Geoff Barr - Military Discipline: Policing the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1914 - 1918

THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927 , AND REGULATIONS AND ORDERS for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets. H.J.Green, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1927. Para. 304. (1), p. 126. No1, p. 5.

CHAPTER 1

Government Gazette, British Administration - German New Guinea, 13 th October 1914,

Vol. No1, p. 5.

National Archives of Australia (NAA): CRS A6006, Roll 1, Cabinet documents 1914.See also Australian War Memorial - Web-Site.

S.S. Mackenzie, THE AUSTRALIANS AT RABAUL , Publisher, Angus & Robertson Ltd, Sydney, 1938, p. 4.

Australian War Memorial (AWM) Commonwealth Forces, Military Orders , Melbourne, Department of Defence, 1915, Order No 10, part 2.

Mackenzie, p. 4.

AWM33 10/1, Despatches from Colonel W Holmes DSO VD, Commander of Australian

Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and Administrator, Rabaul, p. 4.

AWM33 33/4 British Administration - German New Guinea, Government Gazette. Volume 1, Number 5 (Rabaul: Government Printer, 15 December 1914).

AWM33 64/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 11: Transfer of the Military Administratorship [Arrival of Tropical Force to relieve AN & MEF; percentage of original AN and MEF who re-enlisted in the AIF]

AWM33 33/4 Government Gazette, No1, 15 October 1914, Graves of the Fallen.

AWM33 1 AN & MEF New Guinea. Diary of events in connection with the Australian Naval and Military Expedition under the command of Colonel W Holmes DSO VD (10 August 1914 - 22 February 1915)

AWM33 64/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 11: Transfer of the Military Administratorship [Arrival of Tropical Force to relieve AN & MEF; percentage of original AN and MEF who re-enlisted in the AIF]

AWM Military Orders 1915 , No. 451, Captain De Bucy, appointed APM 18.8.1914,

transferred to base Depot, Egypt, 22.2.1915.

AWM4, War Diaries, General Headquarters 1st Division, 1914. See also AWM10, 4332/13/32.

AWM190, sections 1, 2, 3, Return records, AN&MEF, show only name and date of return and not rank or position held.

Carl Weller , The Onset of The War in German New Guinea , Journal, German Postal Special, Vol. 1, JanFeb, 1999, Published German Philately Society, Edited by John Kevin Doyle, p. 40.

AWM33 10/2 German New Guinea. Despatches from Colonel W Holmes DSO VD, Commander of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and Administrator, Rabaul (14 October - 13 November 1914) [Including Intelligence Report - Nauru, by Captain R J A Travers; capture of German yacht KOMET].

AWM33 9 German New Guinea. Reports by Colonel W Holmes DSO VD, Commander of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (27 August 1914 - 5 January 1915). See also AWM51, item 104 - Flogging of Rev W H Cox at Namatanai, New Ireland, October 1914, subsequent action taken and international consequences (includes photographs); AWM25 item 707/23 part 1 - Australian Naval and Military Expedition [AN & MEF], Routine Order No 23, By Lieutenant Colonel W W Russell Watson, Commanding, Rabaul, 29 November 1914.

NAA: Series No, A1, Control Symbol, A1925/8405, 30 November 1914, letter to the

Minister for Defence, from the Administrator.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

AWM33 65/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 11: Transfer of the Military Administratorship [Arrival of Tropical Force to relieve AN & MEF; percentage of original AN and MEF who re-enlisted in the AIF]

NAA: A1, 1925/8405.

AWM33 63/5 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 7: The Establishment of Military Administration [Crimes, prisoners, Courts of Inquiry (22 September 1914 - 5 January 1915)]

Ibid. Letter from Base Records Office, Victoria, The Historian, Tuggeranong, Federal

Territory, Via Queanbeyan, NSW. See also NAA: A1, 1925/8405.

AWM33 33/2 German New Guinea. Diary of Kaewieng Expedition (16 October - 1 November 1914)

Ibid.

AWM33 10/2 German New Guinea. Despatches from Colonel W Holmes DSO VD, Commander of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and Administrator, Rabaul (14 October - 13 November 1914) [Including Intelligence Report - Nauru, by Captain R J A Travers; capture of German yacht KOMET]

3 AWM33 65/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 13: Work of the Australian Army Medical Corps (October-November 1914)

AWM33 12/11 Reports and memoranda concerning administration of German New Guinea from Colonel S A Pethebridge CMG, Administrator, Rabaul to Department of Defence (December 1915) [Including amendment to prohibition on corporal punishment of natives; outbreak of measles on troopship TE ANAU; order by Administrator concerning copra export; treasury statement as at 30 November 1915]

AWM27 303/30 [Organisation of Arms:] Mounted Troops, see Circular Memo 25-9-1915.

AWM33 65/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 13: Work of the Australian Army Medical Corps (October-November 1914)

AWM4 War Diaries, 5th Division (1916).

AWM33 66/7 Papers and correspondence collected by S S Mackenzie for history writing Headquarters, Rabaul.

AWM33 64/4 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 11: Transfer of the Military Administratorship [Arrival of Tropical Force to relieve AN & MEF; percentage of original AN and MEF who re-enlisted in the AIF]

Ibid.

AWM Military Orders 1915 . Order No, 664 , part 2.

AWM33 33/4 British Administration - German New Guinea, Government Gazette. Volume 1, Number 5 Rabaul: Government Printer, 15 December 1914, p, 4.

AWM33 64/5 Miscellaneous material used for writing Volume 10, Australian Official History, arranged by chapter. Chapter 12: The Early Stages of the Pethebridge Administration [Battalion Order No 128 by Colonel SA Pethebridge, CMG, AN & MEF; reports on looting and charges and finding of General Court-martial]

NAA: A5522, M387, Court-martial, re Offences at Rabaul New Guinea.

AWM27 315/2, see also, AWM93 27/1/113, Trophies Capture by 3rd L.H.Regt in Palestine.

National Library of Australia (NLA), The British Australasian , London, 1905-1924, Nq 919.3 AUS, 9 August 1917.

NAA: A5954, 1731/7. CONFIDENTIAL. No.402 M. Colonial Military Law Application of Army Act to colonial troops when employed on active service with Imperial troops, pp. 1, 2.

Ibid p. 6.

Ibid. p. 6.

Ibid pp. 1, 6.

THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927 , Para. 304. (1), p. 20.

Ibid., p. 7.

Commonwealth Acts, THE ACTS of THE PARLIAMENT , of the Commonwealth of Australia, Albert J Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria, 1913, The Defence Act, VOL. XI, 1903-1912, pp. 269, 270.

AWM10 4308/5/6 APPLICATION OF THE ARMY ACT, to A.I.F.

A B Facey, A Fortunate Life , Penguin Books Australia, 1981, pp. 238, 239.

AWM25 807/1 Correspondence, messages and signals, offences 7/8/1917.

F.W Taylor and T.A Cusak, NULLI SECUNDUS, A History of the Second Battalion, A.I.F. 1914-1919 , Publisher, John Burridge Military Antiques, 91 Shenion Road, Swanbourne 6010, Western Australia, p. 25.

Commonwealth Acts, THE ACTS of THE PARLIAMENT , of the Commonwealth of Australia, Albert J Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria, 1916, The Defence Act, VOL. XIII, 1914-1915, pp. 261, 262.

NAA: Melbourne Office, MP84/1, 1856/7/557, Application to be called for Provost Staff, see

also, Military Orders, 1914, No. 14.

NAA: Melbourne Office, MP84/1, 1856/7/557, Application to be called for Provost Staff.