Timeline of Military Units Raised or Stationed Exclusively in New South Wales - 1788 to Present

 

Dates	Units and Formations
1788-1870	Regiments of the British Army
1788-1790	Marines [actually Royal Navy]
1790-1810	New South Wales Corps
1809-1810	102nd Regiment of Foot
1810-1814	73rd Regiment of Foot
1814-1818	46th South Devonshire
1817-1824	48th Northamptonshire
1823-1827	3rd East Kent (the Buffs)
1824-1829	40th 2nd Somersetshire
1825-1832	57th West Middlesex
1827-1832	39th Dorsetshire
1829-1833	63rd West Suffolk
1830-1836	17th Leicestershire
1832-1837	4th King’s Own
1833-1841	50th Queen’s Own
1833-1839	21st Royal North British Fusiliers
1835-1842	28th North Gloucestershire
1837-1844	80th Staffordshire Volunteers
1838-1846	51st King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
1841-1848	96th Regiment
1842-1856	99th Lanarkshire Volunteers
1844-1847	58th Rutlandshire
1845-1857	11th North Devonshire
1846-1848	65th 2nd Yorkshire, North Riding
1846-1849 1852-1860?	40th 2nd Somersetshire, 2nd tour
1854-1861	12th East Suffolk
1857-1858	77th East Middlesex
1866-1869	50th Queen’s Own, 2nd tour
1866?-1869	14th Buckinghamshire
March-Sep 1870	18th Royal Irish, No.1 Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
	NSW Colonial and Australian Commonwealth Forces
1801	The Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse [amalgamated with NSW Mounted Police 1840s]
1801	“Loyal associations” [auxiliary to NSW Corps]
1854	Volunteers Act (NSW) authorises formation of Volunteer Corps
1854	Volunteer Sydney Rifle Corps (1st Sydney volunteer rifles)
1854	Sydney Volunteer Artillery (2 batteries?)
1855	Third Battery Volunteer Artillery (Newcastle)
1860	Second Volunteer Force
1860	1st Regiment, New South Wales Rifle Volunteers, comprising 1st (Sydney) and 2nd (Suburban) Volunteer Rifles Battalions [see 1st Battalion AIF], Reserve Rifle Corps, later 3rd (Country) Volunteer Rifle Battalion
1860	Parramatta Volunteer Rifles (Battalion)
1860	The Newcastle Volunteer Rifle Corps [see 2nd Battalion, AIF]
1860	1st Regiment NSW Rifle Volunteers (St Leonards Volunteer Rifles)
1860	South Sydney Volunteer Corps (sub‑unit of 1st Regiment, New South Wales Rifle Volunteers)
1862	1st Regiment NSW Rifles (Newtown Volunteer Rifle Corps)
1862	The Sydney Battalion NSW Volunteer Rifles
1867	Volunteer Force Regulation Act, land grants after 5 years service
1867	Volunteer Engineer’s Corps
1868	The Suburban Battalion NSW Volunteer Rifles
1869	Goulburn Volunteer Rifle Company [see 3rd Battalion, AIF]
1870	The Northern Battalion Volunteer Rifles, The Western Battalion Volunteer Rifles (including Bathurst Volunteer Rifles)
1871	New South Wales Artillery - “A” Field Battery (permanent, Sudan, Boer War), Sydney Volunteer Artillery becomes Battery No.1 (permanent), No. 5 Battery (Newcastle), No. 6 Battery (Wollongong-Bulli)
1871	NSW Permanent Infantry (disbanded 1873)
1874	Volunteer system changed to partially paid militia force
1876	1st Regiment Volunteer Rifles, 2nd Regiment Volunteer Rifles
1876	The Northern Rifle Regiment, The Western Rifle Regiment
1876	NSW Artillery Battery No. 2, permanent
1877	NSW Artillery Battery No. 3, permanent
1877	Engineers Corps and Signals Corps
1878	Volunteer system reintroduced
1878	Suburban Companies disbanded
1878	1st, 2nd, 3rd Regiments New South Wales Volunteer Infantry (Soudan and Boer War), Districts ie Northern, Western, Southern 1st Regiment companies: Albury, Wagga, Young, Yass, Sydney, North Sydney, Hunter’s Hill 2nd Regiment companies: Goulburn, Cooma, Bowral, Ulladulla, Kiama, Sydney, Ashfield 3rd Regiment companies: Goulburn, Richmond, Parramatta, Windsor, Orange Dubbo, Wellington, Lithgow, Bathurst, Mudgee
