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	Australian 1st Armoured Division - Biocrawler
		The Australian 1st Armoured Division was raised from 1941 onwards as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF).
		The division was never fully formed and later in the war was referred to as the 1st Armoured Brigade Group.
		Three regiments from the division saw combat against the Imperial Japanese Army, in the South West Pacific theatre of the Pacific War.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Australian_1st_Armoured_Division (204 words)

	Australian 1st Division (World War I) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Australian 1st Division (World War I) The Australian 1st Division was formed to fight in World War I as part of the 1st AIF in August 1914.
		As part of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the 1st Division made the initial landing at Anzac Cove on April 25, 1915 as part of the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula.
		The 1st Division's role in the August Offensive was to hold the front line and conduct a diversion on 400 Plateau at Lone Pine.
	www.music.us /education/A/Australian-1st-Division-(World-War-I).htm (522 words)

	Pozières, 1st Australian Division Memorial
		It was to that cemetery that the soldiers of the 1st Division came on 8 July 1917 to gather for a commemorative ceremony around a large wooden cross.
		Australians were soon digging in behind the ruins of houses in the main street of Pozières.
		The German bombardment to which the men of the 1st Division AIF were subjected after their capture of Pozières was perhaps the worst ever experienced by Australians on the Western Front.
	www.ww1westernfront.gov.au /pozieres_australian_memorial/index.html (1956 words)

	CIAOPS World Guides - WWI Australian Battlefields
		A brave attempt was made by half of the Australian 58th Battalion lead by Major A. Hutchinson, however the attack by the British 61st Division had been cancelled, but news of this didn't reach the Australians in time.
		The Australian 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions had been used by their commanders as a battering ram and lost nearly 23,000 officers and men in a mere 6 weeks on a front that extended little more than a mile.
		It was captured by soldiers of the Australian 1st Division's 2nd Battalion on 23 July, 1916.
	www.ciaops.com /guides/battle/page1.htm (2618 words)

	ipedia.com: Australian Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first Australian division to see action on the Western Front was the 5th Division which was thrown unprepared into the futile Battle of Fromelles, a "diversion" that cost the division 5,500 casualties for no gain.
		The 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions, combined as I Anzac Corps, fought the Battle of Poziéres; and subsequent Battle of Mouquet Farm, part of the Battle of the Somme.
		Australian units were also responsible for the last phase of amphibious assaults during the Pacific War: the attacks on Japanese-occupied Borneo, including Tarakan, Brunei, British Borneo, Balikpapan and other targets in Sarawak.
	www.ipedia.com /australian_army.html (2678 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Leslie Morshead
		The 9th Division, less it partly trained and equipped artillery, was ordered to move to the Tobruk-Derna area where it would relieve the 6th Division, so that formation could participate in the Battle of Greece.
		The half-trained and half-equipped 9th Division was pitched into the thick of the action almost immediately, steadying the retreat of Commonwealth forces from the newly-arrived German Afrika Korps, under Erwin Rommel, and occupying the vital port of Tobruk in Libya.
		At the Second Battle of El Alamein, the 9th Division was given responsibility for clearing a corridor through the German and Italian forces in the North and threatening to cut off those between the coastal road and the sea.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leslie-Morshead (9096 words)

	Australian 1st Division (World War I) information - Search.com
		The 1st Division's role in the August Offensive was to hold the front line and conduct a diversion on 400 Plateau at Lone Pine on 6 August.
		The 1st Division's artillery batteries in front of Lagnicourt were overrun and the village was occupied for two hours but counter-attacks from the Australian 9th and 20th Battalions (the latter from the 2nd Division) drove the Germans out.
		The 1st Division's artillery was in action from the start of the Third Battle of Ypres on 31 July, 1917 but the infantry were not called upon until the second phase of the battle commenced on 20 September with the Battle of Menin Road.
	www.search.com /reference/Australian_1st_Division_(World_War_I) (1880 words)

