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	Second Australian Imperial Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to war with Japan, most of the 8th Division was sent to Malaya to strengthen the garrison; the remaining battalions were deployed in the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea.
		The 6th and 7th Divisions, with elements of the 1st Armoured, formed a large part of the Allied forces which destroyed the major Japanese beachhead in New Guinea, at the Battle of Buna-Gona.
		Australian prisoners of war, like other Allied prisoners of the Japanese, were often held in extremely inhumane conditions, such as Changi prison, or in Japan itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Australian_Imperial_Force (786 words)

	Australian 8th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 8th Division was raised from regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from July 1940 onwards.
		The 8th Division was raised to fight Nazi Germany, and was trained for the conditions of the Middle East.
		Gordon Bennett's 8th Division the task of defending the prime invasion points on the north side of the island, in a terrain dominated by mangrove swamps and forest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_8th_Division (3003 words)

	Australian Aborigine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Australian Aborigine
		The Australian Aborigines have a rich oral tradition of legends, songs, rituals, and bark and cave paintings concerned with their Dreamtime, a primeval era when humans were first on Earth.
		The committee found that a law passed to restrict Aboriginal land claims (the so-called Wik legislation) appeared to be in breach of the UN convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, to which Australia is a signatory.
		The Australian parliament, in August 1999, passed a declaration of deep and sincere regret for past injustices to the Aborigines.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Australian+Aborigine (1083 words)

	Australian 8th Division: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The 9th division of the australian army was formed to serve in world war ii, as part of the second australian imperial force....
		The 7th division of the australian army was formed to serve in world war ii, as part of the second australian imperial force....
		The new zealand and australian division was formed at the start of the battle of gallipoli as a composite division under the command of new zealand general...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_8th_division.htm (5967 words)

	ipedia.com: Australian Army Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		As fears of war with Japan mounted, most of the 8th Division was sent to Singapore, to strengthen the British garrison; the remaining battalions were deployed in the islands to Australia's north, at Rabaul, Ambon and Timor.
		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)

	Avalanche Press
		Australian soldier’s rendering of Joey, the 8th Division’s mascot.
		Australian official histories of the Malaya/Singapore campaign call the 8th Division “raw” and sometimes even “untrained,” but this is neither accurate nor fair.
		The Diggers of 8th Division were not committed in the fighting for northern and central Malaya in December 1941 and early January 1942, where the Japanese successively outflanked positions of the III Indian Ciorps and drove the British and Indian troops back into Johore, the Malayan sultanate flanking Singapore.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AussiesInMalaya.php (1572 words)

	australian
		The Allied counter-attack, launched in December, was spearheaded by the Australian and New Zealand troops.
		In March 1941 the Australian 6th Division was relieved by the newly-arrived 7th and 9th and moved to Greece, where a German invasion was imminent.
		The Australian 9th Division was moved from Syria to reinforce the Allies; and in October they played a vital part in General Montgomery's decisive break-through at El Alamein, which was to culminate seven months later in the surrender of all Axis troops in North Africa.
	home.austin.rr.com /gijoemuseum/australian.html (1184 words)

	Singapore 1942
		Australian Division, had denied the important port and town to the German General Rommel.
		British Division of 15 000 troops, a recent reinforcement to the Peninsular, was at hand and was given this task immediately.
		Just to ensure that the Australians (who had been fighting the Japanese alone until now) held their part of the Line, the 45th Indian Brigade was ordered to support the Australians and was hence placed to their rear.
	athens.dnstraffic.net /~changing/samples/ww2/singapore_1942.htm (4616 words)

	Articles - Australian Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
		Australian soldiers have been involved in a number of minor and major conflicts throughout its history, but only in World War II did Australian territory come under direct attack.
		The Ranks of the Australian Army are based on the ranks of the British Army, and carry mostly the same actual insignia.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_Army (971 words)

	the Far East
		The Japanese continued advancing towards Rangoon and, without consulting the Australian Government, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill diverted the convoy carrying most of the 7th Division and ordered that it be landed in Burma.
		A war of words erupted, with Curtin refusing to permit the 7th Division to be landed in Burma, where it would almost certainly have been over-run, as it was needed for Australia’s defence.
		Trincomalee was attacked on 9 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft launched from aircraft carriers and several Australians flying Hurricanes flew in its defence, one of whom was killed and another died of wounds.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /farflung/fareast.html (805 words)

