8 Infantry Battalion
WWII Military Units; HistoryNT; Second World War, 1939-1945
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Bagot and McMillan's Rd. Junction; Howard Springs Road Junction; 25 Mile Camp; 37 Mile Camp; 16 mile Camp
Australia
Army
Infantry
8 Infantry Battalion
Fortress
1942-02
1945-04-03
8 Infantry Battalion (City of Ballarat Regiment) arrived in Noonamah, 19 February 1942. The Japanese bombers flew over their positions on the way to Darwin. They moved closer to Darwin and camped adjacent to the United States 147 Field Artillery at 17 1/2 Mile Camp at the junction of Howard Springs Road and the Stuart Highway. The Unit went on to fight in Bougainville and New Guinea where Frank Partridge became the only soldier from the Militia to win the Victoria Cross.
Dates: -- 16 Mile, February 1942 to October 1943 -- 37 Mile, 30 May 1942 to 15 July 1942 -- 41 1/2 Mile, 8 September 1943 to 3 April 1945
English
Second World War, 1939-1945; Australia; Army; Militia; Fortress; 8 Infantry Battalion
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https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM52/8/3/45/ [8 Infantry Battalion War Diaries]; https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/828864691 [Frank Geddes Manuscript Collection 1941-1992: MS29]; http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=35251 [8 Infantry Battalion]; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/213139 [171/2 Mile Camp]
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847816