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Slater was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 8 July 1958 to Harold Leslie Slater and Shirly Florence (née Butler). [2] Educated at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, Slater studied surveying at the Queensland University of Technology before joining the Australian Army in 1978, where he graduated from the Officer Cadet School, Portsea.
Captain Peter Arnison (left) and Major Ian McFarlane of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment on their return from a battalion strength operation in Biên Hòa, Vietnam, in July 1965. Major General Peter Maurice Arnison , AC , CVO (born 21 October 1940) is a retired Australian Army officer who served as the 23rd Governor of Queensland ...
The regiment is headquartered at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus in Brisbane.Staffed by a cadre of Regular Army personnel, it is tasked with training officers and soldiers of the Army Reserve and currently provides pre-appointment training for officer cadets for 11th Brigade units, as well as promotion courses for all Reserve officers up to the rank of major.
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.
1st Intelligence Battalion (Victoria Barracks, NSW) 1st Military Police Battalion (HQ at Victoria Barracks, NSW) 6th Engineer Support Regiment (Gallipoli Barracks, Qld) 7th Signal Regiment (Borneo Barracks, Qld) [12] 16th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (Woodside Barracks, SA) [13] 19th Chief Engineer Works (Randwick Barracks, NSW)
The Royal Queensland Regiment (RQR) is a reserve light infantry regiment of the Australian Army based in Queensland. Part of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps, the regiment was established in 1960 following a reorganisation of Australia's part-time infantry regiments that saw the creation of six state-based regiments through the amalgamation of the previously existing regionally designated ...
The 1st and 2nd battalions saw limited active service, conducting patrols against the Boers during the last great drives that ultimately ended the war. The war ended before the remaining battalions arrived to see action, and by the time peace came on 31 May 1902, the majority of the third contingent, consisting of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th ...
In the 1970s portions of army land were acquired by the Main Roads Department for various road works adjoining the site, while another portion was sold and became part of the Kelvin Grove Campus of Queensland University of Technology. [1] In recent years, Army recruitment in south-east Queensland became centred at the Gona Barracks site.