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In 1808, the New South Wales Corps was renamed the 102d Regiment of Foot. [1] Having arrived in the colony in December 1809 with the 73rd Regiment of Foot , which was to take over from the 102d Regiment of Foot, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was able to control the rum trade more effectively, introducing and enforcing a licensing system.
Instead, each entire force was added separately to the order of precedence of the British Army, with its respective units retaining their original orders of precedence within that (where the force contained units of more than one corps, they were grouped and took precedence also in accordance with their parent corps of the regular army; eg ...
The Corps of Staff Cadets (CSC) is a corps of the Australian Army.It is ranked first in the Order of Precedence ahead of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. [2] The CSC is the corps to which all officer trainees, known as staff cadets, who attend the Royal Military College, Duntroon are allocated once they have completed their initial stage of training in III Class, known as Initial Cadet ...
The regiment was renamed on 1 August 1893, as the New South Wales Mounted Rifles. [2] This retitling was to clearly show that their role was that of mounted rifles not mounted infantry. [3] A company of the regiment served in the Second Boer War in 1899, before they were amalgamated into the 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles, as "A" Squadron. [4]
The various Regional Force Surveillance and Special Forces units of the Army are also part of the corps. [2] The School of Infantry (SOI) is located at Singleton, New South Wales, and forms part of the Combined Arms Training Centre. The "Head of Corps – Infantry" is usually a Brigadier and is the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Australian Regiment.
A similar unit known as the Army Service Corps was founded in New South Wales, and upon the formation of the national army in 1901, the predecessor to RACT, the Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) was formed. [6]
A Military History of Australia (Third ed.). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521697910. Harris, Ted. "Off Orbat Units of the Royal New South Wales Regiment". Digger History. Archived from the original on 24 June 2003; Maitland, Gordon (2001). The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment. Vol.
The officers of the New South Wales Marine Corps commanded the first European military unit to be stationed on the Australian continent. Commissioned to guard convicts aboard the First Fleet to Botany Bay in 1788, they subsequently enforced discipline at penal colonies in Port Jackson and Norfolk Island .