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	7th Aussie
		In 1945, together with the 9th Div., The 7th participated in the assault on Borneo.
		The 7th Division AIF is a living history organization that raises the public's awareness of the forgotten contributions of our Australian allies, who fought side by side with Americans in the Pacific.
		The Australian figure of authority (I.E. NCO and Officers) rarely were the Yelling, Screaming, and threatening figures usually associated with the English army, The Digger followed a man he respected, not Feared.
	members.aol.com /borderregt/7th.html (431 words)

	Australian Army Article, AustralianArmy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first Australian division to see action on the Western Front was the 5th Division which was thrownunprepared into the futile Battle of Fromelles, a "diversion" to the Battle of the Somme that cost the division 5,500 casualties for no gain.
		By the end ofSeptember, the Australian divisions were severely depleted, with only the 3rd and the (rebuilt) 5th deemed to be fit for action.On October 5 the Australian Corps was withdrawn to rest and saw no more fightingbefore the war ended.
		Australian units were also responsible for the last phase of amphibious assaults during the Pacific War: theattacks on Japanese-occupied Borneo, including Tarakan, Brunei, British Borneo, Balikpapan and other targets in Sarawak.
	www.anoca.org /war/th/australian_army.html (2608 words)

	ipedia.com: Australian Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some Australians were also transferred to multinational units, such as the Bushveldt Carbineers, famed as the last unit in which Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Hancock served, before their court martial and execution for alleged war crimes.
		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.
		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)

	PNG Campaign A well balanced American report.
		Australian ground forces, despite heavier losses, became the front line of defense against the Japanese who, though bloodied, were ready for round two.
		The mainstay of the Japanese defense was a lone infantry regiment.
		Australians of the 9th Division attacked the ridgeline again and again, isolating and destroying pockets of Japanese resistance one at a time.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line4/png-campaign.htm (8007 words)

	The Militia (AMF or CMF); what it was and how it operated.
		Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) was a volunteer force (initially of four infantry divisions, and later an armoured division) whose troops enlisted for overseas duty.
		For example, the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion of the 2nd AIF was recruited from New South Wales, the home of the 1st Battalion of the Militia.
		The 6th Australian Infantry Division was reflective in miniature of the population of Australia in its recruitment.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line5/the_militia.htm (2694 words)

	7th Division A.I.F.
		The 7th Division AIF was formed in late February 1940 with Sir John Lavarack as its Commander.
		Parts of the Division under the command of Maj General Allen crossed into Syria and fought a hard won victory in the campaign against the Vichy French.
		In 1943, the Division was airlifted from Port Moresby to Nadzab in the Markham Valley.
	www.starwon.com.au /~skip/page5.html (510 words)

	The World at War
		The Australian command, realising the need for some form of mobile Infantry in snow country, formed the nucleus of a ski patrol from Australians with experience of ski-ing.
		They were disbanded late in 1941 and were placed back into their 'home' units within the 7th Division in time for their embarkation for another diverse, and mountainous battlefield.
		The Australian infantry soldier adapted himself to many varied and trying conditions in World War Two - from the deserts of Libya and Egypt, to the jungles, swamps and heavy ranges of Papua and New Guinea and in the high snowy peaks of Syria and Lebanon.
	worldatwar.net /article/australianski/index.html (463 words)

	On Shaggy Ridge : The Australian 7th Division in the Ramu Valley: From Kaiapit to the Finisterre Ranges (The Australian ...
		On Shaggy Ridge : The Australian 7th Division in the Ramu Valley: From Kaiapit to the Finisterre Ranges (The Australian Army History Series) (ISBN 0195553594): Very Well Said™
		On Shaggy Ridge : The Australian 7th Division in the Ramu Valley: From Kaiapit to the Finisterre Ranges (The Australian Army History Series)
		This study details the dramatic but little-known story of the 1943-44 Ramu Valley campaign in New Guinea that culminated in the battle for Shaggy Ridge.
	verywellsaid.com /titles/o/on-shaggy-ridge-the-australian-7th-division-in-the-ramu-valley-from-kaiapit-to-the-finisterre-ranges-(the-australian-army-history-series)-0195553594.php (171 words)

	Combined Arms Research Library
		By 10 April 1941, the garrison at Tobruk consisted of the 9th Australian Division with its three brigades of infantry-the 20th, 24th, and 26th-together with the 18th Brigade of the 7th Australian Division and several thousand British and Indian troops.
		The 9th Australian Division's success at Tobruk was predicated on the expert application of all available assets in a combined arms effort.
		The Australians, on their part, were noted for their use of snipers, the bayonet, ground camouflage, target detection, and the use of surprise.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/miller/miller.asp (15898 words)

