1st Australian Corps Troops Supply Column (AIF)

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Brief History

With the expansion of the AIF to a Corps scale organisation, AASC service units were raised including 1st Australian Corps Troops Supply Column which was raised at Redbank in May 1940. In December 1940 they embarked for teh Middle East and in February 1941 they were established at Hill 69 in Palestine servicing Austalian units in southern Palestine.An echelon moved to Ikingi Maryut in Egypt in March to provide a troop carrying company along with workshop elements to service 9th Australian Infantry Division troops to Syria and treturning with 6th Australian Infantry Division troops destined for Greece. A detachment of 21 vehicles also travelled to Greece in April

Unit Personnel

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 5 - The Australian Army 1939-1945, page 5.039 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018.