"EQUAL TO THE TASK"

Memorial to Units of the 8th Division raised in South Australia, adjacent to the National War Memorial, corner North Terrace and Kintore Avenue,Adelaide.
The 8th Division memorial is locate at the foot of the National War Memorial and to its leftwhen facing that memorial to those who served in the Great War.
Each of the the three plaques which make up the 8th Division memorial, one to commemorate each of the Units, list where and the circumstances under which the units served, including the period spent as Prisoners of War of the Japanese. Each plaque ends with the words 'Equal to the Task'.
This simple statement is a succinct summation of the manner in which these units and the other elements of the 8th Division discharged their duties, both during the defence of the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore and, subsequent to being ordered to surrender by those in command of the campaign, to the their comrades during the years of privation as Prisoners of War. As such, it seemed a fitting title to the first post on this blog.