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Following the beginning of the (in Western Australia ), the Northern Territory Force and New Guinea Force .) In 1944 -45, under Lt Gen. Vernon Sturdee , the First Army was based at Lae in the Australian territory of New Guinea . After a bar on the overseas deployment of Militia was relaxed, the First Army controlled many of the units which fought in the South West Pacific Theatre . It contained the Australian units that took part in the last amphibious assaults of World War II, the attacks on Japanese bases in Sarawak , British Borneo and Brunei . The First Army was disbanded in November 1945 . |
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