Historical information

" The availability of comprehensive and up-to-date military maps and charts ... is fundamental
to the effective conduct of military operations." The Honourable K.C. Beazley, M.P. 1987

This article was presented as a paper to the 1990 Australian War Memorial History Conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the "Australian Survey Corps" on 1 July 1915. The Corps has since been renamed as the Royal Australian Survey Corps.

Lieutenant-Colonel Clem Sargent, Colonel Commandant of the Corps from 1983 to 1993,
accepted the challenge and published an account of the history of RA Svy on the occasion of
the seventy-fifth anniversary. The Royal Australian Survey Corps, I9I5 - 1990 was first
published in October 1990 in the journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia,
Sabretache. The article was later published in the Australian Surveyor and is now reproduced
as a booklet by kind permission of the author.
This condensed history of the Royal Australian Survey Corps provides a record of military
mapping in Australia and as such is a valuable part of Corps doctrine.
Colonel S.W. Lemon, Director of Survey, March 1995

Physical description

Booklet, A4, 13 Pages, Cardboard Cover, Colour, Maps, Photographs, Black and White. Held together by metal staples