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Generals' Nicknames
No30: Nevill Maskelyne
Smyth VC ('The Sphinx')
Major-General Nevil Maskelyne Smyth VC (1868-1841) commanded
1st Australian Brigade on Gallipoli, then 2nd Australian Division on the Western
Front. After the ‘Australianisation’ of the Australian Corps in the spring
of 1918 Smyth commanded the British 58th and 59th Divisions. His courage at Lone
Pine in 1915 won him the respect and admiration of the Australians that he never
lost. Brudenell White, Chief of Staff of the Australian Imperial Force,
described him as ‘sphinx-like, silent and imperturbable’. He was certainly a
man of few words and the Australians, perhaps with their training in Egypt in
mind, referred to him as ‘The Sphinx’. Major-General Smyth emigrated to
Australia in 1925.
John Bourne
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