This Part lists websites not included in other Parts of this Bibliography. Researchers need to remain aware that the currency of such sources can change, and even disappear.
GENERAL
Army National
Offical Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/corps/royal-australian-infantry-corps
Official School of Infantry Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/schoolofinfantry/
Australian Army – The Cove
The Cove is a professional development resource for the Australian Profession of Arms, introduced in 2017. It is designed to help military professionals sharpen their skills, connect with peers and allies, and develop new concepts and ideas for consideration. It is also available to the entire community (see conditions on line) including retired/ex-soldiers. Contains a wealth of ever-expanding reading and other data sources including doctrine, and invites contributions.
National RAR Association
Official website is located at http://rarnational.org.au/
Official Facebook is located at https://www.facebook.com/RARCorporation/
Official YouTube is located at https://www.youtube.com/user/RARAssn
Offical Twitter is located at https://twitter.com/RARAssn
Duty First Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/426271894141125/
Queensland Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/QLDHome.html
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/544664569044558/
Dads Army Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Dads-Army-RAR-National-Memorial-Walk-560782590713867/
New South Wales Association
Home page at http://rarnational.org.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1308555809161945
Australian Capital Territory Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/ACTHome.html
Victorian Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/VICHome.html
Tasmanian Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/TASHome.html
South Australian Association
Home page at http://rarasa.org.au/
Northern Territory Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/NTHome.html
West Australian Association
Home page at http://www.rar.org.au/WAHome.html
1 RAR
Official Army website at
1 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.1rar.org.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/1rarassociation/
2 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/3rd-brigade/2nd-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
2 RAR Association
Home page at http://2rar-association.net.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/2RAR-Association-Inc-1183231068415223/
3 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/3rd-brigade/3rd-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
3 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.3rar.com.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/3RARAssoc/
4 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.4rarassociationsaustralia.com/
5 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/1st-brigade/5th-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
5 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.5rar.asn.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/5RAR-Association-105565202864522/
Soldiers Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1647988765430784/
6 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/7th-brigade/6th-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
6 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.6rarassociation.com/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1664818027163193/
7 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/1st-brigade/7th-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
Offical Army Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/111391535550421/
7 RAR Association
Home page at http://7rar.asn.au/wp/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/111391535550421/
8 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.8rarassociation.org/8rarassoc/
9 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.9rar.org.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/9-RAR-1471928459716062/
2/4 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.24rarassociation.com/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/30196848678/
8/9 RAR
Official Army website at https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/units/forces-command/7th-brigade/8th9th-battalion-royal-australian-regiment
8/9 RAR Association
Home page at http://www.89rar.asn.au/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/89RARAssn/
5/7 RAR Association
Home page at https://57rar.com/
Association Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/9838309174/
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL – South East Asian Conflicts Diaries – AWM95, Class 7
Commanders’ diaries were prepared by officers commanding headquarters, units, and detachments serving in Malaya and Singapore, Sarawak-Brunei-Sabah, and South Vietnam, as a record of operational activity during service abroad. The aim of the diary was to provide data on which to base future improvements in army training, equipment, organisation, and administration, and to provide future historians with a record of activities of units and formations in operational periods.
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/1 – 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/2 – 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
Includes 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/3 – 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/4 – 4 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
Includes 4 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/5 – 5 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/6 – 6 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
Includes 6 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/7 – 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/8 – 8 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM95, Sub-class 7/9 – 9 Battalion Royal Australian Regimen
< http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/seasia/index.asp >
Contact
Virtual War Memorial
An initiative of the RSL – South Australia, this website is a virtual war memorial. Examination of the home page at https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/ enables the researcher to locate and explore any war involving Australians, including every conflict including the RAR. Interactive, allowing Australians to get involved and capture important stories and images that might not otherwise get recorded in material museums where storage space can be limited and staff finite in their capacity.
