1st Australian Advance Reinforcement Depot

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Brief History

When the training arrangements were reorganised in late 1942, 1st Australian Advanced Reinforcement Depot was raised at Kleinton in Queensland during October. It recewived trained reinforcements and held them until they were sent to a specific unit. As troop numbers in Queensland declined that role was transferred to the 5th Australian Advancerd Reinforcment Depot and the original unit moved to Port Moresby in New Guinea in June 1943. The early work was in support of the Lae offensive, witht he unit moving to Munim outside of Lae in December.

When troop numbers in New Guinea declined, the unit left New Guinea in June 1944 for Warwick in Queensland where they had eight companies of men, each holding reinforcements destined for units in the 1st Australian Corp and 1st Base Sub Area. Once Morotai was established as the staging point for the recapture of Borneo, a detachment moved to Morotai, and there formed the 63rd Australian Infantry Battalion and the 64th Australian Infantry Battalion in order for them to occupy areas of the Dutch East Indies once the Japanese surrendered.

Passing Through

• Stanley Charles Gregory 13 Mar - 13 Apr 1945
• Stan John Barrett 25 Jun - 24 Aug 1945

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 6 - The Australian Army 1939-1945, page 6.258 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018