Australian Civil Engineers - John Monash, Gavan McDonell, George Christian Darbyshire, Arthur Alfred Lynch, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney (Paperback)

Chapters: John Monash, Gavan Mcdonell, George Christian Darbyshire, Arthur Alfred Lynch, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, Frederick Esling, Ernest Macartney de Burgh, Roger Hawken, James Thomas, Gordon Gutteridge, Rowland Rees, Manuel Hornibrook, Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Harding Frew. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD (27 June 1865 8 October 1931) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander of the First World War. Monash was born in Dudley Street, West Melbourne, Victoria, on 27 June 1865, the son of Louis Monash and his wife Bertha, nee Manasse. Both parents were of German Polish Jewish origin (the family name was originally spelt Monasch and pronounced with the emphasis on the 'ash' sound), living in Krotoszyn, Greater Poland, then part of the Prussian Partition. However, the family were German speakers, and some sources describe them as being of German origin. From 1914 until his death Sir John Monash had no good reason to attract attention to his German background. The assumption that his parents were Polish seems to be based on the fact that they originated from a part of Silesia which has been part of Poland since the Second World War. In fact their original home was close to where the German general Erich Ludendorff was born. As might have been expected from a man brought up by cultivated German-Jewish parents who had arrived in Australia barely two years before John's birth, Monash spoke, read and wrote splendid German . In 1874 the family moved to the small town of Jerilderie in the Riverina region of New South Wales, where his father ran a store. Monash later claimed to have met the bushranger Ned Kelly during his raid there in 1879. Monash attended the public school and his in...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=14962