Territory Stories

16 Infantry Battalion

Details:

Title

16 Infantry Battalion,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Coomalie,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Infantry,

Unit

16 Infantry Battalion,

Parent unit

13 Brigade,

Date arrived in NT

1943-03,

Date left the NT

1944-11,

History

The Battalion was known as the Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia. It departed from Darwin on 21 November 1944 on USAT Evangeline for service in New Britain.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, 13 Brigade, Infantry, 16 Infantry Battalion,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C81179 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 081847, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_11893.asp [16 Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia)], http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM52/8/3/55/ [16 Infantry Battalion War Diaries], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=34898 [16 Infantry Battalion],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847624,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847987