This book examines the fruit of this endeavour, the Australian Imperial Force. In doing so it seeks to outline and analyse the institution from its inception to its disbandment after the war.
The loss of a commander for the Liverpool half-company of mounted rifles was a key reason, for example, ... Victoria, in 1861 when the local magistrate called out the 60 men of the Kyneton District Mounted Rifles Corps to help disperse ...
This battle saw eight Australians awarded the Victoria Cross, more than in any other battle in the war. Peter Pedersen, ANZACS on the Western Front, John Wiley & Sons, 2012, p. 427. Prior and Wilson, Command on the Western Front, p.
Throughout this time, largely unnoticed, the Australian Movement Control Unit (MCU) was continuing its work in Mogadishu. After the US Marines arrived on 9 December, the general security situation improved in Mogadishu, and for a while ...
This book brings together some of Australia's foremost military historians to outline how the military neophytes that left Australia's shores in 1914 became the battle winning troops of 1918.
This is a story of humour and courage, of professionalism, and above all dedication to duty. The Royal Australian Regiment's motto, 'Duty First', continues to reflect its ethos and spirit today, over sixty years since its foundation.