1878	Wollongong Volunteer Artillery (No. 6 Battery NSW Artillery)
1878	3rd Administrative Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry, Western District [see above]
1882	Commissariat and Transport Corps (later Army Service Corps)
1884	4th Administrative Regiment NSW Voluntary Infantry, Northern District Companies: Lambton, Newcastle, Maitland, Wallsend, Morpeth, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes
1885	New South Wales School of Gunnery established, Middle Head
1885	Newtown Volunteer Reserve Corps, Ashfield Volunteer Reserve Corps
1885	Bega Volunteer Artillery (No. 8 Battery NSW Artillery)
1885	Balmain Volunteer Artillery
1885	NSW Cavalry (reserves)/ Sydney Light Horse Volunteers
1885	Volunteer Light Horse Half-Squadrons (Troops) Illawarra, Ulmarra, West Camden (Mittagong, Grafton, Robertson), Singleton [16th Light Horse], Murrumbidgee, Hunter River
1885	Upper Clarence Light Horse, Troops 1 (Tabulam) 2 (The Border)
1885	Scottish Volunteer Rifle Corps, later called the Scottish Rifles (5th Volunteer Infantry Regiment), Companies: Sydney, Newcastle, McLean, Lismore
1885	New South Wales Contingent (Sudan)
1886	6th Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry (Reserve Infantry)
1887	“F” Troop Murrumbidgee Light Horse (Wagga, Junee, Eurongilly)
1888	The NSW Corps of Permanent Mounted Infantry (disbanded 1890), permanent corps of submarine miners
1888	Corps of Mounted Infantry Troops at Liverpool, Campbelltown, Picton, Camden, Tenterfield, Inverell [12th Light Horse]
1888	St Leonards Reserve Rifle Company (disbanded 1893)
1889	Balmain Volunteer Artillery incorporated into NSW Artillery as No.11 Battery
1889	2nd Regiment NSW Infantry
1892	Existing infantry reserves absorbed into “partially-paid” infantry
1893	NSW Cavalry linked with NSW Mounted Infantry Regiments to form NSW Mounted Rifles, Squadrons: 1 Molong-Bathurst, 2 Picton-Camden, 3 Bega-Forbes, 4 Tenterfield-Inverell
1893	Establishment of New South Wales Rifle Clubs
1894	NSW Cavalry re-designated NSW Lancers, Squadrons: 1 Sydney, 2 Parramatta, 3 West Camden-Berry, 4 Maitland (Singleton), 5 Lismore, 6 Windsor, Cadet Parramatta (half squadron)
1895	North Sydney Company 1st Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry
1895	Volunteer infantry reinstituted (subsequently created regiments)
1895	Irish Volunteer Rifle Corps (the 5th NSW Volunteer Infantry Regiment)
1895	Ordnance Store Corps
1895	“A” Battery, Brigade Division, Field Artillery, NSW Regiment of Artillery
1896	The Australian Rifles (the 6th NSW Volunteer Infantry Regiment) Companies: Goulburn, Sydney, Hornsby, Newcastle
1897(8?)	1st Australian (Volunteer) Horse [mounted infantry], Squadrons: “A” Southern: Harden, Cootamundra, Gundagai, Adelong, “B” South Eastern: Goulburn, Bungendore, Braidwood, Araluen, Michelago, Bredbo, “C” Northern: Gunnedah, Boggabri, Scone, Belltrees, “D” Western: Mudgee, Lue, Cudgegong, Rylestone, Quirindi
1897	7th NSW Volunteer Infantry Regiment (St George’s Rifles), Companies: Balmain, Sydney, Leichhardt
1897	NSW Railway Volunteer Corps
1897	“National Guard” (old volunteers and men who had seen service)
1899	Maclean Company Scottish Rifles
1899	E Company Scottish Rifles 5th (Union Volunteers) Infantry Regiment
1899	Irish Volunteer Rifle Corps enlarged to form the 8th NSW Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Irish Rifles) incorporating Illawarra Company (Illawarra Rifles) Companies: Wollongong (Illawarra), Sydney
1899	The New South Wales Infantry Company (Boer War)
1899	1st NSW Mounted Rifles (Boer War)
