The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR) was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was initially raised as a unit of the Militia from white Australian...

The prehistory of Papua New Guinea can be traced to about 50,000–60,000 years ago, when people first migrated towards the Australian continent. The written...

New Guinea Force was a military command unit for Australian, United States and native troops from the Territories of Papua and New Guinea serving in the...

elements from the 1st and 2/5th Independent Companies and the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR), Kanga Force conducted a number of small scale raids and...

developing at Rabaul. In response, Australian guerrillas from the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles established observation posts around the Japanese beachheads...

nurses since before the previous war. The Salamaua platoon of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles on parade in April 1940. Members of the 5th Battalion, Victorian...

they were developing at Rabaul. Australian guerrillas from the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles established observation posts around the Japanese beachheads...

the early war years, this did not extend to New Guinea until late in the war. The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles was raised in 1939, but consisted entirely...

an optometrist in 1936. During World War II he served in the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, reaching the rank of captain. He was mentioned in dispatches...

the Second World War, the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles were organized as a militia unit of white expatriates in the New Guinea territory, while the bulk...