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Australian Army officer (1865–1931)

GeneralSir John Monash (; 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian civil engineer and military commander of the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with which he took part in the Gallipoli campaign.

In July 1916, he took charge of the newly raised 3rd Division in north-western France and, in May 1918, became commander of the Australian Corps, at that time the largest corps on the Western Front.

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According to historian A. J. P. Taylor, he was "the only general of creative originality produced by the First World War".

Early life

Monash was born in 58 Dudley Street,^[2]West Melbourne, Victoria,^[3] to Jewish parents, both from Krotoschin in the Prussian province of Posen (now Krotoszyn, Poland).

His birth certificate records his date of birth as 23 June 1865, but that is probably