28th Battalion (Australia)

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28th Battalion

Men of 28th Battalion during a Lewis gun drill at Renescure.
Active 1915–1919
1921–1946
Country  Australia
Branch Australian Army
Type Infantry
Part of 7th Brigade, 2nd Division
(1915–1919)
13th Brigade, III Corps
13th Brigade, 5th Division
Motto Urgens
March Hearts of Oak
Engagements World War I
World War II
Insignia
Unit Colour Patch

The 28th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was raised in 1915 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force for service during World War I and formed part of the 7th Brigade, attached to the 2nd Division. It fought during the Gallipoli campaign and on the Western Front before being disbanded in 1919.[1] Reraised in 1921 as the 28th Battalion (Swan Regiment), the battalion saw action during World War II in the New Britain campaign. The battalion was disbanded in March 1946.[2]

Alliances

The 28th Battalion held the following alliances:[3]

Battle honours

The 28th Battalion received the following battle honours:[3]

  • First World War: Somme 1916–18; Poziers; Bullecourt; Ypres 1917; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcappelle; Passchendale; Amiens; Albert 1918; Mont St. Quentin; Hindenburg Line; Beaurevoir; France and Flanders 1916–18; Gallipoli 1915; Egypt 1915–16.
  • Second World War: North Africa 1941–42; Defence of Tobruk; Defence of Alamein Line; Tel el Makh Khad; Sanyet el Miteirya; Qattara Track; El Alamein; South West Pacific 1943–45; Lae-Nadzab; Busu River; Finschhafen; Defence of Scarlet Beach; Siki Cove; Gusila; Borneo; Labuan; and Beaufort.

Commanding officers

First World War
  • Herbert Bayley Collett
  • George Arthur Read
  • Patrick Currie
Second World War
  • Michael Joseph Anketell
  • James Gerald Brennan
  • Henry Humfrey Marsden Chilton
  • Alfred Joseph Proud

Notes

  1. ↑ "28th Battalion". First World War, 1914–1918 units. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 17 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ "28th Battalion (Swan Regiment)". Second World War, 1939–1945 units. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 17 October 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Festberg 1972, p. 88.

References

  • Festberg, Alfred (1972). The Lineage of the Australian Army. Melbourne, Victoria: Allara Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85887-024-6. 

Further reading

  • Clohessy, Daryl; Masel, Philip (2005). Wouldn't Have Missed It For Quids: The History of the 28th Battalion, 2nd A.I.F., 1939–1945. Bassendean, Western Australia: D.G. Clohessy. OCLC 225208531. 
  • Collett, H.B. (1922). The 28th: A Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915–1919. Volume 1. Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula. Perth: Trustees of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia. OCLC 220299107. 
  • Grey, Jeffrey (2008). A Military History of Australia (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-69791-0. 
  • Kahan, Henry K. (2007) [1969]. The 28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force: A Record of War Service. Perth: Hesperian Press. ISBN 0859053911. 
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