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The New South Wales Corps, later known as the 102d Regiment of Foot, and lastly as the 100th Regiment of Foot, was a formation of the British Army organised in 1789 in England to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, which had accompanied the First Fleet to New South Wales.
The Australian Army is organised into three main elements which report to the Chief of Army, the Headquarters of the 1st Division, Special Operations Command and Forces Command. [1] Headquarters 1st Division is responsible for high-level training activities and is capable of being deployed to command large scale ground operations.
The following is a list of current regiments of the Australian Army, listed by Corps and service type. Armour. Regular Army. 1st Armoured Regiment; 2nd Cavalry ...
In March 1901, the Australian Army came into existence as the Commonwealth Military Forces through the amalgamation of the former colonies military forces. The existing regiments and battalions of the colonies were reorganised and renumbered due to their absorption into the national army and subsequently formed the first military units of a united Australia.
The following is a list of the 23 Corps of the Australian Army, [1] ordered according to the traditional seniority of all the Corps. [citation needed]Corps of Staff Cadets ...
The regiment was formed in 1960 as a result the amalgamation of all the Citizen's Military Force infantry battalions in New South Wales. [2] This came about through an Army-wide reorganisation of regionally based infantry battalions and the formation of multi-battalion state-based regiments. [ 3 ]
The RAAC is the senior arms corps within the Army and the custodian of the customs and traditions of Australia's mounted soldiers. [2] The members of the corps are Army's experts in the theory and practice of armoured warfare and operation of armoured fighting vehicles (AFV).
As a result, the Australian Army sought to obtain tanks of its own; however, due to post-war economic measures this was slow in occurring. [6] Four British Vickers Medium Mark II tanks were procured in 1927 to build its force, with the formation of the Australian Tank Corps gazetted on 15 December 1927. [12]