	Australian Army 1939-41
		7th Australian Infantry Division was the next formation to be formed in the 2nd AIF.
		The final infantry division of the 2nd AIF was 9th Australian Infantry Division which, as noted above, was created on 18 December 1940 in the United Kingdom.
		This was the 1st Australian Armoured Division formed on 1 July 1941 and consisting initially of 1st and 2nd Australian Armoured Brigades.
	home.adelphia.net /~dryan67/orders/aust.html (1875 words)

	Australian 7th Division -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 7th Division was raised from (A permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state) regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from April 1940 onwards.
		Elements of the 7th Division were diverted to (An island in Indonesia south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions) Java, and fought bravely alongside (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch forces there, but were soon overwhelmed.
		In July 1945, the whole division, with the Militia's 1st Armoured Regiment, undertook the (Click link for more info and facts about amphibious) amphibious assault on the Japanese stronghold of (Click link for more info and facts about Balikpapan) Balikpapan, in (A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo) Sarawak.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_7th_division.htm (884 words)

	Jungleers - "New Guinea 1943 - 44"
		The regiment was attached to the Australian 7th Division, helping to destroy the Japanese Forces along the Sananada Trail then moving into the Bunz-Gona area to close the Papuan Campaign.
		It was there that the 41st Division became known as the "Jungleers." By the early part of February 1943, the Division was in New Guinea to stay for a long time.
		The Division was active in the southern Philippines Campaign with participation in the battles of Basilan, Jolo and Mindinao.
	chesterfieldarmament.com /dietz/jungleers/jungleers.htm (271 words)

	Panzer Abwehr
		An example was an attack on April 22, where one company of the 2/48th Australian Battalion, with 3 Inf.Mk.II Matildas and one troop of M Battery RHA.
		The action on April 11 and 12 was the 5th Panzer Regiment probing the 20th Australian Brigade near the road to El Adem.
		Lt-General Noel Beirsford-Pierce, former 4th Indian Division commander, arrived and was given the overall command in Cyrenaica, and was charged with reconstituting the "Western Desert Force", which had been disbanded after the victory over the Italians.
	panzer-abwehr.blogspot.com (1356 words)

	Burma Thailand Railway Memorial Association Inc. - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These troops were the vanguard of the 7th Division’s move from Middle East and were on board the S.S. Orcades but were ordered to disembark at Oosthaven Sumatra on the 15th February, the day Singapore fell.
		Wavell explained the current situation and said that the Australian 7th Division was to be deployed in Southern Sumatra and the 6th Division in Central Java.
		Lavarack did not agree to the Australian Corps being split up and referred it back to the Australian government, surprisingly the response was to obey Wavell’s orders but to press for the two divisions to be united as the situation permitted.
	www.btrma.org.au /articles/bwb.htm (800 words)

	"Kokoda Trail" or "Kokoda Track" ? [Australian War Memorial]
		More Australians died in the seven months of fighting in Papua, and the Japanese came closer to Australia than in any other campaign.
		This link is to a selection of scanned sketches of Kokoda taken from official records series AWM 54: 481/12/13 "[Medical - Reports:] Brief account of the activities of the 7th Australian division - medical services during the six months campaign in Papua (January 1943)".
		The Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway is a unique tribute to the bravery of Australian troops who fought through atrocious conditions and against vastly superior enemy numbers in the Papua-New Guinea campaign of July 1942-January 1943.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/kokoda/index.htm (287 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - Asia and the Pacific - Pacific Islands - 1944
		Troops of the Australian 7th Division clear Shaggy Ridge in New Guinea.
		Australian advances in New Guinea are announced, with the Japanese cleared from the ‘Shaggy Line’.
		The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division lands at Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands, capturing an airfield.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/asia-and-the-pacific/pacific-islands/pacific-islands-index-1944.htm (1015 words)

	HyperWar: American Forces in Action: Papuan Campaign: The Buna-Sanananda Operation--16 November 1942--23 January 1943 ...
		The Australian 25th Brigade moved against Gona on the west; the 16th Brigade attacked along the Soputa-Sanananda Road; the 3d Battalion, 126th Infantry, attacked on both flanks of the 16th Brigade to envelop the enemy.
		The regiment was attached to the Australian 7th Division and assigned to the road-block positions.
		Hustled to Australian 7th Division Headquarters for interrogation, the prisoner revealed that orders had been received on the night of the 12th-13th for able-bodied troops to evacuate "P," the southernmost Japanese position, leaving behind the sick and wounded.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-A-Papua/USA-A-Papua-2a.html (4812 words)

