Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 23 January 2001. Corrected and updated 24.06.2004
 
 

42nd Infantry Battalion
(The Capricornia Regiment)

 
Queensland, Australia  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons
  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
 Traditions
 Alliances
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage
1884 two companies raised at Rockhampton, Gladstone and Maryborough, Queensland
1900 5th Queensland (Port Curtis) Regiment
1903 Port Curtis Infantry (Militia)
HQ at Rockhampton, Qld.
1912 3rd Infantry (Port Curtis Infantry)
1913 3rd (Port Curtis) Infantry
1918 42nd Infantry Regiment (Port Curtis Regiment)
reorganised to perpetuate 42nd Battalion AIF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, formed from 42nd Battalion AIF
  • 2nd Battalion, formed from 3rd Infantry
  • 3rd Battalion, formed from 3rd Battalion Senior Cadets
1921 42nd Battalion
formed by amalgamation of 2/42nd Infantry Regiment, part of 2/47th Infantry Regiment, 2/52nd Infantry Regiment, and part of 5/9th Infantry Regiment
1927 42nd Battalion (The Capricornia Regiment)
1941? 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion (AIF)
mobilised for war service
1946.05.07 disbanded
1948 42nd Infantry Battalion (Central Queensland Regiment)
re-formed in CMF, with HQ at Maryborough, and three Companies at Rockhampton
19uu 42nd Infantry Battalion (The Capricornia Regiment)
19uu absorbed Mackay/Sarina element of 31st Battalion
1957 HQ moved to Rockhampton
1960.07.01 reduced to two companies:
 

D Company (The Capricornia Company)

 } 2nd Battalion,
The Royal Queensland Regiment
E Company (The Capricornia Company)
1965.08.02 42nd Battalion, The Royal Queensland Regiment
battalion re-formed with HQ, administative company and support company at Rockhampton, and one rifle company each at Rockhampton, Mackay and Gladstone
   
  History (Links) & War Service
42nd Battalion Royal Queensland Regiment (Army site)
42 RQR, by Ted Harris (Digger History)
The 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion in World War 2, 1939-1945, by Ted Harris (Digger History)
History (Army site)
Deployment and War Service
  1941? mobilised aaa
1943.01 New Guinea 29 Bde, 3 Div
1944.08 Australia aaa
1944.12 Bougainville aaa
  1946.05.07 disbanded aaa
       
       
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
       
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found]
  Battle Honours

The Great War:  [awarded battle honours for service of 42nd Battalion AIF]

The Second World War:  South West Pacific 1943-45, Mount Tambu, Tambu Bay, Komiatum, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Mawaraka, Mivo Ford

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
     
  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
Motto: Cede nullis
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms: Mackay (3 May 1959), Rockhampton (29 Aug. 1959)
Marches: Blue bonnets over the border (1953)
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

1939-1960,
1967-
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
 
Full Histories:
[no known published histories]
Short Histories: