Royal Queensland Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=The Royal Queensland Regiment


caption=Cap badge of the Royal Queensland Regiment
dates=1 July 1960-
country=Australia
branch=Army
type=Reserve Infantry
command_structure=Royal Australian Infantry Corps
role=Light Infantry
size= Four battalions
current_commander=
garrison= 9th Battalion - Enoggera
25th/49th Battalion - Enoggera
31st Battalion - Enoggera
42nd Battalion - Rockhampton
ceremonial_chief=HM The Queen
(Royal Australian Infantry Corps)
ceremonial_chief_label=Colonel in Chief
colonel_of_the_regiment=
nickname=
motto= Pro Aris Et Focis "(For Altars and Hearths)"
colors=
march="Southern Cross"
mascot=
battles=
notable_commanders=
anniversaries=
identification_symbol=
identification_symbol_label=Unit Colour Patch
identification_symbol_4=RQR
identification_symbol_4_label=Abbreviation

The Royal Queensland Regiment (RQR) is a reserve infantry formation in the Australian Army based in the state of Queensland. The regiment consists of four separate battalions:
*9th Battalion (9 RQR) - Light Infantry
*25th/49th Battalion (25/49 RQR) - Light Infantry
*31st Battalion (31 RQR)
*42nd Battalion (42 RQR)

The regimental motto is "Pro Aris Et Focis" (For Altars and Hearths)

The RQR was formed in 1960 as part of the reorganisation of the Citizen's Militia Force, which saw all CMF battalions in each state amalgamated into state regiments. The Queensland Regiment was formed from seven other regiments:
*Moreton Regiment
*Darling Downs Regiment
*Wide Bay Regiment
*Byron Scottish Regiment
*Far North Queensland Regiment
*Kennedy Regiment
*Capricornia Regiment

Initially, the regiment simply had a 1st and 2nd Battalion. However, to perpetuate the old battalions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, the two battalions were renumbered as the 9th Battalion and 31st Battalion. Three further battalions (25th, 42nd and 51st) were formed in 1965, with the 49th Battalion formed a year later. In 1985, the 51st Battalion was separated from the rest of the Royal Queensland Regiment and reformed as the 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment, while the 25th and 49th Battalions were amalgamated into a single battalion in 1997. Today, two battalions each serve with 7 Brigade and 11 Brigade, part of the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters/1st Division.
*Battle Honours
**South Africa 1899-1902
**The Great War: Somme 1916 '18, Pozières, Bapaume 1917, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Ancre 1918, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Hamel, Amiens, Albert 1918, Mont St. Quentin, Hindenburg Line, Épèhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, France and Flanders 1916-18, Anzac, Landing at Anzac, Defence of Anzac, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16
**The Second World War: North Africa 1941, Giarabub, Defence of Tobruk, The Salient 1941, Syria 1941, Syrian Frontier, Merjayun, Jezzine, Chehim and Rharife, Damour, Mazraat ech Chouf, Hill 1069, Bandarene, South West Pacific 1942-45, Kokoda Trail, Ioribaiwa, Eora Creek-Templeton's Crossing II, Oivi-Gorari, Buna-Gona, Gona, Cape Endaiadere-Sinemi Creek, Sananda-Cape, Killerton, Milne Bay, Mount Tambu, Tambu Bay, Komiatum, Lae-Nadzab, Lae Road, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Ramu Valley, Shaggy Ridge, Finisterres, Tsimba Ridge, Bonnis-Porton, Artillery Hill, Pearl Ridge, Mawaraka, Mosigetta, Puriata River, Darara, Slater's Knoll, Hongorai River, Mivo Ford, Borneo, Balikpapan, Milford Highway

Alliances

*GBR - The Royal Scots Borderers
*GBR - Black Watch
*GBR - The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
*GBR - The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)
*CAN - The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

External links

* [http://www.defence.gov.au/army/RAINF/ Royal Australian Infantry Corps]