1st Australian Army Service Corps Training Battalion

2 May 1944. Bonegilla. 1st AASC Training Battalion personnel training in mock-up DC-47 fuselage.

Brief History

The first records of this unit records them as being at Redbank, Queensland in July 1941 where they were training three companies of 60 men each in AASC duties. The unit's name changed in March 1942 to 1st Military District Training Depot AASC, and they moved to Goondiwindi. Renamed again in June, they became Queensland Line of Communication Training Depot AASC before moving to Tenterfield in New South Wales in August and to Glen Innes in September.

AASC training units were re-organised in November 1942 with the unit at Glen Innes splitting to form 1st AASC Training Company and 2nd AASC Training Company. The three east cost training units then were centralised at Bonegilla in Victoria during April 1943, and were again re-organised in June. 1st AASC Training Depot absorbed part of the Victoria training personnel and became 1st AASC Training Battalion with a headquarters unit and four companies. In April 1944, as the training need reduced, ASSC Training HQs and the 2nd AASC Training Battalion were disbanded with the 1st AASC Training battalion now reduced to three Companies which continued to operate until the end of the war.

Trainees

• Albert Chamberlain 21 Nov 1944 - 18 Nov 1945

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 5 - The Australian Army 1939-1945, page 5.308 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018