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	Major General Sir William Bridges
		William Throsby Bridges was born at Greenock, Scotland, on 18 February 1861, the son of a English Royal Navy captain stationed there at the time.
		Bridges was chosen to command the 1st Division, becoming the first Australian (and the first attendee of Kingston) to be promoted to major general, and the first to command a division.
		Bridges not only neglected Sellheim's command, starving it of the officers he needed to staff it, he gave him no support whatsoever in turf battles against the British, he used it as a dumping ground for men he disliked.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/bridges.html (1543 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir William Bridges
		Born on 18 February 1861 at Greenock in Scotland the son of a Royal Navy captain, Bridges was educated at Ryde, the Royal Navy School in London and at Trinity College in Ontario.
		Bridges was obliged on 6 May to move his headquarters further back after the Turks succeeded in shelling it.
		Bridges was afforded a state funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne and buried on 3 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/bridges.htm (671 words)

	Major General William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG
		William Bridges, the first commandant of the Military College Duntroon and the first commander of the AIF, was killed by a sniper early in the Gallipoli campaign.
		Bridges was involved in the drawing up of a defence bill for the amalgamated colonial defence forces, by now under Commonwealth control.
		Bridges' division was the first ashore at ANZAC Cove on 25 April; foreseeing disaster, he argued for immediate evacuation.
	www.awm.gov.au /people/8040.asp (485 words)

	William Throsby Bridges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (February 18, 1861 – May 18, 1915) served with Australian forces during World War I, and was the first Australian to reach the rank of general.
		Bridges and his command sailed from Albany Western Australia, on October 26, 1914.
		Bridges is one of only two Australian World War I soldiers killed in action or died of wounds who was buried in Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Throsby_Bridges (610 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Br-By (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bridges remained cool, apportioned his reserves where they seemed most needed, and resisted the views that began to be advanced that the wisest course would be to evacuate the troops.
		In 1859, with William Landsborough (q.v.), he explored new country, principally on the tributaries of the Fitzroy, Queensland, when both suffered many privations and were found just in time by a rescue party.
		William Brahe was left at Cooper's Creek in charge of a small party, with instructions not to leave unless from absolute necessity.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogBr-By.html (20800 words)

	St Marys Soldiers
		William was killed at the age of 22 years in Belguim on the 26th September, 1917.
		William was born at St Marys on the 27th February, 1895.
		William was Killed In Action on 11th August, 1918 at France at the age of 31.
	www.stmarysregisters.com.au /stmarysww1soldiers.htm (10480 words)

	Moss Vale History - Southern Highlands NSW
		The house at Throsby Park was said to be built in 1834 and is still standing but Thomas Walker who travelled through the district in April 1837 refers to the extensive property and the just finished fine mansion.
		She was daughter of William Broughton the Commissary of the colony for many years.
		Sir William Throsby Bridges, a son, went to Gallipoli in command of the AIF and was shot by a snipers bullet on the 15th of May 1915 and died 3 days later.
	www.thesouthernhighlands.com.au /towns/moss-vale/moss-vale-history (1257 words)

	Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges; Father of the AIF
		Bridges determined that the force -- which Bridges named the Australian Imperial Force because of its dual Australian and Imperial mission -- should be organised as an Infantry Division and a Light Horse Brigade, and
		His head is mounted in a show case originally displayed at the 1st Australian War Memorial Museum in Sydney and later in Canberra at the AWM.
		Maj-Gen Bridges was mortally wounded at Gallipoli and died on the way to Malta.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/ww1/bridges.htm (1786 words)

	Royal Military College of Australia - Other Schemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The aim of Bridges Company is to prepare selected candidates for entry into the Royal Military College-Duntroon by developing their personal qualities of self-reliance, self-confidence and self-discipline.
		As a result of their time in Bridges Company, members will develop their potential to be an Army Officer by improving their personal fitness, stamina and determination, independence and initiative, physical and mental robustness and teamwork.
		Bridges Company is named after Major General William Throsby Bridges, who was appointed the first Commandant of the Royal Military College Duntroon on 30 May 1910.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/rmc/RMCA/RMCA-OtherSchemes.asp (615 words)

