Naming conventions for Australian units

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The purpose of this page is to record and explain our current practices for naming units and pages. It's not a set of rules that you have to learn. If you want to create a page that doesn't exist, just create it. Don't worry about whether it has the right name. We can easily move it later.

See Australian units in World War I for more examples.

Australian Imperial Force

We don't yet know of a canonical source for the official full names of AIF units. Conventions for page names are shown below. For now, unit_name1 etc. in {{infobox military unit}} are not used for AIF units. Infantry brigades and battalions sometimes have geographical names in brackets. These can go in alternate_unit_names for now.

Divisions and corps

Corps pages already exist:

Division names should be in this form:


Units

Most AIF units, other than the exceptions described further below, use the page name suffix ", Australian Imperial Force (AIF)".

For example:

These forms sometimes differ from more commonly used names but are needed to disambiguate AIF units from Militia units with similar names. For example, the AIF had a unit commonly known as "1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade", while the Militia had a unit known as "1st Brigade, Australian Field Artillery" or just "1st Field Artillery Brigade".

Exceptions

The names of some units are closely related to the names of divisions or corps. Their page names should be like this:

Hospitals are usually in the form:

Australian Flying Corps squadrons:


Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

Units are represented at force and battalion level. These pages already exist. Page names are similar to AIF units:


Permanent Force

Page names are the same as full names, based on 1914 Army List:

unit_name1 doesn't need to be used.

Citizen Military Force (aka Militia)

Page names not yet decided but will probably be in the form "1st Infantry Regiment, Australian Militia", "1st Light Horse Regiment, Australian Militia" etc. to disambiguate from AIF units.

Full names, as shown in the 1914 Army List, will go in unit_name1 in {{infobox military unit}}.

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