Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/February 23

The 2/18th Battalion was a battalion of the 22nd Brigade, Australian 8th Division part of the Second Australian Imperial Force. The battalion was raised from north western New South Wales and Sydney in June 1940. The battalion left Sydney on 5 February 1941 for Singapore on the RMS Queen Mary. The battalion saw action against Japanese forces in Southern Malaya and in the defence of Singapore in February 1942. Following the surrender of Singapore the surviving members of the battalion went into captivity at Changi Prison while some were sent on the Sandakan Death Marches and others to the Thai-Burma Railway.