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The Royal New South Wales Regiment
The Royal New South Wales Regiment
	Cap badge of the Royal New South Wales Regiment
Active	1 July 1960-
Country	Australia
Branch	Army
Type	Line Infantry
Role	Light Role
Size	Four battalions
Part of	Royal Australian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ	1st/19th Battalion - Orange; 2nd/17th Battalion - Pymble; 4th/3rd Battalion - Cardiff; 41st Battalion - East Lismore
Motto(s)	Primus in Terra Australi (First in Australia)
Commanders
Colonel in Chief	HM The Queen; (Royal Australian Infantry Corps)
Colonel of; the Regiment	HE Professor Marie Bashir; (Governor of New South Wales)
Insignia
Unit Colour Patch	[File:Unit Colour Patch of 2nd - 17th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment.png
Tartan	Government
Abbreviation	RNSWR

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The Royal New South Wales Regiment (RNSWR) is a reserve infantry regiment of the Australian Army based in the state of New South Wales. The regiment consists of four battalions:

Organisation

History

The regiment was formed in 1960 as a result of the amalgamation of all the Citizen's Military Force infantry battalions in NSW. The New South Wales Regiment was formed from ten individual regiments:

The regiment was formed with a total of three battalions—the 1st Battalion (Commando) was formed from the 1st Infantry Battalion (City of Sydney's Own Regiment), which was the only unit transferred intact to a new state regiment. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed through the amalgamation of the remaining battalions, which were reduced to company size. The expansion of the reserve force in 1965 saw a further three battalions raised (4th, 17th, 41st), with the 19th Battalion formed in 1966. A year after that, the 1st Battalion was reduced to a company, which was amalgamated with the 19th Battalion in 1971. Further amalgamations in 1987 led to the formation of the regiment as it is today. Today, the regiment provides two battalions each to 5th Brigade and 8th Brigade in 2nd Division.

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