The division's mission would be to organize, train, equip, and deploy brigades. |
However, FCR will continue to be the primary means of exercising command within brigades, battlegroups and sub units. |
When needed, the marines gather together enough battalions and brigades to form a division and that's that. |
Once these units were sworn into federal service, they would be organized into brigades, divisions, and army corps along with regular army units. |
In New Guinea militia brigades held the gains of 1943 while AIF formations were withdrawn to Queensland to rest and re-train. |
This is a significant event because it came on the same day that these brigades agreed they would demobilise. |