Month: January 2011

Letter to Corporal Roberts-Smith

Major General B.W. (Hori) Howard, AO, MC, ESM (Retd) Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Corporation 15 Balfour Road AUSTINMER NSW 2515 25 January 2011 Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG The Special...

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Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

Australian Army Awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG For the most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril as Patrol Second-in-Command, Special Operations Task Group on Operation SLIPPER. Corporal...

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The Royal Australian Regiment Association Banner

"KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE" The Association is "Keeping the Spirit Alive". It recognises that the Regiment's binding force is that welded by its men who in serving Australia in the Regiment developed an esprit de corps, second to none, for its living and its dead.The...

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Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

PART 1 – GENERAL HISTORIES

This Part comprises Australian authors and publications which might generally be regarded as factual depictions of military history which features the RAR family. It includes those applicable Australian Official Histories as defined by the Australian...

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Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

PART 2 – REGIMENTAL & BATTALION HISTORIES

GENERAL   This Part provides for printed materials produced by authors on behalf of the Regiment itself, or its battalions and sub-units, or other formal military records such as staffing lists that include RAR members eg officer graduation lists. Considerably more...

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PART 3 – PERSONAL NARRATIVES

GENERAL   This Part provides details of publications and other materials generated by individuals, telling their own or others’ factual stories without official backing to do so. They differ from Part 2 mainly on the basis that the individual author/s are responsible...

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Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

PART 5 – FOREIGN FORCES’ HISTORIES

This Part contains sources generated by other than Australian authors. Includes authors/agencies that might have been enemies at the time of the applicable conflict.     GENERAL   ENGLISH John A & GUDMUNDSSON Bruce I – A Perspective on Infantry Praeger...

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Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG

PART 6 – JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS

This Part covers the very large field of smaller articles and other data which appear in both Infantry and other publications on the RAR. Major series are described below, with specific articles then listed under the applicable war/deployment using the  acronym of the...

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PART 7 – AUDIO-VISUAL (TAPES)

This Part lists audio-visual sources that require a VHS, ¾” Umatic or Beta tape player to review. Audio–only may be recorded on audiocassette or even reel to reel. Some of these products may also be digitised (playable on any DVD player/computer), as such products are...

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