Present and past members of The Regiment will always remain part
of a very special family. Promoting those bonds, ideals and shared
interests is the ongoing aim of the RAR Association.
All ex-members of the 65th, 66th and 67th Australian Infantry
Battalions (re-designated the original 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions
of the RAR), and all persons who are, or have been posted to The
Regiment are eligible for membership.
Persons of Corps other than the Royal Australian Infantry Corps,
including members of philanthropic organisations who have been posted
to unit establishments of The Regiment, are eligible for honorary
membership.
Membership of the RAR Association does not require overseas
or ‘active service’. A common code of honour forms
close bonds of comradeship. All members of The Regiment have shared
the experience of those demands along with the uncertainties of
service life that set them apart from the larger community. Above
all others, an infantryman’s fortune has the greater affinity
with soil and water (or lack thereof), cold, mud, heat, dust,
personal pack loads better suited to mules and emotions that range
between the extremes of boredom and terror. More positive and
significant however, is the experience of loyalty to and dependence
upon mates and the courage to live with the ever present reality
that ‘duty first’ has the potential to require the
highest in personal sacrifice.
