AUSTRALIAN FORCE
DIVISIONAL UNIT TRAINING OP MILITIA (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 23. A further step in Australia’s military preparations is that arrangements are being made to raise new garrison battalions for the army reserve to relieve the active militia troops now employed on internal defence.
There is to be special training for the militia forces in two batches, each of about 40,000. for a period of about one month and commencing shorMy. Arrangements are also in progress for raising from the militia and other sources a special force of one division, with auxiliary units, for continuous service at home or abroad. This force will be concentrated in brigade groups about November 1.
Naval mobilisation has been completed and all reserve ships have been commissioned. The squadron is now exercising and patrolling.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 6
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135AUSTRALIAN FORCE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 6
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