Victoria Cross awarded to an Australian SAS Trooper

I know a fair bit about all things Military (ex member of the TA bla bla) bur how come the Aussies have an SAS regiment? thought it was just a UK thing, I know most countries have the equivalent of the SAS but in Aus they are acually called the SAS too? and if so do they have SBS also?
 
Maximum Triceratops said:
I know a fair bit about all things Military (ex member of the TA bla bla) bur how come the Aussies have an SAS regiment? thought it was just a UK thing, I know most countries have the equivalent of the SAS but in Aus they are acually called the SAS too? and if so do they have SBS also?
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Google special operations command Australia. Their SAS is called SASR.

Gives a brief overview but they do not have an SBS.
 
Maximum Triceratops said:
I know a fair bit about all things Military (ex member of the TA bla bla) bur how come the Aussies have an SAS regiment? thought it was just a UK thing, I know most countries have the equivalent of the SAS but in Aus they are acually called the SAS too? and if so do they have SBS also?
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Aussies/Kiwis were also involved in the Malayan emergency/Borneo etc.. They were formed(re-formed) around the same time. There was also a Rhodesian SAS before it became Zimbabwe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Service

At the end of the war the British Government saw no further need for the force and disbanded it on 8 October 1945.[2] However, the following year it was decided there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit, and a new SAS regiment was to be raised as part of the Territorial Army.[23] Ultimately, the Artists Rifles, raised in 1860 and headquartered at Dukes Road, Euston, took on the SAS mantle as 21st SAS Regiment (V) on 1 January 1947.[3][23]
man in British Army uniform, carrying a parachute helmet and wearing a beret, other men can just be seen in the dark background
21 SAS soldier after a night parachute drop exercise in Denmark, 1955

In 1950, a 21 SAS squadron was raised to fight in the Korean War. After three months of training in England, it was informed that the squadron would no longer be required in Korea and so it instead volunteered to fight in the Malayan Emergency.[24] Upon arrival in Malaya, it came under the command of Mike Calvert who was forming a new unit called the Malayan Scouts (SAS).[24] Calvert had already formed one squadron from 100 volunteers in the Far East, which became A Squadron — the 21 SAS squadron then became B Squadron; and after a recruitment visit to Rhodesia by Calvert, C Squadron was formed from 1,000 Rhodesian volunteers.[25] The Rhodesians returned home after three years service and were replaced by a New Zealand squadron.[26] By this time, the need for a regular army SAS regiment had been recognised; 22 SAS Regiment was formally added to the army list in 1952 and has been based at Hereford since 1960.[8] In 1959 the third regiment, 23 SAS Regiment, was formed by renaming the Reserve Reconnaissance Unit, which had succeeded MI9 and were experts in escape and evasion.[27]
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There were also Free French SAS units in WW2
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Bonzer.

Brave fella indeed. There isn't much bronze left that VCs are forged from as well and it is kept under heavy lock and key.

I have this odd picture of him with Steyr AUG in one hand and a can of Fosters in the other when charging the nests.
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I thought mthey still had a little bit of a breach kept in the safe but still had a whole spare cannon somewhere else?
 
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