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Interwar, Australia, Western Australia, MITCHELL, 13 Field Company, 1935

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1935

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Sir James Mitchell inspecting parade of 13 Field Company Royal Australian Engineers

Historical information

13 Field Squadron trace their origins to the 7th Field Company formed in 1907. In 1909 it was renamed the 4th Field Company and changed again to the 6th Field Company in 1910, and finally the 13th Field Company on 1 July 1912. The unit's first major operation was constructing a suspension bridge over the Helena River at Guildford in Western Australia. The Company was not deployed during the First World War, although 100 of its personnel were attached to the Australian Imperial Force and served at Gallipoli with the 2nd Field Company and in Palestine and France with the 6th Field Company.
In World War 2, the Company served in Darwin in March 1943 before being deployed to New Britain in October 1944, where its major assignment was the construction of a 10,000 ton jetty. It was disbanded after the war in 1946 until it was re-raised as the 13th Field Squadron, Citizens Military Force (the precursor to the Army Reserve). It adopted the mascot of a 'little red devil' in the early 1960s, and was made part of the 13th Brigade on 1 February 1988.

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Registration number

cwa-org-32-P1984.14.1a

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict

Year

1935

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

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