193], [235], [253], [261], [262], [267].
Last fight, [270].
Doullens, population prepare to evacuate, [23].
First move, [22]-[23].
Dummy Tanks, [223].
Efficient Army more potent than League of Nations, [298].
Elles, Gen., [44], [221].
End of German offensive, [72].
Enemy attack in the South, July 15th, [72].
Comments on our successes, [66]-[67].
Discover our movement South, [116].
Move from Russian to Western Front, [20].
"On the run," [168].
Propaganda, [160].
Reserves melting away, [42].
Reserves absorbed, [206].
Secure our "Recruiting
Cable," [159].
Withdraws in disorder, [170].
Engineers, Companies of, [12].
Estries, [258].
Eterpigny, [196].
Etinehem, [137].
Fairfax, Lieut.-Col. Ramsay-, [106].
Farewell Order to Third Division, [41].
Farewell Order, [282].
Feuillancourt, [185].
Feuillères, [137].
Fifth Army defensive unduly attenuated, [23].
Fifth British Army, [21].
First Australian Division, [5].
First British Army attack, Aug. 26th, [198].
First Order from 10th Corps, [25].
Flamicourt, [191].
Flanders' liquid mud, [18], [20].
Flexicourt Conference, [73].
Foch, Marshal, appointed Supreme Commander, [37]; [142], [200].
Fontaine, [169].
Foott, Brig.-Gen., [196].
Forty-sixth Imperial Division, [260].
Foucaucourt, [169].
Fourth Army enlarged, [204].
British flank with French, [37].
Fourth and Fifth Australian Divisions, [6].
Framerville, [135].
Franvillers, [27], [33].
Fraser, Brig.-Gen., [173], [222].
French Army's different outlook, [71].
Frevent, [23].
"Fuse 106" as wire cutter, [257].
Garenne Wood, [157].
Gellibrand, Maj.-Gen., [268].
German attack, March 21st, 1918, [21].
Propaganda, [160].
Withdrawal general on all fronts, Sept. 4th, [205].
Germany's "Black Day," [130].
Crack regiments opposed to Australians, [183].
Surrender due to military defeat, [287].
Determining cause, breach of Hindenburg defences, [287].
Gillemont Farm, [251], [267].
Glasgow, Maj.-Gen., [158], [221].
Godley, Lieut.-Gen. Sir A., commands Second Anzac Corps, [7], [132], [136], [199], [204].
Gouy, [262].
Grimwade, Brig.-Gen., [30].
Haig, Brig.-Gen. Neil, [201].
Field Marshal, [54], [62], [132], [209], [250].
Hamel, proposed operation against, [44]-[48].
Battle of, planned, [51].
Zero fixed, [56].
Over in 93 minutes, [56].
Official commentary, [57].
Americans' first offensive battle, [59].
No gas shells used, [60].
Congratulatory messages, [61].
M. Clemenceau's speech, [62]-[3].
Dinner at Amiens to celebrate victory, [63]-[64].
End of British defensive, [64].
Hamel Wood, [33], [39], [44], [56].
Hangard, [34], [36].
Hargicourt, Zero hour, 5.20 a.m. Sept. 8th, [226].
Red line reached before 10 o'clock, [232].
Outpost line captured, [232].
Haut Allaines, [200].
Hautcloque, [23].
Hazebrouck, [35].
Headquarters of Army Corps, [11].
Hebuterne, [25].
Heilly, [28].
Hem, [170].
Herleville, [152].
Hill 90, [157].
Hill 104, [33], [36], [65].
Hindenburg Line, [199].
Purpose of, [214].
St. Quentin-Cambrai section, [215].
Germans' elaborate system of trenches, [217].
Hargicourt line, [218].
Capture of plans of German defence scheme, [219].
Plan for attacking, [221].
Machine gun barrage, [223].
Dummy tanks, [223].
Tapes for Infantry start line, [224].
Direction boards, [225].
Plan for further advance, [236]-[240].
America's Second Corps in battle front, [242].
Australian and American Divisions, [254].
Mustard gas first used, [256].
Destroying wire entanglements, [256].
Disposition of Divisions, [258].
Two phases, [258].
Zero hour, 5.50 a.m. Sept. 29th, [259].
Fifth Australians hung up, [261].
Americans held up, [261].
Forget to mop up, [262].
Change of plan, [264].
Enemy relinquish tunnel defences, [268].
Collapse of the whole defences, [279].
Hobbs, Maj.-Gen., [108], [169], [193].
Hughes, W. M., [55].
Message from, [61], [281].
Hunn, Maj. A. S., [210].
Infantry advance behind barrage, [229].
Infantry Brigade reductions, [15].
"Instantaneous" fuse, [257].
Joncourt, [258], [267].
July 18th, French and American counter-stroke, [72].
Kavanagh, Gen., Cavalry Corps, [73], [132].
King, the, at Bertangles, [132].
Knob, the, [267].
Knoll, the, [267].
Labour Corps, [12].
La Flaque, [129].
La Neuville, [155].
Last Australian battle in Great War, [279].
La Verguier, [232].
League of Nations less potent than efficient Army, [298].
"Leap Frog" tactics, [81].
Le Cateau, [281].
Le Catelet, [218], [261].
