What was the birth date of the Australian historian who wrote a biography of the commander of the 13th infantry brigade before the First World War?
Geoffrey Serle Alan Geoffrey Serle (10 March 1922 – 27 April 1998), known as Geoff, was an Australian historian, who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; "The Golden Age" (1963) and "The Rush to be Rich" (1971) and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd.
Lyall Howard Lyall Falconer Howard (1896 – 30 November 1955) was a World War I veteran, engineer and business owner, and the father of the former Australian prime minister, John Howard. He was born and raised near Maclean in the Clarence River region of northern New South Wales. His hand-written war diary penned on the battlefields of the Western Front in 1916 is used by historians to retrace the experiences of Australian soldiers in World War I.