Record ID:
36520019 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 83068782
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18650627
  • West Melbourne (Vic.)
Death:
  • 19311008
  • Toorak (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia Melbourne (Vic.) Victoria
Fields of activity:
  • Chess Piano
Occupations:
  • Soldiers Civil engineers Directors of corporations Civil servants
Used for:
  • Monash, General (John), Sir, 1865-1931
Notes:
  • The Australian victories in France in 1918, 1920: title page (John Monash)
  • War letters of General Monash, 2015: title page (John Monash)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), viewed May 25, 2018: (Sir John Monash (1865-1931), soldier, engineer and administrator, was born on 27 June 1865 in West Melbourne, eldest of three children and only son of Louis Monash (1831-1894) and his wife Bertha, née Manasse; died: 8 October 1931, Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Education: St Stephen's Church of England School (Richmond, Melbourne) ; Jerilderie Public School (NSW) ; Scotch College (Melbourne) ; University of Melbourne. Occupation: colonial militia (Australia) (1884-1900) Victoria, Australia ; public servant (1891-1894) Victoria, Australia ; bridge builder (1894-1902) Victoria, Australia ; civil engineer (1894-1931) Victoria, Australia ; patent attorney (1894-1905) Victoria, Australia ; army officer (1901-1931) Federal, Australia ; company director (1905-1920) Victoria, Australia ; military historian (1918-1918) Victoria, Australia ; Zionist (1919-1931) Victoria, Australia ; public service head (1920-1931) Victoria, Australia ; university vice-chancellor (1923-1931) Victoria, Australia. Military service: World War I (army officer) ; Battle of Hamel, 1918 (commander) ; Battle of Messines, 1917 (commander) ; Battle of Passchendaele, 1917 (commanding officer) ; Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, 1918 (commander) ; Dardanelles campaign, 1915-16 (commander) ; 4th Infantry Brigade (commander, 1914-1916) ; 3rd Division (commander, 1916).Legacies: Monash (Canberra suburb) (eponym) ; Monash Freeway (Melbourne) (eponym) ; Monash Medical Centre (Melbourne) (eponym) ; Monash University (eponym) ; Sir John Monash Centre (Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, France) (eponym) ; Sir John Monash Dve (Caulfield, Melbourne) (eponym.)) Workplaces: Melbourne Harbor Trust ; State Electricity Commission of Victoria ; University of Melbourne Council) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/monash-sir-john-7618
Local system number:
  • (VSL)11953687
  • 000001527952
  • abv02703245
  • (AuCNL)378080
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng ANL VSL rda DLC VMoU VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc