10th Battalion (Australia)
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The 10th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served as part of the all-volunteer Australian Imperial Force during World War I. Among the first units raised in Australia dur
Lines of the 9th and 10th Battalions at Mena Camp, Egypt, December 1914, looking towards the pyramids. The soldier in the foreground is playing with a kangaroo, the regimental mascot
Troops from the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli, August 1915
Group portrait of the officers of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Neuve Eglise, Belgium, February 1918.
Roy Inwood, who received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the fighting around Polygon Wood
50th Battalion (Australia)
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The 50th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in Egypt in early 1916 for service during World War I, drawing a cadre of experienced personnel from the 1
10th Battalion (Australia)
…were withdrawn from the peninsula. In early 1916, the battalion was reorganised in Egypt at which time it provided a cadre staff to the newly formed 50th Battalion. It was transferred to the Western Front in March 1916, and for the next two-and-a-half years took part in trench warfare in France and Belgium until…
Members of the 50th Battalion at Zonnebeke, September 1917
Private Jørgen Jensen, the 50th Battalion's sole Victoria Cross recipient