. "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."@en . . . "City of Newcastle Regiment"@en . . . "70px|alt=A two-toned rectangular shape, one half of which is purple and the other half green" . "Nulli Secundus (Second To None)" . . . "2nd Battalion"@en . . "1914Z"^^ . "~1,000 menref|During the First World War, the authorised strength of an Australian infantry battalion was 1,023 men.|group=Note" . "2 RNSWR" . . . . "Purple over Green"@en .