41st Battalion , Royal New South Wales Regiment The 41st Battalion , Royal New South Wales Regiment , ( 41 RNSWR ) , is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army . A Reserve unit , it is one of four battalions of the Royal New South Wales Regiment and is attached to the 8th Brigade , 2nd Division . It is based in northern New South Wales , with its headquarters in Lismore and depots in a number of locations including Tweed Heads , Taree , Grafton , Kempsey , Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour . In its present form the battalion was raised in 1965 , however , it can trace its lineage back to a Scottish Rifles unit formed in 1899 . It also perpetuates the battle honour s and traditions of a battalion that served on the Western Front during the First World War . History . 41 RNSWR was formed in 1965 after the Australian Army ended its experiment with the Pentropic divisional structure which , in 1960 , had seen the reorganisation of the previously existing regional Citizens Military Force ( CMF ) infantry battalions into company - sized elements within six new State - based regiments . The experiment was a failure and by 1965 , the Army returned to the triangular divisional structure and the CMF was reorganised once more . In an effort to reinvigorate the regional ties that had been so important to the CMF , the Pentropic battalions were reduced and new battalions formed by re - raising a number of the their subordinate companies to battalion strength and re - adopting historical numerical designations . As a part of this reorganisation , the Byron Scottish Company , which had been part of the 1st Battalion , Royal Queensland Regiment was expanded to form the 41st Battalion , Royal New South Wales Regiment , headquartered around Lismore on the northern New South Wales coast . Drawing its lineage from the Byron Scottish Regiment , which had previously existed prior to the Pentropic restructure , 41 RNSWR ' s predecessor units can trace their history back to the Maclean Company Scottish Rifles which was formed in 1899 . This unit went through a number of name changes during its early history , eventually becoming the 9th Infantry in 1912 . In 1918 it was amalgamated with the 12th ( Byron ) Infantry to form the 2nd Battalion , 41st Infantry after the Citizens Force was reorganised to form multi - battalion Regiments which were numbered after units of the Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) with which they had been associated . In 1921 the decision was made to disband the AIF and to perpetuate its battle honour s and traditions by reforming the Citizens Force along the same lines as the AIF , with the multi - battalion regiments being redesignated as separate battalions and adopting the unit colour patches and battle honours of the AIF . Consequently , the 2nd Battalion , 41st Infantry was redesignated as the 41st Battalion . During the First World War , this battalion had been formed in February 1916 at Bell ' s Paddock in Brisbane , Queensland , with men drawn from Queensland and northern New South Wales . Attached to the 11th Brigade , 3rd Division , it took part in the fighting on the Western Front from November 1916 until the end of the war , during which time it took part in battles at Messines , Broodseinde , and Passchendaele in 1917 . In early 1918 , they took part in repulsing the German Spring Offensive , defending the railway near Amiens before taking part in the Allied Hundred Days Offensive which ultimately brought about an end to the war . The 41st Battalion ' s final involvement in the fighting came in early October when they took part in the joint Australian – US operation along the St Quentin Canal . It was out of the line resting when the armistice was signed in November 1918 and was disbanded in May 1919 . Losses during the war totalled 444 killed and 1 , 577 wounded . One member of the battalion , Bernard Sidney Gordon , received the Victoria Cross . Other decorations included : 1 CMG , 2 DSOs , 13 MCs and 3 bars , 12 DCMs , 82 MMs and 2 bars , 4 MSMs , 26 MIDs and 7 foreign awards . In 1927 territorial designations were adopted and the battalion adopted the title 41st Battalion ( The Byron Regiment ) . In 1929 , compulsory training scheme was suspended by the Scullin Labor government , and this , combined with the economic hardships of the Great Depression led to a decline in the number of recruits . As a result the battalion was amalgamated with the 2nd Battalion to form the 2nd / 41st Battalion . In 1933 these two units were delinked , however , the 41st Battalion was amalgamated with the 33rd Battalion to form the 33rd / 41st Battalion . They remained linked until 1936 when tensions in Europe meant that the government decided to double the size of the Militia . During the Second World War , the battalion served in a garrison role within Australia and did not see active service overseas , even though it was gazetted as an AIF battalion after the majority of its members volunteered to do so . In 1943 , when the Australian Army began reallocating manpower resources , the battalion was amalgamated once more with the 2nd Battalion and they remained linked until 1946 when the demobilisation process began and the unit was disbanded . In 1948 , the Citizens Military Force was re - raised , albeit on a limited scale . The 41st Battalion was re - formed at this time , adopting the title 41st Infantry Battalion ( The Byron Regiment ) , however , the following year its title was changed to The Byron Scottish Regiment . This remained the state of affairs until 1960 , when the Pentropic divisional structure was introduced and the battalion became ' E ' ( Byron Scottish ) Company , 1st Battalion , Royal Queensland Regiment . Recent roles . Recently 41 RNSWR has had a number of operational roles . These roles have included providing soldiers to the serve with INTERFET in East Timor and with the Peace Monitoring Groups in Bougainville . In 2000 , they took part in providing security to the Sydney Olympic Games through the Operational Search Battalion . Personnel from the battalion have also deployed as part of commitments to the Solomon Islands as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) and Malaysia with Rifle Company Butterworth . In 2011 , members of the battalion have again served in East Timor as part of the Timor Leste Task Group ( TLTG ) . Scottish background . Due to its lineage from the Byron Scottish Regiment , 41 RNSWR has strong links to its Scottish ancestry . The battalion was formerly known as the 41st Battalion , The Byron Scottish Regiment . This is due to the large number of Scots who settled in the north of the state in areas such as Grafton , Byron Bay and Maclean . In order to preserve these traditions , 41 RNSWR maintains an alliance with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the battalion ' s ' C ' Company wear the kilt of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on ceremonial occasions . Unit motto . " Mors Ante Pudorem " which means " Death before Dishonour " . This motto was adopted by 41 RNSWR because since its formation in 1916 , as none of its personnel have been captured in battle . Locations . 41 RNSWR is located all along the northern New South Wales coast , including depots in :