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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles abstract "The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR) was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised as a unit of the Militia from white Australian and European expatriates in New Guinea upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, before being activated for full-time service following the Japanese landings in early 1942. NGVR personnel then helped rescue survivors of Lark Force from Rabaul in February and March 1942. Between March and May, the NGVR monitored the Japanese bases which had been established in the Huon Gulf region, being the only Allied force in the area until the arrival of Kanga Force at Wau in May. The battalion subsequently established observation posts overlooking the main approaches and reported on Japanese movements.Later, it inflicted significant casualties on the Japanese in a series of raids, and led them to believe that they faced a much larger opposing force. On 29 June, the NGVR and the newly arrived 2/5th Independent Company carried out a highly successful attack on the Japanese garrison in Salamaua, killing at least 113 men. When the focus shifted to the Milne Bay and Kokoda Track battles of August and September, the NGVR continued to man its posts overlooking the Japanese base areas. The Japanese were subsequently defeated in the Battle of Wau in January and February 1943, relieving the pressure on the NGVR. The battalion was disbanded in April 1943 due to attrition.In the years immediately following the war the Australian Army considered re-establishing a military presence in Papua New Guinea (PNG), although there was some opposition among white settlers to the raising of native units. As an interim measure, the re-establishment of the NGVR was approved in July 1949. The unit reformed as the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (PNGVR) on 16 March 1951, initially as a whites-only reserve unit of the Citizen Military Forces (CMF). In March 1951 a PNGVR detachment assisted in relief operations following the eruption of Mount Lamington, which killed 3,466 people and left more than 5,000 homeless. Between 1951 and 1953 PNGVR elements were established in all the main centres of Papua New Guinea.Meanwhile, in addition to its other responsibilities the PNGVR fostered the raising of the regular Pacific Islands Regiment (PIR) and Headquarters Area Command Papua New Guinea. During the mid-1960s the enlistment of Papua New Guinean and Chinese personnel had finally been authorised, with the unit evolving into a multi-racial battalion. By 1969 only one-fifth of PNGVR members were Europeans. Yet amid concerns about the ability of the fledgling nation of PNG to finance a large military capability on its own, and with the need to maintain a CMF-type unit in the army of an independent PNG being questionable, the PNGVR was ultimately disbanded in 1973, shortly before independence, leaving the PIR as the only infantry unit in the new Papua New Guinea Defence Force.".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles activeYearsStartYear "1939".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles battle New_Guinea_campaign.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles battle World_War_II.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles battleHonours "Rabaul,Wau,South West Pacific 1942–43".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles colourName "Cream over Red, under Green bar".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles commandStructure 8th_Military_District_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles commandStructure Northern_Command_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles garrison Lae.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles garrison Port_Moresby.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles garrison Rabaul.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles identificationSymbol "75px".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles identificationSymbol "Flame of the Forest".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles militaryBranch Australian_Army.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles militaryUnitSize "Onebattalion".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles militaryUnitSize "~300–850 men".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles motto "(Through Trial to Triumph)".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles motto "Per Angusta Ad Augusta".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles role "Infantry".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles thumbnail NGVR_(P01283-006).jpg?width=300.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles type Australian_Army_Reserve.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageExternalLink pngvr.com.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageID "14294611".
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageOutDegree "185".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageRevisionID "690707569".
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 17th_Brigade_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 1st_Independent_Company_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 1st_New_Guinea_Infantry_Battalion.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 22nd_Battalion_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 5th_Commando_Squadron_(Australia).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 7th_Commando_Squadron_(Australia).
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 39th_Battalion_(Australia).
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink 4th_Fleet_(Imperial_Japanese_Navy).
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor.
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_honour.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Buna–Gona.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Milne_Bay.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Rabaul_(1942).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Wau.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea.
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Bulldog_Track.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink CAC_Wirraway.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Cadre_(military).
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Category:Australian_World_War_II_battalions.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Category:Infantry_units_and_formations_of_Australia.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_units_and_formations_disestablished_in_1973.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_units_and_formations_established_in_1939.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Category:Papua_New_Guinea_in_World_War_II.
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Consolidated_PBY_Catalina.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Covenant_of_the_League_of_Nations.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink David_Hay_(diplomat).
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Finschhafen.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink First_Australian_Imperial_Force.
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- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Goroka.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Guadalcanal.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Guadalcanal_Campaign.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Papua_New_Guinea.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Huon_Gulf.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Indonesia–Malaysia_confrontation.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink Infantry.
- New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles wikiPageWikiLink John_Joseph_Scanlan.