Australian Corps Memorial Rededication Le Hamel Somme France
France Battlefields Tour - Day 3 - Australian Corps Memorial Park
The Band of the Australian Army Band Corps am Basel Tattoo 2011
Royal Australian Armoured Corps Exercise Predators Gallop 04
Australian Civilian Corps Margarette Roberts in PNG
Basel Tattoo 2011-Band of the Australian Army Band Corps 1
The Imperial Camel Corps
WW2: Women's Army Corps (WACS) In Australia (ca. 1943)
Australian Defence Corps (1943)
Basel Tattoo 2011 Australian Army Band Corps Einmarsch MVI_2219.AVI
Australian Army Brig Gen Roger briefs the Pentagon press corps
The Corps Report Ep. 36 — Marines Head To Australia and Driver Safety
Australian Army Band Corps Perth
Basel Tattoo 2014 - Australian Army Band, Australien
Australian Corps Memorial Rededication Le Hamel Somme France
France Battlefields Tour - Day 3 - Australian Corps Memorial Park
The Band of the Australian Army Band Corps am Basel Tattoo 2011
Royal Australian Armoured Corps Exercise Predators Gallop 04
Australian Civilian Corps Margarette Roberts in PNG
Basel Tattoo 2011-Band of the Australian Army Band Corps 1
The Imperial Camel Corps
WW2: Women's Army Corps (WACS) In Australia (ca. 1943)
Australian Defence Corps (1943)
Basel Tattoo 2011 Australian Army Band Corps Einmarsch MVI_2219.AVI
Australian Army Brig Gen Roger briefs the Pentagon press corps
The Corps Report Ep. 36 — Marines Head To Australia and Driver Safety
Australian Army Band Corps Perth
Basel Tattoo 2014 - Australian Army Band, Australien
Soldiers Update: Australian exercise certifies I Corps as a joint task force
Pteradactyls In The Ancestral Family Tree. (Australian Flying Corps).
Basel Tattoo 2011 Australian Army Band Corps
Australians visit the California Conservation Corps
Basel Tattoo 2011 - Band of the Australian Army Band Corps (Australien)- 1
The Australian Flying Corps Recruitment message
Greening Australia SA Solar Panel installation by Green Corps
Basel Tattoo 2011 - Band of the Australian Army Band Corps
AUSTRALIAN ARMY CORPS JEWELRY
The Australian Corps was a World War I army corps that contained all five Australian infantry divisions serving on the Western Front. It was the largest corps fielded by the British Empire army in France[citation needed]. Formed on 1 November 1917, the corps replaced I Anzac Corps while II Anzac Corps, which contained the New Zealand Division, became the British XXII Corps.
Following the hard fighting of 1917, where the Australian divisions suffered heavily at Bullecourt, Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was facing a manpower crisis. One referendum for conscription had already failed and another would be defeated on 1 December 1917. Voluntary recruitment was declining. Plans to form a 6th Australian Division were scrapped and the incomplete formation was disbanded. To make up the numbers, it was proposed to disband the Australian 4th Division, numerically the weakest, but this was strongly resisted by the members of the AIF.
General William Birdwood, commander of the AIF, suggested that, in forming the Australian Corps, the weakest division could serve as a depot, providing reserves for the fighting divisions. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, accepted this proposal. He had originally resisted combining the five Australian divisions into a single corps as he considered it too unwieldy.