It is based in northern New South Wales, with its headquarters in Lismore and depots in a number of locations including Taree, Tweed Heads, FGC (Grafton), Kempsey, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour.

This unit went through a number of name changes during its early history upon Australia's Federation, eventually becoming the 9th Infantry Australian Military Forces (AMF) in 1912.

[4] The battalion moved with the 3rd Division to Larkhill, site of the current Royal School of Artillery, in the Salisbury Plain Training Area.

In November 1916, the battalion sailed for the Western Front from Portsmouth, England, to Le Havre, France, and moved towards the border area with Belgium near Armentières.

The battalion entered the frontline for the first time on Christmas Eve, 1916 at the Mushroom Salient, just east of La Chapelle-d'Armentières, of which four soldiers were killed by artillery fire on the first night.

The first major offensive of the war occurred in June at the Battle of Messines,[4] where the battalion held the entire 11th Brigade frontage before the mines were set off and the assault began.

The wet and saturated soils meant that trenches were nearly impossible to dig, so the position was merely a series of linked up flooded shell craters, from which the battalion repulsed several counterattacks over the next 18 days.

[4] In early 1918, the battalion was resting and refitting in northern France, preparing to return to the Belgian battlefields near Ypres, when the German spring offensive occurred and caught the Entente forces off guard.

[7] The battalion then took its turn in manning the frontline, including at Villers-Bretonneux, where 'A' Company was essentially wiped out in a German gas attack.

Thus to reinforce the battalion before the Battle of Hamel, it was linked up with the American 131st Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, forming a new 'X' Company.

[4] However, General John Pershing forbade any American soldiers to fight under foreign command and they were withdrawn shortly before the battle commenced.

[2] The Australian Governor-General Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson presented the King's Colours to the 41st Bn AIF on 23 August 1920 at The Domain, Brisbane.

[13] In 1929, the compulsory training scheme was suspended by the Scullin Labor government, and this, combined with the economic hardships of the Great Depression led to a decline in the number of recruits.

[17] 41 RNSWR was formed in 1965 after the Australian Army ended its experiment with the Pentropic divisional structure which, in 1960, had seen the reorganisation of the previously existing regional Citizens Military Force (CMF) infantry battalions into company-sized elements within six new State-based regiments.

"Mors Ante Pudorem", which means "Death before Dishonour", was adopted by unit as a reflection of the fact that, since its 1917 inception, no member has ever surrendered to enemy forces.

[20] 41 RNSWR is located all along the northern New South Wales coast, including depots in:[27] For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 26–27 August 1918, east of Bray.

[8]Disregarding his own safety, he moved forward in the face of accurate enemy machine-gun fire, in order to cover the initial evacuation of the casualties.

The wounded were eventually moved out of the line of enemy fire, which all this time was directed at Warrant Officer Simpson from close range.

At the risk of almost certain death he made several attempts to move further forward towards his Battalion Commander's body but on each occasion he was stopped by heavy fire.

Warrant Officer Simpson's repeated acts of personal bravery in this operation were an inspiration to all Vietnamese, United States and Australian soldiers who served with him.

Corporal Singh wrote several letters to the commander of the 2nd Training Group demanding that he address the inequality within the Australian Defence Force (ADF) by allowing him to maintain his beard and wear a turban while in service.