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Old 26-09-18, 10:59 AM
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42nd Bn OCA, silver medallion engraved to the reverse C.V.Taylor 1947.
Which 42nd Battalion?
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Old 09-10-18, 09:21 AM
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I wonder if “42nd Battalion” OCA refers to old comrades of the 1st Bn BW, and then a 73rd Battalion might have referred to old comrades of the 2nd Bn BW. Some regiments preserved association with their numbered forebears in such ways. I can’t think what else 42nd Battalion might mean as late as 1947.
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Old 09-10-18, 09:58 AM
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Maybe not the 42nd Battalion, maybe the 42nd Cup event.
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I wonder if “42nd Battalion” OCA refers to old comrades of the 1st Bn BW, and then a 73rd Battalion might have referred to old comrades of the 2nd Bn BW. Some regiments preserved association with their numbered forebears in such ways. I can’t think what else 42nd Battalion might mean as late as 1947.
When my father was in the KRRC in WW2 they were still calling themselves the 60th Rifles.

My grandfather, in the late 1960s, was still telling me how he was in the "Dirty Half Hundred" in WW1.
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Very possible it’s Australian
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Very possible it’s Australian
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That would fit too.

42 Bn AIF was from Queensland and known as the Australian Black Watch.
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