2/23 Inf. Battalion on Tarakan Island

Coverage of activities in Tarakan area made up from Cpl Doug Hardy's original job numbers 359, 365, 366 & 367. VX147635 Private (Pte) Reginald Vincent Clarke and VX142554 Pte Peter Leslie Dow of 11th Platoon B Company 2/23rd Australian Infantry Battalion. NX58227 Pte Ernest William Harding of D Coy 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, comforting two young Chinese children. Crew of Matilda tank C Squadron, 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment on Collins Highway. Pte Bourke (?) takes a spell and has a dixie of coffee. SX10310 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Alfred George Tucker at Tac II in bombed house near airstrip. NX93451 Padre Captain Gloster Stuart Udy of 2/23rd Australian Infantry Battalion. First plane to land on Tarakan strip - an Auster III, piloted by 405625 Flight Lieutenant Ronald Henry Drabsch - time 3 p.m., 6th May. Cross on grave NX125115 Pte John McBratney, DOW 2.5.45, Pres. Cross of VX32960 Pte Reginald George Redman KIA 3.5.45, Meth. 67973 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Kenneth Stephen Phillips and 118238 LAC James Gorey, 61 Op Base Unit RAAF, standing on truck with shrapnel scarred warehouse in background.

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Much of the disbanded 5th Battalion Victorian Scottish Regiment joined this unit and many were killed in the battle of Tarakan.

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yes, i agree i would really like to know the names of the soldiers as someone i am related to died in tarkan and this is his battalion