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The 6th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally formed in 1914 for service during the First World War, the battalion fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front . The battalion was disbanded in 1919 but was re-raised in 1921 as part of the Citizens Force , and adopted the title of "Royal Melbourne Regiment" in 1935.
6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR) is a mechanised infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in Brisbane , Queensland, on 6 June 1965 and has since then served in a number of overseas deployments and conflicts including South Vietnam , East Timor , Iraq and Afghanistan .
The 1/6th Battalion (64 SL Regt) was reconstituted as 599th (Mobile) HAA Regiment, RA (Essex Regiment) (TA). The Regimental Headquarters was established at the Drill Hall, Mount Road, Chingford and here was raised "P" and "Q" Batteries, the first Commanding Officer being Lt-Col Sir John Ruggles-Brise RA (TA), later Lord Lieutenant of Essex.
The 6th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment was an infantry battalion of the British Army. Part of the Volunteer Force, later the Territorial Force (renamed the Territorial Army in 1920), the battalion was part of the Hampshire Regiment and recruited from Portsmouth, Hampshire.
On 1 April 1971 the 6th (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment was formed from the expansion of many cadres which had recently been ordered to be disbanded and reformed as new units. The new battalion was formed as the second part-time unit in the Royal Anglian Regiment , the other TA unit being the 5th (V) Battalion .
The only TF battalion of the Royal Scots that did not immediately form a 2nd line was the 6th Bn, which instead provided two companies of reinforcements to bring 1/4th and 1/8th Bns Royal Scots up to war establishment.
The 3/6th battalion formed in Birmingham in May 1915 and joined the South Midland Reserve Group. It became the 6th (Reserve) Bn Royal Warwicks on 8 April 1916, and was absorbed into the 5th Reserve Bn on 1 September that year.
The 3/6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment was formed at Stockport on 11 March 1915 and moved to Oswestry. It became the 6th Reserve Bn, Cheshire Regiment, on 8 April 1916 and was absorbed into the 4th Reserve Bn on 1 September 1916. [4] [20]