2/11th Field Company Royal Australian Engineers

The 2/11th Field Company, raised for the Second AIF, trained at Redbank then moved north as part of an effort to bolster Australia's defences in preparation for potential war in the Pacific. In addition to its Winnellie headquarters, the 2/11th Field company had sections that served in New Guinea and Borneo, on Timor and on Ambon Island in the Netherlands East Indies.  On Ambon, after surrendering, over 200 men were massacred by the Japanese. The rest became prisoners of war; three quarters died before the war’s end.