32nd Battalion

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Battalion details
Origin State: Western Australia, South Australia
Division: 5th Australian Infantry Division
Brigade: 8th Infantry Brigade
Commanders: Lieutenant Colonel D.M.R. Coghill
Lieutenant Colonel C.S. Davies
Victoria Cross Winners: Major B.A. Wark

During the Battle of Fromelles the 32nd Battalion had 17 officers and 701 men either killed, wounded or missing in action.

Reinforcements  Battle Honours: 
Formed Australia June 1915
Departed Adelaide Geelong 8 November 1915 and Katuna 24 November 1915
1st Reinforcements departed Adelaide Geelong 8 November 1915
2nd Reinforcements departed Adelaide Borda 11 January 1916
3rd Reinforcements departed Adelaide Miltiades 7 February 1916 and Mongolia 9 March 1916
4th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Anchises 16 March 1916
5th Reinforcements departed Adelaide  Shropshire 23 March 1916
6th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Aeneas 11 April 1916
7th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Malakuta 27 June 1916
8th Reinforcements departed Adelaide  Ballarat 12 August 1916
9th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Commonwealth 21 September 1916
10th Reinforcements departed Fremantle Port Melbourne 28 October 1916
11th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Afric 7 November 1916
12th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Berrima 16 December 1916
13th Reinforcements departed Adelaide Borda 23 June 1917
14th Reinforcements departed Melbourne Ulysses 22 December 1917.
Egypt 1915-16
Somme 1916-18
Bapaume 1917
Bullecourt, Ypres 1917
Menin Road, Polygon Wood, 
Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Ancre 1918
Amiens, Albert 1918, Mont St Quentin, Hindenburg Line, St Quentin Canal, France and Flanders 1916-18