Farida Force was the name given to an ad hoc composite Australian Army force of six hundred and twenty-three men under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Eric Hennessy, commanding officer of the 2/6th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment which conducted an amphibious landing at Dove Bay, east of Wewak during the Aitape-Wewak campaign on 11 May 1945 in World War II. It was made up of troops drawn from the 2/9th Commando Squadron, 2/10th Commando Squadron, two 75mm guns of the 1st Anti-Tank Battery, one company from the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion serving as infantry as well as a platoon of machine-gunners from that unit, two detachments of mortars and other support elements.