Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colourful and
controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two
world wars, as well as a lengthy period in Japan and Korea between
1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life of 'Red
Robbie', it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development
of the Australian regular army and professional officer corps. It
is also the first acount of the occupation of Japan from a senior
officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the
British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second World War.
This episode is set in the context of the changing relationship
between Britain and the Pacific dominions. The Australian regular
army was not a principal source of military advice to the country's
leaders. Government moved from a reliance on amateur citizen forces
to a conscious policy to develop a force of modern military
professionals. Sir Horace Robertson was a central figure in this
maturation of the army. An early graduate from Duntroon, he was
commissioned in the AIF and went to Gallipoli with the 3rd Light
Horse Brigade.
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