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The 26th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally raised in April 1915 for service in World War I as part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), it was assigned to the 7th Brigade and consisted of personnel recruited from the states of Queensland and Tasmania. The battalion fought at Gallipoli in the latter stages of that campaign before being withdrawn to Egypt in late 1915. In mid-1916, it was sent to Europe where it served in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium for the rest of the war, fighting in most of the battles that the Australians took part in between 1916 and 1918. At the end of the war, it was disbanded in May 1919 as part of the demobilisation of the AIF.

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  • The 26th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally raised in April 1915 for service in World War I as part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), it was assigned to the 7th Brigade and consisted of personnel recruited from the states of Queensland and Tasmania. The battalion fought at Gallipoli in the latter stages of that campaign before being withdrawn to Egypt in late 1915. In mid-1916, it was sent to Europe where it served in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium for the rest of the war, fighting in most of the battles that the Australians took part in between 1916 and 1918. At the end of the war, it was disbanded in May 1919 as part of the demobilisation of the AIF. During the inter-war years, the 26th Battalion was re-raised as a part-time unit of the Citizens Forces, known as the 26th Battalion (Logan and Albert Regiment), based in Queensland. In 1934, the 26th was merged with another Queensland-based infantry battalion, the 15th Battalion, to become the 15th/26th Battalion. The two units were subsequently delinked in 1939 when the new 26th Australian Infantry Battalion was raised in Queensland as Australia mobilised for war. The battalion was assigned to the 11th Brigade at this time and used in various garrison roles in the early part of World War II before a detachment was sent to the Dutch East Indies as part of Merauke Force in 1943. Later in the war, the entire 26th Battalion, along with the rest of the 11th Brigade, was committed to the Bougainville campaign where they saw action against the Japanese from late 1944 until the end of hostilities in August 1945. After the war, the 26th Battalion was used to guard Japanese prisoners on Rabaul, remaining there until March 1946, before returning to Australia for demobilisation. It was subsequently disbanded in August 1946. (en)
  • 26 Batalion Piechoty − batalion piechoty Armii Australijskiej, sformowany w kwietniu 1915 i będący częścią Pierwszych Zbrojnych Sił Imperialnych Australii. Podczas I wojny światowej oddział ten wchodził w skład . Formacja brała udział m.in. w bitwie o Gallipoli, a następnie została przerzucona do Europy na front zachodni. W maju 1919 jednostka została rozwiązana i następnie po reorganizacji stała się częścią i przybrała nazwę 26 Batalion (Pułk Logana i Alberta). W 1939 batalion ponownie zmienił nazwę na 26 Australijski Batalion Piechoty i został przyłączony do . W 1943 batalion został przerzucony do Holenderskich Indii Wschodnich, gdzie stał się częścią . Następnie oddział został przerzucony na wyspę Bougainville, gdzie brał udział w starciach przeciwko Japończykom. Po wojnie jednostka stała się jednostką strażniczą powołaną do nadzorowania japońskich jeńców. 26 sierpnia 1946 jednostka została rozwiązana na stałe. (pl)
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  • World War I *Gallipoli campaign *Western Front World War II *New Guinea campaign *Bougainville campaign (en)
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  • Troops from the 26th Battalion in Picardie, Somme, August 1918 (en)
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  • World War I: 7th Brigade, 2nd Division (en)
  • World War II: 11th Brigade, 3rd Division (en)
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  • The 26th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally raised in April 1915 for service in World War I as part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), it was assigned to the 7th Brigade and consisted of personnel recruited from the states of Queensland and Tasmania. The battalion fought at Gallipoli in the latter stages of that campaign before being withdrawn to Egypt in late 1915. In mid-1916, it was sent to Europe where it served in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium for the rest of the war, fighting in most of the battles that the Australians took part in between 1916 and 1918. At the end of the war, it was disbanded in May 1919 as part of the demobilisation of the AIF. (en)
  • 26 Batalion Piechoty − batalion piechoty Armii Australijskiej, sformowany w kwietniu 1915 i będący częścią Pierwszych Zbrojnych Sił Imperialnych Australii. Podczas I wojny światowej oddział ten wchodził w skład . (pl)
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