Brigadier Arnold William Potts DSO, OBE, MC (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier who served in World War I, and led 21st Brigade of the Second AIF during its desperate, heroic and ultimately successful defence of the Kokoda Trail during World War II. His career was one of bravery, diligence and sustained high achievement.

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  • Brigadier Arnold William Potts DSO, OBE, MC (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier who served in World War I, and led 21st Brigade of the Second AIF during its desperate, heroic and ultimately successful defence of the Kokoda Trail during World War II. His career was one of bravery, diligence and sustained high achievement. However, his place in history has largely been unacknowledged, due to his dismissal by General Thomas Blamey, at the very point when Potts had fought the Japanese to exhaustion. Many contemporaries as well as Potts' official biographer regard this act as one of the most disgraceful actions of Blamey's military career.
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  • Brigadier Arnold William Potts DSO, OBE, MC (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier who served in World War I, and led 21st Brigade of the Second AIF during its desperate, heroic and ultimately successful defence of the Kokoda Trail during World War II. His career was one of bravery, diligence and sustained high achievement.
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