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After successful completion of the 80-day recruit course at Kapooka, all soldiers joining the Signals Corps, regardless of specialisation, first complete an eight-day Common Corps course which provides basic Royal Australian Corps of Signals skills in radio, line laying and computing and is a prerequisite for all Australian Regular Army RA Sigs ...
Marchers in World War II Australian uniforms, wearing the colour patch of the 2/8th Battalion.ANZAC Day Parade in Brisbane, Queensland, 25 April 2007. This colour patch was based on that of the 8th Battalion, 1st AIF, with grey trim to distinguish it as the colour patch of a unit of the 2nd AIF.
Prior to Federation each of the Australian colonies had maintained their own military forces made up pre-dominantly of volunteers or militia, and the uniforms they adopted generally followed colour and design of the part-time British territorial forces, being mostly green and grey as opposed to the red of the British regular forces, although this was worn by some units. [2]
[180] [181] The three infantry battalions raised for occupation duties were designated the 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment in 1949, [182] and the 34th Brigade became the 1st Brigade when it returned to Australia in December 1948, forming the basis of the post-war Regular Army. From that time the Australian Army ...
Armoured units made a relatively small, but important, contribution to Australia’s war effort during World War II. While Australia formed three armoured divisions and two independent armoured brigades during the war, Australian armoured units only saw action as independent regiments and companies supporting larger infantry formations.
2/4th Commando Squadron (Australia) 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 2/5th Commando Squadron (Australia) No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF; 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia) 7th Signal Regiment (Australia) 2/8th Commando Squadron (Australia) 8th Field Ambulance (Australia) 2/9th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia) No. 9 ...
Royal Australian Infantry Corps; Australian Army Catering Corps; Australian Army Intelligence Corps; Different rank titles are used by other corps. [8] These soldiers hold the same rank as a PTE E-2 or PTE(P) E-3 Musician (MUSN): AABC; Signaller (SIG): Royal Australian Corps of Signals 4; Gunner (GNR): Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery
1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 16th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery