I'm not a great fan of books, especially documentaries, about war but FitzSimons has amazed me as he did with his Mutiny on the Bounty. His historical novels are better documented than most histories and the way he incorporates quotations (found by his researchers) from real historical characters' letters, diaries etc. into his narrative, really brings the story to life. Descendants of those diggers are probably unaware that members of their families have been mentioned in the book (something to boast about in a family history!)so my aim is to list those mentioned (in most cases quoted)and find their service record. Having done that, I will list all references to that person in the index.
(N.B. Post-War in the index seems to indicate a brief biography of half a page or more.)

Many of the more prominent members of the 1st A.I.F., MENTIONED AND QUOTED EXTENSIVELY IN THE BOOK, are recalled by place and street names in Melbourne. Melbourne's second university was named after Sir John Monash and the road through Royal Park past the zoo was named after Pompey Elliott. Two estates which recall places and people involved in W.W.1 are the Ascot Housing Estate across Epsom Rd from the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, formerly John Wren's Ascot Racecourse, and the Victory Estate across Langs Rd from the showgrounds.)

Wikipedia was needed in some cases to determine whether senior officers mentioned were in the Australian army (or as in the cases of Sir Walter Congreve and General Rawlinson, the British army.)

A SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY (including one red herring re Lieutenant Potts.)
Group portrait of officers of the 48th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Geoffrey Paul Leane MC; Lt Robert Scott Rafferty MM; Lt Reginald Charles Bleechmore; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Charles William Stoerkel MC and Bar; Lt George Dean Mitchell MC DCM; Lt Joseph Arthur Bingley; Lt Edward Gordon Holton; Lt (later Captain) Harry Downes MC MM; Lt Angus Salier Ferguson French Croix de Guerre (killed in action 3 May 1918); Lt Archibald Robert Allen; Lt Wallace Douglas Pritchard; Lt (later Captain) Robert Eldred Potts*. Middle row: Lt Alfred Percy Ford MM; Lt Arthur John Gelston MC; Lt Leslie St.John Brown; Lt Hurtle John Burnett MC; Lt Alfred Henry Lawrence; Lt Douglas Harold Clarke; Lt Henry William James; Lt William Bosward Carr MC DCM; Captain (Capt) Gordon Augustus Pavy; Lt Richard Nicholas Fletcher; Lt John Whittle (killed in action 29 March 1918); Capt Norman George Imlay MC; Lt Percy Ernest Nimmo. Front row: Lt Leslie George Challen MC; Capt Thomas Hampton Elliot (killed in action 28 March 1918); Capt Frederick Anderson MC; Major Alban George Moyes MC; Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Raymond Lionel Leane CMG DSO MC; Capt David Austral Twining MC MM French Croix de Guerre; Lt Lavington Lewis Carter MC; Capt Derwas Goring Charles Cumming MC and Bar (killed in action 3 may 1918) Capt Vernon Carlisle Brown MC and bar (Medical Officer); Capt John Cyril Flood (Chaplain).

(*Roy Edred Potts. Thank you to Professor Peter Dennis.
You shouldn't believe everything you read in popular war books or indeed what is on the various War Memorial sites.

Your man's name was Roy Edred POTTS MC & Bar. He is on the AIF Project database at https://aif.adfa.edu.au/aif/showPerson?pid=244234. His service file on the National Archives website is at https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8021367.

Peter Dennis, AM
Emeritus Professor of History
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
The University of New South Wales, Canberra

THOSE MENTIONED IN THE BOOK.
(Listed alphabetically by surnames):
P.100. LIEUTENANT ALBERT ADAMS (PILOT.)
515ADAMS, Albert Ward 34 Black Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australian Flying Corps, No 2 Squadron, Head-Quarters;
LISTED TWICE, ALSO:515 ADAMS, Albert Ward, *34 Black Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australian Flying Corps, No 2 Squadron, Head-Quarters

Major Garnet Adcock, a 23 year old mining engineer from Geelong, of the 2nd Australian Tunneling Company,
ADCOCK, Garnet Ingamells, Rutherglen, Victoria, No 4 Tunnelling Company and 1st Reinforcements (May 1916)
P.25, 193, 207.

