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Events for 2010
Members should be look-ing forward to a number
of activities planned for 2010. On Saturday, 29th
May, the Regiment is or-ganizing a Cocktail Party
at Keswick Barracks. The Cocktail Party has been
held at this time to cele-brate the Birthday of AUR some 62 years ago.
The Cocktail Party will be held at Keswick Barracks
Officers Mess and many of the guests from our
Association will be hosted by Officer Cadets. The
Cocktail Party is for all ranks with both staff and
Cadets represented at the function. Please put
this date in your address book or phone/PDA.
We are organizing a func-tion in July which will be a
‘Back to the Buck’ night at
the Buckingham Arms Hotel. This was a favorite
haunt of the Subaltern’s of AUR in the 80’s and
90’s. We are booking the
conference room which caters for about 40 peo-
ple. It should be a great night for food and con-
versation.
Our third function for the
year is our ‘Back to Tor-rens’ Muster and reunion.
We have booked the Torrens Training Depot
for an informal Barbeque and get together. We are
arranging a tour of the
Depot so you can see the changes that have oc-
curred since your time in the Regiment. We are
looking for some familiar tunes from the Pipes and
Drums as well as an op-portunity to mix and min-
gle with current members and staff from AUR.
The date booked for this
activity is
Sunday, 17th October 2010 from 12:30 till
4:00pm. Please mark it in you diary.
Membership …...
Issue 4
25th March 2010
Breaking News:
Lieutenant Colonel Rex Lipman AO ED, our first CO, has accepted our invita-tion to be the Pa-tron of the Associa-tion. He has done us a great honour! Rex was our first CO and inaugural President of the AUR Association . We look forward to active participation for many years to
come.
AUR Graduating Officers 2010
2
Gathering of AURian’s
2
The AURA Website
2
More of our Future Officers
3
Back to Torrens 17 October
3
Colonel Bill Monfries CSC
3
The Depot 4
Inside this issue:
AUR Association
Newsletter March 2010 A d e l a i d e U n i v e r s i t i e s Re g i m e n t A s s o c i a t i o n I n c
Membership is currently at 130 persons including 49
life members and 81 mem-bers. The AURA Council
decided to extend financial membership for all those
who joined in 2009 until the end of 2010. The pri-
mary reason for this was
that AURA has sufficient funds to undertake the
planned tasks of develop-ing a website, organising
future activities and pre-senting prizes to graduates
within the AUR structure. The development of an
active Association ‘ Face-
book’ and increasing by AURians access to our
website has kept many members in touch with
each other and helped to promote the objectives of
the Association. Try www.aurassociation.org.au
to access or website!
functions planned by your Associa-
tion. For perspective members there are forms for downloading
The Council has recently launched an Association website. The site con-
tains details of the events for 2010, membership details and some pic-
tures taken at recent AURA events or activities. You can help by identi-
fying items of interest to include on the website under either photos,
activities or news topics. We have included an area which contains all of the past newsletters from early 2009.
The site is regularly updated with information about activities and
which you can complete and send back to us with either EFT details of
a cheque for you annual or life mem-bership. The website will be ex-
panded to cover some of the special interest groups such as members
from a particular time or platoon in AUR. We are anxious to include
some of the historical information from the records held by individuals or by the Regiment. Please send us a
scan of your favorite pictures of your time in AUR!
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AUR Graduating Officers—2010
The AUR Association Website …..
AUR Association Newsletter March 2010
mateship going. These are informal brunches organised at local haunts such as Najah’s or Café Bravo. An email ‘warning order’ sent out by Adrian Horan seems to rally the troops for one of these casual gather-ings. The conversation usually moves to the ‘old days’ and ‘where are they now’ discussions. If you know the whereabouts of a former AURians drop us an email or put them forward as a friend in Facebook! aurassocia-tion@gmail.com will get to us. Alter-natively, pass on to them our website URL for membership forms and infor-mation.
