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The 2nd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised for service during the First World War as part the Australian Imperial Force and saw action at Gallipoli before being sent to the Western Front in mid-1916, where it spent the next two-and-a-half years taking part in the fighting in the trenches of France and Belgium.

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  • The 2nd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised for service during the First World War as part the Australian Imperial Force and saw action at Gallipoli before being sent to the Western Front in mid-1916, where it spent the next two-and-a-half years taking part in the fighting in the trenches of France and Belgium.
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  • 2nd Battalion
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  • City of Newcastle Regiment
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  • Purple over Green
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  • 2 RNSWR
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  • ~1,000 menref|During the First World War, the authorised strength of an Australian infantry battalion was 1,023 men.|group=Note
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  • Nulli Secundus (Second To None)
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