1899	NSW Artillery No.2 Battery renamed "A" Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (still exists as such)
1900	Australian Horse brought under “partially-paid” system
1900	5th Regiment NSW Volunteer Infantry (Scottish Rifles)
1900	New South Wales Citizens Bushmen (Boer War)
1900	New South Wales Imperial Bushmen (Boer War)
1900	University Volunteer Rifle Corps (UVRC)
1900	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
1900	Drummoyne Volunteer Company (Infantry)
1900	Civil Service Corps
1900	New South Wales Army Medical Corps and Army Nursing Service Reserve
1900	NSW Naval Contingent to Peking (Boxer Rebellion)
1901	1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Regiment
1901	5th Regiment Volunteer Infantry (Scottish Rifles)
1901	1st, 2nd and 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiments formed in NSW
1901	2nd and 3rd NSW Mounted Rifles (Boer War)
1903	Defence Act (Commonwealth)
1903	1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th Australian Infantry Regiments (former NSW Volunteer Infantry) or NSW Scottish Rifles, Australian Rifle Regiment, St George’s English Rifle Regiment, NSW Irish Rifle Regiment
1903	2nd Battalion NSW Scottish Rifles
1903	Lancers, Mounted Rifles and 1st Australian Horse expanded to six regiments, 1st Australian Horse becomes 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse) while “D” and “E” Squadrons form nucleus of 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse)
1903	2nd Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Mounted Rifles)
1903	5th Australian Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Mounted Rifles)
1903	UVRC changed its name to the Sydney University Scouts (SUS)
1906	Australian Horse (16th Australian Light Horse) renamed New England Horse
1907	1st Australian Light Horse split into two regiments: the 1st and 4th (Hunter River Lancers)
1907	5th Australian Light Horse Regiment renamed Northern Rivers Lancers
1907	2nd Australian Light Horse split to form 2nd and 5th New South Wales Mounted Rifles
1908	2nd Light Horse renumbered 9th Light Horse (World War 1)
1908	1st Battalion 1st Australian Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion, 1st Battalion 4th Australian Infantry Regiment
1908	1st Battalion Australian Rifle Regiment
1909	H Company NSW Scottish Rifles
1910	Kitchener Report on compulsory training, structure and military academy
1911	Introduction of Universal Training of Commonwealth forces, new regiments based on defined local Training Areas
1912	21st Infantry (Sydney Battalion), 24th Infantry (2nd Sydney Battalion)
1912	39th Infantry, 31st Infantry, 19th Infantry, 43rd Infantry, 9th Infantry Regiments
1912	29th Infantry Regiment (Australian Rifles)
1912	16th Infantry Regiment (Newcastle Battalion)
1912	18th Infantry Regiment
1912	6th Australian Horse became 5th Light Horse (New England Light Horse)
1912	4th Hunter River Lancers became 6th Light Horse (Hunter River Lancers)
1912	28th (Illawarra) Light Horse Regiment
1913	21st (Woollahra) Infantry Regiment, 24th (East Sydney) Infantry Regiment, 18th (North Sydney) Infantry Regiment, 19th Infantry Regiment
1913	37th Infantry, 38th Infantry
1914	43rd (Werriwa) Infantry Regiment and 44th (Riverina) Infantry Regiment, 17th Infantry Regiment, 20th Infantry Regiment
1914	The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
1914	1st Battalion AIF (1st Brigade, 1st Division)
1914	2nd Battalion AIF (recruited generally from Newcastle and the Hunter Valley) (1st Brigade,1st Division)
1914	3rd Battalion AIF (from Werriwa area, 43rd Infantry Regiment Area)
1914	4th Battalion AIF (1st Brigade, 1st Division) (Newtown and Ashfield?)
