Australian Dictionary of Biography

27 June 1865
West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

8 October 1931
Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• German

• Anglican
• Jewish
• Methodist
• Presbyterian

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• Rosenhain, Walter (brother-in-law)
• Meyer, Felix Henry (friend)
• McCay, James Whiteside (friend)
• Bruche, Julius Henry (friend)
• Mackey, John Emanuel (university friend)
• Shaw, Ebenezer (classmate)
• Mitchell, David (business partner)
• Lyle, Thomas Ranken (work colleague)
• Swinburne, George (work colleague)
• Gibson, Robert (work colleague)
• Herman, Hyman (work colleague)
• Hunt, Ralph Alec (work colleague)
• Holmes, William (colleague)
• Blamey, Thomas Albert (colleague)
• Masel, Alec (colleague)
• Smith, Charles Patrick (acquaintance)
• Murdoch, Keith Arthur (acquaintance)
• Brodie, Israel (acquaintance)
• McCormack, William Thomas Bartholomew (mentored)
• Morrison, Alexander (teacher)
• Longstaff, John Campbell (artist)
• Montford, Paul Raphael (artist)
• Quinn, James Peter (artist)
• Birdwood, William Riddell (senior officer)
• Hobbs, Joseph John Talbot (subordinate officer)
• Rankin, Colin Dunlop Wilson (subordinate officer)
• McGlinn, John Patrick (subordinate officer)
• Pope, Harold (subordinate officer)
• Foott, Cecil Henry (subordinate officer)
• McNicoll, Walter Ramsay (subordinate officer)
• Elliott, Harold Edward (subordinate officer)
• Jones, Harold Edward (subordinate officer)
• Hyman, Arthur Wellesley (subordinate officer)
• Wieck, George Frederick (subordinate officer)
• Munro, Edward Joy (subordinate officer)
• Cannan, James Harold (subordinate officer)
• Stewart, James Campbell (subordinate officer)
• Jess, Carl Herman (subordinate officer)
• Watson, Stanley Holm (subordinate officer)
• Morshead, Leslie James (subordinate officer)
• Wanliss, Harold Boyd (subordinate officer)
• Larkin, Herbert Joseph (subordinate officer)
• Foster, Hubert John (influence)
• Walker, Thomas (influence)
• Field, John (influenced)

• St Stephen's Church of England School (Richmond, Melbourne) (student, 1871-1874)
• Jerilderie Public School (NSW) (student, 1875-1877)
• Scotch College (Melbourne) (student, 1878-1881)
• University of Melbourne (student, 1882-1885)

• colonial militia (Australia) (1884-1900) Victoria, Australia
• public servant (1891-1894) Victoria, Australia
• bridge builder (1894-1902) Victoria, Australia
• civil engineer (1894-1931) Victoria, Australia
• patent attorney (1894-1905) Victoria, Australia
• army officer (1901-1931) Federal, Australia
• company director (1905-1920) Victoria, Australia
• military historian (1918-1918) Victoria, Australia
• Zionist (1919-1931) Victoria, Australia
• public service head (1920-1931) Victoria, Australia
• university vice-chancellor (1923-1931) Victoria, Australia

• World War I (army officer)
• Battle of Hamel, 1918 (commander)
• Battle of Messines, 1917 (commander)
• Battle of Passchendaele, 1917 (commanding officer)
• Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, 1918 (commander)
• Dardanelles campaign, 1915-16 (commander)
• 4th Infantry Brigade (commander, 1914-1916)
• 3rd Division (commander, 1916)

• Croix de Guerre (Belgium) (recipient)
• Croix de Guerre avec Palme (France) (recipient)
• Distinguished Service Medal (United States) (recipient)
• Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) (recipient)
• Grand Officier of the Legion d'honneur (France) (recipient)
• Companion of the Order of the Bath (recipient, 1915)
• Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (recipient, 1918)
• Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (recipient, 1919)

• Beefsteak (Melbourne) (member)
• Naval and Military Club (Melbourne) (member)
• Wallaby Club (member)
• Yorick Club (Melbourne) (member, ?-1931)
• Naval and Military Club (Melbourne) (president, 1922-1930)

• police strike (Vic, 1923) (commander of the Special Constabulary Force)
• Royal Commission into the Victoria Police strike (Vic, 1924) (chairman)

• Monash (Canberra suburb) (eponym)
• Monash Freeway (Melbourne) (eponym)
• Monash Medical Centre (Melbourne) (eponym)
• Monash University (eponym)
• Sir John Monash Centre (Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, France) (eponym)
• Sir John Monash Dve (Caulfield, Melbourne) (eponym)

• Hume Pipe Co (Aust) Ltd (director)
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London (member)
• Melbourne University Union (co-founder)
• Old Scotch Collegians Association (member, ?-1931)
• Rotary Club of Melbourne (member)
• United Service Institution of Victoria (secretary)
• University Club (Melbourne) (president)
• State Library of Victoria (regular reader, 1882)
• Melbourne University Review (editor, 1884-1885)
• Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Construction Co Ltd (managing director, 1905)
• Institution of Engineers, Australia (Vic) (president, 1913)
• Rotary Club of Melbourne (president, 1922-1922)
• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (president, 1924-1926)
• Australian Zionist Federation (president, 1927)

• Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne) (adviser)

• Melbourne Harbor Trust (engineer, 1891-1894)
• State Electricity Commission of Victoria (chair, 1920-1931)
• University of Melbourne (council) (vice-chancellor, 1923-1931)