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12-03-11, 10:10 PM
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Australian Troops,Singapore,1941 which unit....
Again from Life Magazine, a photograph showing Autralian troops sight-seeing.Can anyone reconise the badges......
Jo http://images.google.com/hosted/life...15f48dee3ebfdc Some more; http://images.google.com/hosted/life...15636df7aaba0d
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12-03-11, 10:40 PM
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Australians in Singapore
Most are (I think) 8 Aust Div Signals. I think the man in the foreground of the first image is Ordnance Corps.
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12-03-11, 11:20 PM
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Australia Imperial Force
Commanding Officer Australia Imperial Force - Maj Gen Gordon Bennett HQ : Kluang Australian 8th Division Maj Gen Gordon Bennett HQ : Kluang Australian 22nd Brigade Brig Harold Burfield Taylor HQ : Mersing - Endau 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. Arthur Leslie Varley (Died as POW 13 September 1944) 2/19th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. Charles Anderson 2/20th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. Charles Frederick Assheton † (12 Feb. 1942) Australian 27th Brigade Brig Duncan Struan Maxwell HQ : Kluang 2/26th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. Arthur Harold Boyes † (12 Feb. 1942)/Richard Oakes 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. James Robertson † (18 Jan. 1942 during Battle of Muar)/ Lt.Col. Pond 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion - Lt.Col. Frederick Gallagher "Jack" Galleghan 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion - Lt.Col. M.J.Anketell 2/4th Anti-Tank Regiment - Lt.Col. Cranston Albury McEachern
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