• 42nd Battalion AIF (Queensland) [11th Infantry Brigade]
  Formed Queensland February 1916 initially as the 36th Battalion.

• Departed Sydney Borda 5 June 1916. 

  • 1st Reinforcements departed Sydney Borda  

    • 5 June 1916, 

  • 2nd Reinforcements departed Brisbane Boorana  

    • 16 August 1916, 

  • 3rd  Reinforcements departed Brisbane Clan Macgillivray

    •  7 September 1916, 

  • 4th Reinforcements departed Brisbane Boonah  

    • 21 October 1916, 

  • 5th Reinforcements departed Brisbane Kyarra  

    • 17 November 1916, 

  • 6th Reinforcements departed Sydney Demosthenes  

    • 23 December 1916, 

  • 7th Reinforcements departed Sydney Wiltshire  

    • 7 February 1917, 

  • 8th Reinforcements departed Sydney Hororata  

    • 14 June 1917. 

   

• Disbanded 31 October 1918 in France. 

  • Became B Company 41st Battalion

• Battle Honours: 

  • Messines 1917, 

  • Ypres 1917, 

  • Polygon Wood,  

  • Broodeseinde, 

  • Poelcappelle, 

  • Passchendaele, 

  • Somme 1918, 

  • Ancre 1918, 

  • Amiens, 

  • Albert 1918, 

  • Mont St Quentin, 

  • Hindenburg Line, 

  • St Quentin Canal, 

  • France and Flanders 1916-18

Spirit of the 42nd

By Vivian Brahms