Corporal Louis Avery, now in training with his 3rd Field Company,
55, AVERY, Louis Willyama, c/o Silverton Tramway, Broken Hill, New South Wales, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Headquarters, Section 1, Section 2 and Section 4
P.33, 38.


ARCHIE BARWICK CLUES. Index-Sergeant P.8 Late January, 1917,Sergeant Archie Barwick, a 27 year old farmer originally from the Tassie sticks.P.492 Talking to cousin, Bill, and hears shelling.Hurrying to his mates of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division dug in around Strazeele, the country boy from Tassie reaches his men, held in reserve, and on 23 April, 1918, orders themto get down into the sunken road for safety. P.493.Archie suffers a large gash, exposing several ribs, a "Blighty", a wound bad enough to require treatment in England.
29 Barwicks Among the 29 Barwicks, there was one Archie and one Archibald, both from N.S.W. Archibald was "Killed in Action 8 October 1917" so he was not the sergeant who issued the order on 23-4-1918.
914 BARWICK, Archie Albert,Surveyors Creek, Walch Road, New England, New South Wales, 1st Battalion, H Company,however was originally from Tasmania, having been born in Hobart, was in the 1st Battalion, having enlisted and embarked (aged 24) in 1914, which would have made him 27 by late January 1917. He was injured on 23-4-1918 and "Returned to Australia 3 December 1918" so they obviously were not able to patch him up for continued service.
INDEX-P.8,55,106,191,219-20,351,453,460,477,479-80,482,485-6,492-3.
ARCHIE'S COUSIN, BILL, may have been 6547,BARWICK, William, Claremont, Tasmania,12th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement, the only one of the 29 Barwicks with William as a given name.

CAPTAIN CHARLES BEAN-WAR CORRESPONDENT.
Captain Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) BeanRanks Held Captain, Press Representative
Birth Date 18 November 1879
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Bathurst
Death Date 30 August 1968
Death Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Concord
Final Rank Captain
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units

Staff
Australian Imperial Force

Places

Bathurst
Concord

Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Gazettes Worth Family Papers - Papers of Joan Worth in
Published in London Gazette in 1916-07-13
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1916-11-30
Description

Charles Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remainder. Before this, however, he was Australia's official correspondent to the war. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial. Bean was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales and his family moved to England when he was ten. He completed his education there, eventually studying classics and law at Oxford.

Bean returned to Australia in 1904 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. He travelled widely in New South Wales as a barrister's assistant and, struck by the outback way of life, wrote and illustrated a book, The impressions of a new chum. The book was never published but in mid-1907 much of its content appeared in a series of Sydney Morning Herald articles under the by-line 'CW'. In these articles Bean introduced a view of Australia, particularly its men, which foreshadowed much of what he would write about the AIF.

Having dabbled in journalism, Bean joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a junior reporter in January 1908. He published several books before being posted to London in 1910. In 1913 he returned to Sydney as the Herald's leader writer. When the First World War began, Bean won an Australian Journalists Association ballot and became official correspondent to the AIF. He accompanied the first convoy to Egypt, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and began to make his name as a tireless, thorough and brave correspondent. He was wounded in August but remained on Gallipoli for most of the campaign, leaving just a few days before the last troops.

He then reported on the Australians on the Western Front where his admiration of the AIF crystallised into a desire to memorialise their sacrifice and achievements. In addition to his journalism, Bean filled hundreds of diaries and notebooks, all with a view to writing a history of the AIF when the war ended. In early 1919 he led a historical mission to Gallipoli before returning to Australia and beginning work on the official history series that would consume the next two decades of his life.

Along with his written work, Bean worked tirelessly on creating the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He was present when the building opened on 11 November 1941 and became Chairman of the Memorial's board in 1952. He maintained a close association with the institution for the rest of his life.