JAPAN AND KOREA 1946-53
Alliance of Defence Service Organisation: Korean War: Julie Bishop n renewed push to find 43 Australian Servicemen still missing in action
Provides basic information on 23 RAR members still MIA from Korea
http://adso.org.au/latestnews/69-what-they-say/government/656-korean-war-julie-bishop-in-renewed-push-to-find-43-australian-servicemen-still-missing-in-action
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL – Korean War Diaries – AWM85
While on active service, Army headquarters, formations and units are required to keep a unit war diary recording their daily activities. Archival series AWM85 comprises the diaries of 28 British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), and some miscellaneous support units, created during their involvement in the Korean War
- AWM85, Class 1 – Headquarters, 28 British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade
- AWM85, Class 2 – 1 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM85, Class 3 – 2 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
- AWM85, Class 4 – 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
SOUTH EAST ASIA 1950-current
(includes Malaya, Borneo, Singapore & Malaysia)
NATIONAL MALAYA AND NORTH BORNEO VETERANS ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIA Inc
Home page at http://www.nmbvaa.org.au/ enables the researcher to access a wide range of information including national and branch publications imporatn to the RAR and its members. This includes http://www.nmbvaa.org.au/rcb.php , a summary of the little-published Rifle Company Butterworth tours of duty which, during the Communist Insurgency/Second Malaysian Emergency of 17 Jun 68 to 2 Dec 89 were filled overwhelmingly by RAR rifle companies from 1 Nov on. RCBs are still rotating through Butterworth to this day, now solely with a training mission.
VIETNAM 1962-75
1 RAR Association – 1968
Covers the Battles for Fire Support Bases Coral-Balmoral, with embedded link to the War Diaries covering that time. Includes roll of honour.
https://www.1rar.org.au/fsb-coral/
2 RAR compilation: What have you done for Australia
Alliance of Defence Service Organisations – Jim Bourke: Life Mission Accomplished
Basic information about Bourke’s successful quest to locate and eventually get the remains of all six of the Missing in Action from Vietnam located and brought home.
http://adso.org.au/latestnews/654-jim-bourke-life-mission-accomplished
A USA source of Vietnam War books
http://www.vnwarbooks.com
Australian Vietnam Veterans Mortality Listing
A source of data on casualties.
Australia’s Vietnam War
https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/
UNSW website which states to have over 95% of all recorded 1ATF combat incidents. Interactive site which can receive veteran input.
CHAMBERLAIN, Ernie – Vietnam War: D445 Their Story
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62621973/The-Viet-Cong-D445-Battalion-Their-Story
Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans
Department of Veterans’ Affairs official record of all Australians who served in Vietnam. See http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/
New Zealand’s Vietnam War
NZ government webstie which provides an entry to that nation’s perspectives. Includes references to the RAR units with whom the Kiwis served. See: http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
RAR REGIMENTAL STANDING ORDERS – RAR Battalion Histories
Regimental HQ, Singleton, 1977
ISBN: Nil
Index.
Includes a nominal roll of COs and RSMs, Regimental Marches and Songs, and affiliated units. Records in an Annexure include an outline history of each battalion from its inception to the date of publication. These Standing Orders also show how regimental matters are documented at the time of their access, being an online product currently inside the Defence Restricted Network. Subject to periodic upgrade by a specific Action Officer who is able to be contacted through the Regimental Adjutant (Adjutant, School of Infantry, Singleton, NSW).
The Casualty List
Created and managed by Bob Coker, this is a list of Australian casualties in Vietnam. As such, the data are regularly being updated.
http://www.thecasualtylist.com/
VIETNAM Casualties – Final Resting Place
http//:www.australianartilleryassociation.com-vvmcsc-documents-vietnam_memorial_roll.doc.url.
VIETNAM VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA INC
Home page at http://www.vvaa.org.au/ enables the researcher to access a wide range of information including national and branch publications and other important material to the RAR and members.
VIETNAM VETERANS’ PARADE SYDNEY 1987
ABC 46.39 mins duration coverage of the Welcome home parade held in Sydney 1987. YouTube at
PEACE KEEPING & PEACE MAKING OPERATIONS
(Somalia 1992-93, Rwanda 1994-95, Cambodia 1994-95, Papua New Guinea 1946 to 1975, East Timor 1999-2012, Bougainville 1994, The Solomon Islands 2000 -2008, all remaining deployments not covered by UN or above (Rhodesia, Uganda)
AUSTRALIAN PEACEKEEPER & PEACEMAKER VETERANS ASSOCIATION
Home page at http://www.peacekeepers.asn.au/
IRAQ 2003-09 and 2014–ongoing
Nil entry
AFGHANISTAN 2006-ongoing
Nil entry
HUMANITARIAN/DEFENCE AID TO THE CIVIL COMMUNITY
(Civilian Humanitarian Disaster ops (incl Darwin 1975 and other cyclones and floods, overseas eg PNG, Indian Ocean, and lately, Border Operations, and DACC (non-disaster) eg Olympics and Commonwealth Games and other government support eg APEC, G20)
Nil entry
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