Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Second Australian Imperial Force in the United Kingdom/archive1
Elements of the Second Australian Imperial Force were located in the United Kingdom throughout World War II. Between June and December 1940 around 8,000 Australian soldiers were stationed in the country, organised into two infantry brigades and supporting units. During the Battle of Britain they were assigned to the mobile reserve which would have counter-attacked any German amphibious or airborne landings in southern England. The Australians were moved to eastern England in October 1940, and departed the country in several convoys between mid-November 1940 and January 1941 to concentrate in the Middle East. Several small engineer units were also sent to the UK, and up to 600 forestry troops were active there between July 1940 and mid-1943. A prisoner-of-war repatriation unit arrived in the UK in August 1944, and over 5000 Australian soldiers who had been prisoners arrived in the UK during the last weeks of the war in Europe and after the German surrender in May 1945. (Full article...)
Pinging Nick-D; as I mentioned, we're doing blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in June, July and August 2018. Thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 00:56, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- I'd be most happy for this to run, and had only a minor edit to the blurb. File:Australian Troops in England, 1940 HU69089.jpg should be suitable as the lead photo. Nick-D (talk) 07:37, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Nick. Added. - Dank (push to talk) 12:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)