During the Second World War, Bean liaised between the Chiefs of Staff and the press for the Department of Information. He became Chairman of the Commonwealth Archives Committee and was instrumental in creating the Commonwealth Archives. Between 1947 and 1958 he was Chairman of the Promotion Appeals Board of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and continued to write - a history of Australia's independent schools and finally a book on two senior AIF figures, Two men I knew.

Bean received a number of honorary degrees and declined a knighthood. He had married Ethel Young in 1921 and the couple adopted a daughter. Bean, one of the most admired Australians of his generation, died after a long illness in Concord Repatriation Hospital in 1968.

P. 94. MARCH 1918. LIEUTENANT FRANK (F.P.) BETHUNE, one-time parson, now officer from Tasmania.
BETHUNE, Frank Pogson,Lindisfarne, Tasmania 12th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


P. 89. PRIVATE BERT BISHOP,55th Battalion. 7 March, 1918. Almost impossible to ascertain the service record as no Albert or Herbert was described as being in the 55th Battalion.


P.225. 42nd Battalion soldier, Private Vivian Brahms.
1879 BRAHMS, Vivian Valley, Brisbane, Queensland 47th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement


P.209. As ever, when the best of the best is required, he (Gen. Maclaglan) is inclined to go to his 4th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier Charles Brand- a Boer War and Gallipoli veteran from* Queensland, so trusted and liked by his troops that they have given him the ultimate accolade, the nickname of "Digger". (* born in)
BRAND, Charles Henry 'Wendouree', 2nd Avenue, East Adelaide, South Australia 3rd Infantry Brigade, Headquarters



Robert Buie from Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River.
3801 Buie, Robert Maclean, New South Wales 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
Gunner Robert Buie. P. 1, 3,519-21; post war 674-5


P.219. Captain Lionel Carter
CARTER, Lionel Lewin Dumbleyung, Western Australia 16th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement


P.166. Lieutenant Ben Champion of 1st Battalion, 1st brigade, 1st Division.
2481 CHAMPION, Ben William Jura, Stuart Street, Wahroonga, New South Wales 1st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
As Ben is only mentioned once in the book, a comment from his diary (w.w.w.awm.gov.au/images/collection/bundled/RDCIG000977.pdf.)stating how highly the AIF must be thought of, when they are used to stem the flood in the north as well as in the south, and the service record has no information about his injuries,only that he "Returned to Australia 30 June 1918", it was just as well that I consulted Trove.

Lieut. B. CHAMPION.— Mr. T. S. Champion.
Wahroonga, has been notified that his son,
Lieut. Ben. Champion, has been wounded for
the third time, and has had half his left leg
amputated. He was previously wounded in
Gallipoli and at Passchendaele. He enlisted
in May, 1915, and received his commission on
the field after the battle of Pozieres. (P.6, The Daily Telegraph, 8-6-1918.)

Harry Cobby, mild-mannered bank clerk from Melbourne
COBBY, Arthur Henry Rosedale Avenue, Glenhuntly, Victoria Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, A Flight
P.2, 3, 47-51, 65-8, 82, 93, 101, 112, 132-6, 166; post war 664-5.
(N.B.10822, COBBY, Cecil Roy, Rosedale avenue, Glenhuntly, Victoria, 3rd Divisional Train, 22nd Company, Army Service Corps, lived in the same street and may have been his brother.)

P.133. Lieutenant John Courtney (pilot.)
Flight Lieut.John Glasson Courtney Glasson(photo)
1006 COURTNEY, John Classon Avondale, Victoria Parade, Manly, New South Wales Australian Flying Corps, No 4 Squadron, B Flight

P.218. Chaplain William Devine
DEVINE, William * St Pauls, Coburg, Victoria Chaplains' Corps


Walter "Jimmy"Downing a Scotch College boy from Melbourne, law student, cricket and Lacrosse player.
4473 DOWNING, Walter Herbert Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, Victoria 7th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
P.2,3,21,39,79-81,158,273,300,303,316,321, 554,562,595,621,623,628-30,639.

