Robert Winning
Brigadier Robert Emmett Winning, DSO, OBE, ED (9 April 1906 – 21 November 1971) was an Australian Army officer who commanded several units and formations during the Second World War. A pharmacist in civilian life, Winning was an officer in the part-time Militia during the inter-war years. He volunteered for overseas service with the Second Australian Imperial Force during the war and fought in the Middle East, Greece and Crete, in 1941. He commanded an infantry battalion in Syria on occupation duties, and in Australia where he led them in a garrison role in the Northern Territory. He was promoted to brigadier in early 1943 and commanded several formations in Australia until assuming command of the 13th Brigade in the field, commanding them against the Japanese in the final stage of the New
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Robert Winning
Brigadier Robert Emmett Winning, DSO, OBE, ED (9 April 1906 – 21 November 1971) was an Australian Army officer who commanded several units and formations during the Second World War. A pharmacist in civilian life, Winning was an officer in the part-time Militia during the inter-war years. He volunteered for overseas service with the Second Australian Imperial Force during the war and fought in the Middle East, Greece and Crete, in 1941. He commanded an infantry battalion in Syria on occupation duties, and in Australia where he led them in a garrison role in the Northern Territory. He was promoted to brigadier in early 1943 and commanded several formations in Australia until assuming command of the 13th Brigade in the field, commanding them against the Japanese in the final stage of the New
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Brigadier Robert Emmett Winnin ...... Watsons Bay, New South Wales.
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Brigadier Robert Emmett Winnin ...... in the final stage of the New
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