Talk:2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

Involvement in Confrontation
I am in the process of re-writing this article off line and am hoping to clarify 2 RAR's involvement in Confrontation. The article as it stands states that the unit was involved in Confrontation, however, I am unable to find this anywhere else. The AWM indicates that 3 RAR and 4 RAR were only infantry battalions deployed (along with SASR). The 1995 Oxford Companion to Australian Military History indicates this as well, along with some RAA and RAE units (p. 173).

2 RAR's first tour to Malaya was Oct '55 - Oct '57, and the second was Oct 61' - Aug '63. The dates of the second tour overlap with the start of Confrontation, although I don't think we sent an infantry battalion to Confrontation until March 1965. Given this I suspect that 2 RAR's involvement in Confrontation has been added arbitrarily because of the overlapping dates.

I'm not really sure, though, can anyone confirm one way or another? I am working off line at the moment, so it does not really matter at the moment, but it would be good to have this confirmed before I upload. Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 21:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hey mate - your assessment is probably correct IMO. 2RAR may have been involved in proactive security ops on the Malay peninsula in the early phase of the conflict but it was never deployed to Borneo. By the time the Indonesians started getting serious about infiltrating the peninsula 3RAR had also replaced 2RAR (and 3RAR was subsequently involved in mopping up ops with the Kiwis at Labis and Pontian after a series of airborne and seaborne insertions in Oct 1964). 3RAR and 4RAR were latter sent to Borneo. Anotherclown (talk) 00:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Cheers, I have done a bit of work on operations up to East Timor. I will upload what I've done so far now, although I've not been able to get on to East Timor, Solomons and Iraq just yet. If you could take a look when you get a chance and check for accuracy, and fix my shocking spelling and grammar, that would be great. Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 03:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Expansion of article
I am fairly confident of being able to put something together about East Timor 1999-2000, it is just a matter of putting it together. I will probably get that done tonight and tomorrow. What I really need help with is the more recent operations - Solomons and Iraq. Also, should the more recent East Timor deployments be touched upon? I only have sources for 99-00, so would probably need someone to help with the more recent operations. Does anyone feel up to having a crack at these? If we can get these completed and perhaps a couple of images added, I think that the article would a able to be assessed as a B class. AustralianRupert (talk) 03:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, I've done what I can to expand the article. It probably needs a copy edit now. Also it could do with a couple of images. Can anyone help with this? AustralianRupert (talk) 11:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It might be worth trying the AWM's images database; some Vietnam War-era images have a copyright status of 'public domain' for some reason. Nick-D (talk) 11:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Good plan, but it seems most of what is on AWM that relates to 2 RAR has copyright attached, or copyright still to be assessed. I will keep looking, though. Cheers. AustralianRupert (talk) 11:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Commanding Officers
I was not able to provide a complete list of 2 RAR COs as the source I have for them only goes up to the end of 2000. Can someone help with adding the last few? AustralianRupert (talk) 21:45, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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