the AIF was formed entirely from volunteers
short for Australian Imperial Force
Example sentencesExamples
- With their recently recruited civilian counterparts they formed part of the second AIF, ready for active overseas service.
- Following its withdrawal from Anzac, the AIF went through a radical re-organisation.
- In the First World War he had fibbed about his age to serve with the AIF in France.
- He practised law for a short time in Renmark before joining the AIF.
- With the outbreak of war in 1914 the Australian Government raised the first AIF for overseas service.
- When the men of the AIF marched across the Range they had no native carriers.
- In Borneo two AIF divisions staged through the American-held island of Morotai to launch three amphibious landings in Borneo.
- In New Guinea militia brigades held the gains of 1943 while AIF formations were withdrawn to Queensland to rest and re-train.
- It was a strange coincidence that the starting point of the AIF convoys should now become his parish.
- He and his mates were hard at work, preparing the new AIF camp close to the Suez Canal at Tel el Kebir.