3rd Bn, New South Wales Regiment

1869: Goulburn Volunteer Rifle Company
1870: The Western Battalion
Volunteer Rifles
1876: The Western Rifle Regiment
1878: 3rd Administrative Regiment
New South Wales Volunteer Infantry,
Western District
1883: 1st Regiment New South Wales
Volunteer Infantry
1889: 2nd Regiment New South Wales
Volunteer Infantry
1901: 2nd Infantry Regiment
1903: 2nd Australian Infantry Regiment
1908: 1st Battaion,
2nd Australian
Infantry Regiment

1912: 43rd Infantry
layout layout
1914: 43rd (Werriwa) Infantry
44th (Riverina) Infantry
layout layout
1918: 5th Battalion,
3rd Infantry Regiment
perpetuates
45th Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b45
perpetuates
34th Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b34
perpetuates
3rd Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b03
perpetuates
4th Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b04
1921: 45th Battalion
34th Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion
1927: 45th Battalion
(The St. George Regiment)

34th Battalion
(The Illawarra Regiment)

3rd Battalion
(The Werriwa Regiment)

4th Battalion
(The Australian Rifles)

b45
b34
b03
b04
layout layout
1930:



linked into
3rd/4th Battalion
layout layout
1937:







unlinked and linked into
3rd/53rd Battalion
(The Werriwa and
West Sidney Regiment)

unlinked
4th Battalion
(The Australian Rifles)


1937:





unlinked
3rd Battalion
(The Werriwa Regiment)




1942: merged into
1st/45th Australian
Infantry Battalion










1943:

merged into
20th/34th Battalion
disbanded

1944: disbanded disbanded
1946: disbanded
 

 

 

 

 
1948: 45th Infantry Battalion
(The St. George Regiment)

3rd Infantry Battalion
(The Werriwa Regiment)

layout




perpetuates
2/3rd Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b03
perpetuates
2/4th Australian
Infantry Battalion, AIF
b04
1951:

34th Infantry Battalion
(The Illawarra Regiment)



1957:





4th Infantry Battalion
(The Australian Rifles)

ib45
ib34
ib03
ib04
layout layout layout layout
1960: ‘A’ Company
(The St. George Company),

Support Company
(The St. George Company),
‘B’ Company
(The Illawarra Company),
‘C’ Company
(The Werriwa Company),
‘D’ Company
(The Australian Rifles Company),

‘E’ Company
(The Riverina Company),
3rd Battalion,
New South Wales Regiment