Leslie, Brig.-Gen. W. B., [9].
Lewis, Maj.-Gen., [246].
Lewis Gun detachments, [91].
"Liaison Force," [143].
Lihons, [135].
Losses, comparison of, [289].
Ludendorff's comments on Aug. 8th attack, [130].
Lyon, Lt.-Col., [106].
Maclagan, Maj.-Gen., [24], [26], [30], [52], [136], [221], [243], [247].
McNicoll, Brig.-Gen., [24], [28].
March 22nd, 1918, first move, [21].
Marett Wood, [29].
Martin, Brig.-Gen., [185].
Marwitz, Gen. von der, [281].
Maurepas, [198].
Max (Prince) of Baden, [280].
Mechanical Transport, [11].
Méricourt, [133], [139].
Mills's grenades, [248].
Minor battles begun, [37].
Result, [38]-[39].
Monash, Lieut.-Gen., Sir John:
In command First Australian Div., [5].
Third Australian Div., [6].
Australian Army Corps, [10].
17th Imperial Div., [16].
32nd Imperial Div., [16].
27th American Div., [16].
30th American Div., [16].
Without orders, [23].
Honoured by the King, [132].
Hands over command to General Read, [279].
Mondicourt, [24].
Monster German Naval 15-inch gun captured, [161].
Montbrehain, [278].
Last Australian battle, [279].
Montgomery, [132].
Mont St. Martin, [275].
Mont St. Quentin, [177], [182].
Second Prussian Guards defend, [183].
Captured, [184], [193].
Monument Wood, [67].
Mopping up, [229], [248].
Result of neglecting, [252], [262].
Morain, M., entertains British and French Army officers after Hamel, [64].
Moral v. material, [279].
Motor Ambulance Corps, [12].
Mound, the, [78].
Mullens, Maj.-Gen., letter of appreciation, [31].
Mustard gas, [78], [255].
Nauroy, [218], [263], [267].
Nielles-lez-Blequin, [20].
Noise camouflage, [105].
Nollet, Gen., [164].
Noyons, [198].
Officers and men, relations between, [293].
Ommiécourt, [137].
O'Ryan Maj.-Gen., [246].
Partington, Major, [106].
Pas, [25].
Péronne, [148], [182].
Enemy defence of, [183].
Taken, [191].
Poulainville, [129].
Prince Max of Baden, [280].
Prisoners, treatment of, [210].
Excuses for surrender, [213].
Cages, [209].
"Pigeons" employed to gain information, [211].
Proyart, [139].
Prussian Guards hold Mont St. Quentin, [183].
Quennemont Farm, [251], [263].
Ramicourt, [277].
Ramsay-Fairfax, Lieut.-Col., [106].
Rawlinson, Gen. Lord, [35]-[44], [52], [72], [73], [96], [132], [166], [181], [192], [221], [235], [236], [241], [250], [274], [278].
Read, Maj.-Gen. G. W., [243], [278], [279].
Reorganization of Brigades, [272]-[3].
Repatriation of Australian Forces, [282].
Results, analysis of, [284] et seq.
Rheims, [259].
Robertson, Maj. P. R., [142].
Roisel, [204].
Rosenthal, Brig.-Gen., [24], [43], [67], [169], [192], [278].
Rosières, [129].
Roye, [133], [141], [198].
Sailly-Laurette, [29].
Sailly-le-Sec, [31].
Second Australian Division, [5].
"Set-piece" operations, [226].
"Siegfried Line," [214].
Skene, Brig.-Gen. P. G. M., [9].
Smoke shells, [169].
Smyth, Sir N. M., V.C., [9].
Soissons, German withdrawal, [78].
Somme Canal, [174].
Line of, [148].
Enemy retreat, [182].
Somme, North, [34].
Plan for crossing, [178].
South, [34].
St. Christ, [198].
St. Denis, [190].
St. Gratien, [33].
St. Mihiel Salient attack, Sept. 11th, [206].
St. Quentin Canal, [216], [232].
Tanks, [14], [44], [48], [49], [91], [104], [276].
Improved type, [48].
Dummy, [223].
"Star," [91].
Teamwork, [150].
Third Australian Division, [6].
Third British Army attack Aug. 21st, [154], [198], [221].
Time-table for successive Army engagements impossible, [153].
Tivoli Wood, [170].
Toulorge, Gen., [42].
Treux Wood, [29].
Tunnellers, [12].
Underground shelters, galleries and dug-outs, German, [249].
Vaire Wood, [39], [56].
Vaux, [49].
Vauxvillers, [133], [135].
Verdun, [259].
Vermandovillers, [169].
Villers-Bretonneux, [33], [36], [37], [64], [67], [78].
Visitors to Corps, [208].
Lord Milner, [209].
Mr. Winston Churchill, [209].
Wackett, Capt., Australian Flying Corps, [60].
Walker, Maj.-Gen. Sir H. B., [9].
Warneton, early 1918, [18].
Whippet tanks, [276].
Wiancourt, [277].
Wilson, Sir Henry, [132].
Wisdom, Brig.-Gen., [143].
Ypres, [260].
Zero hour, Aug. 8th, [120].
Hamel, [56].
Hargicourt, [226].
Hindenburg Line, [259].
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