2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion

Beaufort. Borneo 27 Jun 1945. Members of the 2/28 Infantry Battalion using a hand railway trolley to move heavy gear to their new position AWM photo 110707.

25 Jun 1943 The 2/28th practice a beach landing with the US 532nd Engineer Boat & Shore Regiment. AWM photo 052924

Brief History

Two men were captured in Malaya by the Japanese, and 269 others died while members of the unit.

Battalion personnel

• Harold Baldwin
• George Brushmeyer
• Joseph James Burrows
• Albert William Chadwick
• Herbert James Collier
• Robert Gale
• Charles Henry Walter Hansen
• Stanley Rudolph Jarvis
• John Hector Russell MacDonald
• Robert Archibald Edwin Mack
• Lawrence Gerald McDonough
• Stanton Edward McKenna
• Andrew McKenzie
• Victor Henry Mead
• Thomas Stanley O'Meagher
• Walter Vivian Ernest Peters
• Frederick Joseph Powell
• George Lawrance Pryor
• John Peter Lewis Rymer
• Edward Arthur Sewell
• David John Sexty
• Norman Rees Willacott MID

Battle Honours

• Beaufort
• Borneo
• Busu River
• Defence of Alamein Line
• Defence of Scarlet Beach
• Defence of Tobruk
• El Alamein
• Finschhafen
• Gusika
• Labuan
• Qattara Track
• Sanyet el Miteirya
• Siki Cove
• Tell el Makh Khad

Individual Honours

• 2 x Distinguished Service Order
• 6 x Military Cross
• 4 x Distinguished Conduct Medal
• 15 x Military Medal
• 51 x Mentioned in Despatches

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 2 - The Australian Army 1939-1945 - pages 2.327 to 2.329 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018; and the Australian War Memorial.