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Bronze statue of Brigadier Potts at Kojonup, Western Australia
Brigadier Arnold William Potts, DSO, OBE, MC (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier and army officer who served in the First World War and led the 21st Brigade of the Second Australian Imperial Force during its defence of the Kokoda Track during the Second World War. He had a distinguished career, however, his place in history has largely been unacknowledged due to his dismissal by General Sir Thomas Blamey, at the very point when Potts had fought the Japanese to exhaustion. His fighting withdrawal over the Kokoda Trail has been called "one of the most critical triumphs in Australian military history and one that an apathetic nation has still to honour".[2] Many contemporaries as well as Potts' official biographer regard this sacking as one of the most disgraceful actions of Blamey's military career. Following his dismissal, Potts went on to command the 23rd Brigade during the Bougainville campaign where he earned a reputation for setting high standards. He retired from the military following the end of the war and unsuccessfully pursued a career in politics. He died in 1968, aged 71.
ArnoldPotts was born on 16 September 1896 at Peel on the Isle of Man to William, a schoolmaster, and Mary Potts. In 1904, at the age of eight, Potts'...
Force battalions of the veteran 21st Infantry Brigade under Brigadier ArnoldPotts. In what became the first major battle of the campaign, the two sides...
Brigadier Selwyn Porter (30th Brigade) and Brigadier ArnoldPotts (21st Brigade) also held the position. Potts was later relieved of his command in controversial...
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the route. Potts arrived at Myola on 21 August to find only 8,000 rations (five days' reserve) and a further two days' reserve forward. Potts was forced...
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him with Herring. More reliefs followed. Herring relieved Brigadier ArnoldPotts of the 21st Infantry Brigade, replacing him with Brigadier Ivan Dougherty...
veteran Second Australian Imperial Force formations including Brigadier ArnoldPotts' 21st Brigade arrived from Australia to reinforce Maroubra Force, the...
subsequently moved in. Upon arrival, the 21st Brigade, under Brigadier ArnoldPotts, was dispatched to Port Moresby, from where they would help reinforce...
relieving the 11th Brigade on 20 June. The brigade's commander—Brigadier ArnoldPotts—was charged with keeping the Japanese force bottled up on the Bonis Peninsula...
Matthew Pearse". ABC Radio. Retrieved 28 March 2018. Edgar, W.J. (2002). "Potts, Arnold William (1896–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 16. Melbourne...
of the 21st Brigade from fighting along the Kokoda Track, Brigadier ArnoldPotts proposed that a special force be raised to conduct a long range penetration...
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