The 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion was an Australian Army unit raised for service with the all volunteer Second Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War. Formed in late 1940 as part of the 8
Troops from the 2/4th travel by truck from Alice Springs to Birdum, October 1941
Soldiers from the 2/4th on a troop train
Members from the 2/4th at Quorn, South Australia, 11 October 1941
Australian troops arrive in Singapore
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett, was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II. A citizen soldier by background, Bennett began his professional life in t
Bennett in 1962
Bennett and his headquarters staff near the Menin Road, Belgium, 20 October 1917
Bennett, briefing war correspondents in Malaya, January 1942