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...
Month: January 2011
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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"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...
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...
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...
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...
PART 4 – RAN, RAAF, OTHER ARMY CORPS AND NON-MILITARY AGENCIES
GENERAL This Part contains sources of reference to the RAR by other Australian Defence Force Services, non-Infantry Corps of the Australian Army, and non-military eg Police, Border Security and others. Foreign (non-Australian) sources are contained in Part 5. ...
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...
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...
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...