AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
STRENGTH TO BE INCREASED ANOTHER DIVISION MELBOURNE, Sept. 25. The Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, announced yesterday that the War Cabinet had decided to increase the A.I.F. strength by the formation of another division. The nresent objective strength of the A.I.F. will, therefore, be an army corps comprising four divisions, with a corps of troops. The present divisions were the sixth, seventh and eighth. The new one would be the ninth.
Mr Menzies said the nucleus of the ninth would comprise certain units at present abroad. The divison was being brought*, to -strength by the despatch of existing reinforcements for organisation into units abroad. The new division would not entail the immediate resumption of recruiting. but it would be necessary later to replace certain units taken into the ninth and provide reinforcements. When recruiting was resumed a definite quota would be periodicallv laid down, enlistments made selective, and preference given to single men.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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