Vernon Sturdee

Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, KBE, CB, DSO (16 April 1890 – 25 May 1966) was an Australian Army commander who served two terms as Chief of the General Staff.

Quotes

• The Japanese would act quickly, they would all be regulars, fully trained and equipped for the operations, and fanatics who like dying in battle, whilst our troops would consist mainly of civilians, hastily thrown together on mobilisation, with very little training, short of artillery and possibly of gun ammunition.
  • In 1933, to fellow senior officers. Reported in David Horner, Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1978), p. 16

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Vernon Sturdee on Wikipedia