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8th_Battalion_AIF_Unit_Colour_Patch.PNG (154 × 95 pixels, file size: 458 bytes, MIME type: image/png) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
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. Unit colour patches (or simply known as colour patches) [1] are a method of identification used by the Australian Army, used to indicate which unit a soldier belongs to.
The 8th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Initially raised in 1914 for the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War the battalion was completely recruited from Victoria and formed part of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. During the war it fought at Gallipoli and in France and Belgium on the Western Front.
M198 of 101 Medium Battery, 8/12 Medium Regiment in 2001. The Regiment was a creation of the reorganisation of the Australian Army as a result of the Vietnam War experience. During the mid-1970s, the 8th/12th Medium Regiment included: [5] Headquarters Battery "A" Field Battery 103 Medium Battery 102 Field Battery (disbanded in 1987)
Attached to the 8th Division, the 27th Brigade was the last AIF brigade raised during the war. [4] The colours chosen for the battalion's unit colour patch (UCP) were the same as those of the 26th Battalion, a unit which had served during World War I before being raised as a Militia formation in 1921. These colours were purple over blue, in a ...
[4] [5] The colours chosen for the battalion's unit colour patch (UCP) were the same as those of the 8th Battalion, a Victorian infantry battalion which had been raised for service during World War I as part of the First Australian Imperial Force, and had subsequently been re-raised as Militia battalion. These colours were white over red, in a ...
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]
During World War I, the brigade was re-raised in 1916 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force, when the AIF was being expanded in Egypt following the Gallipoli Campaign and prior to its deployment to the Western Front. Assigned to the 5th Division, the brigade comprised newly formed battalions that had recently arrived in Egypt.
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