Sir John Monash is acknowledged as having been one of Australia's all-time soldiers and considered to have been one World War I's finest commanders well-known to Australians for the part he played in Gallipoli.
NSW Shadow Treasurer and NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel deputy chair Walt Secord has thrown his support behind a plan to posthumously elevate Sir John Monash to Field Marshal.
The Remembrance Day launch earlier this week of a new book about Sir John Monash has led to calls for the military commander to be posthumously promoted to the rank of field marshal.
