2/28th Australian Infantry Battalion

Beaufort. Borneo 27 Jun 1945. Members of the 2/28 Infantry Battalion using a hand railway trolley to move their heavy gear to the new unit position AWM photo 110707.

Brief History

Two men were captured in Malaya by the Japanese, and 269 others died while members of the unit.

Battalion personnel

• Harold Baldwin
• George Brushmeyer
• Joseph James Burrows
• Albert William Chadwick
• Herbert James Collier
• Robert Gale
• Charles Henry Walter Hansen
• Stanley Rudolph Jarvis
• John Hector Russell MacDonald
• Robert Archibald Edwin Mack
• Lawrence Gerald McDonough
• Stanton Edward McKenna
• Andrew McKenzie
• Victor Henry Mead
• Thomas Stanley O'Meagher
• Walter Vivian Ernest Peters
• [[Frederick Joseph Powell
• George Lawrance Pryor
• John Peter Lewis Rymer
• Edward Arthur Sewell
• David John Sexty
• Norman Rees Willacott MID

Battle Honours

• Beaufort
• Borneo
• Busu River
• Defence of Alamein Line
• Defence of Scarlet Beach
• Defence of Tobruk
• El Alamein
• Finschhafen
• Gusika
• Labuan
• Qattara Track
• Sanyet el Miteirya
• Siki Cove
• Tell el Makh Khad

Individual Honours

• 2 x Distinguished Service Order
• 6 x Military Cross
• 4 x Distinguished Conduct Medal
• 15 x Military Medal
• 51 x Mentioned in Despatches

Notes

Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 2 - The Australian Army 1939-1945 - pages 2.327 to 2.329 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018; and the Australian War Memorial.