6th Military District (Australia)

42°53′19″S 147°19′32″E / 42.8887°S 147.3255°E / -42.8887; 147.3255

Australian military districts, October 1939

The 6th Military District was an administrative district of the Australian Army. During the Second World War, the 6th Military District covered all of Tasmania, with its headquarters at Hobart.

Around the start of the Second World War, the 6th Military District became part of Southern Command, along with the 3rd and 4th Military Districts in Victoria and South Australia. This required legislative changes to the Defence Act (1903), and did not come into effect until October 1939.[1][2]

  1. ^ Dennis et al. 2008, p. 362.
  2. ^ Long 1952, pp. 27–29.