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<h2 id="units">Units</h2>
<p>The Allied garrison consisted of the following units:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/2%2f22nd_Battalion_(Australia)/cGtnf90F">2/22nd Battalion</a></li>
<li>17th Antitank Battery</li>
<li>a detachment of <a href="/facts/Royal_Australian_Artillery/NpYyLAC3">Royal Australian Artillery</a></li>
<li>a company of <a href="/facts/Royal_Australian_Engineers/jrolFaaD">Royal Australian Engineers</a></li>
<li>an anti-aircraft battery</li>
<li>supply, signals and medical detachments</li>
<li>80 militiamen of the <a href="/facts/New_Guinea_Volunteer_Rifles/Uwbd40Sj">New Guinea Volunteer Rifles</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/1st_Independent_Company_(Australia)/StbeQfLN">1st Independent Company</a> (Kavieng, New Ireland)</li>
<li>2/10th Field Ambulance, <a href="/facts/Royal_Australian_Army_Medical_Corps/zfV9S3t6">Australian Army Medical Corps</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Sisters_of_War/L6ovX0aC">Sisters of War</a></i></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Eustace_Graham_Keogh/nHr0qTWD">Keogh, Eustace</a> (1965). <i>South West Pacific 1941–45</i>. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705">7185705</a>.</li>
<li>Wigmore, Lionel (1957). <a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1417309"><i>The Japanese Thrust</i></a>. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Vol. IV (1st ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/3134219">3134219</a>.</li></ul>
<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Gamble, Bruce (2006), <i>Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul – Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II</i>, Zenith Press, St. Paul MN. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-7603-2349-6</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Keogh 1965, p. 101. - Keogh, Eustace (1965). South West Pacific 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. OCLC 7185705. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705" target="_blank">https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Keogh 1965, p. 100. - Keogh, Eustace (1965). South West Pacific 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. OCLC 7185705. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705" target="_blank">https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Keogh 1965, p. 101. - Keogh, Eustace (1965). South West Pacific 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. OCLC 7185705. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705" target="_blank">https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Wigmore 1957, p. 674. - Wigmore, Lionel (1957). The Japanese Thrust. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Vol. IV (1st ed.). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 3134219. <a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1417309" target="_blank">https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1417309</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"2/22nd Australian Infantry Battalion". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 27 April 2019. <a href="http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U56065" target="_blank">http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/U56065</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Keogh 1965, p. 101. - Keogh, Eustace (1965). South West Pacific 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower Publications. OCLC 7185705. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705" target="_blank">https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/7185705</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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