THE BOREHOLE BULLETIN
1990Newsletter of 2/4 MGBN Ex Members Association - anniversary issue October 1990.
Vol 2 No13. 36 pages
Contains obituaries of former members, news from Veteran's affairs, memories of members & organisation for social events.
Page 5 has printed detail cut from bottom of page.
This newsletter marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion.
The ex-members of this battalion formed an association and the Borehole Bulletin was an important means of communication; the first newsletter of this name was issued in July 1946.
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Associated with the Supplement to the Bulleton accessioned separately in the Newcastle Gaol Museum collection as 2012.13
During the Second World War a machine gun battalion was raised for each division of the Second AIF.
Western Australia’s 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion was raised as one of the support units for the ill-fated 8th Division. Formed with men from WA, they assembled at Northam military camp, east of Perth, where they carried out their initial training.
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