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    Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (18 September 1889 – 26 September 1959) was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman...
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    General Erwin Rommel. The garrison, commanded by Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, included the 9th Australian Division (20th, 24th, and 26th Brigades)...
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  • Anderson Morshead (c. 1774–1831), Irish British Army officer Henry Morshead (1882–1931), English surveyor, explorer and mountaineer Leslie Morshead (1889–1959)...
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    mostly of the 9th Australian Division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead, was besieged in the North African port of Tobruk by German and Italian...
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    were conducted by the Australian I Corps, under Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead, against Imperial Japanese forces who had been occupying the island...
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    1941 Wynter became ill and was replaced as divisional commander by Leslie Morshead. By February 1941, 9th Division headquarters had been relocated to...
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    commands then went to two CMF soldiers, Major Generals Gordon Bennett and Leslie Morshead. The Second AIF's main strength consisted of a Corps Headquarters and...
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    notable commanders, including Sydney Rowell, Sir Edmund Herring and Sir Leslie Morshead. General Sir Thomas Blamey also commanded the force in 1942 while based...
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  • Henrietta Anderson-Morshead in 1859 who conveyed the ancestral lands, including Leslie House and the Barony and Lordship of Leslie to trustees in 1873...
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  • were charged with the defence of Tobruk under the command of General Leslie Morshead. Hoping to survive against overwhelming odds for two months, the garrison...
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    agreed to act as caretakers. Australian forces of I Corps under general Leslie Morshead had landed in Borneo in May 1945, to destroy the Imperial Japanese...
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    Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, Ahmad Tajuddin and Major General George Wootten at Bubungan Dua Belas on 29 June 1945...
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  • Susannah Jane Anderson Morshead, daughter of Henry Anderson Morshead, and they had issue: Henrietta Anderson Morshead Leslie, 17th Countess of Rothes...
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    component. For brigade commanders he chose Brigadiers Arthur Allen, Leslie Morshead and Stanley Savige. He selected Brigadier Edmund Herring to command...
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    attempted to take the port but the 9th Australian Division under General Leslie Morshead, resolutely defended the port. The Italians were slow to provide blueprints...
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    Evelyn Leslie, 15th Earl of Rothes (1809–1841) George William Evelyn Leslie, 16th Earl of Rothes (1835–1859) Henrietta Anderson Morshead Leslie, 17th Countess...
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    Captain Leslie Morshead in a trench at Lone Pine after the battle, looking at Australian and Ottoman dead on the parapet...
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    000 Commonwealth troops, commanded by Australian Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead. Hoping to catch the defenders off-guard, Rommel launched a failed...
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    Japanese, such as Keightley and suggested that Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, an Australian who had been carrying out the New Guinea and Borneo...
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  • criminal Lewis Moran – criminal Mark Moran – criminal Bob Morley – actor Leslie Morshead – army officer and businessman Dame Elisabeth Murdoch – philanthropist...
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  • officeholders in the movement) included Archibald Gilchrist, Bill McCann, and Leslie Morshead. Five ships travelled from England to Australia during the Big Brother...
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    1 May and 21 July, the Australian I Corps, under Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, attacked Japanese forces occupying the island. Allied naval and air...
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    release and Blamey convened a court of enquiry under Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, and Major Generals Victor Stantke and George Wootten, which found...
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  • fighting the Japanese, and instead proposed Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead for the command. The details of the corps' deployment were still being...
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    Retrieved 17 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia. "Bank Job for Morshead". Barrier Miner. Vol. LXVII, no. 20, 050. Broken Hill, Australia. 27 November...
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  • Royal Navy officer Richard Minifie – fighter pilot and flying ace Sir Leslie Morshead – soldier (MGS staff member) Sir Frank Kingsley Norris – military officer...
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    1 May and 21 July, the Australian I Corps, under Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead, attacked Japanese forces occupying the island. Allied naval and air...
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    Douglas MacArthur Ground Forces Australian I Corps (Lieutenant-Gen Leslie Morshead) Australian 7th Division (Major-Gen Edward Milford) Australian 9th...
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    forces gained the ascendency. By October 1944, Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead had assumed command of the corps. Finally, it was decided that the...
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    General Erwin Rommel. Australia's 9th Division, while well led by Leslie Morshead, was not yet fully trained, and was suffering from a shortage of transport...
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