Brigadier Harold Pompey Elliott.
Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD (19 June 1878 – 23 March 1931) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. After the war he served as a Senator for Victoria in the Australian parliament.
ELLIOTT, Harold Edward, Dalriada, Darebin Road, Northcote, Victoria, 7th Battalion, Headquarters
Harold was nicknamed Pompey after a Carlton footballer: Fred Elliott.

P.100. March 1918.
(NO SERVICE RECORD FOR LT. GEORGE MALLEY-PERHAPS BRITISH.)

LIEUTENANT CECIL FEEZ. The service record mentions the Australian Flying Corps.
31938 FEEZ, Cecil Molle,Yeronga, Brisbane, Queensland Field Artillery Brigade 3, Reinforcement 24

P.232. Brigadier John Gellibrand.
GELLIBRAND, John 'Greenhill', East Risdon, Tasmania Head Quarters 1st Australian Division


In Brigadier Bill Glasgow's 13th Brigade, Brigadier Sir William Glasgow in index.
SIR WILLIAM GLASGOW
GLASGOW, D.S.O., Thomas William, 'Sanders', Dingo, Central Queensland, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Headquarters Two entries; the first one has his date of death and other details not included in this one.
P.34,75-6,367,561,565,576-83,589,592,647,650,; post-war 662.


P.222. Colonel Henry Goddard, English born, to Brisbane at 21,as officer had performed well at Gallipoli, now 49 and in temporary command of 9th Brigade.
GODDARD, Henry Arthur Stock Exchange, Melbourne, Victoria 17th Battalion, Headquarters


P. 341. Major General Harold Grimwade, Commander of the 3rd Division.
I finally came across one involved on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
GRIMWADE Harold William, Death
mother: Jessie, nee STRUNT
father: GRIMWADE Frederick Sheppard*
Place of birth:CAULFIELD
Place of death:MOUNT ELIZA
Age, year, reg. no. (79, 1949, 16685/1949)

GRIMWADE, Harold William 'Waveney', Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria Field Artillery Brigade 4, Head-Quarters

Good to see that PENINSULA ESSENCE acknowledged ILMA HACKETT as the author of this article (which it failed to do regarding another article.) F.S.Grimwade* was Harold's dad.
COOLART


Harold's obituary.


Photo of Harold's "Marathon" at Mt Eliza.

P.99. HARRY HAWKER'S TECHNIQUE. (Harry also appears to have been the first person to perform an intentional spin and recovery, demonstrating in 1914 one method (though generally not the one used today) to return to level flight from this unusual attitude.[6] Because spins had killed several pilots, this was a major advance in aviation safety. (From Wikipedia entry for Harry Hawker.)

P.158. Private John Hardie, a young farrier from Grong Grong, 9th brigade of 3rd division.
3842 HARDIE, John Grong Grong, New South Wales 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcement

P. 190. As to General Joseph Hobbs' 5th Division, ....
HOBBS, Joseph John Talbot The Bungalow, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia Divisional Artillery Headquarters

Colonel Alexander Imlay, commanding officer of the 4th Division's 47th Battalion.
IMLAY, Alexander Peter Inverwrie Marion Place, Prospect, South Australia 16th Battalion, H Company

P.158. Colonel Carl Jess, chief of Staff for General John Monash.
JESS, Carl Herman 'Montalto', Miller Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters


P.90 MARCH, 1918. WILLIAM JOYNT, 8TH BATTALION. (Winner of the Victoria Cross.)
JOYNT, William Donovan St Elmo, 18 Long Street, Elsternwick, Victoria 8th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement


P.234. Private Walter Kennedy. Based on page 571 detail:
3069 KENNEDY, Walter Bede Oakhampton Road, West Maitland, New South Wales 4th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
However, the above is being amended based on the footnote provided for his comment and then the discovery of the following on page 749 of the book under DIARIES, LETTERS, PAPERS AND REPORTS.
Kennedy, Walter Scott, Private Record, Memoir (handwritten and transcribed), 'From Anzac Cove to Villers-Bretonneux: The Story of a Soldier in the Fifteenth Battalion 1st A.I.F. (Dedicated to Alf Stein Killed at Gallipoli, 2 May 1915'), AWM, PR02032, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PR02032/

