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The
20th Battalion was raised in March 1915 in
Liverpool, New South Wales as part of the 5th Brigade,
2nd Division. The battalion left
Australia in June and trained in
Egypt from June until August. The 19th landed at
Anzac Cove on
22 August 1916. The Battalion played a minor part in the attack on
August Offensive. For the majority of time the battalion was stationed at
Gallipoli it was deployed to the defence of Russell's Top. The Battalion remained at Gallipoli until the evacuation on
20 December 1915. The battalion then proceeded to
France and arrived there on
22 March 1916 and proceeded to
Pozieres. The battalion remained in France for the reminder of the war. On
20 April 1918 the 20th Battalion was disbanded.
No. 101 Flight was a
Royal Australian Air Force fleet co-operation flight. The Flight was formed in July 1925 and was equipped with
Fairey III amphibian aircraft. These aircraft were replaced with
Supermarine Seagull IIIs in 1926. Aircraft from No. 101 flight operated from the seaplane tender
HMAS Albatross between 1929 and 1933. After
Albatross paid off the Flight's aircraft operated from the RAN's heavy cruisers
HMAS Australia and
HMAS Canberra. No. 101 Flight was expanded to form
No. 5 Squadron in April 1936.
HMAS Castlemaine is a
Bathurst class corvette which was operated by the
Royal Australian Navy. She was laid down by the Melbourne Harbour Trust at
Williamstown in Victoria in February 1941, launched in August 1941 and commissioned at
Melbourne in June 1942. After seeing active service during
World War II Castlemaine paid off to reserve in December 1945 and was used as a training hulk.
Castlemaine was gifted to the Maritime Trust of Australia in September 1973 and is presently berthed at
Gem Pier,
Williamstown, Victoria as a
museum ship.
The
Royal Australian Army Education Corps (RAAEC) is a specialist corp within the
Australian Army, made up entirely of commissioned officers. All members of the corps are civil qualified teachers. RAAEC is responsible for many education focused areas of
military training, including the development and implementation of technology-based training, developing training courses, training Staff Cadets in communication skills, managing and conducting long distance education, teaching english to foreign students, analysing education proposals and delivering literacy and numeracy programs.
No. 78 Squadron was a
Royal Australian Air Force fighter squadron of
World War II. The Squadron was formed in July 1943 and was equipped with
P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft. No. 78 Squadron began flying combat missions in November 1943 and supported Allied ground forces operating in New Guinea and nearby islands until the end of 1944. The squadron moved to
Morotai Island in December 1944 and conducted raids on Japanese positions in the
Netherlands East Indies and
Borneo. The Squadron returned to Australia in December 1945 and was reduced to cadre status until August 1946 when it was equipped with
P-51D Mustang aircraft. No. 78 Squadron was disbanded on
1 April 1948.
HMAS Queenborough (G30/F02) was a
Q-class destroyer built by
Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited at
Wallsend-on-Tyne in
England.
Queenborough was commissioned into the
Royal Navy in December 1942 and was manned by Australians throughout the war. Following the war she was purchased by Australia and commissioned into the
Royal Australian Navy in October 1945. Following her conversion to an anti-submarine frigate between 1949 and 1954
Queenborough undertook six deployments to the
Far East between 1956 and 1963.
Queenborough paid off in July 1963 but was recommissioned as a training ship in July 1966. HMAS
Queenborough was decommissioned in April 1972 and was later sold for scrap.
The
2/10th Armoured Regiment was an
Australian Army armoured regiment of
World War II. The Regiment was formed in
Western Australia in July 1941 and formed part of the
1st Armoured Division. The Regiment conducted its initial training at
Puckapunyal, Victoria prior to being equipped with
M3 Stuart and
M3 Grant tanks and relocated to
Narrabri, New South Wales. As part of the 1st Armoured Brigade the 2/10th Armoured Regiment was moved to Western Australia in January 1943. When the 1st Armoured Division was disbanded in September 1943 the Regiment survived as part of the independent 1st Armoured Brigade Group until it and the Brigade Group headquarters were disbanded in September 1944.
RAAF Base Rathmines was a
Royal Australian Air Force base located on
Lake Macquarie in
New South Wales. RAAF Rathmines was established in 1939 and was the RAAF's main
flying boat base during World War II and the early 1950s. During World War II aircraft based at Rathmines conducted anti-submarine patrols along the Australian east coast and the base was home to the RAAF's main seaplane training units. Following the retirement of the RAAF's flying boats in 1952 the base was used as a training facility until it was closed in the late 1950s.
The first
HMAS Arunta (D130/I30) was a
Tribal class destroyer built by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at
Sydney and commissioned on
30 March 1942.
Arunta first saw service escorting convoys along the Australian east coast and between Australia and
New Guinea. From May 1943 she mainly operated as a unit of Task Force 74 and supported Allied landings in
New Britain,
New Guinea, the
Philippines and
Borneo. After the war she formed part of the Allied occupation forces in Japan and conducted a patrol off Korea shortly after the end of the
Korean War. HMAS
Arunta paid off to reserved in December 1956 and was sold for scrap in November 1968.
The
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) is an
Australian Army infantry battalion. 1RAR was formed for occupation duties in Japan in October 1945 as the 65th Battalion. The Battalion returned to Australia in 1948 and received its current name in 1949. 1RAR has seen combat during the
Korean War,
Malayan Emergency and
Vietnam War. The Battalion has also participated in peacekeeping missions in
Somalia,
Timor Leste the
Solomon Islands and
Tonga and has committed companies to the
Security Detachment protecting Australian diplomats in Baghdad.
No. 86 Wing is a
Royal Australian Air Force Transport Wing which is currently is based at
RAAF Richmond,
New South Wales. The Wing was formed in August 1946 and originally comprised
36,
37 and
38 Squadrons, flying
C-47 Dakotas. Although No. 86 Wing was disbanded in 1964 it was reformed in February 1987 to command the RAAF's medium transport aircraft squadrons and currently comprises the same flying units with which it was formed in 1946.
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The
Australian submarine AE2 was was an
E-class submarine which served in the
Royal Australian Navy during
World War I.
AE2 was commissioned in Britain in February 1914 and arrived in Australia later that year.
AE2 supported the Australian occupation of
Rabaul in September 1914 and departed Australia for the
Mediterranean in December 1914. On
25 April 1915 the
AE2 became the first Allied submarine to pass through the Dardanelles Strait to attack Turkish shipping in the
Sea of Marmora. After five days of being attacked and unable to find any large troop transports to attack she was damaged
29 April in an attack by the Turkish
torpedo boat Sultan Hisar in Artaki Bay and was scuttled by her crew.
The
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps was a
First World War army corps of the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was formed in
Egypt in
1915 and operated during the
Battle of Gallipoli. The main elements of the Corps were the
Australian 1st Division and the
New Zealand and Australian Division. The corps was disbanded in
1916 following the evacuation of Gallipoli. The Corps is best remembered today as the source of the
acronym ANZAC which has since become a term, "Anzac", for a person from
Australia or
New Zealand.
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