John Whitham Explained

John Whitham
Birth Date:	7 October 1881
Birth Place:	Jamalpur, Bengal, India
Death Place:	Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Allegiance:	Australia
Branch:	Australian Army
Serviceyears:	1898–1946
Rank:	Lieutenant General
Commands:	Volunteer Defence Corps, 3rd Military District (1940–45) Southern Command (1940) 4th Division (1937–40) 3rd Military District (1937–40) 1st Military District (1935–37) 1st Mixed Brigade (1935–37) 6th Military District (1933–35) 49th Battalion (1918) 52nd Battalion (1917–18)
Battles:	Second Boer War First World War Gallipoli campaign Landing at Anzac Cove Western Front Battle of Pozières Battle of Passchendaele Second Battle of Dernancourt Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux Second World War
Awards:	Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches (3)

Lieutenant General John Lawrence Whitham, (7 October 1881 – 12 May 1952) was a senior officer in the Australian Army who held senior commands in the 1930s and early 1940s.^[1] ^[2]

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) during the First World War for his heroic actions during the Hundred Days Offensive in the final days of the war. The citation for the medal, appearing in The London Gazette in September 1918, reads:

Notes and References

Peter. Burness. Whitham, John Lawrence (1881–1952). 12. 1990. whitham-john-lawrence-9084. 28 May 2018.
Book: Chadwick, Justin. 2017. Sword and Batton: Senior Australian Army Officers from Federation to 2001 Volume One: 1900 to 1939. Newport, New South Wales. Big Sky Publishing. 978-1-925520-30-9. 619–624.