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	Australian 5th Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 returned to action in late March as the German Spring offensive, launched on March 21, began to threaten the vital rail hub of Amiens.
		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2nd Division and, when on October 5 the Australian Corps handed over its line to the U.S. II Corps, the division was withdrawn to the coast for a rest that would last until the end of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_5th_Division_(World_War_I) (1748 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		The original formation (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), which served at Gallipoli, was commanded by General William Birdwood and comprised the Australian 1st Division and the New Zealand and Australian Division.
		The Australian Imperial Force underwent a major reorganization resulting in the formation of two new divisions; the 4th and 5th divisions.
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of engagements during the Battle of the Somme (1916) while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres, 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated as a whole.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-and-New-Zealand-Army-Corps (2362 words)

	Australian 5th Division (World War I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three Australian divisions of I Anzac, which had been acclimatising on the quiet sector near Armentières, had been dispatched to theSomme as reinforcements and so the 5th Division took their place at Armentières on July12.
		III Corps was lent the 15th Brigade and the 13thBrigade (from the Australian 4th Division) to mount a counter-attack.
		The 5th Division was relieved by the 2nd Division and, when on October 5 theAustralian Corps handed over its line to the US II Corps, the division waswithdrawn to the coast for a rest that would last until the end of the war.
	www.therfcc.org /australian-5th-division-world-war-i--201508.html (1497 words)

	Australian Army biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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" to the Battle of the Somme that cost the division 5,500 casualties for no gain.
		During 1917, the five divisions in France fought in three Allied offensives: the Battle of Bullecourt (part of the Battle of Arras), the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres.
		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.
	australian-army.biography.ms (2975 words)

	Australian 5th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name 5th Division has been used for two different units of the Australian Army.
		In 1916, a 5th Division was formed as part of the First Australian Imperial Force.
		In 1921, the 5th Division name was revived and was assigned to an Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) unit, which served in the South West Pacific Area during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_5th_Division (161 words)

	CIAOPS World Guides - WWI Australian Battlefields
		The first Australian casualties of the Western Front occur when 2 officers and 72 men of the 9th (Queensland) Battalion are killed or wounded when German shells hit farmhouses they are sheltering in.
		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.
	www.ciaops.com /guides/battle/page1.htm (2743 words)

	Fromelles
		Although the First, second and Fourth Divisions, comprising 1 ANZAC Corps, were ordered south to the Somme in early July, Australians first major enterprise on the western front, a "feint' designed to divert German reserves from the Somme, was entrusted to the 5th Division before the small town of Fromelles.
		Two of the six Australian battalions attacking and almost all the Englishmen were halted in No Man's Land, and an eager and confident enemy picked out and shot down almost every attacking officer.
		The 5th Division was so devastated that it would not again be ready for combat for almost a year.
	members.optusnet.com.au /pasu/fromelles.htm (680 words)

	The battle of Polygon Wood.
		Polygon Wood, near Ypres in Belgium, was captured by the Australian 5th Division on September 26, 1917 during the
		The attack on Polygon Wood was the 5th Division’s first major battle since it was savaged at the disastrous attack at Fromelles in July 1916 (although parts of the Division had been present at Bullecourt in April 1917).
		By nightfall on September 26 the 5th Division occupied the wood.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww1/france/polygon_wood.htm (699 words)

	40th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
		On 2 Aril, Talisay was occupied and the Division regrouped 8 April, in preparation for the attack on the Japanese defenses in the Negritos--Patog area.
		Fighting was intense as the Division cleared ridges and ravines in spite of sharp Japanese counterattacks and torrential rainstorms.
		The Division was converted from its historic role as Infantry to Armor and redesignated the 40th Armored Division on 1 July 1954.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/40id.htm (2754 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 the Kennedy Regiment was dispatched from Townsville to Thursday Island for coastal defence.
		The 31st Battalion AIF was part of the 8th Brigade, 5th Australian Division formed in 1915.
		The 31st Battalion as part of the 5th Division was later dispatched south to Amiens to confront a full scale German offensive.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/hq11bde/T31RQRHist.htm (984 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 (747 words)

