18th Battalion Band, France 1918

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Identifiernot specifiedDate27 May 1918PhotographerUnknown Australian official photographerDescriptionThe 18th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. During World War I, the battalion was raised in 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force, attached to the 5th Brigade, of the 2nd Division. It was sent initially to Gallipoli, where it suffered many casualties before it was withdrawn from the line and sent to France and Belgium, where it served at the Western Front as part of the Australian Corps and took part in most of the major battles between 1916 and 1918. The battalion's last engagement of the war was at Montbrehain in October 1918 and it was disbanded in April 1919.

After the war, the battalion was re-raised as a part-time force in the Sydney area.
Australia's part-time military force was re-organised in 1921 to perpetuate the numerical designations, battle honours and formations of the AIF. The 18th Battalion was re-raised in the Hornsby Kuring-Gai region of Sydney, as part of the Citizens Forces, at this time drawing personnel from 17th and 18th Infantry Regiments. In 1927, when territorial designations were adopted, it assumed the title of the "Kuring-Gai Regiment". On 1 July 1935, the 18th Battalion was amalgamated with the 51st Battalion to form the 18th/51st Battalion. This lasted until 1 October 1936, when the two battalions were unlinked and re-formed as separate units

Group portrait of the band of the 18th Battalion in 1918. Back row, left to right: 1236A Private (Pte) T. A. Lewis; 2376 Pte J. W. H. Garth; 3800 Pte H. G. Crocker; 851 Pte P. J. Doherty; 45 Pte W. Yeo; 2355 Pte A. E. Cox; 6435 Pte E. P. Turner; 3919 Pte C. McBride. Middle row: unidentified; 3886 Pte R. W. Onions; 663 Pte G. Thompson; 6587 Pte J. L. Maxwell; 6676 Pte L. J. G. Ford; 316 Pte G. H. Stain; 1017 Pte R. E. Wheatley; 5805 Pte H. J. Pittaway; 3935 Pte J. Pratt; 181 Pte A. J. Clark; 1240 Pte H. E. H. Ratliff; Sergeant R. Sewell. Front row: 5019 Pte A. E. Elliott; 1947 Pte C. H. G. Jones; 5066 Pte W. J. McDonald; 1677 Pte O. H. G. Duncan; 6552 Sergeant S. R. Hunter, Conductor; Colonel J. S. Purdy; 2139 Pte D. M. Dudgeon; 339 Pte W. V. Wilson; 1060 Pte W. G. Knight; 4458 Pte M. W. Jones. Lying in front on the ground with the drums: 478 Pte W. E. Arnold; 5667 Pte E. Setchell.Physical FormatPicardie, Somme, France

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18th Battalion Band, France 1918