[Australia]: Message to the Canadian Army [SEC=OFFICIAL:Sensitive]

[Owen]

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CHIEF OF ARMY​

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20 October 2008

Dear Commander of the Canadian Army, There is a long standing tradition that army regiments are to maintain alliances with army regiments in other nations to where the armed forces swear allegiance to and maintain Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as their Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. I am proposing a series of regimental alliances between Australian Army regiments and Canadian Army regiments to enhance cross-army engagement and cooperation and to maintain the many traditions we have mutually inherited from the British Army. As such, the proposal is to align the following Australian Army regiments with the following Canadian Army regiments: Royal Australian Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Royal Canadian Regiment Royal New South Wales Regiment: Royal Newfoundland Regiment Royal Victoria Regiment: The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment Royal Queensland Regiment: The Lincoln and Welland Regiment Royal Western Australia Regiment: The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own) Royal South Australia Regiment: The Royal Regiment of Canada Royal Tasmania Regiment: 48th Highlanders of Canada 2nd Commando Regiment: Canadian Special Operations Regiment 1st Armoured Regiment: Royal Canadian Dragoons 2nd Cavalry Regiment: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment: 12e Régiment blindé du Canada 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry): The Governor General's Horse Guards 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers: The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers: The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse: 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) 10th Light Horse Regiment: 1st Hussars 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australian Mounted Rifles): Sherbrooke Hussars Yours sincerely, Lieutenant General David Morrison.

R2 Building, Russell Offices, RUSSELL, ACT 2600 Telephone: (02) 6144 9190​

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Nathan

 

[Nathan]

From: Minister of National Defence Harry Smith

To: Lieutenant General David Morrison. Owen

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Dear Lieutenant General Morrison, On behalf of the Canadian Army, I would be delighted to accept your suggestion of alliances between our regiments as suggested in your email. On the subject of military cooperation, We would like to move forward with our previous agreement of the use of Robertson Barracks base for ongoing hot climate training exercises for our forces. We have never progressed with moving troops into these Barracks due to logistics issues. This has since been rectified with the acquisition of amphibious warfare ships. Canada is currently preparing a maiden deployment of a amphibious warfare group. With your permission, we would like to use Robertson Barracks to simulate amphibious warfare landings which would include the permanent deployment of a training cadre as per our initial agreement [ https://modernnations.com/threads/australia-message-to-canada-sec-secret.30166/#post-125451 ]. To support our fleet with fuel and supplies during deployment, we would be grateful if our supply ship could use your naval bases throughout the deployment for refuelling and restocking as the ship transfers through the Pacific region - with the crew purchasing from local companies it's supplies and fuel. Look forward to hearing back from you. Yours Sincerely, Harry Smith

 

[Owen]

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MINISTER FOR DEFENCE​

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: SECRET​

6 December 2008

Dear Minister Smith, Your message has been passed on to me by the Chief of Army. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has advised me that in that meeting an agreement was made for Canadian Forces to base at Robertson Barracks in Darwin. If your original plan of 60 training cadre is to be sent, then we can certainly facilitate that at any time. There isn't a suitable location to conduct amphibious landings near Robertson Barracks, the barracks itself being a bit inland as well. There is a Department of Defence site on the coast near Robertson Barracks but it is a signals receiving station operated by the Australian Signals Directorate, certainly not free passage entry. Amphibious landing exercises are usually done in Queensland. If you are interested in doing a joint amphibious landing exercise we can certainly organise this at the Shoalwater Bay or Cowley Beach training areas in Queensland. I would suggest using Air Force transport aircraft to move the 60 personnel to Robertson Barracks in Darwin rather than facilitating them on an amphibious task group. We don't have a network of bases across the Pacific, but certainly bases and depots across Australia are available for your use. I would suggest contacting the United States Department of Defense in regards to getting supplied transitioning the Pacfic, as they do have bases across the Pacific. We have replenishment vessels in our Navy and I could organise to send one out into the Pacific under the auspices of Operation Solania to do at least one at-sea refuel and replenishment of the Canadian fleet. Yours sincerely, John Faulkner.

Parliament House, CANBERRA, ACT 2600 Telephone: (02) 6277 7700​

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