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  2. Victorian Defence Forces—No. 10.

    MILITARY Engineering has been brought to a very high standard in Victoria, and since 1860, when a section of Royal Engineers arrived in the colony, that branch of the defences has been maintained in an efficient condition. The section of the home troops, which was under the command of Captain, afterwards Major-General Scratchley, Governor of British New Guinea, was imported for the purpose of planning and constructing defence works, barracks, magazines, &c., and the formation of a volunteer corps of a like description was undertaken and carried ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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