Sir John Monash

Sir John Monash in his soldier's uniform

He looks rather scary doesn't he :P...

Did you know that Sir John Monash is on the 100 dollar note?

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Sir John Monash died of heart disease in Melbourne on 8 October 1931, aged 66. He was given a state funeral attended by over 250,000 mourners.

Sources

http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/AUS_bio_monash.htm

http://monash.edu/about/history/sir-john-monash.html

The Life of Sir John Monash (1825-1931)

Sir John Monash Statue, 1950, by William Leslie Bowles, courtesy of City of Melbourne.

Achievements

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• Chairman of the graduates association
• President of the University Club
• Joined the university council as an elected member.
• Prominent in the Boy Scout movement
• President of the Victorian Institute of Engineers.
• Leading the annual Anzac Day march in 1925.
• Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University in 1923
• President of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science from 1924-26.

• 1929-- He was given the highest honour, the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal by Institute of Engineers, Australia
• 1931-- He was given the Kernot Memorial Medal by the University of Melbourne

Education

Monash was educated at Scotch Collage, Melbourne, where he displayed intelligence all subjects but especially in mathematics. He then studied arts, engineering and law at the university of Melbourne and involved himself in student politics, being a co-founder of the Melbourne university union. In 1884, he was one of the first to join the university company of the forth Battalion, Victorian rifles.

Birth and Family

The Engineer

Sir John Monash is one of Australia's greatest military commanders. He was born in the Western part of Melbourne on the 27th of June, 1865. His father Louis Monash immigrated to Melbourne from Prussia in 1853. On a return visit to his home country in 1863, Louis met and married Bertha Manasse and the couple returned to Melbourne in 1864.

The Soldier

In the 1890s, Monash started with the Harbor Trust, which aim to improve access for shipping to Melbourne. And at the same time he also studied part time.

He completed the municipal surveyors course. He began studying the water supply engineers course and also completed his Bachelor of Arts.

In 1894 he started private practice as a consulting engineer and graduated in Arts and Law in 1895.

Monash soon became one of Australia's foremost experts in reinforced concrete for bridges, railways and other large construction projects.

After the First World War, he returned to engineering and became Chairman of Victoria's new State Electricity Commission.

By 1913 he was a soldier with knowledge of staff work, transport, supply, engineering and intelligence.

In 1914, the First World War started. He was among the first under fire at Gallipoli and was the only Australian brigade commander among the original troops not killed or evacuated as wounded.

By 1918, he was in charge of the entire Australian Corps. In this same year King George V knighted him on the battlefield for his role in the Battle of Hamel Hill. Lots of people thought that he was the foremost Allied military commander of the First World War.