ON THIS DAY ...
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AUGUST
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1950:
Korea 1950-53
1 Aug 50-26 Jul 53. Campaign honour awarded to RAR ...
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1949:
Troops began work in open cut coal mines in the Hunter Valley ... unprecedented act ordered by Gov't in the face of crippling miners strike ... dig
1942:
Overwhelming Japanese numbers forced 39 Bn withdrawal at Kokoda ...
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1914:
British Gov declared war on Germany - Australia thereby at war also ...
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1848:
The first tenants marched into Victoria Barracks, Sydney ...
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1951:
National Service Training began ... unsuccessful conscription scheme ran to 7/60 ... dig
1965:
1 RAR conducted 'search & destroy' ops with US 173 Bde in Sth Vietnam ... dig
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1918:
Amiens - long awaited Allied counter-offensive against the Germans found the Australians & Canadians in the vanguard of the British offensive ... dig
Infantry Corps Day
also known as
Lone Pine Day ...
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1915:
Bristol Boxkite CFS8 flight tested ... first Aust built military aircraft ...
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1902:
3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen arrived in Australia from South Africa ...
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1918:
Monash knighted in the field by King George V ...
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1952:
B Coy, 3 RAR attacked Hill 75, in Op Buffalo ... dig
1988:
First 15 man contingent to UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group departed Sydney for 6 months service ...
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1945:
Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day - all hostile action against the Japanese ceased
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1900:
 You have had a hot time, but have made a remarkable defence. Only colonials could have held out & survived in such impossible circumstances
:Kitchener re Eland's River ... dig
1962:
First direct contact between Australians & the enemy in Sth Vietnam ...
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1988:
The first Vietnam Veterans Day ...

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1943:
Japanese abandoned positions on Mt Tambu to 17 Bde ...
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1990:
8 soldiers from 16 AD Regt embarked on HMAS Success to provide additional air defence for Aust deployment to Middle East ... gunners role was to operate RBS-70 SAM system...
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1950:
Recruitment for "K Force" began, for service in Korea ...
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1969:
RAA Provost School raised at Ingleburn ...
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1944:
CIC Blamey warned Gov't of his doubts re Army's ability to maintain its forces for planned offensives ... dig
1967:
8 RAR embarked for service in Malaysia ...
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1960:
Engineer & Railway Staff Corps disbanded ...
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1942:
Milne Bay
(26/7 - 7/942)
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1945:
PW on Hainan Island liberated by US forces ...
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1994:
Op Tamar (UNIMIR II - Rwanda) officially commenced with the completed deployment of the Australian medical support force of 308 personnel ... dig
1915:
Only VC to ALH awarded to 2LT HV Throssel for his actions at Hill 60, Gallipoli ...
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Army images
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1918:
Brilliant op resulting in storming of Mont St Quentin by 2 Div began ... great tactical importance ... dig
1918:
As a result of this op, Peronne itself fell on 1/9/18 to Australian troops ...swift success of this attack startled even Monash ... dig
AWARDS

George Cross - 5 August 1944
PTE BG Hardy (22 Garrison Battalion AMF)
Cowra, NSW

George Cross - 5 August 1944
PTE R Jones (22 Garrison Battalion AMF)
Cowra, NSW
Victoria Cross - 7 August 1915
LCPL L Keysor (1 BN AIF)
Lone Pine Trenches, Gallipoli Peninsular
Victoria Cross - 8 August 1915
LT W J Symons (7 BN AIF)
Lone Pine Trenches, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 8 August 1918 (posthumous award)
LT A E Gaby (28 BN AIF)
Villers Brettoneux, France
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1915 (posthumous award)
CPL A S Burton (7 BN AIF)
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1915
CPL W Dunstan (7 BN AIF)
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1915
PTE J Hamilton (3 BN AIF)
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1915
LT F H Tubb (7 BN AIF)
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1915 (posthumous award)
CAPT A J Shout (1 BN AIF)
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1916
PTE M O'Meara (16 BN AIF)
Pozieres, France
Victoria Cross - 9 August 1918 (posthumous award)
PTE R M Beatham (8 BN AIF)
Rosiers, East of Amiens, France
Victoria Cross - 12 August 1918
SGT P C Statton (40 BN AIF)
near Projart, France
Victoria Cross - 23 August 1918
LT W D Joynt (8 BN AIF)
Herleville Wood, near Chuignes, Peronne, France
Victoria Cross - 23 August 1918
LT L D McCarthy (16 BN AIF)
near Madam Wood, East of Vermandovillers, France
Victoria Cross - 27 August 1918
LCPL B S Gordon (41 BN AIF)
East of Bray, France
Victoria Cross - 29 August 1915
2LT HV Throssel (10 LH AIF)
Kaiakij Aghala (Hill 60), Gallipoli
Victoria Cross - 29 August 1942 (posthumous award)
PTE BS Kingsbury (2/14 BN AIF)
Isurava, Papua
Victoria Cross - 31 August 1918
PTE G Cartwright (33 BN AIF)
Road Wood, South-west of Bouchavesnes, near Peronne, France
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