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The 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR) was a regular infantry battalion of the Australian Army.It was originally raised in 1965 as part of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War and it eventually served two tours in Vietnam in 1967 and 1971.
The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) is the parent administrative regiment for regular infantry battalions of the Australian Army and is the senior infantry regiment of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. It was originally formed in 1948 as a three battalion regiment; however, since then its size has fluctuated as battalions have been raised ...
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.
Royal Australian Infantry Corps; Australian Army Catering Corps; Australian Army Intelligence Corps; Different rank titles are used by other corps. [8] These soldiers hold the same rank as a PTE E-2 or PTE(P) E-3 Musician (MUSN): AABC; Signaller (SIG): Royal Australian Corps of Signals 4; Gunner (GNR): Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery
Today the honours and traditions of the 7th Battalion are maintained by the 8th/7th Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment, [50] an infantry battalion of the Australian Army Reserve, [22] that was formed in 1960 as the 2nd Battalion, Royal Victoria Regiment, following the introduction of the Pentropic organisation, but which was later redesignated ...
1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 16th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery; 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
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 ...
1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment; 10th Independent Rifle Company, Royal Australian ...