1914	17th Infantry Regiment CMF (did not serve overseas), 12th Infantry Regiment
1914	Maclean Company Scottish Rifles becomes 12th (Byron) Infantry
1914	13th Infantry Battalion AIF (4th Brigade, 4th Division)
1914	1st Light Horse Regiment (AIF)
1914	6th Light Horse Regiment (AIF)
1914	7th Light Horse Regiment (AIF)
1914	1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th Field Artillery Batteries (AIF)
1914	2nd and 7th Army Service Corps Company (AIF)
1914	1st Veterinary Section (AIF), 1st Mobile Veterinary Section (AIF)
1914	1st Field Ambulance (AIF)
1914	2nd General Hospital (AIF)
1914	2nd Signal Troop (AIF)
1914	1st Field Butchery (AIF)
1915	5th Field Ambulance (AIF)
1915	15th and 20th Army Service Corps Company (AIF)
1915	17th Battalion AIF (5th Brigade, 2nd Division)
1915	13th, 14th, 5th Field Artillery Batteries (AIF)
1915	12th Light Horse Regiment (AIF)
1915	18th Battalion AIF (5th Brigade, 2nd Division)
1915	19th Battalion AIF (5th Brigade, 2nd Division)
1915	20th Battalion AIF (5th Brigade, 2nd Division)
1915	35th Battalion AIF (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) (“Newcastle’s Own”)
1915	30th Battalion AIF (8th Brigade, 5th Division)
1915	15th Infantry, 22nd Infantry, 40th Infantry, 12th (Byron) Infantry
1915	5th Field Artillery Brigade (AIF)
1915	7th, 9th, 14th Field Company Engineers (AIF)
1915	4th Depot Unit of Supply (AIF)
1916	7th, 9th,11th, 21st Field Artillery Brigades (AIF)
1916	25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th Field Artillery Batteries (AIF)
1916	33rd Battalion AIF (9th Brigade, 3rd Division)
1916	34th Battalion AIF (9th Brigade, 3rd Division)
1916	36th Battalion AIF (9th Brigade, 3rd Division)
1916	53rd Battalion AIF (14th Brigade, 5th Division)
1916	54th Battalion AIF (14th Brigade, 5th Division)
1916	55th Battalion AIF (14th Brigade, 5th Division)
1916	56th Battalion AIF (14th Brigade, 5th Division)
1916	41st Battalion, AIF (11th Brigade, 3rd Division)
1916	45th Battalion AIF (12th Brigade, 4th Division)
1916	1st Pioneer Battalion (AIF)
1916	1st, 5th, 9th,14th Light Trench Mortar Batteries (AIF)
1916	1st, 5th, 9th,14th Machine Gun Companies (AIF)
1916	24th Army Service Corps Company (AIF)
1916	3rd Mobile Veterinary Section (AIF)
1916	9th and 14th Field Ambulance (AIF)
1916	3rd Field Butchery (AIF), 3rd Field Bakery (AIF)
1917	1st Railway Section (AIF)
1918	9th Light Horse used to re-raise 6th Light Horse Regiment
1918	15th Light Horse Regiment (after war re-raised as a part-time unit based in the Northern Rivers region of NSW).
1918	“Hunter River Lancers” and the “New England Light Horse” renamed16th Light Horse (Hunter River Lancers) and the 12th Light Horse (New England Light Horse)
1918	5th Battalion 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Battalion 3rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd Battalion 36th Infantry Regiment, 5th Battalion 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion 19th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion 41st Infantry Regiment
1921	AIF disbanded, Citizen Forces or Militia (CMF) and Divisional Organisation introduced, numerical designations, mottoes and battle honours of AIF perpetuated
1921	4th Infantry Battalion formed from 2nd Battalion of 36th Infantry Regiment (Newtown strand) and 5th Battalion of 18th Infantry Regiment (Ashfield strand)
1921	3rd Infantry Battalion, in 1927 3rd Battalion (The Werriwa Regiment) CMF
1921	2nd Battalion re-raised, CMF (titled “City of Newcastle Regiment” in 1927)
1921	19th Infantry Battalion, 17th Infantry
1921	41st Infantry Battalion CMF, in 1927 41st Battalion (The Byron Regiment)
1921	15th Light Horse Regiment now CMF Northern River Lancers
1921	21st Light Horse Regiment (Illawarra Light Horse) [former 28th (Illawarra) Light Horse Regiment]
1921	6th Light Horse Regiment was re-raised (New South Wales Mounted Rifles)
1921	35th Infantry Battalion reformed CMF
1921	54th Infantry Battalion reformed CMF, in 1927 “Lachlan-Macquarie Regiment”, region of Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers
1921	55th Battalion re-raised, in 1927 titled "New South Wales Irish Rifles"