	60th Anniversary of the End of World War II in South-East Asia - Historical Backgrounder
		From the early 1920s, Australian defence planning was dominated by the ‘Singapore strategy’ whereby Britain promised to build a massive naval base at Singapore to defend its imperial interests in the region.
		The first Australian sailor lost in the campaign was Midshipman Robert Davies, 18, who was in the British battle cruiser HMS Repulse which was sunk on 10 December; he was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches for gallantry.
		The 8th Division stayed in the southern State of Johore waiting for the enemy to advance that far.
	www.dva.gov.au /commem/2005/singapore/background.htm (1440 words)

	Australian Military Units
		The operations in Johore were entrusted to the 8th Australian Division, with an Indian brigade attached, under the command of Major General Gordon Bennett.
		Despite several local tactical successes by Australian units at Gemas (14 January), Bakri (18-19 January) and Jemaluang (27 January), the Australians were not able to hold the Japanese and the withdrawal towards Singapore continued.
		In the case of the 8th Australian Division, operations were also seriously handicapped by severe disharmony between Bennett, his staff, and his subordinate commanders.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_219.asp (505 words)

	The Story of 8th Division
		Never the less, the Australians were in a good position to deal with the enemy advance towards the important road junction at Jemaluang when orders were issued by Malaya Command to withdraw.
		Division were given 13 miles of mangroves with orders to defend the beaches.
		Division who had fought so bravely and so well were ordered to cease fire – maintain their positions- and reluctantly become Prisoners-of-War.
	www.2-26bn.org /8th_div_story.htm (2980 words)

	PM - Mourners remember soldiers lost in the fall of Singapore
		They remembered the men of the Australian 8th Division, so many of whom were either killed or captured when the Japanese offensive surprised the Allies, who had failed to anticipate a land attack from the north.
		BARNEY PORTER: The rain held off today, as some of the surviving members of the 8th Division, 2nd AIF, came together for their annual service: to remember their mates, pray for peace in the future, and see who among them was left to acknowledge the sequence of events that rocked Australia 64 years ago.
		He says it would be unfair to simply remember members of the 8th Division as the men who surrendered Singapore.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2006/s1570941.htm (638 words)

	Untitled Document
		When the first Australian troops embarked on the Queen Mary on February 3, 1941, and learned that their destination was Malaya, they, at least, realised that war was not solely the affair of Europe and Africa.
		Back at last from Malaya, and walking in carefree Australian Cities and towns, one is sure that the people will never know what they have been saved from, and, please Cod, the experience of the Phillipines, Malaya, and the Netherlands Indies during 1942-5 will never be Australia's in the years ahead.
		In the early hours of the morning, the ambulances drove in, and the weary, wounded men were literally taken into the arms of our efficient, indefatigable and heroic nurses and medical orderlies, who soon had them bathed and "pyjamaed" and between clean, linen sheets, or else waiting in the resuscitation ward for immediate operation.
	www.military.catholic.org.au /stories/changi-prison.htm (3038 words)

	Statistics - military [Australian War Memorial]
		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.
		Massacres of Australians occurred at Tol Plantation on New Britain (160 Australians); Parit Sulong in Malaya (110); and at Laha on Ambon (over 200).
		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 (389 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Britain had built a large naval dockyard on the north coast of the island during the 1930s to use as a base from which to project naval power throughout the Asia-Pacific and thus the island became central to their strategy in the region.
		Various senior Australian army and naval officers had warned of the weaknesses of the "Singapore Strategy", but successive Australian governments chose to ignore them, the costs of a more independent defence policy making them particularly receptive to British reassurances.
		The 8th Australian Division, considerably weakened after the fighting in Malaya, was allocated the vital north-western sector.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_221.asp (492 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		While one pincer of the Japanese advance is thus stopped, the 18th division reaches Singapore in its second week of marching on January 9 and is repulsed in a costly assault (4:2 losses).
		The garrison is now reduced to the 8th Australian division which has 2 steps remaining and is the only unbroken unit.
		With the tired 5th and 18th division recuperating for the rest of the month, the Japanese start another 2-week operation, the last of the campaign, on February 14, relying mainly on the Guards division.
	grognard.com /reviews/pacwar2.txt (1115 words)

