This Part contains works of fiction or part-fiction that are considered suitable for inclusion in that they illustrate RAR operations and attributes. GENERAL MANSFORD, George – The Mad Galahs George Mansford 1999 ISBN: 0646380044 346 pages. The author enlisted as a private and retired 40 years later as a brigadier. Half of his […]
GENERAL – ALL PERIODS (Available material to date covers Officer Training and Officer Postings; publications in relation to Other Ranks & Senior NCOs will be added as and when produced) COULTHARD-CLARK, Chris – DUNTROON The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1986 Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1986 ISBN: 0 86861 883 7 Appendices, References, […]
GENERAL – ALL PERIODS Royal Australian Regiment (The) – Regimental Standing Orders 1977 Regimental Headquarters, Canberra, 1977 ISBN: Nil Currently A4 assembled document of 13 chapters; approx 200 pages. This is the 1977 edition of RAR Standing Orders. It contains General Information on the RAR, details of the Colonel Commandant function, Regimental Colonel […]
GENERAL – ALL PERIODS Nil entry JAPAN AND KOREA 1946-53 Nil entry SOUTH EAST ASIA 1950-current (includes Malaya, Borneo, Singapore & Malaysia) Nil entry VIETNAM 1962-75 JONES, JG – An Experience of War Geoff served with 6 RAR as a medic. His paper provides an interesting […]
First World War The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australia’s involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by the official historian C E W Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The books, with […]
The ‘Fair Go!’, community awareness campaign is and will remain apolitical, that is, politically neutral. Fair Go!, is asking all major political parties, equally, for their intentions in regard to four key matters affecting the Defence family: reform of military superannuation matters especially pension indexation, equitable treatment of veteran disability pensions, certainty in military compensation, […]
The National President of the RAR Association, Major General ‘Hori’ Howard has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Privates Nathan Bewes, who was killed in action during operations in Afghanistan on Friday 9 July 2010. Private Bewes was serving with 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 1 […]
JOINT PRESS RELEASE THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, SENATOR THE HON. DAVID JOHNSTON, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, THE HON. BOB BALDWIN MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, SCIENCE AND PERSONNEL AND ASSISTING SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, LOUISE MARKUS MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND STUART ROBERT MHR, SHADOW PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR […]
Each year the Royal Australian Regiment Association conducts the Korean Veterans’ Day 27th July Memorial Service at the Korean War Memorial in Anzac Square Brisbane. The Service is well attended by Australian Korean War Veterans and their families and Korean Armed Forces veterans and the Australian Korean Society. This year the Service is being held at the Regiment’s […]
Saturday 26 June 2010 David Jamison the National President of the Defence Force Welfare Association has welcomed the announcement that from 1 July 2011, under a Coalition Government, DFRB/DFRDB* members aged 55 years or over will have their superannuation pensions indexed in the same manner as Age and Service pensions. In briefing DFWA on this […]
AAP May 19, 2010 3:41PM http://bit.ly/dA98Ki AUSTRALIAN and Afghan troops have uncovered 16 caches of insurgents weapons, ammunition, explosives and bomb making components in one five-day period, taking their haul to 55 caches so far this month. Commander of the Mentoring Task Force (MTF1) Lieutenant Colonel Jason Blain said that these finds had considerably reduced […]
The National President of the RAR Association, Major General ‘Hori’ Howard has offered his deepest sympathies to the families of Privates Tim Aplin, Ben Chuck and Scott Palmer of the 2nd Commando Regiment who were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday 21st June 2010. The three commandos of the Special Operations Task Group were […]
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