1921	56th Battalion was re-formed, in 1927 "The Riverina Regiment"
1921	30th Battalion re-formed, in 1927 "City of Sydney Regiment"
1921	45th Division re-raised, in 1927 "St George Regiment"
1927	“Territorial designations” adopted by CMF and AIF WW1 battle honours allocated
1927	The East Sydney Regiment (1st Battalion)
1927	41st Battalion CMF reconfirmed as The Byron Regiment
1927	University Scouts renamed the Sydney University Regiment (SUR)
1927	35th Battalion re-titled "Newcastle's Own Regiment"
1927	4th Battalion (The Australian Rifles)
1927	17th Battalion (The North Sydney Regiment)
1927	19th Battalion (The South Sydney Regiment)
1929	21st Light Horse Regiment (Illawarra Light Horse) amalgamated with 1st to form 1st/21st Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Lancers)
1929	2nd/41st Battalion
1930	30th Battalion amalgamated with 51st Battalion to form 30th/51st Battalion, “New South Wales Scottish Regiment”
1930	1st/19th Battalion, 4th/3rd Battalion
1932	35th Battalion merged with 2nd Battalion to form the 2nd/35th Battalion
1933	33rd/41st Battalion
1936	1st/21st Light Horse Regiment (New South Wales Lancers) linked with 7th to form 7th/21st Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse)
1936	24th (Gwydir) Light Horse was raised in Northern NSW and linked with the 12th Light Horse to become 12th/24th Light Horse
1937	7th/21st Light Horse Regiment (Australian Horse) renamed 21st Light Horse Regiment (Riverina Horse)
1937	41st Battalion reactivated (The Byron Regiment)
1937	3rd Battalion amalgamated with the 53rd Battalion (West Sydney Regiment)
1937	3rd Battalion (The Werriwa Regiment)
1918-1939	2nd Battalion CMF (linked with 41st and 35th Battalions, not serving overseas in WWII, disbanded in 1946 as 41st/2nd Battalion)
1918-1939	3rd Battalion CMF (The Werriwa Regiment) linked with 4th and 53rd Battalions, saw action New Guinea in WWII and absorbed into 2nd AIF
1918-1939	4th Battalion CMF (for a while linked to 3rd Battalion, saw action New Guinea in WWII)
1918-1939	17th Battalion CMF (The North Sydney Regiment) (did not serve overseas in WWII, disbanded 1944)
1936	New South Wales Lancers become Royal New South Wales Lancers
1937	1st/19th Battalion (The City of Sydney's Own Regiment) (linked with19th and 45th Battalions, not serving overseas in WWII)
1937	41st Battalion reactivated
1937	21st Light Horse Regiment (Riverina Horse) [former 21st Light Horse Regiment (Illawarra Light Horse)]
1939	1st Battalion City of Sydney Regiment
1939	2nd (The City of Newcastle) Battalion
1939	1st/45th Battalion, 20th/19th Battalion
1939	2/3rd Battalion 2nd AIF (16th Brigade, 6th Division)
1939	2/1st Battalion 2nd AIF (16th Brigade, 6th Division)
1939	2/2nd Battalion 2nd AIF (16th Brigade, 6th Division)
1939	2/4th Battalion 2nd AIF (16th Brigade later 19th, 6th Division)
1940	2/1st Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery 2nd AIF (6th Division)
1940	2/17th Battalion 2nd AIF (20th Brigade, 7th Division, later 9th Division)
1940	2/18th Battalion 2nd AIF (22nd Brigade, 8th Division)
1940	2/19th Battalion 2nd AIF (22nd Brigade, 8th Division)
1940	2/20th Battalion 2nd AIF (22nd Brigade, 8th Division)
1940	2/13th Battalion 2nd AIF (20th Brigade, 7th Division)
1940	2/33rd Battalion 2nd AIF (25th Brigade, 7th Division)
1940	2/30th Battalion 2nd AIF (27th Brigade, 8th Division)
1940	2/4th, 2/5th, 2/6th Field Companies, Royal Australian Engineers (7th Division 2nd AIF)
1940	2/12th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers (8th Division 2nd AIF)
1941	The 19th Battalion (redesignated from the Darwin Infantry Battalion) disbanded 1945
1941	2/6th Armoured Regiment AIF (1st Armoured Brigade, 1st Armoured Division)
1941	2/7th Armoured Regiment AIF (1st Armoured Brigade, 1st Armoured Division)
1941	2/11th Armoured Car Regiment AIF (1st Armoured Division)
1941	6th LH Regiment mobilised as 6th Motor Regiment (NSW Mounted Rifles)
1941	15th Motor Regiment (Northern River Lancers)
1942	17th Australian Infantry Battalion (CMF then AIF) (disbanded 1944)
1942	6th Motor Regiment (NSW Mounted Rifles) retitled 6th Australian Armoured Car Regiment [formerly 6th Light Horse Regiment]
