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	Australian 6th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 6th Division of the Australian Army was a unit in the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) during World War II.
		When World War II broke out, because all Militia (reserve) units (which were organised in five divisions) were barred from serving overseas, the 2nd AIF's 6th Division was formed with regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from September 28, 1939.
		With other Australian and US forces, the 16th Brigade and associated units re-took the north coast of New Guinea in the Battle of Buna-Gona.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_6th_Division (536 words)

	Australian Army
		Because existing militia forces were unable to serve overseas, an all-volunteer expeditionary force, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was formed from August 15, 1914.
		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.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_army.html (2672 words)

	Encyclopedia: Second Australian Imperial Force
		His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito of Japan The Emperor of Japan (天皇, tennō) is Japans titular head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
		The Australian 1st Armoured Division was raised from 1941 onwards as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF).
		Australian military units The Australian 1st Armoured Division was raised from 1941 onwards as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Second-Australian-Imperial-Force (2547 words)

	Arthur Roden Cutler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In April 1940, he transferred from the citizen's militia to the Second Australian Imperial Force, receiving a commission in the 2/5 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, Australian 7th Division of the Australian Imperial Force.
		Cutler was 25 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 2 /5 Field Artillery, in the Second Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
		He was Australian High Commissioner in Pakistan, (1958-1961), and Australian Consul-General in New York, (1961-1965), during which period he was the Australian delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1962, 1963 and 1964.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Arthur_Roden_Cutler (635 words)

	Australian Army 1939-41
		This force was entitled the Second Australian Imperial Force or 2nd AIF and was modeled after the First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) that was raised during the first world war.
		The 6th Australian Infantry Division was reflective in miniature of the population of Australia in its recruitment.
		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)

	South Australians at War - World War Two
		South Australian members of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) saw action against Germany and its allies in Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean, and in the Pacific, particularly in South East Asia and Melanesia, against the Japanese forces.
		She was attached to the 2/4 Australian General Hospital and went with the unit to the Middle East early in 1941.
		One of those was the Australian Womens Land Army, formed in 1942 in response to the acute shortage of rural workers.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /saatwar/wwtwo.htm (1120 words)

	John Curtin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first was to recall most of the Second Australian Imperial Force from North Africa, to the Asia-Pacific region, despite the furious objections of Winston Churchill.
		The second was to appeal publicly to the United States for assistance.
		He died in Canberra, Australia on 5 July 1945 at the age of 60, the second Australian Prime Minister to die in office in six years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Curtin (949 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 22nd Australian Infantry Brigade was the first unit of this division sent overseas when it was despatched to Malaya on 2 February 1941.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line5/the_militia.htm (2694 words)

	John Curtin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second was to appeal publically to the United States for assistance.
		He died in Canberra in July 1945, the second Australian Prime Minister to die in office in six years.
		Successive Labor leaders, particularly his fellow Western Australians Bob Hawke and Kim Beazley, have sought to build on the Curtin tradition of "patriotic Laborism." Even some political conservatives pay at least formal homage to the Curtin legend, similar to the way some Labor supporters acknowlegde the impact of Liberal hero Menzies, had post-WWII.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/John_Curtin (897 words)

	Australian Imperial Force :: Action-Figure :: Toy, Collectibles and Action Figure News and Reviews from across the Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sixty years later, this member of the Australian Imperial Force is the newest 1:6 scale action figure in the Elite Force WWII collection from bbi.
		The Australian Imperial Force troops left the Suez region and returned to defend their homeland against the Japanese Forces.
		This would be Japan's second and last attempt as they were no match for the Australians who had become highly skilled in jungle warfare during previous campaigns.
	www.action-figure.com /Article7863.html (350 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: ANZAC Memories
		The Australian Imperial Force, the AIF, was raised for service overseas in the war against Germany.
		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.
		Second, at Messines in June where the 3rd Division first saw significant action as part of Godley's corps and which, while successful again, cost the Australians heavily.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfanzac.htm (1115 words)

	Avalanche Press
		In addition the entire force had been alerted to be prepared to withdraw when transport was made available, but the Diggers and Tommies understood the likelihood of such help.
		On the morning of the 25th of January a squadron of 6th Australian Division's Cavalry regiment relieved the British forces screening Italian-occupied Derna and the airfield south of Derna.
		As German and Italian forces invested the port of Tobruk and the Commonwealth forces in it, the infantry battalions of the 9th Australian Division manning the perimeter made ready for their first fight.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AfrikaKorpsScenarios.php (1484 words)

	Australian Imperial Force
		The Australian Cavalry were transferred to Palestine and served under General Sir Edmund Allenby.
		The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was founded in 1914 and contributed pilots and aircraft to the Mesopotamian Front, Palestine and the Western Front.
		During the second week in April the greater part of the Australian and New Zealand troops from Egypt followed, and had been just a fortnight in Lemnos when they sailed to effect a landing at a certain position on the northern shore of Gallipoli Peninsula, about 60 miles away.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWaustralia.htm (3809 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Battle of Isurava recalled - with Malum Nalu
		Few Australians or Papua New Guineans seem to know the tremendous story of courage and tenacity at Isurava, but it is hoped that some will take the time to learn about it, especially after the Australian Prime Minister’s visit.
		Australian and Papua New Guinean servicemen fighting along Kokoda were the last line of defence against enemy invasion.
		Whatever the estimate among historians of the immediate and medium term gains and losses for the Australians at Isurava, the courage and determination of those involved was in the finest traditions of Australian soldiers in battle.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/t6397s.html (1118 words)

