1st Health Battalion
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The 1st Health Battalion is a unit of the 2nd Health Brigade of the Australian Army. It is headquartered at Robertson Barracks in Darwin, but has a sub unit being the 7th Health Support Company (7HSC) based in Perth. The unit can trace its lineage back to the 1st Field Ambulance which was raised in 1915 in Egypt before the Gallipoli Campaign. Since then it has changed names multiple times, most recently known as the 1st Close Health Battalion which disbanded in December 2021 due to the Army Health restructure.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Richardson, Capt Annie (3 March 2022). "'Centre of excellence' : Health battalions raised to form new brigade" (PDF). Army News: The Soldiers' Newspaper (1503 ed.). Canberra: Department of Defence. p. 3. ISSN 0729-5685. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ↑ Chief of Army Lt Gen Richard Burr (3 February 2022). "Chief of Army Order of the Day - the raising of the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th Health Battalions". Australian Army. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
