5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)

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5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)
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Country: Australia
Service: Australian Army
Branch: Australian Imperial Force
Type: Infantry
Specific type: Infantry battalion
Full size: 1,000
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Alternate names: 5th Australian Infantry Battalion
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Disbanded:
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Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Parent unit: 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)
Parent level: Brigade
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Personal narratives

Lance Corporal George Booley

Frederick Heatley Symonds

Template:RefLives joined this battalion in August 1914 and kept a diary while serving at Gallipoli in 1915. The diary has been transcribed by Heather Ford.

Francis George Didcock (Service number 52502)

Letters, postcards, cards, newspaper clippings, from a collection documenting the friendship between Fowler and Pte. Francis George Didcock, an Australian, held by The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

Sources, evidence: catalogue record includes service number and unit information. Based on record submitted for Henry Fowler by a member of the public.

Lieutenant John Joseph Bourke

Captain Herbert Spencer Dickinson

Lieutenant George Howard Earp

Captain George Lush Finlay


Related media

Official sources

Unit war diaries

  • Australian War Memorial: AWM4 Subclass 23/22 (unknown date–unknown date) (images free for non-commercial use)

Unit histories


Other official documents

Other sources


References