This is an order of battle listing the Australian and German Empire forces during the Australian occupation of German New Guinea between September and November 1914.
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Australian forces
Vice Admiral George Patey
- Battlecruisers
- Second class protected cruisers
- Light cruisers
- Destroyers
- Submarines
- Submarine tenders
- Supply vessels
- Colliers
- Oilers
- Troop transports
- HMAS Berrima – Commander J.B. Stevenson
- HMAT Kanowna (left at Port Moresby)
Landing forces
Colonel William Holmes
- Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
- 1st Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force – 1000 troops
- 6 companies of RAN Naval Reserve – Commander J.A.H. Beresford – 500 troops
- Kennedy Regiment – 500 troops (left at Port Moresby)
- 2 machine gun sections
- Signal section
- AAMC detachment
German Empire forces
Rittmeister Carl von Klewitz
Lt. Robert von Blumenthal
- Polizeitruppe
References
- MacKenzie, Seaforth (1941). The Australians at Rabaul: The Capture and Administration of the German Possessions in the South Pacific. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume X. (Tenth ed.). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 494426919.
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