	RNSWR Battalions off ORBAT
		The Second Australian Imperial Force, raised as in the Great War, saw the advent of 2/1st Battalion, at Ingleburn in October 1939, as part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division.
		The Second Australian Imperial Force, raised as in the Great War, saw the advent of 2/2nd Battalion, at Ingleburn in October 1939, as part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division.
		The Second Australian Imperial Force, raised as in the Great War, saw the advent of the 2/3rd Battalion, at Ingleburn, in October 1939, as part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-army-today/state-regts/rnswr-off-orbat.htm (2772 words)

	THE DEFENCE OF RABAUL IN WORLD WAR TWO
		Codenamed "Lark Force", it was drawn from the Australian Imperial Force, that part of the Australian army that had volunteered and trained for service in Europe or the Middle East.
		But as Rabaul was officially classified as Australian territory, the home defence or militia part of the army, the Australian Military Forces, also sent troops there.
		Below is a list of the forces despatched to Rabaul from the outbreak of World War II until the Japanese invasion on 23 January 1942.
	www.users.bigpond.com /Jack_Ford (1212 words)

	Royal Australian Regiment biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Royal Australian Regiment is the main regular infantry formation in the Australian Army.
		It has its origins in the three battalions of the 34th Brigade, raised in late 1945 — from soldiers already in the Second Australian Imperial Force and Militia — to form the body of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan.
		In 1947, it was decided that the unit would be the army's first ever standing, regular infantry formation (see Australian Army).
	royal-australian-regiment.biography.ms (118 words)

	Sir John Wilton: Obituary in The Age
		In July 1950, he was the second senior member of the Bridgeford mission which investigated ways in which Australia might assist Britain in controlling the Malayan emergency.
		After attending the Imperial Defence College, London in 1951 and 1952 Wilton was selected for the army's key operational command, the 28th British Commonwealth Brigade in Korea.
		He had to give leadership to forces, which, after the 1968 Tet offensive, were inclined increasingly to question the worth of their efforts.
	www.raga.com /generalsirjohnwilton/ageobit.html (1049 words)

	The Battle for Australia - Overview
		During 1940 and 1941 the men of the Second Australian Imperial Force (the AIF) found themselves fighting the Germans and Italians in Egypt, Libya, Greece and Crete.
		The four Australians standing guard were members of the 2/2nd Independent Company which landed on the island early in 1942 as part of ‘Sparrow Force’.
		Australian Troops in hastily constructed trenches on the Gona perimeter.
	www.anzacday.org.au /history/ww2/bfa/overview.html (2116 words)

	Australian War Memorial - Australia's Prime Ministers: Robert Menzies
		The official historian of the Australian home front in the Second World War, Paul Hasluck, wrote that Menzies led Australia in undertaking the routine tasks associated with placing the country on a war footing.
		He oversaw the call-up of militiamen and the recruitment of the Second Australian Imperial Force (Second AIF).
		However, when the New Zealand Government announced that it was sending an expeditionary force, Menzies followed suit, and in early January the 6th Division sailed for the Middle East.
	www.awm.gov.au /pm/detail.asp?surname=Menzies (518 words)

	Simpson Essay - Davis
		We have however; never really forgotten the contribution that those young Australians made to their country all those years ago and we continue to see examples of the ANZAC spirit of ordinary people doing extraordinary things demonstrated to this day.
		At his disposal was an Australian force containing men who had had far less training than the enemy and were armed with inferior weapons.
		An Australian community which has shown that organizations and individuals that strive to help those in need or to protect the innocent have based their values on the spirit of "Ordinary people doing extraordinary things".
	www.pa.ash.org.au /afssse/simpson/prize2004/essays/Davis2004.htm (1234 words)

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		The Australian soldiers who fought and died on the Kokoda Trail between July and November 1942 fought with as much courage as the Anzacs, and under conditions that were every bit as bad as, if not worse than, those suffered by the diggers at Gallipoli.
		The first Australian troops sent against them, known as “Maroubra Force”, were young and inexperienced and were soon forced back over the range by the Japanese soldiers.
		However in September 1942 reinforcements came to the Australian troops when the second AIF (Australian Imperial Force) halted the Japanese advance and pushed their troops back by the 2nd of November to Kokoda.
	ink.news.com.au /classmate/takchall/Kokoda/tkcharc_kokoda_significance.html (573 words)

	Western Australia, The War Years 1939-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Local Militia Forces were immediately called to perform full-time and guard duties at vulnerable key points in Western Australia, and the first of the Army camps were established at Bunbury, Narrogin, and other country centres throughout the State.
		Australian Division, Second Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) was one of the first units to be established.
		The Corps was also responsible for patrolling the Western Australian coastline in co-operation with the Citizen Force Units with detachments being posted to Broome, Derby and Wyndham in the north west of the state.
	users.tpg.com.au /users/vk6pg/vk6sig/waryears.htm (3245 words)

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		In an encounter with a superior force of the enemy on September 24 he fearlessly attacked the group, and in the unequal combat which followed he persisted in the attack and succeeded in shooting down an enemy plane within our lines.
		While on duty with the 37th Infantry as interpreter, Marechal de Logis Simonet rendered exceptional service to our forces by assuming command until the second in command could be notified, when the adjutant and commanding officer of the battalion to which he was attached were wounded.
		On the night of October 2 he led a battalion to its position of attack and personally reconnoitered the line under intense machine-gun and artillery fire, furnishing a splendid example of coolness and utter disregard of danger to the men of the battalion.
	www.homeofheroes.com /verify/books/02_DSC-WWI-Foreign.doc (13942 words)

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