Sad news – Warrant Officer Wally Thompson – the first Regimental Sergeant Major – ARMY has passed away today, a true gentleman and a soldiers soldier. Stand-down Sir, your duty is done. Duty First – Lest We Forget Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Wallace (Wally) Talbot Claxton Thompson joined the Citizen’s Military Forces (CMF) in […]

The Funeral Service of the Late Alfred Handley will be held at Gregson & Weight Chapel, 5 Gregson Place Caloundra commencing at 11:00am on Monday 20 October 2014. View Map: http://goo.gl/bZBq7h RSL Poppy & RARA Sash Service Medals to be worn as entitled. By request The President 2RAR Association From: Leo Van De Kamp President, […]

As our Nation sails forward to where it has never been There’s a very large blip on the radar screen An iceberg of large proportions ahead it seems Several Senators recently elected and at the helm said “We’re in command and today it’s full steam ahead” Other crew, authors of long past broken promises still […]

Mervyn F. Bendle The Military Historians’ War on the Anzac Legend The war on the Anzac tradition is intensifying. A long-term foe, Professor Joan Beaumont of the Australian National University, has published Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013) and she has been joined by an ex-army officer, James Brown, who has contributed Anzac’s […]

Today I pass on some very sad news … At approximately 3:00pm on Wednesday, 23rd of September, Brigadier Ivan (Lou) Brumfield CBE, DSO (Rtd) passed away peacefully. As Commanding Officer of the 1RAR Group in Vietnam 1965 he was highly respected as a leader of men in combat. That respect continued right up to now and will […]

I am pleased to advise that our Webmaster Alan Fortunato  has loaded our two publications on our web http://www.koreanwarmemorial.com.au/# Open up to the home page and you will see two bars on the bottom for the Anniversary Booklet and for the Memorial History Booklet. Select each one by left click which opens a bottom bar […]

Reproduced from Navy Victoria Network – 1 March 2013   The Australian Government has today announced that no Victoria Cross (VC) will be awarded posthumously for any of the 13 individuals who were the subject of the recent Inquiry into Unresolved Recognition for Past Acts of Naval and Military Gallantry and Valour (the Inquiry). Following intense […]

Thanks to Craig Hannan 8/9 RAR for this latest contribution.  

When Governor-General Quentin Bryce awarded Corporal Daniel Keighran with the Victoria Cross he earned a unique distinction in the history of The Royal Australian Regiment, he became the RAR’s first soldier to be awarded our nations highest award while on active service with a Battalion of the Regiment.  Since the Second World War and the formation of the RAR, […]

Checking out a capture VC Machine gun – circa 1966.   2/7758 Warrant Officer 2 John William ‘Jack’ Kirby, Company Sergeant Major (CSM) D Company, 6th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) of Windsor, Brisbane, Qld, (left), and Major Harry Smith of Ashgrove, Brisbane, Qld, Officer Commanding D Company 6RAR, test firing the Goryunov SG43 […]