Max Weir, Claire Murray and Silvia Kriven enjoying the ambience of an evening with mates from AUR—December 2009 at the
Meredith’s Annual Christmas BBQ.
www.aurassociation.org.au
Gathering of AURians …..
Brenton Gasteen, Anne Lonie, Robin Marlin
enjoying a coffee at Café Bravo. Brenton’s new bike is ’parked’ outside after it took him up to Norton Summit and back. Lucky Bren-
ton!
Every year there are a number of informal activities that have occurred for many years that keep the AUR
From the left: Lieutenants Amanda Walton (RAEME), Aaron Newfield (RASigs), Fran Altree (RASigs) and Michael Fell (RAInf) ac-
cepting a book from Brigadier Nick Williams presented by the AUR Association to mark their appointment as an Officer in the Aus-
tralian Army.
On Saturday, 13th March 2010, the
Officer Cadets organised a Cocktail Party at Keswick Barracks to cele-brate and recognise the commission-
ing of 6 Officers from AUR. There were 2 Officers from Tasmania who
were unable to attend. The gradua-tion of Officers represents about 22
months training with attendance at various modules conducted at AUR
and other University Regiment’s and at RMC Duntroon.
As part of their training the Officer Cadets were responsible for planning
the activity, arranging for the wel-come and hosting of guests, senior
Officers and NCO’s of the Regiment, and conversing with guests through-
out the evening.
The young graduate Officers are posted to positions across a range of Corps postings.. Amanda had trans-ferred to the Regular Army and is currently posted as a RAEME Officer
with the Army Logistics Training Centre at Latchford Barracks in Vic-toria. The Association selected as its presentation the book ‘Operation Orders’ written by Brigadier Pat Beale DSO, AM. The book is an ex-cellent account of Pat’s command and leadership experiences in Malaya,
Papua New Guinea and Vietnam.
Our Association is looking forward to assisting with presentations and prizes for a range of courses now conducted in their broader role by the Adelaide Universities Regiment. During the evening, Lieutenant Colo-nel Stevens and his successor, Simon Ridgeway congratulated graduates on their dedication and achievement in successfully completing the First Ap-
pointment Course.
Issue 4
How many O/C’s does AUR have in the
pipeline for 2010 and how many may
graduate in 2010?
Currently there are 38 OCDT's in Adelaide
and Darwin (does not include TAS) We have
had five graduate in February and expecting
another four to Graduate later in the
year. We have also had two graduate as
SSO's and there may be a further one from
Darwin SSO in the next month or so.
How is training of O/C’s conducted in
the companies in NT and TAS?
In Darwin there are currently 8
OCDT's. TRG is conducted by the TRG
Cell located in Darwin and as they move
through the training program they are
brought down to Adelaide to complete
specific training objectives, or AUR will fly
instructors up to complete them. They
then attend the normal training blocks
(TB's) as does every OCDT. Tasmania
is run by Major Hughes who also has a
TRG team to complete the required com-
petencies.
What is the current strength of AUR?
130 staff & a total of 317 including
cadets and soldiers in the Recruiting
Holding Company.
Can you outline the stages of develop-
ment of an Officer Cadet and the time
taken for each stage or course?
There are three broad requirements to
complete the FAC. They complete five
training blocks which are continuous resi-
dential courses. The first is TB1-Recruit
Course of 28 days duration at Ka-
pooka. The OCDT's complete the same
recruit course as other recruits. TB2 is 16
days and focuses on IMT skills. TB3 is also
16 days and they continue with their field
skills and are exposed to section level
tactics and some section level com-
mand. TB4 is 16 days and exposes the
OCDT's to PL tactics and limited PL COMD
responsibilities. TB5 is their final course of
28 days conducted at RMC. Upon passing
they graduate as Lieutenant's. In between
these training blocks they have a non
residential training assessment package
made up of various modules that they are
required to complete. These include field
skills, service writing, customs and tradi-
tions, navigation, first aid etc. They are
also required to complete an External
Assessment Package (EAP) which assesses
their ability on service writing, completion
of a training program, and some elements
of military history. The commitment re-
quired is quite high. There are two each
of the TB courses per year. AUR, in con-
junction WAUR, run the TB2 at Murray
Bridge with the next such course in April
2010. The time taken to complete the FAC
normally ranges between two to three
years. However one graduate recently
took approximately 15 months.