	Australian_Tac_Signs_1
		the Australian War Memorial photo archives the Official Tac.Sign was used on tanks, but on other vehicles the Aussie sense of humour (some say distain for authority) seems to have taken the sign and altered it to suit the occasion.
		Division A.I.F., but the boars head was different to what I had seen before, The 5th.
		Division saw heavy action in New Guinea before moving to Rabaul, where a photo was taken in 1946 and the boars head is different again from the "official" image.
	jeepdraw.com /Australian_Tac_Signs.html (701 words)

	Anzacs Battlefield Tour
		The 1st Australian Division Memorial stands on the edge of Pozieres opposite the German strong-point known as "Gibraltar", the remains of which can still be seen.
		The 5th Division Memorial is located at this spot and stands on top of the one of old buttes of the former Belgian Army firing range.
		Two Australians, Captain Jefferies and Sergeant McGhee were awarded posthumous VCs for their actions during the attack and lie just beyond the bunker to the right of the main entrance to the cemetery.
	www.wartours.com /anzacs.html (1819 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		The Anzac Mounted Division (originally the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division) fought as cavalry throughout the Middle East, including Egypt, the Sinai (Romani, Magdhaba and Rafah) and Palestine (First, Second and Third Battle of Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho, Es Salt, Megiddo and Amman).
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of the Battles of the Somme, July to November, 1916, while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres[?], 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated.
		2nd ANZAC (Australian 3rd and 4th Divisions, New Zealand Division plus the British 25th Division) fought in the Battle of Messines[?], July 1917, which was a prelude to an Allied offensive from the Ypres salient.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anzac.html (481 words)

	SECTION VI
		The division was disposed with the 59th Brigade holding the sector and the 60th Brigade in divisional reserve.
		As soon as the 30th and 27th Divisions had reached their objectives, the Australian 5th Division, on the right, and the Australian 3d Division on the left, were to pass through the 30th and 27th Divisions, respectively, and to continue the advance to a line which included the towns of Beaurevoir and Wiancourt.
		The division line, on the evening of September 29, was approximately as follows: From the Knoll south to the west of Guillemont farm, thence southeastwardly to the Hindenburg line, and along this line to the division limits.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwi/fieldoperations/chapter37.htm (8875 words)

	Knox County, Tennessee, in World War I
		This division, the first American division to enter that kingdom, marched into Belgium on July 4th, with Division Headquarters at Watou, to be in close support of the 33rd and 49th British Divisions, and was employed in completing the construction of the East and West Poperinghe Defense Systems immediately in rear of these two divisions.
		The division scarcely reached this area when it was marched back and took over the front line in the same sector from the 2nd Australian Division near Montbrehain on the night of October 4-5.
		The 30th Division was relieved by the 27th Division on October 11-12, but returned on October 16 and took over a part of the same line at the same place, being the right half of the sector temporarily held by the 27th.
	www.knoxcotn.org /military/wwi/book/30division.html (2483 words)

	1st Australian Division
		The Division was formed in Australia In August 1914.
		The Division landed on Gallipoli 25 April 1915.
		The Division served in France and Flanders until the Armistice.
	www.warpath.orbat.com /anzac/1_aus_div.htm (132 words)

	Remembrance Day
		Australian troops were often used by the British command as the first wave of an assault, leading to heavy casualties.
		Even on the Western Front he had exercised his vote in the Australian elections and in the referendums as to conscription, and it was largely through his own act in these ballots that the Australian people had rejected conscription and that, to the end, the A.I.F. consisted entirely of volunteers.
		In 1993, to mark the 75th anniversary of the 1918 armistice, the Australian Government exhumed the remains of an unknown Australian soldier from the Western Front for entombment at the Australian War Memorial's Hall of Memory, Canberra.
	www.acn.net.au /articles/remembrance (1805 words)

