28th Infantry Battalion (The Swan Regiment) [Australia]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 25 January 2001. Corrected and updated 13.07.2004

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	28th Infantry Battalion (The Swan Regiment)
	Western Australia, Australia


Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons Badges and Uniforms	Colonel-in-Chief Honorary Colonels Traditions Alliances Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency

Titles and Lineage

Alphabetic Index of Titles
Numeric Index of Titles


	1921	28th Battalion formed in Western Australia, continuing 85th Battalion which had never been formed, and perpetuating 28th Battalion, AIF
	1927	28th Battalion (The Swan Regiment)
	1943	28th Australian Infantry Battalion (AIF) mobilised for war service
	1946	disbanded
	1948	reformed in CMF and amalgamated with 16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia), to form 16th/28th Infantry Battalion

	1952	28th Infantry Battalion (The Swan Regiment) (unlinked from 16th Battalion; perpetuating 2/28th Battalion, AIF)
	1960.07.01	reduced to three companies in 1st Battalion, The Royal Western Australia Regiment
		A Company (The Swan Company) D Company (The Western Australian Rifles) E Company (The North Coast Company)
	1966.09.	28th Battalion, The Royal Western Australia Regiment re-formed by expansion of 11th Battalion and 16th Battalion
	1977	28th Independent Rifle Company, The Royal Western Australia Regiment
	1987.10.24	amalgamated with 11th Independent Rifle Company, to form 11th/28th Battalion, The Royal Western Australia Regiment

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


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Deployment and Service:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
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Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	The Great War: [awarded honours for 28th Battalion, AIF] The Second World War: [awarded honours for 2/28th Battalion, AIF]¹ 1. no battle honours were awarded to 28th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Uniform:

Colonel-in-Chief

Index of Royal Colonels

Honorary Colonels

Traditions


	Motto:	Urgens
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	Freedoms:
	Marches:	Hearts of Oak (1953)
		Colonel Bogey (1954)
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Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		The Gloucestershire Regiment	1930-1946 1952-1960

Bibliography

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