It's a pity that the second given name was not provided in the index.
1204 KENNEDY, Walter Scott 87 Jersey Road, Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales 15th Battalion, H Company



P.231. Lieutenant Colonel John Lavarack.
LAVARACK, John Dudley


P.37.Colonel "Bull" Leane, 48th Battalion.
Brigadier General Sir Raymond Lionel Leane
LEANE, Raymond Lionel 243 Burt Street, Boulder, Western Australia 11th Battalion, F Company

P. 106. 4th Division under General Ewen McLaglan.
Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Sinclair-Maclagan


PRIVATE JIM MAGEE of 51st Battalion does his sensual woman dance on a table top.
6430 MAGEE, Thomas James, Paddington, New South Wales,17th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
As Jim is only mentioned once (on page 41) and Thomas James Magee is the only Magee with Jim or James as a given name, and was a private, he would be the most likely match.

P. 201. The (10th) brigade's Commanding Officer, General Walter McNicholl,a distinguished Gallipoli veteran known by his admiring men as Fire-eater McNicholl, ...
No service record in the ANZAC PROJECT.
SIR WALTER RAMSAY McNICHOLL

P.56 (Shortly after the New Year of 1918.)One of the more canny Australian officers, COLONEL DAVID McCONAGHY,the distinguished Gallipoli and Fromelles veteran quietly wonders to Bean if there might be a hidden reason why the Germans are putting so little pressure on them.
There were only two men with this name, the other one having "disembarked Melbourne, 24 September 1917; discharged, 29 October 1917 (medically unfit. Rheumatism and overage)."
McCONAGHY, David Box 1140, G.P.O. Sydney, New South Wales, 3rd Battalion, A Company


P.235. The 13th Battalion's commander, Colonel Douglas Marks -the youngest Battalion commander in the whole Australian Corps at just 23 years old,
MARKS, Douglas Gray Sundridge, Lindsay Street, Neutral Bay, Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales 13th Battalion, G Company


Lieutenant George Deane Mitchell from Caltowie in S.A.
1014 MITCHELL, George Deane Talus Road, Thebarton, South Australia 10th Battalion, H Company
pages 2, 3, 24, 37-9, 183, 195, 200-1, 205, 218-19, 242-3, 248, 254, 275, 281-2, 294-5, 366-7, 434, 442-5.

Sir John Monash.
MONASH,John, 36 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters

P.171. Colonel Morshead, whose 33rd Division was drawn from places such as Armidale, Tamworth and Tenterfield.
There are two service records, the other one giving his date of death.
MORSHEAD, Leslie James * 32 Tress Street, Mt Pleasant, Ballarat, Victoria 33rd Battalion, Headquarters

Leslie Morshead - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Morshead

Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (18 September 1889 – 26 September 1959) was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, whose military career spanned both world wars.

P.231. Colonel Harry Murray-37 years old, born in Tasmania (but latterly a proud Western Australian?)-
HENRY WILLIAM MURRAY
315 MURRAY, Henry William 16th Battalion, D Company

P.183. Private Edwin Need. Diary quoted extensively. Biog. on P.668.
5180 NEED, Edwin Henry 8 Yarra Street, South Yarra, Victoria 8th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement


P.99. March 1918.LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HURTLE NICHOLLS.
[url=https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=223347]1590 NICHOLLS, William Hurtle, Snowtown, South Australia, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement
The service record make no mention of him becoming a pilot.
A.I.F. PROMOTIONS. The latest issue of The Commonwealth Gazette contains the following list of South Australian promotions in the A.I.F.--- Second-Lieut. W. H. Nicholls,Australian Flying Corps, to be lieutenant.August 15;
The following confirms that the service record is that of the pilot.