	9th Division AIF; Tobruk and El Alamein
		The 9th Division was first formed in the United Kingdom during 1940, using one of the 6th Division units, the 18th Brigade, as its core.
		The 9th Division, along with a New Zealand, a South African, an Indian and a British division, grouped as the 30th Corps, formed the main attack in the north.
		The balance of the 9th Division (the 20th and 24th Brigades) went ashore at Labuan Island and Brunei on the north-west coast of Borneo on 10 June 1945.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/pages-2aif-cmf/9-div-aif.htm (1202 words)

	NAMED CAMPAIGNS-WORLD WAR II
		Two Australian divisions, one U.S. Army division, and a separate U.S. Army regiment had been committed to the fight before the fall of Gona (9 December), Buna (2 January 1943), and Sanananda (23 January).
		The purpose of this operation was to reoccupy the remainder of the Solomons and the northern coast of New Guinea as far as Lae and Salamaua.
		A third Marine division evenly had to be thrown into the battle as 23,000 Japanese, firmly entrenched in terrain that gave every advantage to the defenders, exacted a price of some 20,000 American casualties for the tiny island.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/apcmp.htm (7447 words)

	Australian 4th Division (World War I) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition to the experienced 4th Brigade (previously in the original (Click link for more info and facts about New Zealand and Australian Division) New Zealand and Australian Division) were added the new 12th and 13th Brigades (spawned from the battalions of the 4th and 3rd Brigades respectively).
		From (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt the division was sent to (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		After the war ended and the AIF was demobilised, the 4th Division name was revived and assigned to an (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Citizens Military Forces) Australian Citizens Military Forces (reserve) unit.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Au/Australian_4th_Division_(World_War_I)1.htm (257 words)

	5th Australian Division Headquarters in Australia during WW2
		The Queensland 5th Australian Division was formed in 1942 at Marist Brothers College at Ashgrove in Brisbane.
		An advanced party of 25 officers and 55 ordinary ranks of the Headquarters of the 5th Australian Division arrived in Townsville on 30 April 1942 along with an advanced party of 40 members of the 29th Infantry Brigade.
		The 5th Australian Division (less the 11th Australian Infantry Brigade Group) played a significant role in the defence of Townsville during the early years of the war in the South West Pacific Area.
	www.ozatwar.com /5divhq.htm (690 words)

	RSL - Education : Teaching and Learning - villers bretonneux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tens of thousands of young Australian soldiers have been laid to rest in the beautifully maintained cemeteries which are scattered throughout the towns and villages of the Western Front in northern France and Belgium.
		The Australian 5th Division, which was holding the north of Villers-Bretonneux, was ordered to counterattack and in a pincer movement liberated the village on 25th April 1918.
		Twelve hundred Australian soldiers, the fathers and brothers of these children, gave their lives in the heroic recapture of this town from the invader on 24th April 1918, and are buried near this spot.
	www.sofweb.vic.edu.au /vol/teach/activ18.htm (1288 words)

	California National Guard :: Fortieth Infantry Division (Mechanized) :: HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fighting Fortieth, The Sunburst Division in World War II With U.S. participation in World War II imminent, the Division was called into federal service on 3 March 1941, and assembled at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, for training.
		The Division was relieved by the 43rd Infantry Division on 2 March.
		In September, the Division moved to the Korea for occupation duty, a country it was to revisit within the decade.
	www.calguard.ca.gov /40div/History/narbetween.htm (915 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: ANZAC Memories
		Soldiers came from the full range of social, religious and economic backgrounds represented in the wider Australian population, but the original intention that half the force be drawn from men with militia training and half without does not appear to have been realised even in the early contingents.
		Beginning with the diversionary attack at Fromelles by the 5th Division in which they suffered 5,533 casualties in a single twenty-four hour period, the Australians were fed in to successive attacks in which enormous casualties were sustained for minimal gains in ground.
		Pulled out of the line for rest and refitting at the beginning of 1918, the Australians missed the opening stages of the great German offensive which began in March and which was designed to win the war before the Americans arrived in sufficient strength to put the matter beyond doubt.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfanzac.htm (1115 words)

