Lanyard – Australian Army – 8th/9th Battalion (The Royal Australian Regiment)

Description

Description: Lanyard – Australian Army – 8th/9th Battalion (The Royal Australian Regiment).

Condition: Very Good

Comments: Lanyard – Australian Army – 8th/9th Battalion (The Royal Australian Regiment). Worn on polyester uniform and battledress by 8/9 RAR soldiers.

The 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8/9 RAR) is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally formed in 1973 by linking together both the 8th and 9th Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment. Over the next twenty-four years the battalion would remain on the Australian Order of Battle based at Enoggera Barracks in Brisbane, Queensland, until it was disbanded in 1997 amid a number of Defence-wide cutbacks introduced by the Howard government. In 2006 it was announced that the battalion would be re-raised as part of a plan to expand the size of the Army and since then it has established itself as a fully deployable motorised infantry battalion as part of 7th Brigade.