Royal Western Australia Regiment

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The Royal Western Australia Regiment
Colonel Bogey
16th Battalion – March of the Cameron Men
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment
Chris Dawson (Governor of Western Australia)
Insignia
Unit colour patch
TartanCameron of Erracht
AbbreviationRWAR

The Royal Western Australia Regiment is a reserve infantry regiment of the Australian Army consisting of two battalions, the 11th/28th Battalion and the 16th Battalion. The regiment was raised in July 1960 as part of the reorganisation of the Australian Army Reserve through the amalgamation of the three existing infantry regiments in Western Australia

:

  • The City of Perth Regiment
  • The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia
  • The Swan Regiment

Initially formed as a single battalion, in 1966 it was reorganised into first two, then three battalions. Two of these, the 11th Battalion and 28th Battalion were reduced to single companies in 1977, then amalgamated into the single 11th/28th Battalion in 1987.

The regiment perpetuates the traditions of three battalions of the Australian Imperial Force:

Battle honours

11th/28th Battalion

  • South Africa 1899–1902
  • The Great War: Pozieres, Messines, Passchendaele, Mont St.Quentin, Landing at Anzac, Somme 1916–1918, Bullecourt, Ypres 1917, Amiens, Hindenburg Line
  • World War II: Capture of Tobruk, Defence of Tobruk, El Alamein, Brallos Pass, Liberation of New Guinea, Kokoda Trail, Borneo, Damour, Lae-Nadzab, Labuan

16th Battalion

  • South Africa 1899–1902
  • World War I: Somme 1916–1918, Pozieres, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Polygon Wood, Passchandaele, Arras 1918, Hamel, Amiens, Albert 1918, Hindenburg Line, Epehy, France and Flanders 1916–1918, Anzac, Landing at Anzac, Defence of Anzac, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915–1916
  • World War II: North Africa 1941, Syria, Syrian Frontier, The Litani, Sidon, Wadi Zeini, Damour, South West Pacific 1942 – 1945, Kokoda Trail, Isurava, Eora Creek, Templetons Crossing, Efogi-Menari, Ioribaiwa, Buna-Gona, Gona, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Ramu Valley, Shaggy Ridge, Borneo, Balikpapan, Waitavolo

Alliances

Regimental march

Sussex by the Sea (1907) by English composer William Ward-Higgs was adopted as regimental march.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "COLOR CEREMONY". The Daily News. Vol. XLIX, no. 17, 181. Western Australia. 30 May 1930. p. 6 (HOME FINAL EDITION). Retrieved 6 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Sunday Times (Perth)
    . No. 2878. Western Australia. 14 February 1954. p. 7. Retrieved 6 April 2023 – via National Library of Australia.

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