WW2 1st Australian Division Provost Company 1942-46 for Sale

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WW2 1st Australian Division Provost Company 1942-46:
$20.05

WW21st Australian Division Provost Company 1942-46
cloth shoulder titleBrief History

During the formation of the Second AIF in late 1939 a unit namedAust Overseas Base Provost Companywas raised in Melbourne during November. In January 1940 they left for the Middle East arriving in Jerusalem in February. A detachment formed1 Detention Barracksin March and later became a unit in its own right. In April they were renamedNo 1 Provost Company (Line of Communication) and moved to Gaza from which base they operated throughout southern Palestine. In June they moved to Sarafand, but by December were at Rehovot. They returned to Australia in February 1942 with the1st Australian Corpsand were renamed2/1st Line of Communication Provost Company.

They gathered after leave in Adelaide in April 1942, and moved to Toowoomba, Queensland, where they were restructured asFirst Australian Army Provost Company. They had detachments at Ipswich, Wallangarra, Warwick and Tenterfield as well as one at the NE Recruit Training Centre at Canungra. In January 1943 a detachment was set up at Yungaburra where units returning from New Guinea were training.

From February 1943 two sections of the3rd Infantry Division Provost Companywere attached when their parent units moved to New Guinea. In June a detachment was sent to the Thursday Island and whenHQ First Aust Armymoved to Mareeba in May 1944, a detachment went with them, with the rest of the unit following in July. Two sections moved to Torokina on Bougainville in November 1944 remaining there until the end of the war. In December 1944 the rest of the unit moved to Jacquinot Bay on New Britain. In February 1945 two sections moved to Port Moresby, and the unit remained active in all three areas until war's end.

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