Music
The Royal Australian Regiment has a wide variety of regimental music. In addition to regimental quick and slow marches, each battalion has its own set of marches:
- Royal Australian Regiment — Quick: El Alamein (Band); Black Bear (Pipes and Drums); Slow: Infantry Song
- 1st Battalion — Waltzing Matilda
- 2nd Battalion — Ringo (Band); Back in Black (Pipes and Drums)
- 3rd Battalion — Our Director (Band); Hielan' Laddie (Pipes and Drums)
- 4th Battalion — Inverbrackie
- 5th Battalion — Dominique
- 6th Battalion — Spirit of Youth (Band); The Crusaders (Pipes and Drums)
- 7th Battalion — Australaise (Band); Cock o' the North (Pipes and Drums)
- 8th/9th Battalion — The Brown and Grey Lanyard
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