	William Throsby Bridges - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bridges erwarb sich große Verdienste beim Aufbau der australischen Armee.
		William Bridges wurde in Greenock, Schottland, als Sohn eines britischen Marineoffiziers geboren.
		Bridges war der Ansicht, dass deren Struktur zu einem Staat mit demokratischen Wurzeln wie Australien besser passe als die europäischen Vorbilder wie z.B. Sandhurst.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/William_Throsby_Bridges (913 words)

	Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges: "Father of the AIF"
		For his artillery commander, he chose Colonel J. Hobbs, whom he had met in England in 1907, and for the light horse brigade, Colonel H. Chauvel.
		Bridges expected his Deputy assistant quartermaster General (DAQMG), Major J. Gellibrand, to organise a proper officers' mess at Gallipoli and was annoyed at the poor quality of what Gellibrand had scrounged from ships' canteen supplies.
		Yet he did share the hardships of his men, and made a point of daily excursions about the position on which he routinely ignored enemy fire and constantly exposed himself to danger.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /graveyards/pages/leaders/bridges.htm (1615 words)

	Australian Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Harry Bridges was born Alfred Byrant Renton Bridges, in Melbourne,
		Harry Bridges was born Alfred Byrant Renton Bridges, in
		Bridges" Bridges is funded by the Australian Imperial Force because
	www.premier-useful-place.be /Australian-Bridges.php (2631 words)

	horace king builder of bridges information -- horace king builder of bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A few of the bridges existing were designed and built by Horace King and his sons, the famous ex-slave and master bridge builder.
		Williams, 1874-78; Joseph P. King, 1878-80; W. Ford, 1880-82...
		introduces readers to Georgia's master bridge builder, Horace King, as well as others, and follows with a pictorial essay of the 17 covered bridges remaining in the state at the time of publication...
	www.iwisbridges.info /horacekingbuilderofbridges (656 words)

	general bridges information -- general bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The three bridges are (from nearest to furthest) London, Blackfriars and Westminster.
		Because of its distance from Mount Ninderry, the name was changed to Bridges in 1918, after Major-General William Bridges the co-founder of the First A.I.F. Buderim Honeysuckle.
		BRIDGES - building bridges to second language learning, culture and society General information BRIDGES is a co-operation project within the European education programme Socrates, Grundtvig 1.
	www.iwisbridges.info /generalbridges (814 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - 1914-1924 'British interests; British honour; British obligations'
		The Australians were to be commanded by Major-General William Throsby Bridges, who ensured that his Australians were to be kept as a united force, and not dissipated among several British units as was done in the Boer War.
		Bridges was born in Scotland, and had an Australian mother.
		A quiet, reclusive person, Bridges was nonetheless a competent officer, and a solid choice as the commander of Australia’s first division.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=3117172 (4708 words)

	General Birdwood
		Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood, a senior officer in Britain’s pre-1914 Indian Army, was appointed in December 1914 to the command of the Australian and New Zealand forces then assembling in Egypt.
		These units were soon formed into a corps, the ‘A and NZ Army Corps’, of two divisions – the 1st Australian Division AIF (Australian Imperial Force) commanded by Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges and the New Zealand and Australian Division commanded by Major General Sir Alexander Godley.
		It was his habit, despite the heat, never to accept water in the frontline because he knew just how much effort it took the ordinary soldiers to lug litres of it up the valleys and steep slopes to the trenches.
	www.anzacsite.gov.au /1landing/s_birdwood.html (1064 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She left at five years of age, and the eventual cause of her inclusion was that she was really an Australian of the third generation.
		Her mother was an Australian, one grandfather spent all his adult life in Australia, and one of her great-grandfathers was William Sorell, one of the ablest governors that ever came to Australia.
		Some excellent singers and executive musicians have made their mark in the world among whom may be mentioned Melba, Ada Crossley, and William Murdoch; but though some interesting music has been composed little is known of it and comparatively little has been published.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/00-dict-biogIndex.html (2939 words)

	CDHS Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Funeral of Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges at St John's Church, Reid.
		Bridges, William Throsby; Ceremonies; Church of St John the Baptist (Reid, ACT); Royal Military College (Duntroon, ACT)
		General Bridges was killed at Gallipoli and is the only identified soldier from WW1 whose body was returned to Australia for burial.
	www.canberrahistory.org.au /detail.asp?rID=16371 (101 words)

