Introduction

This material has been prepared from documents held in the collection of the Museum of Australian Military Intelligence, Kokoda Barracks, Canungra, QLD 4275. The Curator can be contacted on (07) 5541 6321.

Work to transcribe this documents was undertaken by L.G. Wilson, CSC, BA, Grad Cert Ed, Grad Cert Applied Mngt.
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Contents

Military Order No. 305 of 1907. The order that authorised the formation of the Australian Intelligence Corps:
MO 305/1907

Military Order No 41 of 1908. The order that specified the duties and organisation of the Australian Intelligence Corps:
MO 41/1908

Military Order No 88 of 1908. The order that specified the precedence of the Australian Intelligence Corps within the Australian Army:
MO 88/1908

Notebook of PTE EJ Nowland. A transcript of the notebook of a private soldier at the School of Intelligence conducted by the Australian Corps School in Jan/Feb 1918. An insight into tactical intelligence in positional warfare.

Part 1: Nowland Pt 1

Part 2: Nowland Pt 2

Part 3: Nowland Pt 3

The Corps in 1940. From The Defence Act 1903-1939 and Regulations and Orders for the Australian Military Forces and Senior Cadets, dated 29 Feb 1940. This is the re-establishment of the Aust Int Corps for WW2 service:
Corps in 1940

Army Intelligence 1939-1945 Queensland

Queensland had a unique importance as the staging area for land forces in the the South Pacific Area theatre of operations. It was the area where they trained and refitted. Two reports were written by LTCOL LF Wilkinson about Intelligence activities in the area. One dealt with processes, the other focused on the personnel involved. Read about the capture of escaped Germans and the two secret networks set up to stay behind in the case of an invasion. (Readers should not be disconcerted by the original author's aversion to the word 'the').

This area is representative of others in Australia, though Queensland represented the most intense and wide ranging example of base intelligence support in Australia's war.

Activities focus

Part I - Intelligence Organisation 1939-1945: Qld History - Pt I

Part II - Operational Intelligence: Qld History - Pt II

Part III - Military Directory: Qld History - Pt III

Part IV - Security: Qld History - Pt IV

Part V - Censorship: Aust Int Corps - Qld History - Pt V

Part VI - Intelligence at POW and Internment Camps: Qld History - Pt VI

Part VII - Intelligence in Line of Communication Sub-Areas: Qld History - Pt VII

Part VIII - Military Reporting Officers: Qld History - Pt VIII

Personnel focus

Pre-War Years: Qld History - Pre War Years

1939 - War Declared: Qld History - 1939

1940 - Italy Comes In: Qld History - 1940

1941 - Japan Takes a Hand: Qld History - 1941

1942 - Extension of Activities: Qld History - 1942

1943 - Reallocation of Functions: Qld History - 1943

1944 - Fifth Year of War: Qld History - 1944

1945 - Year of Victory: Qld History - 1945

Problems likely to met by a new BDE Intelligence Officer. A paper written by an unknown Aust Int Corps Captain about the problems likely to be encountered by the IO of 28 Commonwealth Brigade in Korea, in the peacekeeping period after active combat had ceased: Paper by new Brigade IO

Standard Operating Procedure for 28 BRITCOM INF BDE 1953. An extract of an infantry brigade SOP relevant to the daily routine of the Intelligence Section: SOP Korea 1953

Intelligence in Counter Insurgency at Task Force Level. An comprehensive, official report on the conduct of Australian intelligence operations is the South Vietnam campaign. This original document is incomplete with missing pages indicated. Nevertheless it offers a unique insight in the intelligence operations in support of 1 Aust Task Force:
Int in Sout Vietnam