Festburg's Lineage book makes it easy to identify the re-numbering of regiments and changes of titles over the years. He was a real expert in this field and had free access to the army's files to write it. You need an actual copy in front of you to do serious researchand I doubt if Google could give you enough detail.
There are two intermediate periods in Australian military history that are not well documented:
1. 1918-21 Period
Whatever regular army forces we had mainly wore rising sun badges but there were some unusual regiments on the army list: the 2nd Bn, 3rd Gippsland Pioneers had its own badge,and only one of these has ever been seen, shown in Cossum and also posted on the Forum a few years ago. Maybe there were badges for the other Pioneers?
The old Compulsory Training militia battalions were still going (95 Inf, 29 LH etc) until they faded away in the early 1920s when everyone lost interest after winning the war.
The new voluntary militia (61 Bns Inf, 26 LH etc) started mid 20s.
2. 1945- 48 Ïnterim Army"
I have long wanted to know more about this period and have hardly any information on it. Again, mainly rising sums, but it was also the period of the early screen printed cloth shoulder flashes. The new militia started 1948.
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