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Sparrow Force

Sparrow Force
Sparrow Force cap badges and unit patches.png
Sparrow Force cap badges and unit patches
Active 1942
Country Australia Australia
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Allegiance Allies
Branch Australian AIF rising sun.png Australian Army
Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Type Ad hoc, Guerrilla
Role Frustrate enemy advance
Size

Australian 8th Division.png Total – 1852
West Timor
2nd 40th Infantry Battalion.png 2/40 Inf. Bn. AIF – 944
2nd 1st Heavy Battery.png 2/1st Heavy Battery – 132
Royal Artillery Anti-Aircraft Badge.png 79 LAA Bty RA – 189
Australian 8th Division.png Attached units – 305

East Timor

2nd 2nd Independent Company.png 2/2nd Ind. Co. – 282
(+ 152 joined from West Timor)
Garrison/HQ Force Hill, West Timor
Motto(s) "They Alone Did Not Surrender"
– Winston Churchill
Anniversaries 23 February
Engagements

Second World War
Battle honours Koepang, Timor
Disbanded 1946
Commanders
Notable
commanders


Sparrow Force Casualties
Location Far East
Casualties and losses

Total Casualties
Australian AIF rising sun.png Australian Army
Flag of the British Army.svg British Army

Killed in Action
Missing Presumed Dead
Wounds
Executed
Accident
Illness

  • Burma-Siam
  • Japan
  • Malaya/Singapore
  • Java, Sumatra
  • Australia
Hellship Drowning

415
368
47

63
29
21
16
12
128 (Total)

  • 72
  • 33
  • 5
  • 14
  • 4
120

Australian 8th Division.png Total – 1852
West Timor
2nd 40th Infantry Battalion.png 2/40 Inf. Bn. AIF – 944
2nd 1st Heavy Battery.png 2/1st Heavy Battery – 132
Royal Artillery Anti-Aircraft Badge.png 79 LAA Bty RA – 189
Australian 8th Division.png Attached units – 305

East Timor


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