RED CROSS FILES

William Hurtle Nicholls. Rank: Second Lieutenant. Service number: 1590. Unit: Australian Flying Corps. Location: Prisoner of war camp, Karlsruhe, Germany. Enquirer: Sophia Nicholls. Packet number: 5324. Date range: 1918. SLSA record number: SRG 76/1/5324 . Prisoner of war . Upload a photo. Packet content 21 documents. See all documents . Download File as a PDF


P.238. Lieutenant Morven Nolan, fatally wounded, remained cheerful and gave valuable information before going west.
7293 NOLAN, Morven Kelynack Potts Point, New South Wales 13th Battalion, 24th Reinforcement


P.135 Lieutenant Tab Pflaum (pilot.)
1591 PFLAUM, Elliott Frederick Blumberg, South Australia 9th Light Horse Regiment, 12th Reinforcement

P.244. The sleepwalking Lieutenant Potts of the 48th Battalion.
PHOTO OF OFFICERS OF THE 48TH BATTALIONincluding:
Lt (later Captain) Robert[sic*] Eldred Potts.
(*Roy Edred Potts. Thank you to Professor Peter Dennis.
You shouldn't believe everything you read in popular war books or indeed what is on the various War Memorial sites.

Your man's name was Roy Edred POTTS MC & Bar. He is on the AIF Project database at https://aif.adfa.edu.au/aif/showPerson?pid=244234. His service file on the National Archives website is at https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8021367.

Peter Dennis, AM
Emeritus Professor of History
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
The University of New South Wales, Canberra


Roy Edred POTTS

Date of birth 24 October 1889
Place of birth Aldgate, South Australia
Occupation School teacher
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, Rev George Potts, Irvine Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia
Previous military service Nil (previously rejected for AIF enlistment on account of chest)
Enlistment date 18 November 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 17 November 1915
Place of enlistment Melbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistment 2nd Lieutenant
Unit name 48th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT Port Melbourne on 30 October 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Captain
Unit from Nominal Roll 48th Battalion
Fate Returned to Australia 1 November 1919
Medals

Military Cross
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. By skilful leadership led two platoons through a heavy barrage without casualties, to reinforce a front line company. Later, when all communication with the left flank was broken this officer volunteered to cross the open under intense fire in full view of the enemy, and succeeded in delivering a message.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 185
Date: 27 November 1918

Bar to Military Cross

Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31
Date: 4 March 1919

'For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. He worked his company skilfully round a strong enemy position and cut off the garrison, capturing fifty four prisoners and four machine guns. He then consolidated the position. Later, he led a party against an enemy machine gun post, capturing six prisoners and a machine gun. He showed marked courage and devotion to duty.

Discharge date 19 February 1920
Other details

War service: Western Front

Commenced return to Australia, 1 November 1919; appointment terminated (discharged), 19 February 1920.
Medals: Military Cross & Bar, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Date of death 12 October 1943
Sources NAA: B2455, POTTS Roy Edred

Having doubts about Roy's second given name, I found ample confirmation on trove, and also much information about his post-war teaching career and prominent role in the SOLDIERS' INSTITUTE, the latter with an R.E.POTTS search.

P.167. Brigadier Charles Rosenthal,architect, commander of the 9th.
ROSENTHAL, Charles 68 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales Field Artillery Brigade 3, Head-Quarters

P. 189. Captain Paul Simonson, valued aide-de-camp to Colonel Jess.
2247 SIMONSON, Paul William 52 Auburn Road, Auburn, Victoria 22nd Battalion, 4th Reinforcement

P.99. March 1918. Lieutenant Percival Straker (Pilot.)
No service record, the only Percival or Percy was "Killed in Action 5 August 1916".

P.107. General Brudenell White.
Brudenell White - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brudenell_White
WHITE, Cyril Brudenell Bingham Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Victoria Head Quarters 1st Australian Division

P.192. (Apparently 24 March 1918) ..one of the official Australian war photographers, Lieutenant Hubert Wilkins, passes by.
WILKINS, George Hubert Dulwich, South Australia March 1917 Reinforcements


SURNAMES LIST.
As the surnames list is full (some surnames entered having disappeared)this will continue in another journal which will allow more surnames to be listed.