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Australian troops from the 1st Brigade in a captured Ottoman trench at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915 This is a list of the brigades raised by the Australian Army. The list includes brigades that served in World War I, World War II, Vietnam and the present-day brigades. Current active brigades A soldier of the 5/7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, previously part of the 1st Brigade ...
Members of the 9th Division during a formal parade in late 1942. The structure of the Australian Army changed considerably during World War II.At the outbreak of war the Army comprised a small regular component and a large, but ill-trained and equipped, militia force.
The following is a list of Australian divisions in World War II, including all divisions raised within the Australian Army during World War II. A total of 15 such formations were established by the army during the war; of these, four infantry divisions served as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force , along with one armoured division.
Prior to World War II the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) was the only female branch of the Army. A reserve formation that had served overseas during World War I, the AANS was mobilised following the outbreak of war in 1939 and its Matron in Chief, Grace Wilson , served on the staff of the Director-General of Medical Services, Major ...
2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia) 7th Signal Regiment (Australia) 2/8th Commando Squadron (Australia) 8th Field Ambulance (Australia) 2/9th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia) No. 9 Squadron RAAF; 13th Engineer Regiment (Australia) 18th Brigade (Australia) 24th Battalion (Australia) 24th Brigade (Australia) 36th Battalion (Australia)
3rd Army Tank Brigade (Australia) 4th Armoured Brigade (Australia) ... Post-World War II. Australian Regular Army units. 1st Armoured Car Squadron (Australia) ...
The 18th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army.The brigade briefly existed as a Militia formation prior to the First World War, but this was short-lived.. During the Second World War, the brigade was raised on 13 October 1939 and was one of the first three infantry brigades of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) to be f
In March 1901, the Australian Army came into existence as the Commonwealth Military Forces through the amalgamation of the former colonies military forces. The existing regiments and battalions of the colonies were reorganised and renumbered due to their absorption into the national army and subsequently formed the first military units of a united Australia.