8th Battalion (Australia)
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The 8th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Initially raised in 1914 for the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War the battalion was completely recruited f
Members of the 8th Battalion, after attacking at Passchendaele, 28 October 1917
Members of the 2nd and 8th Battalions at Lone Pine, 1915
Frank Partridge, who received the Victoria Cross for actions on Bougainville in 1945
2nd Brigade (Australia)
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The 2nd Health Brigade is an Australian Army brigade. The 2nd Brigade was formed in 1903 as a militia infantry formation based in Victoria, the brigade later served during the First World War as part
8th Battalion (Australia)
…in 1914 for the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War the battalion was completely recruited from Victoria and formed part of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. During the war it fought at Gallipoli and in France and Belgium on the Western Front. It was disbanded in 1919, before being re-raised…
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Troops from the 1st and 2nd brigades at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915
In October 1942, Militia units from the 2nd and 4th Divisions took part in large-scale defensive exercise in Geraldton, Western Australia.