	History for 278th Armored Cavalry
		The 5th (Australian) Division moved up to pass through the 30th (US) Division, and both divisions advanced to establish a front from the intersection of Wattling Street road and canal, east and northeast to Bois du Cabaret, 800 meters northeast of the Boise de Malakoff.
		This was the second time the 1st SS Adolph Hitler Division faced the 117th Infantry Regiment and the 30th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge, during the Ardennes Offensive in the winter of 1944-45.
		Colonel Russell A. Newman was appointed as the 1st Colonel of the Regiment.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,101451\|775695,00.html (7077 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today - Australian 1st Division Memorial
		The memorial commemorates the 5,285 men of the division who became casualties at Pozieres.
		At the entrance to the memorial is a bronze plaque unveiled by the Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs on 30 August 1993.
		The memorial plaque is one of a number sponsored by private companies in Australia and were first introduced in Gallipoli in 1990.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today/australian1stdivisionmemorial.htm (184 words)

	1st Australian Infantry Division
		On the 3rd of August 1914 the Australian government offered the British Government a 20,000 expeditionary force, which was to be raised as a infantry division and a light horse brigade.
		The 1st brigade was formed in New South Wales, the 2nd in Victoria and the 3rd was raised with a battalion comming from each of the other states.
		On 25 April 1915, the First Division landed Anzac Cove and it was the men of the 9th Battalion who had the honour of being the first ashore.
	web.archive.org /web/20010806071317/http://www.iol.net.au/~conway/ww1/1stdiv.html (406 words)

	The Pinnacle of a War 1916
		Similarly, the Australian infantry divisions could, thanks to the extensive road systems around Vienna as well as enjoying the benefit of having internal lines of communications, be moved to any section of his defensive line if and when required.
		Division on the right, meant that 30 000 Australians were forced to defend against 150 000 Germans supported by 1 500 artillery pieces.
		Australian, Light Horse, and Mounted divisions, all soon found themselves in a deadly game with their German counterparts who, it must be said, were better at the counter-battery duel than the ANZAC gunners on this day.
	www.changingthetimes.net /samples/ww1/pinnacle.htm (4991 words)

	Operations: Thirtieth Division, "Old Hickory" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On September 17th the division was again moved farther south with Division Headquarters at Herissart, and on September 22nd was moved to the British Fourth Army with Division Headquarters at Bois de Buire, near Tincourt, taking over a front line sector from the 1st Australian Division, on the night of 23rd/24th.
		The division scarcely reached this area when it was marched back and took over the front line in the same sector from the 2nd Australian Division near Montbrehain on the night of 4th/5th.
		The 30th Division was relieved by the 27th Division on October 11th/12th, but returned on October 16th and took over a part of the same line at the same place, being the right half of the sector temporarily held by the 27th.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /WWI/30thOps.htm (3002 words)

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		The Australian 1st Division reached Albert on 18 July and, despite the postponement of the offensive, Gough, who had a reputation as a "thruster", told the division's commander, Major General Harold Walker, "I want you to go in and attack Pozières tomorrow night".
		The plan called for the Australian 1st Division to attack Pozières from the south, advancing in three stages half an hour apart, while north of the Albert-Bapaume road, the British 48th (South Midland) Division (British X Corps) would attack the German trenches west of the village.
		On the western edge of the village, the Australians captured a German bunker known as "Gibraltar", which was the only structure in the area to endure the bombardment.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/512-30458.aspx (1358 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Battle of Gallipoli
		At Cape Helles, on the tip of the peninsula, and along the Aegean coast, was the 9th Division and, in reserve at Gaba Tepe in the middle of the peninsula was the 19th Division, under the command of Mustafa Kemal.
		In June, a fresh division, the 52nd Division, began to land at Helles in time to participate in the last of the major Helles battles, the Battle of Gully Ravine which was launched on June 28.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was a rare victory for the Anzacs.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Dardanelles_Campaign (4165 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		The three Australian divisions of I Anzac, which had been acclimatising on the quiet sector near ArmentiÃ¨res, had been dispatched to the Somme as reinforcements and so the 5th Division took their place at ArmentiÃ¨res on July 12.
		The result of this move was that the 5th Division, the most inexperienced of the Australian divisions in France, would be the first to see major action in the Battle of Fromelles, a week after going in to the trenches.
		The 5th Division was relieved by the 2nd Division and, when on October 5 the Australian Corps handed over its line to the U.S. II Corps, the division was withdrawn to the coast for a rest that would last until the end of the war.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Australian_5th_Division_(World_War_I)_.html (1728 words)

