28th Battalion (Australia)
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The 28th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was raised in early 1915 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force for service during the First World War and formed part o
Men of 28th Battalion during a Lewis gun drill at Renescure, c. 1917.
Alfred Gaby, the 28th Battalion's sole Victoria Cross recipient, who received the award for actions around Villers-Bretonneux during the Hundred Days Offensive.
28th Battalion troops conducting a changing-of-the-guard ceremony in Darwin, August 1944.
The 11th/28th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment is a Reserve infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Located in Western Australia, it is one of the two battalions of the Royal Western Aus
28th Battalion (Australia)
…re-raised in 1966 as a remote area infantry battalion. In 1977, the 28th was reduced to an independent rifle company, and in 1987 was amalgamated into the 11th/28th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment. The 28th Battalion came into existence on 16 April 1915 when it was raised at Blackboy Camp, in Western Australia. Formed as part of the Australian…
11th Battalion posing on the Great Pyramid of Giza, 1915.