GENERAL – ALL PERIODS Nil entry JAPAN AND KOREA 1946-53 Nil entry SOUTH EAST ASIA 1950-current (includes Malaya, Borneo, Singapore & Malaysia) Nil entry VIETNAM 1962-75 JONES, JG – An Experience of War Geoff served with 6 RAR as a medic. His paper provides an interesting […]
First World War The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australia’s involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by the official historian C E W Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The books, with […]
The ‘Fair Go!’, community awareness campaign is and will remain apolitical, that is, politically neutral. Fair Go!, is asking all major political parties, equally, for their intentions in regard to four key matters affecting the Defence family: reform of military superannuation matters especially pension indexation, equitable treatment of veteran disability pensions, certainty in military compensation, […]
The National President of the RAR Association, Major General ‘Hori’ Howard has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Privates Nathan Bewes, who was killed in action during operations in Afghanistan on Friday 9 July 2010. Private Bewes was serving with 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 1 […]
JOINT PRESS RELEASE THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, SENATOR THE HON. DAVID JOHNSTON, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, THE HON. BOB BALDWIN MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, SCIENCE AND PERSONNEL AND ASSISTING SHADOW MINISTER FOR DEFENCE, LOUISE MARKUS MHR, SHADOW MINISTER FOR VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND STUART ROBERT MHR, SHADOW PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR […]
Each year the Royal Australian Regiment Association conducts the Korean Veterans’ Day 27th July Memorial Service at the Korean War Memorial in Anzac Square Brisbane. The Service is well attended by Australian Korean War Veterans and their families and Korean Armed Forces veterans and the Australian Korean Society. This year the Service is being held at the Regiment’s […]
Saturday 26 June 2010 David Jamison the National President of the Defence Force Welfare Association has welcomed the announcement that from 1 July 2011, under a Coalition Government, DFRB/DFRDB* members aged 55 years or over will have their superannuation pensions indexed in the same manner as Age and Service pensions. In briefing DFWA on this […]
AAP May 19, 2010 3:41PM http://bit.ly/dA98Ki AUSTRALIAN and Afghan troops have uncovered 16 caches of insurgents weapons, ammunition, explosives and bomb making components in one five-day period, taking their haul to 55 caches so far this month. Commander of the Mentoring Task Force (MTF1) Lieutenant Colonel Jason Blain said that these finds had considerably reduced […]
The National President of the RAR Association, Major General ‘Hori’ Howard has offered his deepest sympathies to the families of Privates Tim Aplin, Ben Chuck and Scott Palmer of the 2nd Commando Regiment who were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday 21st June 2010. The three commandos of the Special Operations Task Group were […]
Hi All, If you think it’s unfair that over 600,000 Australians who are serving or have previously served in our military forces to defend and protect Australia are seeing their retirement benefits eroded and their standard of living being continually reduced and you want the government to fix the indexation arrangements of Military Superannuation Pensions […]
Two Australian soldiers killed in action by an improvised explosive device on Monday afternoon (Australian time) have been farewelled by their mates from the 1st Mentoring Task Force at Multi-National Base Tarin Kowt. The moving service to honour the ultimate sacrifice made by Sappers Jacob Moerland and Darren Smith was attended by all available Australian personnel […]
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