	Australian Mounted Division -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It originally comprised the Australian 3rd Light Horse Brigade (from the (Click link for more info and facts about Anzac Mounted Division) Anzac Mounted Division) and the reconstituted Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade as well as two British mounted brigades.
		After protests from the (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australian government, the division was renamed in June 1917 when one of the British brigades was detached.
		In mid-1918 the British 5th Mounted Brigade was detached and the Australian 5th Light Horse Brigade (containing the 14th and 15th Light Horse Regiments as well as a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French cavalry regiment) joined the division.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Au/Australian_Mounted_Division.htm (451 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot ANZACS Villers Brettoneaux
		It cost many Australian live buts effectively halted the last throw of the dice for the German Army and any chance of capturing the strategic city of Amiens.
		Divisions but considering they were comprised mostly of fresh untried reinforcements he was loathe to commit them.
		The British were then able to retake the town easily and with the aid of the Australians reestablished their allied line and protect Amiens.
	www.gunplot.net /anzac/anzacday3.html (891 words)

	Zonebeke: Buttes 5th Australian Division Memorial
		The Australian 4th Division would be making progress along the northern edge of the wood, but it was up to the 5th to take the wood and secure the right flank of the attack.
		To the south the British 33 Division had not been able to advance as quickly as the Australians and this was leaving the Australian flank open as the Allied line bulged forward.
		By 12:00 hours the 33rd Division had managed to fight their way forward and were in a better position to secure the open flank.
	www.webmatters.net /belgium/ww1_buttes_aus.htm (798 words)

	Australian Military Units
		The battalion became part of the 14th Brigade of the 5th Australian Division.
		Casualty rates among the rest of the 5th Division were similarly high, but despite these losses it continued to man the front in the Fromelles sector for a further two months.
		Heavy casualties throughout 1918 and declining enlistments in Australia resulted in a decision in mid-September 1918 to disband several Australian battalions to reinforce others; in the 14th Brigade this battalion was to be the 54th.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_11241.asp (505 words)

	Fromelles Memorial Park - France in Australia Embassy and Consulate-General
		It was inspired by an incident, recorded in a letter from Lieutenant Simon Fraser of the 57th Battalion and quoted in the Official History of Australia in War 1914 18 by Charles Bean.
		The German officer received permission from his HQ for the truce but Murdoch was told that the Allied General HQ had given orders that "no negotiations of any kind, and on any subject, were to be had with the enemy".
		Bean wrote: "Then was seen along the whole front of the Australian 5th Division that magnificent tribute of devotion which the Australian soldier never failed to pay to his mates."
	www.ambafrance-au.org /article.php3?id_article=534 (422 words)

	Anzac's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australian and New Zealand visitors still visit these area in large numbers but remember in you are planning an Anzac day visit you must book early.
		This one is the clearing in Polygon Wood and its on the old rifle buttes which were used inside the wood for rifle practice by the Belgium army prior to World War One.
		The cemetery contains the Australian 5th Division Memorial and a memorial wall to New Zealand soldiers who fell in the area with no known graves.
	www.typenet.com /html/anzac_s.html (412 words)

	5th Battalion Australian Imperial Force Reenactors Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the war broke out in 1914, the Australian Government pledged an initial contingent of one Infantry Division and a Mounted (Light Horse) Brigade to the aid of the mother country.
		The division was officered by a large percentage of the Australian regulars, and the Infantry Battalions were cadred by volunteers from the various Militia Battalions.
		Australian Division, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
	members.cox.net /anzac1914/history.html (488 words)

	Articles - Australian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australian Army Training Team; this encompasses 55 personnel providing logistic training to the new Iraqi Army.
		Embassy security detatchment; this provides security protection and escort for staff at the Australian Embassy in Baghdad, and consists of 100 personnel.
		The army contribution is primarily concentrated in Afghanistan and consists of a Special Operations Task Group of personnel from the Special Air Service Regiment, 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and Incident Response Regiment.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_Army (272 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian 5th Division (World War I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		In the period leading up to the final Allied offensive, Australian divisions used Peaceful Penetration to continual harrass their German opposition.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-5th-Division-(World-War-I) (1801 words)

	Anzac's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australian and New Zealand visitors still visit these area in large numbers but rememeber in you are planning an Anzac day visit you must book early.
		Buttes New British cemetry in Polygon Wood - the Australian 4th and 5th Divisions had 5,500 casualties in taking the wood.
		Villers Bretoneux Australian National memorial - the memorial bears the scars of WW2 bullets.
	typenet.com /html/anzacs.html (149 words)

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