Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/May 28

Members of the 2/3rd Battalion during a memorial service held for members of the unit who were killed in the Aitape-Wewak Campaign

The 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion was a battalion of the 6th Australian Division raised as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force for World War II. It was raised at Victoria Barracks, New South Wales in October 1939. During the war the battalion was one of only a handful of Commonwealth units to meet "All the Kings Enemies" in battle. The battalion met the Italians in the Cyrenaican Campaign of 1940–1941, the Germans in Greece and Crete in 1941, the Vichy French in Syria in 1941 and the Japanese and Papua in 1942 and New Guinea in 1944–1945. The 2/3rd Battalion was disbanded in Brisbane in February 1946.