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The Oxford Encaenia
John Monash GCMG, KCB (1865-1931) was born in West Melbourne and died in 1931 in Melbourne. Of Prussian Jewish heritage, he participated in the landing at Anzac Cover Gallipoli and assumed command of the Australian Corps in May 1918. The first…
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