	Office of Australian War Graves - France Memorials
		The 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Divisional Memorials are of a similar design being in the shape of an obelisk with a bronze plaque recording each Division's battle honours.
		The 2nd Division relieved the survivors of the 1st Division.
		Entirely under Australian planning and command, the victory established the pattern for allied operations for the remainder of the war on the Western Front.
	www.dva.gov.au /commem/oawg/france.htm (775 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - ANZAC DAY Diggers at Gallipoli, Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The water was churned and whipped into foam by the hail of bullets, and many of the invaders died in the boats or in the water before their feet grated on the shore.
		Although eight thousand Australians were ashore by 7.30 a.m., and the whole twelve thousand infantry of the 1st Australian Division by early afternoon, the withering hail of Turkish shrapnel that descended upon them pinned them down to the beach and a small area on top of the cliff where the first Anzacs had dug in.
		The position seemed critical and after consulting with General Bridges, Commander of the 1st Australian Division, General Birdwood, the Anzacs’ Commander, sent an urgent message to the G.O.C., Sir Ian Hamilton, on board the British battleship Queen Elizabeth, that an immediate evacuation of the whole force might be necessary once darkness fell.
	www.gunplot.net /anzac/anzacday.html (1682 words)

	ANZAC Spirit - INDEPENDENT ANZAC NETWORK DATABASE - Spirit of ANZAC
		Also in August 1915, the 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades were strengthened by the 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment (from Queensland and South Australia) and the 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment (from New South Wales).
		On 12th of September 1915, the 1st Australian Division handed over the position at Lone Pine to the 2nd Australian Division.
		The 29th Division from Unidet Kingdom, had been reinforced by the 29th Indian Brigade, and the 42nd from East Lancashire Division, the force restructured as VIII Corps.
	www.anzacday.biz /anzac_history/spirit_of_anzac.htm (1811 words)

	Statistics - military [Australian War Memorial]
		Source: S. Mackenzie, The Australians at Rabaul, The official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, vol.
		Over 21,000 were from the Second AIF (particularly the 8th Division); 354 RAN; 373 RAAF officers; and 71 women from the Australian Army Nursing Service.
		Twenty-one Australian nurses were executed on Banka Island, and an unknown number of Australians elsewhere in Malaya and in Singapore, especially at the Alexandra Hospital.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/statistics_table.htm (424 words)

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		With the start of Australian operations in Afghanistan it became clear that the established national Air Contact Officer qualification (based on just four days' training) was not recognised by supporting air forces and led to rapid establishment of courses to train special forces personnel as Secondary FACs.
		In principle, the Troop's function is to be available to support the Australian Army's 1st Division (with brigades in Darwin, Townsville and Brisbane) down to company level.
		The Australian special forces and army aviation organisations maintain a number of additional JTACs of their own in secondary roles, and a small number of primary controllers are also permanently allocated to high-readiness units within 1st Division.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/512-23289.aspx (545 words)

	Militaria & Military Photos - Australian WWI Army Uniform(s) - Grants Militaria Images
		Australian soldier in the 1st Division Australian Artillery, wearing a slouch hat, and a 1916 tunic, and P03 equipment
		Australian soldier in the 1st Division Australian Artillery, wearing a slouch hat, and a 1916 tunic, and Pattern '03 equipment.
		This is an Australian made tunic for a soldier in the 1st Australian Field Artillery.
	www.grantsmilitaria.com /militariaphotos/militaria_images.asp?key=194 (241 words)

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