18th Brigade (Australia)
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The 18th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the Australian Army. The brigade briefly existed as a Militia formation prior to the First World War, but this was short-lived. During the Second World War,
2/9th Battalion, part of the 18th Brigade, during the fighting at Shaggy Ridge, January 1944
Soldiers from the 2/9th hoist a flag consisting of the battalion's unit colour patch over the recently captured Italian fort at Giarabub.
Soldiers from the 2/10th prepare for a patrol, Milne Bay, September 1942
2/12th Battalion (Australia)
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The 2/12th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army which served during World War II. Raised in late 1939 as part of the all volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force, the battalion
Members of "B" Company, Australian 2/12th Battalion, who helped silence a Japanese mountain gun on one of the hills known as Prothero I & II during the Battle of Shaggy Ridge
Reinforcements from the 2/12th in England, November 1940
Troops from the 2/12th at Sanananda, January 1943
War correspondent and caricaturist Alex Gurney (second from left) presenting the original art work of one of his Bluey and Curley comic strips to men of the 2/12th Battalion at Kesawai, Ramu Valley, New Guinea, 5 March 1944.