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===Military units=== It is used as the quick march of the [[1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] and as the official song of the [[1st Marine Division (United States)|US 1st Marine Division]], commemorating the time the unit spent in Australia during the Second World War.<ref>{{cite news|title=1st Marine Division celebrates 65 years|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/3528896-1.html|publisher=[[US Fed News Service]], Including US State News|date=9 February 2006|access-date=14 February 2008|quote=Major Gen. Richard F. Natonski and Sgt. Maj. Wayne R. Bell cut the ribbon to the "Waltzing Matilda", the 1st Marine Division's official song.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217212003/http://www.allbusiness.com/government/3528896-1.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=17 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Clarke|first=Roger|year=2003|url=http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/|title=Roger Clarke's "Waltzing Matilda" Home-Page|publisher=Roger Clarke (hosted on ANU computers)|access-date=14 February 2008|quote=I understand that the tune (without the words) is the marching song of the US 1st Marine Division. In 2003, Col Pat Garrett USMC confirmed that it was/is played every morning immediately after The Marines Hymn ('From the Halls of Montezuma ...') following the raising of the National colo(u)rs at 0800, and at Divisional parades. Further, "The Division was raised at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in early 1941, and became associated with "Waltzing Matilda" when the Marines came to Melbourne in early 1943 for rest and refit following the successful retaking of Guadalcanal, and before it returned to combat at Cape Gloucester in New Britain in the Northern Solomons in September of that year"|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209024753/http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/WM/|archive-date=9 February 2008}}</ref> Part of the tune is used in the British Royal Tank Regiment's slow march, because an early British tank model was called "[[Matilda I (tank)|Matilda]]".
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