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Militia units also undertook brief periods of continuous service, for training and home defence duties. If AIF volunteers constituted more than 65% of a unit's personnel, the entire unit could be gazetted as an AIF unit and deployed overseas. [Note 1] Sappers from the 11th Field Company bridging the Jaba River, Bougainville, May 1945
The Waterloo Dinner is an annual dinner for commissioned officers held by units of the Royal Australian Engineers, although some smaller units may permit other ranks to attend. It is traditionally held on or about 18 June in commemoration of the first dinner, held by members of the corps at Gallipoli in 1915 to celebrate the completion of ...
The 6th Combat Support Brigade was an Australian Army brigade.First formed in 1912 as a Militia formation to provide training under the compulsory training scheme, the brigade was re-raised during the First World War as an infantry unit of the all volunteer Australian Imperial Force.
Forever Forward: The History of the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF 1940–1945. Loftus, New South Wales: Australian Military History Publications. ISBN 1-876439-33-5. Long, Gavin (1961) [1952]. To Benghazi. Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Series 1—Army. Volume I. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian War Memorial.
The 23rd Battalion was raised in Victoria in March 1915 as part of the formation of the 2nd Division of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). [1] Its first commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel George Morton. [2] Together with the 21st, 22nd and 24th Battalions, it formed the 6th Brigade under the command of Colonel Richard Linton. [2]
The 11th Engineer Regiment (11ER) is an Australian Army Reserve engineer regiment trained for sapper/combat engineer and construction engineer operations. While 11 ER was formed on 1 January 2014 as a result of recent Australian Army modernisation efforts, 11 ER's lineage is traced back to early Queensland volunteer engineer units as early as 1879.
The battalion was formed in January 1916 during an expansion of the AIF that took place after the Gallipoli campaign. [1] Assigned to the 9th Brigade of the Australian 3rd Division, [2] the majority of the battalion's personnel were volunteers that came from Maitland, New South Wales – many of whom had been coal miners – and as a result the unit became known as "Maitland's Own".
In 1921, Australia's part-time military forces were re-organised in order to perpetuate the numerical designations and formations of the AIF. [16] As a result, the 37th Battalion was re-raised at this time, drawing personnel from parts of the 24th, 46th and 37th Infantry Regiments and the 29th Light Horse, [ 15 ] and was assigned to the 10th ...