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19th Brigade (Australia)

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The 19th Brigade was a formation of the Australian Army that was raised as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force for service during World War II. [1]

69 relations: Action at Mechili, 24 January 1941, Adelaide, Aitape, Aitape–Wewak campaign, Atherton Tableland, Australian Army, Australian Army Reserve, Battle of 42nd Street, Battle of Bardia, Battle of Crete, Battle of France, Battle of Greece, Battle of Vevi (1941), Benghazi, Borg El Arab, Brisbane, Chania, Chermside, Queensland, Conscription in Australia, Crete, Darwin, Northern Territory, Demobilisation of the Australian military after World War II, Farida Force, First Australian Imperial Force, George Alan Vasey, Glenelg, South Australia, Hindmarsh, South Australia, Horace Robertson, Ikingi Maryut, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Kokoda Track campaign, Kozani, List of Australian Army brigades, Melbourne University Publishing, Mount Gambier, South Australia, New Guinea, North African Campaign, Palestine (region), Piraeus, Port Adelaide, Puckapunyal, Salamaua–Lae campaign, Second Australian Imperial Force, Semaphore, South Australia, Sfakia, South Australia, Syria, Syria–Lebanon Campaign, The Crown, Unley, South Australia, ..., Victoria (Australia), Western Australia, Wewak, World War I, World War II, 12th Brigade (Australia), 16th Brigade (Australia), 17th Brigade (Australia), 18th Brigade (Australia), 2/11th Battalion (Australia), 2/12th Battalion (Australia), 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion (Australia), 2/4th Battalion (Australia), 2/8th Battalion (Australia), 23rd/21st Battalion (Australia), 26th Battalion (New Zealand), 4th Military District (Australia), 6th Division (Australia), 8th Brigade (Australia). Expand index (19 more) »

Action at Mechili, 24 January 1941

The Action at Mechili was an engagement between Commonwealth and Italian forces during Operation Compass.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Aitape

Aitape is a small town of about 18,001 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province.

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Aitape–Wewak campaign

The Aitape–Wewak campaign was one of the final campaigns of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

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Atherton Tableland

The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia.

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Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force.

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Australian Army Reserve

The Australian Army Reserve is a collective name given to the reserve units of the Australian Army.

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Battle of 42nd Street

The Battle of 42nd Street (27 May 1941) was a battle fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete.

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Battle of Bardia

The Battle of Bardia was fought over three days between 3 and 5 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first military operation of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War.

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Battle of Crete

The Battle of Crete (Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, also Unternehmen Merkur, "Operation Mercury," Μάχη της Κρήτης) was fought during the Second World War on the Greek island of Crete.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.

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Battle of Greece

The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita) is the common name for the invasion of Allied Greece by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in April 1941 during World War II.

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Battle of Vevi (1941)

The Battle of Vevi (or Veve, Μάχη της Bεύης), in Greece, also known as the Battle of the Klidi Pass, was part of the Greek campaign of World War II.

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Benghazi

Benghazi (بنغازي) is the second-most populous city in Libya and the largest in Cyrenaica.

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Borg El Arab

Borg El Arab (برج العرب) is an industrial city in the governorate of Alexandria, Egypt.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Chania

Chania (Χανιά,, Venetian: Canea, Ottoman Turkish: Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania regional unit.

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Chermside, Queensland

Chermside is a major suburb of City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Conscription in Australia

Conscription in Australia, or mandatory military service also known as national service, has a controversial history dating back to the first years of nationhood.

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Crete

Crete (Κρήτη,; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Demobilisation of the Australian military after World War II

The demobilisation of the Australian military after World War II involved discharging almost 600,000 men and women from the military, supporting their transition to civilian life and reducing the three armed services to peacetime strengths.

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Farida Force

Farida Force was the name given to an ad hoc composite Australian Army formed during World War II.

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First Australian Imperial Force

The First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) was the main expeditionary force of the Australian Army during World War I. It was formed on 15 August 1914, following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, initially with a strength of one infantry division and one light horse brigade.

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George Alan Vasey

Major General George Alan Vasey, (29 March 1895 – 5 March 1945) was an Australian Army officer.

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Glenelg, South Australia

Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Hindmarsh, South Australia

Hindmarsh is an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Horace Robertson

Lieutenant General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, (29 October 1894 – 28 April 1960) was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served in the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War.

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Ikingi Maryut

Ikingi Maryut is an area in the Western Desert, outside Alexandria, Egypt.

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King's Royal Rifle Corps

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment (also known as the Royal Americans) in the Seven Years' War and for Loyalist service in the American Revolutionary War.

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Kokoda Track campaign

The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II.

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Kozani

Kozani (Κοζάνη) is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani regional unit and of West Macedonia region.

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List of Australian Army brigades

This is a list of the brigades raised by the Australian Army.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Mount Gambier, South Australia

Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia with an estimated urban population of 28,684.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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North African Campaign

The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943.

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Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς Pireás, Πειραιεύς, Peiraieús) is a port city in the region of Attica, Greece.

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Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD.

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Puckapunyal

Puckapunyal (more formally the Puckapunyal Military Area, but also known as the Puckapunyal Camp or Puckapunyal Army Base, and colloquially as "Pucka") is an Australian Army training facility and base 10 km west of Seymour, in central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.

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Salamaua–Lae campaign

The Salamaua–Lae campaign was a series of actions in the New Guinea campaign of World War II.

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Second Australian Imperial Force

The Second Australian Imperial Force (Second, or 2nd, AIF) was the name given to the volunteer personnel of the Australian Army in World War II.

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Semaphore, South Australia

Semaphore is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located in north-west of Adelaide on the Gulf St Vincent coastline of the LeFevre Peninsula about from the Adelaide city centre.

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Sfakia

Sfakiá (Σφακιά) is a mountainous area in the southwestern part of the island of Crete, in the Chania regional unit.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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Syria–Lebanon Campaign

The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the British invasion of Vichy French Syria and Lebanon from June–July 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Crown

The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their sub-divisions (such as Crown dependencies, provinces, or states).

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Unley, South Australia

Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Wewak

Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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12th Brigade (Australia)

The 12th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army.

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16th Brigade (Australia)

The 16th Brigade was an infantry brigade in the Australian Army.

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17th Brigade (Australia)

The 17th Brigade was an infantry brigade in the Australian Army.

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18th Brigade (Australia)

The 18th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army.

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2/11th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/11th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army which saw service during World War II.

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2/12th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/12th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army which served during World War II.

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2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion (Australia)

The 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion was formed in June 1940 as part of the 7th Division and served in Egypt, Syria, the Netherlands East Indies and New Guinea during World War II.

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2/4th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/4th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that was raised for service during World War II, as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force.

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2/8th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/8th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served during World War II.

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23rd/21st Battalion (Australia)

The 23rd/21st Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

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26th Battalion (New Zealand)

The 26th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Military Forces, which served during the Second World War as part of the New Zealand 2nd Division.

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4th Military District (Australia)

The 4th Military District was an administrative district of the Australian Army.

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6th Division (Australia)

The 6th Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army.

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8th Brigade (Australia)

8th Brigade is an Australian Army Reserve training formation.

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19th Australian Infantry Brigade.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Brigade_(Australia)

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