Are all the staff cadets posted to other
Units on graduation or are some kept
as instructors? All graduates are posted
out on graduation. In the last course two
went to Signals, and three to infantry (two
to 12/40 RTR and one to 10/27 RSAR)
Service Cross in the Australia Day
Honours this year.
Bill’s honour reads: For outstanding
achievement as the Commander's Educa-
tion, Training and Development adviser
at Headquarters Training Command-
Army. Bill said in response to our
note of congratulations:
“I have asked to retire in Jan 2011. Con-
sidering I signed on at Torrens in Dec
1971 I guess I have come quite a dis-
tance. It's certainly been surprisingly
enjoyable and rewarding, and I certainly
never thought I'd be in uniform for so
Colonel Bill Monfries CSC originally
joined the Royal Australian Infantry
and was promoted to Second Lieu-
tenant in the Adelaide University
Regiment in 1974. He transferred to
the Australian Regular Army as a
RAAEC Officer in 1982. He served as
the Career Advisor from 1993-1995
and as Deputy Head of Corps from
1996 to 1997. He was promoted to
Colonel in 2003, when he took up the
position of Head of Corps. Bill was
recognised for his valuable contribu-
tion with the Award of a Conspicuous
long, or end up where I have.”
Good luck Bill with your last 12
months!
Then and …
Now!
AUR in 2010 …..
Colonel Bill Monfries CSC …...
they are making to Defence. Many of
them have undertaken service over-seas in the Solomon Islands, Timor
and Operation Resolute (border protection). We have included a few
pictures of TTD
in 2010. See if you can recog-
nise an office or two, the Mess or
the Drill Hall. The building had
a $3 million up-grade before the
RSL, RAAF Association and History
Trust moved in.
Back to Torrens—17 October 2010 ….. The AURA Council is busily prepar-ing an afternoon at the Torrens
Training Depot. You can drop in for the BBQ with cooking by the mem-
bers of the Council! You can wander around the Drill Hall and look at
where you trained and enjoyed your service in AUR. We are hopeful of
some tunes from the Pipes and Drums. You can also talk to current members of the Regiment about sol-
diering in 2010 and the commitment
Where: Torrens Training Depot
When: Sunday, 17th October 2010
What: Informal BBQ with mates
Activity: Tour of the Depot
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The Depot ….
We want your membership …...
• Come along and join in the functions organised for you. The Cocktail Party in May, The dinner at the Buck in July and the BBQ at Torrens in October 2010.
• Tell us about your experiences in AUR and keep sending those photo-graphs in to add to our web pages.
• E-mail your friends and search out your mates from those early days in AUR.
• Fill out a membership form which is available for download from our website.
• Visit the AUR Regimental website at www.army.gov.au/aur
• Support the current Regiment members as they train others in their new enhanced role of training across the spectrum of Reserve needs.
• Bring a mate to the next AURA function as we want to expand!
PO Box 7394
Hutt St PO
Adelaide SA 5000
Adelaide Universities
Regiment Association
Is this the RAP?
Is this a CO’s or RSM’s office?
AUR Officers Mess—where is the bar?
Air conditioning in the Depot? Look at
the parquetry floor!
An upstairs lecture room or library?
The Western entrance to TTD.
Phone: 0413270370
E-mail:
aurassociation@gmail.com
http://www.aurassociation.org.au
Your business tag line here.
Website
www.aurassociation.or
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AUR Courses 2010 …... • Reserve Response Force (RRF) Training— Keswick
• Infantry Initial Employment Training Modules 1 & 2 (2 courses)
• First Appointment Course Training Block 2—Panel of 90
• High Readiness Reserve and AR Grade 2 Course
• C2/MR2 Course—Panel of 30
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