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The military history of Australia spans the nation's 230-year modern history, from the early Australian frontier wars between Aboriginal people and Europeans to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 21st century. Although this history is short when compared to that of many other nations, Australia has been involved in ...
Australia entered World War II on 3 September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom 's declaration of war on Nazi Germany. Australia later entered into a state of war with other members of the Axis powers, including the Kingdom of Italy on 11 June 1940, [1] and the Empire of Japan on 9 December 1941. [2]
The attack was the début of the AIF on the Western Front and the Australian War Memorial described it as "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history". Of 7,080 BEF casualties, 5,533 were suffered by the 5th Australian Division; the Germans suffered 1,600–2,000 casualties and lost 150 prisoners.
Squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps served in the Middle East and on the Western Front, and elements of the Royal Australian Navy carried out operations in the Atlantic, North Sea, Adriatic and Black Sea, as well as the Pacific and Indian Oceans. By the end of the war, Australians were far more circumspect.
2,600 captured. The Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin was a battle on the Western Front during World War I. As part of the Allied Hundred Days Offensive on the Western Front in the late summer of 1918, the Australian Corps crossed the Somme River on the night of 31 August and broke the German lines at Mont Saint-Quentin and Péronne.
Western Australian emergency of March 1944. Part of the Pacific theatre of World War II. One of the anti-aircraft guns assigned to the defence of Fremantle in November 1943. Objective. Reinforcement of Western Australia in response to a feared Japanese attack. Date. 6–20 March 1944. Outcome. No attack materialised, all units involved returned ...
Battle of Amiens. Part of the Western Front of World War 2. 8 August 1918, a portrait by Will Longstaff, showing Imperial German Army prisoners of war being led towards Amiens, France. Date. 8–12 August 1918 (major combat) Location. East of Amiens, Picardy, France. 49°53′38″N 2°17′39″E / 49.89389°N 2.29417°E / 49.89389 ...
The Australian Light Horse was established as the outcome of a debate that took place in military circles in Australia in the late 19th – early 20th centuries concerning the future of mounted troops. [1] The example of the Franco-Prussian War illustrated that the battlefield had become dominated by massed land armies supported by artillery.