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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.
6 RAR was raised on 6 June 1965 at Alamein Barracks at Enoggera in Brisbane, Queensland, when a cadre of officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) and two rifle companies were transferred from 2 RAR to form the nucleus of the new battalion. [1] The battalion was then brought up to full strength when an intake of 250 national servicemen ...
The battalion's origins lay in the enthusiasm for joining local Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVCs) engendered by an invasion scare in 1859. [1] The volunteer units which became the battalion comprised the following: 4th Hampshire Rifle Volunteers – formed in Havant in February 1860; 5th Hampshire Rifle Volunteers – formed in Portsmouth in ...
The 2/6th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served during the Second World War. Raised in October 1939 as part of the all-volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force , the battalion formed part of the 6th Division and was among the first troops raised by Australia during the war.
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 1/6th Battalion went into the line for another spell on 21 August, and early in the morning the Germans made a counter-attack against their forward position. This was repulsed, but between 05.30 and 1200 the battalion made three separate attempts to occupy a particular enemy position, and each time was bombed out.
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.
The 1st Manchester Rifles, later the 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and around Manchester.It served as infantry at Gallipoli, fighting with distinction at the Third Battle of Krithia, and in some of the bitterest battles on the Western Front in the First World War.