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The 1st Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.Although its numerical name was designated during the First World War, the 1st Battalion can trace its lineage back to 1854, when a unit of the Volunteer Rifles was raised in Sydney.
The AN&MEF comprised one battalion of infantry of 1,000 men enlisted in Sydney—known as the 1st Battalion, AN&MEF—plus 500 naval reservists and ex-sailors who would serve as infantry. [46] Another battalion of militia from the Queensland -based Kennedy Regiment , which had been hurriedly dispatched to garrison Thursday Island , also ...
By May 1916 the Queensland Recruiting Committee had instituted a centralised and cross-referenced filing system. This filing system provided the Committee with detailed records of 120,000 eligible males in Queensland and used a classification system to show availability in terms of family responsibilities, work commitments and other factors. [13]
At the height of the second conscription referendum, the Queensland Government, which was the only state with an anti-conscription position, took the extraordinary step of stationing armed police on the Queensland Government Printing Office to prevent the Australian Government censoring anti-conscription material in the Raid on the Queensland ...
1st Light Horse Brigade (1st (Central Queensland), 2nd (Queensland Mounted Infantry), 3rd (Darling Downs), 4th (Northern Rivers Lancers) and 27th (North Queensland) Light Horse Regiments) 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) No. 3 Battery, Royal Australian Field Artillery (Permanent)
0–9. 1st Battalion (Australia) 2nd Battalion (Australia) 5th Battalion (Australia) 6th Battalion (Australia) 1st Anzac Entrenching Battalion; 1st Machine Gun Battalion (Australia)
The 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (4 RAR) was an Australian Army infantry battalion. 4 RAR was first formed as an infantry battalion in February 1964 and saw active service in South Vietnam as part of the 1st Australian Task Force.
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) is a regular motorised infantry battalion of the Australian Army. 1 RAR was first formed as the 65th Australian Infantry Battalion of the 34th Brigade (Australia) on Balikpapan in 1945 and since then has been deployed on active service during the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, the Vietnam War, Unified Task Force in Somalia, East Timor, Iraq ...