Welcome to the 53rd Australian Composite

Anti Aircraft Regiment Website.

On July the 16th 1943, Australian 2nd Army Secret Memo A14310 was issued

to raise the 53rd Australian Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment.  On the 19th of

July the Regiment was formed in accordance with this memo... 

This website seeks to honour the memory of all those who proudly served with the

53rd Composite Anti Aircraft Regiment through the Second World War (1939 to 1945).

The following people have kindly donated their research, memories, photographs, art and time to make this website possible:

• Keith Delaforce
• Howard Maher
• Ken Rendoth
• Andrew MacKenzie
• George Mawhinney
• John Venning

Men of the 53rd (Bluey; NX172405, 3/4/2000 - Ken Rendoth)

Another link in the chain has broken

Now Joe has gone to rest

With Charlie and Humph and Marty

They were the very best

Now Joe he served his country well

In wartime and in peace

To teach and mould and educate

That was Joe Loudon's brief

Time was we lived as brothers

Close together day by day

Time was that forged those memories

That will never fade away

And when my time, it comes around

And God, He gives the word

I'll go with pride and pleasure

To join the men of the Fifty-Third