	7th Division AIF; The Silent Seventh
		The 7th Australian Infantry Division was the second formation to be formed in the 2nd AIF.
		The 19th Brigade was designated to join this division on the division's arrival in the Middle East but left it in November 1940, for the 6th Division.
		The 20th Brigade was transferred in January 1941 to the newly created 9th Australian Infantry Division, which was formed in the Middle East on 18 December 1940.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/pages-2aif-cmf/7-div-aif.htm (811 words)

	Collections: Artist Profiles - Frank Hodgkinson - [Australian War Memorial]
		In March 1945, he was appointed as an official war artist attached to the 7th Australian Division.
		His works record the 7th Division's embarkation from North Queensland in late May 1945, their weeks at sea on the way to Morotai, and their amphibious assault and fighting on Balikpapan, Borneo in July 1945.
		This is borne out in the immediacy and veracity of his works depicting the Australian infantry in close contact with the enemy as they fought their way inland.
	www.awm.gov.au /aboutus/artist_profiles/hodgkinson_frank.htm (404 words)

	Panzer Abwehr: April 7th and 8th, 1941: the debacle continues
		By the night of April 7th, part of the 9th Australian Division, along with the 2nd Armoured Division Support Group were holding a line at Acroma, 15 miles to the west of Tobruk.
		With the crisis in the desert, the transport of the 7th Australian Division to Greece had stopped.
		General Gambier-Parry, commander of the 2nd Armoured Division, was at Mechili, along with Brigadier Vaughn, with two regiments of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade.
	panzer-abwehr.blogspot.com /2005/10/april-7th-and-8th-1941-debacle.html (352 words)

	World War II - South West Pacific 1941- 42
		Australian Corps was changed to Australia following the fall of Singapore.
		L-R: Australian Brigadier Charles Spry points out locations of heavy fighting between Allied ground forces and the Japanese to Lieutenant General Edmund Herring, US General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander, South West Pacific Area, and Major General GS Allen, Commander, Australian 7th Division AIF.
		By 2 November the reinforced Australians had retaken Kokoda and on 11 November Japanese fighting units were forced to abandon Oivi.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/ahu/history/world_war_ii_sw_pacific.htm (520 words)

	Articles - Australian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Battle of Buna - Part 3 of The 32nd 'Red Arrow' Infantry Division in World War II
		The 32nd Infantry Division and the Australian 7th Division were to attack abreast, the 32nd Division on the right.
		The forces on the Division’s right flank (1st and 3rd Battalions of the 128th, a detachment of 1st Battalion of the 126th and one Australian independent company) were now designated 'Warren Force' and commanded by BG Hanford McNider.
		Also, the Division was initially committed to battle with only two of its infantry regiments (one of which was subsequently taken away), and none of its organic artillery, save one howitzer, and some of its mortars.
	www.32nd-division.org /history/ww2/32ww2-3.html (5202 words)

	The 503d Australians
		Remarkably, the Heritage of the 503d includes the 1st Royal Australian Regiment, which joined the "Herd" in May/June of 1965 when the two line Battalions of the Brigade were the 1/503d and 2/503d.
		In 1943, prior to the attachment of the 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, the absence of artillery became critical to the 503d P.I.R. combat jump on a Japanese fortified area at Nadzab, New Guinea.
		Elements of the 7th Australian Division, A.I.F were hastily chosen to jump - in the form of 33 men of the 2/4th Artillery Battery under command of Lt Pearson.
	corregidor.org /Heritage_Battalion/aussies.html (316 words)

	International Sales - Book Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A comprehensive textual and photographic history of the Australian 7th division which fought with distinction in North Africa, New Guinea and the Pacific in the second World War.
		The 7th Australian Infantry Division fought in some of the most famous Australian battles of the Second World War, including Tobruk, Milne Bay, the Kokoda Trail and Buna.
		This book fills that gap and will be welcomed by both the general reader and the thousands of surviving members of the Division and their families.
	www.allenandunwin.com /exports/product.asp?ISBN=1741141915 (286 words)

	Australian Military Units
		It was intended that along with the 19th and 20th Brigades it would form the 7th Australian Division.
		By the time the 7th Division was deployed operationally for the first time in April 1941, however, the 21st was the only original brigade that remained on its order of battle.
		Its sister formations were now the 18th and 25th Brigades, and would remain so for the rest of the war.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_13070.asp (98 words)

	New Guinea
		On New Guinea Australian troops of the 7th Division were ahead of schedule, advancing rapidly through the Ramu Valley on the south side of the Finisterre Range.
		On the Huon Peninsula the commonwealth's 9th Division had secured Finschhafen in early December and was moving along the coastline north of the range.
		During the attrition period, from January 1943 until January 1944, Australian infantrymen carried the bulk of ground combat while the Americans reconstituted, reinforced, and readied themselves for the maneuver phase of the campaign.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/new-guinea/ng.htm (8549 words)

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