ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT ASSOCIATIONS States Queensland RAR Association South Australia RAR Association Victoria RAR Association Western Australia RAR Association Tasmania RAR Association Northern Territory RAR Association Australian Capital Territory RAR Association Battalion Associations 1 RAR 2 RAR 3 RAR 4 RAR 5 RAR 6 RAR 7 RAR 8 RAR 9 RAR National 9 RAR (Qld) […]
NATIONAL MEMORIALS The Royal Australian Regiment National Memorial Walk is a ‘living” memorial to commemorate those soldiers who have died while serving overseas with the Regiment. View the Roll of Honour here. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Regiment’s formation, The Royal Australian Regiment Association built the National Memorial Walk and Contemplation Building at […]
The Royal Australian Regiment Corporation (The Company) is the national representative body of its constituent members: the RAR State/Territory and Battalion Associations/Corporation. It was formed in 2009 to: enhance and protect the legal rights and limited liability of its members, broaden the opportunities previously not available to an unincorporated entity, appoint a Board that is […]
POEM: A FAIR GO AND NO MORE BETRAYAL – GEORGE MANSFORD The Defence Force Welfare Association and its Alliance* partners welcome the coming debate on fair indexation for military superannuants, expected to occur later this month in the Senate with the tabling of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010. […]
The Chairman of the RAR Corporation Michael von Berg MC has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Sapper Jamie Robert Larcombe, who was killed in action during operations in Afghanistan on Saturday 19th February 2011. Sapper Larcombe was serving with 1st Combat Engineer Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 2 when he […]
The Chairman of the RAR Corporation MichaeL von Berg MC has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson, who was killed in action during o perations in Afghanistan on Wednesday 2nd February 2011. Corporal Atkinson was serving with 1st Combat Engineer Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 2 when he tragically […]
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 Air Service Regiment Campbell Barracks SWANBOURNE WA 6010 On behalf of the Royal Australian Regiment, and of […]
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 Benjamin Roberts Smith enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 1996. After completing the requisite courses, he was posted […]
“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 Association fosters and keeps that spirit alive through caring for […]
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 Government/Australian War Memorial. For the complete list of the six series of Australian Official Histories, please click here. GENERAL […]
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 local productions are likely to be located by contacting each battalion regimental historian. In […]
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 for their product, not the organisation from which they came or write about. […]
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