b'99Ex 695A summary of his official biography: then Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, arrived at the front before Soldier, Engineer and Administrator. He was born in Dudleythe Battle of Hamel prepared to replace Monash, but after Street, West Melbourne, the first of three children of Louisconsulting the senior officers, and seeing the superb power Monash (formerly Monasch of Jewish Prussian origin) andof planning and execution he displayed, Hughes changed his wife Bertha, ne Manasse. He was educated at Scotchhis mind. The official Australian War Historian, Charles Bean College, and at 16 was dux of the school. He graduatedwas not a fan of Monashs early military career, but he noted from the University of Melbourne: B.A. 1887; master of civilthat Monash was more effective the higher he rose in the engineering in 1893; in law 1895, and doctor of engineeringarmy, when he had a greater opportunity of utilising his skill in 1921. He married Hannah Victoria Moss in 1891 and theyfor meticulous planning and organising, and to innovate in the had one daughter, Bertha. He worked as a civil engineer,area of technology and tactics. On 12 August 1918 he was introduced reinforced concrete to Australian engineeringknighted KCB on the battlefield by King George V. He returned practice, was engineer for a bridge over the Yarra River andto Australia on 26 December 1919 to a tumultuous welcome took a leading part in his profession becoming a presidentand he filled many important positions in his post-army career, of the Victorian Institute of Engineers, and a member of theincluding: head of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria; Institution of Civil Engineers, London. His involvement inVice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne until his death; army service spanned 36 years from 1884 (when he joinedpresident of the Rotary Club; one of the principal organisers the university militia unit) until 1920 (in his role in-charge ofof the annual ANZAC day commemorations; chairman of repatriation of troops after WWI). When war broke out inthe constructing body of the Shrine of Remembrance; and, 1914, he became a full-time army officer despite his Germanpresident of the Australasian Association for the Advancement background, and he was sent to Egypt as commander ofof Science. In the 1920s Monash was broadly accepted, as the 4th Infantry Brigade. His service can be summarised asthe greatest living Australian. He died at his home Iona and follows: Gallipoli campaign; Battle of Messines; Battle ofthere was a State Funeral with crowds of at least 25,000. Broodseinde; First Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of Hamel;He was buried in the Jewish Section of Brighton General Battle of Amiens; Battle of the Hindenburg Line. His armyCemetery.service could not be classed as smooth, and at one stage the$10,00015,000'