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==Brief History==
Prior to the war the ''Western Command Meat Depot'' was on establishment. In March 1942 a section of the Northern Territory based ''3rd Field Butchery'' was raised and was operating at the Meat markets in Perth where it was known as '''Section, 5th Field Butchery'''. In the November 1942 reorganisation, the section became known as '''5th Field Butchery Company''' which expanded to include a Company HQ element and two platoons which operated in detachments located at the various supply depots in southern WA.


In the March 1944 the Company HQ was disbanded and the platoons now titled '''12th Field Butchery Platoon''' and '''13th Field Butchery Platoon'''. As a result of declining troop numbers in WA, the ''12th Field Butchering Platoon'' left in September 1944 for Katherine in  the Northern Territory where it joined the '''3rd Field Butchery Company'''  remaining there until the end of the war.

===Unit Personnel===
* [[John William Shackleton]] 16 Oct 1941 - 9 Mar 1944
* [[Walter Edward Easter]] 20 Jan - 26 Aug 1942 

===12th Australian Field Butchering Platoon===
* [[John William Shackleton]] 10 Mar - 27 Aug 1944
* [[Cyril Newton} 28 Aug 1944 - 19 Oct 1945

===13th Australian Field Butchering Platoon===
* [[Cyril Newton]] 10 Mar - 27 Aug 1944 
* [[John William Shackleton]] 28 Aug 1944 - 18 Mar 1945

====Notes====
Content has come from ''The Unit Guide - Volume 5 - The Australian Army 1939-1945'', pages 5.282 and 5.282   - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018
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