A Quiz on Military History 1.Who was the first Field Marshal on the Australian Army List (of Officers)? 2.With what unit did the "Man and his donkey" (John Simpson Kirkpatrick) serve? 3.What does Wilbur McLean (or MacLean) have to do with the American Civil War? 4.In which battle did Thomas Jonathon "Stonewall" Jackson get his nick name? 5.Bernard Law Montgomery was Churchill's SECOND choice to lead the Eighth Army after the "sacking" of Auchinleck - who was the first? 6.Who was the only person to win a VC and bar in the twentieth century? 7.What was the only ship of the Australian colonial navies to see overseas service? 8.T. E. Shaw and J.H. Ross were pseudonyms for further service of what famous British WW1 soldier? 9.The turning movement through Belgium and Northern France by the German armies in 1914 is better known as whose plan? 10.Who were the opposing commanders on the Heights of Abraham in 1759, the battle that decided who was to dominate Canada - France or Great Britain? 11.What is the connection between this battle and Australia? 12.What famous formation in the British Armed forces began as the Duke of Albermarle's Maritime Regiment of Foot? 13.Which is the oldest of the British Foot Guards regiments? 14.Which surgeon of the Napoleonic era revolutionised the treatment of casualties? 15.Which Confederate general was reputed to be the First Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Clan (after making a name for himself as a cavalry commander )? 16.Who was the officer whose disgrace in 1894 almost destroyed the French Officer Corps and divided the nation? 17.Who was known as "Electric Whiskers" to the Allies in WW2? 18.Which country is the only one to have a US Navy warship named after its capital city? 19.What is the only US Navy warship ever to be named after a foreign chief minister or head of state? 20.To the Germans it was known as Duppel but to the Allies it had another name. What was the Allied name for this Electronics Counter Measure? 21.In the Battle of Britain the Spitfire was the most numerous single-engine fighter in the RAF - True or False? 22.What was the spark that set off the Indian Mutiny of 1856? 23.Who was the first Australian to command an Army Corps (Hint - think of World War One...)? 24.Of who was it said "...he did not fight a battle he did not gain, nor lay siege to a town that he did not take...."? 25.When did the British Sovereign last command an army in the field? Answers 1.Field Marshal Lord Birdwood of Quetta promoted Field Marshal in 1935. Tom Blamey was the first (and likely only) Australian Field Marshal. 2.3 Field Ambulance now based in Warradale South Australia. 3.He owned the property that the first major battle of the ACW occurred (First Bull Run). He was so put out he sold his property and moved to avoid the war - to a little town called Appomatox Court House where Lee's surrender was signed in his front parlour! 4.First Bull Run. 5.Lt General W.H.E. "Strafer" Gott - he was killed when his aircraft was shot down on his way out of the desert to be told of his appointment by Churchill. He actually survived the crash landing but was killed when he re- entered the aircraft to rescue some-one and the Germans strafed (!) an apparently inadequately damaged aircraft 6.Charles Upham a New Zealander (see also his biography called The Lion Roared). >From: LAXCPT@aol.com >Subject: Correction > >I saw your "military quiz" Very well done, BUT..... > >You had an incorrect answer to the question re: the only soldier awarded two >VC's in the twentieth century. > >You listed New Zealand Captain Charles Upham, VC and Bar, quite correctly. >But, he was not the ONLY double VC of the 20th Century. > >Captain Noel Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, RAMC, was awarded his two VC's in WWI. >The second was awarded posthumously. There is info on this at: > >http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/bio/c/chavasse.html > >(FWIW, the only other dual VC awardee was another RAMC officer (name escapes >me), who won his first in the Boer War and his second in WWI.) > >Regards, > >Bernard Wilson 7.HMCS Protector from South Australia (Boxer Rebellion in China 1900). 8.Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrance of Arabia). 9.Schlieffen Plan (named after its devisor Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Chief of the Great General Staff ). 10. James Wolfe (British) and Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm (French). 11. The survey work to navigate the St Lawrence River was controlled by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook. 12. The Royal Marines. 13. The Coldstream Guards - the first or Grenadier Guards were formed on the same day but from gentlemen that had accompanied Charles II from exile. The Coldstreams were originally Colonel (later General) George Monck's Regiment of Foot in the English Civil War and the Protectorate. 14. Dominique Jean Larry. 15. Nathan Bedford Forrest. 16. Alfred Dreyfus (The Dreyfus Scandal). 17. Annibale Bergonzoli, commanded Italian 10 Army in Libya 1940-41 until caught at Beda Fomm. 18. Austraila - USS Canberra, a heavy cruiser of the Baltimore class. Commemorates the HMAS Canberra lost in the First Battle of Savo Island in 1942. 19. Australia - USS Harold E. Holt a Charles F. Adams class DDG commemorating the Prime Minister of Australia presumed drowned in 1966. 20. Window. The Germans called it Duppel after the town where it was first discovered. 21. False - the Hurricane outnumbered the Spitfire by more than two to one. 22. The issue of the Enfield Rifle to Indian units - the cartridge was reputed to be greased with beef fat (an anathema to Hindus of course). 23. General Sir Harry Chauval, Desert Mounted Corps (variously the 1 and 2 Australian Mounted Divisions, Anzac Mounted Division, Imperial Camel Corps and supporting units) in 1917 - Monash did not command a Corps until 1918. 24. John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. 25. 27 June 1743 - the Battle of Dettingen - George II.