1942	15th Motor Regiment (Northern River Lancers) re-designated the 15th Australian Motor Regiment as an AIF unit
1942	41st Battalion becomes AIF but did not serve overseas, disbanded 1945
1942	1st Army Tank Battalion (Royal NSW Lancers)
1943	Name “Citizen Military Forces” (CMF) formally adopted
1943	41st linked with 2nd Battalion AIF, 41st/2nd Battalion AIF (disbanded 1946)
1943	3rd/22nd Australian Infantry Battalion (later into 2/3rd Battalion AIF)
1943	4th Australian Infantry Battalion (CMF then AIF)
1943	19th Australian Infantry Battalion (CMF then AIF) (disbanded 1945)
1943	1st Tank Regiment (Royal New South Wales Lancers - RNSWL)
1944	1st Armoured Regiment (RNSWL)
1947	2nd AIF disbanded
1948	Reformation of 3rd Infantry Battalion (CMF) (The Werriwa Regiment)
1948	Reformation of 17th Battalion, which was then linked with 18th Battalion CMF to form 17th/18th Battalion (The North Shore Regiment)
1948	41st Infantry Battalion re-raised (The Byron Scottish Regiment)
1948	Re-raised 6th Motor Regiment (NSW Mounted Rifles)
1948	12th/16th Armoured Regiment (Hunter River Lancers)
1948	30th Infantry Battalion (NSW Scottish Regiment)
1948	45th Infantry Battalion (St George Regiment)
1948	2nd Infantry Battalion (The City of Newcastle Regiment)
1948	45th Infantry Battalion was re-raised, 34th Infantry Battalion
1948	7/21 Australian Horse
1948	Name of 1 Armoured Regiment (RNSWL) changed to 1 RNSWL
1949	12th/16th Armoured Regiment (Hunter River Lancers) retitled 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers
1949	6th Motor Regiment (NSW Mounted Rifles) retitled 6th NSW Mounted Rifles
1949	Re-designated 15th Northern River Lancers
1952	13th (Macquarie) Regiment
1952	New South Wales University of Technology Regiment
1955	1st Commando Company
1956	6th NSW Mounted Rifles reorganised as an infantry battalion
1956	Re-designated 15th Northern River Lancers amalgamated with 1st Royal New South Wales Lancers to form the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers (RNSWL)
1956	56th Battalion (Riverina Regiment) (Reconnaissance)
1957	1st Infantry Battalion (Commando) (The City of Sydney's Own Regiment)
1957	4th Battalion CMF, later absorbed into 3rd Battalion The Royal New South Wales Regiment (RNSWR) as D Company (The Australian Rifles Company) and E Company (The Riverina Company)
1958	NSW University of Technology Regiment renamed the University of New South Wales Regiment (UNSWR)
1958	56th Battalion and 7th/21st Australian Horse form basis of 4th Battalion RNSWR
1960	17th/18th Battalion (The North Shore Regiment) re-designation as B Company (The North Shore Company), 2nd Battalion RNSWR
1960	No.1 Company (Commando) (The City of Sydney Company) RNSWR
1960	B Company (North Shore Company) C Company (City of Newcastle Company) Support Company (Ku-ring-gai Company) 2nd Battalion RNSWR
1960	C Company (Werriwa Regiment), 45th (St George) form 3rd Battalion RNSWR
1960	45th Battalion subsumed into RNSWR providing 3rd Battalion's 'A' and Support Companies
1960	41st Battalion becomes E Company, (The Byron Scottish Company) The Royal Queensland Regiment
1960	6th NSW Mounted Rifles disbanded and merged into the newly formed RNSWR
1960	D Company (Australian Rifles Company) and E Company (Riverina Company) 3rd Battalion RNSWR
1960	E Company (The Byron Scottish Company) 1st Battalion The Royal Queensland Regiment
1965	1st Battalion RNSWR (Commando)
1965	4th Battalion RNSWR
1965	2nd Battalion RNSWR
1965	3rd Battalion RNSWR
1965	17th Battalion reformed in its own right as a battalion of RNSWR
1965	41st Battalion (The Byron Scottish Regiment) becomes 41st Battalion RNSWR
1966	19th Battalion CMF to 19th Battalion RNSWR (“Bushman’s Rifles”)
1971	1st Battalion (“Sydney’s Own”) linked with 19th to form 1/19 RNSWR
1976	Australian Defence Force (ADF) comes into being
1980	Names Australian Military Forces (AMF) and CMF cease, Australian Army Reserve comes into being
1987	2nd and 17th Battalions linked to form 2/17 RNSWR
1987	3rd and 4th Battalions linked to form 4/3 RNSWR

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