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Soldiers from the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment practice clearing a building in 2015. The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3 CER) is an Australian Army modular engineer regiment trained for sapper/combat engineer operations. The unit is based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland and is part of the 3rd Brigade.
Its role is to provide third line or 'general' support within an area of operations. [1] 10 FSB is located at Lavarack Barracks and Ross Island Barracks in Townsville, Queensland, with Catering elements located in Darwin, Adelaide, Brisbane and Amberley.
Lavarack Barracks (ICAO: YLVK) is a major Australian Army base located in the suburb of Murray in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Lavarack Barracks is currently home to the Army's 3rd Brigade and 11th Brigade .
The battalion remains based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, and became the division's specialist amphibious infantry Battalion. [31] [32] The battalion's primary role is to provide specialist capabilities to conduct pre-landing activities for other elements of the Army. It includes small boat operators and reconnaissance and sniper teams as ...
The role of RAAF Base Townsville changed in the 1960s and 1970s with the general northward shift of Australia's defence bases. In 1960, the majority of Australia's armed forces were still based near the southern capital cities, as they had been since the 1880s, but experience in Malaya , Sarawak and Vietnam changed the emphasis of defence ...
Headquarters, 3rd Brigade (Lavarack Barracks, Queensland) 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Armoured cavalry regiment with Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicles and M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks) (Lavarack Barracks, Qld) 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (Mechanized infantry with AS21 Redback infantry fighting vehicles) (Lavarack Barracks, Qld)
On 7 August 1905, Lavarack was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Australian Artillery.. In early 1913, he trained as an officer at the Staff College, Camberley in England, and upon the outbreak of the First World War was assigned first to the War Office as a general staff officer, grade 3 (GSO3), [3] then in February 1915 as a brigade major of the 22nd Division artillery. [4]
The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) is the armoured infantry battalion of the Australian Army, based in Kapyong Lines, Townsville as part of the 3rd Brigade (Armoured Amphibious). 3 RAR traces its lineage to 1945 and has seen operational service in Japan, Korea, Malaya, Borneo, South Vietnam, Rifle Company Butterworth, East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Afghanistan, and Iraq.