	William Bridges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major General William Throsby Bridges was the commander of the Australian Army's First Australian Imperial Force in 1914-15.
		He died after being shot by a sniper in May 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli.
		William Bridges is a writer on organizational development, who became prominent in the 1990s with his books about managing change.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Bridges (144 words)

	The ANZAC spirit and standing up for this Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Reverend Stringer reminded us that a hero is not in the style of Ned Kelly, but rather of William McKenzie, the Salvation Army chaplain who led over 3,000 men to the Christian faith amidst the horror and desperation of the battle sites and mud-filled trenches of Gallipoli, the Middle East and battlefields of France.
		As chaplains were not permitted to carry a weapon, because of the regulations of international rules of war, Chaplain McKenzie carried a trenching shovel into battle alongside soldiers and, far more significantly, he carried his bible.
		Only one horse, a charger named Sandy", which belonged to Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, who was killed at Gallipoli, was allowed to return home to Australia to take part in his State Funeral.
	www.christiandemocratic.org.au /fed/mr/2004/040506f.asp (727 words)

	CDHS Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Funeral of General Bridges who died from wounds received on Gallipoli 18 May 1915.
		Buried at Mt. Pleasant overlooking RMC Duntroon on 3 September 1915.
		General Sir William Birdwood visited RMC Duntroon on 15-16 April 1920 and unveiled the memorial stone on General Bridges's grave on 15 April 1920.
	www.canberrahistory.org.au /detail.asp?rID=13781 (91 words)

	Anzac Officers Died at Gallipoli: Names A - B
		Next of kin: Wife; Lady Edith Bridges (nee Dawson), of same address.
		Next of kin: Father; Frederick William Brookfield, of same address.
		Father; William David Brown, of 'Claroma', Pine Street, Randwick Sydney, NSW.
	www.anzacs.org /index_ab2.html (2600 words)

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		Underwood's 'Note to the Present Edition' says: 'In this Edition the Text of Bardili has been adopted, and great pains have been taken to render the book as accurate as possible'.
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	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birdy, Birdie or Bill) Birdwood - hereafter WRB - was born in 1865 in Poona (Pune), a government hill station in Maharashtra State, India, to a family of Indian Army officers; however his father was in the Indian Civil Service (ICS).
		April 1915 by General William Throsby Bridges, the commander of the Australian 1
		When it was decided that I ANZAC would be the first unit to move from Egypt to France, WRB, as the senior commander, changed places with Major General Alexander John Godley of I ANZAC, who then took over command of I ANZAC.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/individuals/birdwood.htm (6683 words)

	Reserve Forces Day 2004
		In fact a breeding industry was started in Australia to provide horses for Cavalry units throughout the world, almost 350,000 horses were sold overseas between the early 1800's and 1950.
		Only one horse, a charger named 'Sandy', that belonged to Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB (who was killed at Gallipoli), was allowed to return home to Australia to take part in his State funeral.
		The challenge we set ourselves was to find 90 horses and riders to take a prominent role in the parade.
	www.rfd.org.au /site/2004.asp (572 words)

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		This collection relates to research and writing by Chris Coulthard-Clark for three books A heritage of spirit : a biography of Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges K.C.B., C.M.G, The citizen general staff : the Australian Intelligence Corps, 1907-1914 and Australia's military map-makers : the Royal Australian Survey Corps 1915-96.
		No copying is permitted without the permission of the copyright owners.
		Further papers of Christopher Coulthard-Clark are held by the Australian War Memorial, in the Chris Coulthard-Clark Papers at MSS0741 and PR87/006.
	www.lib.adfa.edu.au /speccoll/finding_aids/coulthard_christopher.html (9749 words)

	Hexapedia - William Throsby Bridges (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hexapedia - William Throsby Bridges (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)
		Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges (February 18 1861-May 18 1915) served with Australian forces during World War I, and was the first Australian to reach the rank of General.
		His body was returned to Melbourne where he received a state funeral.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/William_Throsby_Bridges (405 words)

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