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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 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.
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 6th Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) was a field artillery battalion of the United States Army. The unit nickname follows the 14th Field Artillery nickname "Warbonnets" with the motto " Ex Hoc Signo Victoria " (Victory By This Sign)
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 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.
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 Rifle Volunteers were formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of the 6th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Light Infantry, 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and elements of the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in consequence of the reforms implemented due to the Strategic Defence Review.