The Royal Pacific Islands Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. The regiment is descended from the Australian Army infantry battalions formed from native soldiers and
Cap badge of the Pacific Islands Regiment
New Guinea Volunteer Rifles
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The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised as a unit of the Militia from white Australian and European expatriates in New Guinea upon the
Royal Pacific Islands Regiment
…New Guinea; however, there was some opposition among white settlers to the raising of native units. As an interim measure, the re-establishment of the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (PNGVR) was approved in July 1949, re-forming as a 'whites-only' reserve unit of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF). In November 1950, after considerable…
The Salamaua platoon of the NGVR on parade in April 1940.
The territories of Papua and New Guinea
NGVR officers, 1940
View of the Japanese landing beach in Rabaul