Royal Queensland Regiment

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The Royal Queensland Regiment
Cap badge of the Royal Queensland Regiment
Active	1 July 1960-
Country	Australia
Branch	Army
Type	Reserve Infantry
Role	Light Infantry
Size	Four battalions
Part of	Royal Australian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ	9th Battalion - Enoggera 25th/49th Battalion - Enoggera 31st Battalion - Enoggera 42nd Battalion - Rockhampton
Motto	Pro Aris Et Focis (For Altars and Hearths)
March	Southern Cross
Commanders
Colonel in Chief	HM The Queen (Australian Infantry Corps)

The Royal Queensland Regiment (RQR) is a reserve infantry formation in the Australian Army based in the state of Queensland. The regiment consists of four separate battalions:

9th Battalion (9 RQR) - Light Infantry
25th/49th Battalion (25/49 RQR) - Light Infantry
31st Battalion (31 RQR)
42nd Battalion (42 RQR)

The regimental motto is Pro Aris Et Focis (For Altars and Hearths)

The RQR was formed in 1960 as part of the reorganisation of the Citizen's Militia Force, which saw all CMF battalions in each state amalgamated into state regiments. The Queensland Regiment was formed from seven other regiments:

Moreton Regiment
Darling Downs Regiment
Wide Bay Regiment
Byron Scottish Regiment
Far North Queensland Regiment
Kennedy Regiment
Capricornia Regiment

Initially, the regiment simply had a 1st and 2nd Battalion. However, to perpetuate the old battalions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, the two battalions were renumbered as the 9th Battalion and 31st Battalion. Three further battalions (25th, 42nd and 51st) were formed in 1965, with the 49th Battalion formed a year later. In 1985, the 51st Battalion was separated from the rest of the Royal Queensland Regiment and reformed as the 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment, while the 25th and 49th Battalions were amalgamated into a single battalion in 1997. Today, two battalions each serve with 7 Brigade and 11 Brigade, part of the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters/1st Division.

Battle Honours
- South Africa 1899-1902
- The Great War: Somme 1916 '18, Pozières, Bapaume 1917, Bullecourt, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Ancre 1918, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Hamel, Amiens, Albert 1918, Mont St. Quentin, Hindenburg Line, Épèhy, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, France and Flanders 1916-18, Anzac, Landing at Anzac, Defence of Anzac, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16
- The Second World War: North Africa 1941, Giarabub, Defence of Tobruk, The Salient 1941, Syria 1941, Syrian Frontier, Merjayun, Jezzine, Chehim and Rharife, Damour, Mazraat ech Chouf, Hill 1069, Bandarene, South West Pacific 1942-45, Kokoda Trail, Ioribaiwa, Eora Creek-Templeton's Crossing II, Oivi-Gorari, Buna-Gona, Gona, Cape Endaiadere-Sinemi Creek, Sananda-Cape, Killerton, Milne Bay, Mount Tambu, Tambu Bay, Komiatum, Lae-Nadzab, Lae Road, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Ramu Valley, Shaggy Ridge, Finisterres, Tsimba Ridge, Bonnis-Porton, Artillery Hill, Pearl Ridge, Mawaraka, Mosigetta, Puriata River, Darara, Slater's Knoll, Hongorai River, Mivo Ford, Borneo, Balikpapan, Milford Highway