	Remembering 1942
		In the event, Australians discovered too late that the fundamentals of the policy upon which reliance had been placed were unsound.
		To oppose the three divisions which the Japanese deployed in their campaign against Malaya and Singapore, Percival mainly had an Indian corps of two divisions and the Australian 8th Division under Major-General Gordon Bennett.
		Although a fresh formation, the 18th British Division, was on hand, he chose to allocate the most vulnerable north-western sector to Bennett's two brigades, now reduced to half-strength.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/singapore/transcript.htm (1331 words)

	The Fall of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The north west area was held by the Australian 8th Division, now severely depleted in numbers and equipment and very tired after the intensive fighting on the mainland.
		At 10.30 p.m., on the 8th of February, preceded by a heavy bombardment, the Japanese 5th and 18th Divisions launched the attack.
		The Australians put up a stiff resistance, causing many casualties, but limited numbers and the lack of a reserve enabled the Japanese to infiltrate through their forward positions and forced them to pull back towards the airfield at Tengah.
	www.defence.gov.au /Army/ahu/HISTORY/Battles/Singapore.htm (1471 words)

	RAeS Australian Division News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Council of the Australian Division presented the Annual Report and Financial Statement for the year ending 31 December 2005 at the Annual General Meeting held on 8th April 2006.
		The Australian Division is continuing to support the maintenance of the Lawrence Hargrave memorial in the Waverley Cemetary, Sydney, New South Wales.
		The Australian Division of the RAeS was invited to be a founding member of the Committee.
	www.raes.org.au /News.htm (434 words)

	Remembering the war in New Guinea - Jungle
		The Australian Army was justifiably proud of its success in mastering the IJA and overcoming the jungle in New Guinea between July 1942-January 1943.
		The 9th Australian Division, newly-returned from the Middle East, was perhaps the first formation to profit fully from the hard-won experience of others by these means after it reformed on the Atherton Tablelands in April 1943.
		By the summer of 1943, Australian forces in New Guinea were backed by a highly effective training establishment geared to the needs of jungle warfare and a tactical doctrine that had stood the test of battle.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/remember.nsf/pages/NT00002F06 (6827 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Australian terms
		AIF stands for Australian Imperial Force and was allocated to the Australian Army that was sent overseas in WW1.
		In all their victories against the Japanese, the Australians were numerically superior...In every case when the Australian soldier was winning a battle, the air was dominated by the Allies.
		This "Der Bildersturmer" chap seems awfully anti Australian and British for that matter and builds his case on American superiority by dealing in very strong propoganda rubbish that the USA pushed out in the 1950's that justified their blunders during WW2.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=51591&start=0 (1955 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Oceania: Australia: Society and Culture: Military: Historical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Australian Service Nurses National Memorial - A developing list of Australian nurses who have died during, or as a result of, war service in any conflict since the Boer War.
		Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899 - 1902 - A project which aims to publish a database of burial and memorial locations of all Australians who died during the second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1899 - 1902.
		Australians serving in the Boer War, South Africa (1899-1902) - Research resource and information guide for those with a Boer War soldier in their ancestry.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Oceania/Australia/Society_and_Culture/Military/Historical (1636 words)

	Australian International A Division Catamaran Association
		Of the Australians Tim Kirkham with the Object, Steve B with the most expensive flyer in history, Glenn with the Auscat Flyer, Storm and Andrew Williams on Mark 4s, the Mc Kenzies on the Bush Rangers with the rest of the Aussies on Mark 5s.
		Australian sailmakers are equal to the best in the World having the largest number of World champions and used by half the fleet at the 1998 European Championships.
		The International A-Division Catamaran Association (IACA) was founded on 8th May, 1975 with the prime intention to co-ordinate and supervise the activities of the National Associations of A-Division Catamarans.
	users.bigpond.com /aiadca/letters.html (6911 words)

	WW2 Field Ambulances
		The banner is screen printed with the colour patches of 8th Division Australian Army Medical Corps (brown oval with grey border) and 8th Division Australian Army Service Corps (blue over white oval with grey border).
		2/10 Australian Field Ambulance was formed in the Newcastle and Northern Rivers regions of New South Wales, and became part of 27 Infantry Brigade, 8th Australian Division.
		On 15 August, in company with other units of the 8th Division, it arrived in Singapore and began to move up onto the Malay peninsula.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nurses/ww2-fd-ambulance.htm (436 words)

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