ON
THIS DAY ...
| SEPTEMBER
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| 1918: Six VCs awarded as a result of actions this day by 2 Div as it captured Peronne, France ... dig |
1942: CPL RE Breavington & PTE VL Gale executed by the Japanese at Changi prison for escaping ... dig |
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5 | 6 | 7 |
| 1955: RAAOC Domesday Book presented to the Corps by its first Honorary Colonel, MAJ GEN L E Beavis (Retd) ... an ongoing record of RAAOC activities ... dig |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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1954: Manilla Treaty signed to form the military alliance known as SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation) between Australia, France, US, UK, NZ, Phillipines, Pakistan & Thailand ... dig |
1975: Military Board abolished vide the Defence Reorganisation Act ... dig |
1942:
Army watercraft AM41 Windsong 1 lost at sea ... dig |
1971: HQ 11 TF (CMF) raised to command CMF elements in northern QLD ... dig |
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13 | 14 |
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1944: Vast majority of 649 Australian PW aboard a Japanese merchant ship died in the water after US navy subs attacked a Japanese convoy ... dig |
1914:
Rabaul & Bougainville under control of AN&MEF ... dig |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
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1963: Malaysian-Indonesian confrontation begins, lasting until 11/8/ 66 ... dig |
1974:
5/7 RAR began a 2 year mechanisation trial ... fully mechanised in 6/84 ... dig |
1918: Epehy (Hindenburg) - 1 & 4 Divs participated ... captured 4,243 prisoners, 76 guns, 300 machine guns & 30 trench mortars ... advanced 5km on a front of 7 km ... 1,260 casualties ... dig |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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1943: 2/6 Indep Coy captured Kaiapit, New Guinea ... over 260 enemy Japanese were accounted for with a loss of 14 Australians killed & 23 wounded... dig |
1886: Victorian Ordnance, Commissariat & Transport Corps' formed with 2 officers & 22 soldiers... dig |
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1943: Op Jaywick - a special op launched against Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour by 'Z Special Force' ... thousands of tons of enemy shipping destroyed or damaged by charges laid by the canoe borne raiders ... total surprise achieved ... dig |
1950: 3 RAR embarked for Korea ... at full strength due to special enlistment volunteers ... dig |
1918:
Ziza - 2 ALH Bde ranged against 10,000 Arabs out to massacre 6,000 Turks wanting to surrender ... dig |
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30 |
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1945: After the Japanese capitulation on Borneo most of the 174 oil wells at Seria were ablaze. Improvising, the 2/3 Fd Engr Coy took 100 days to extinguish the fires in horrific conditions ... dig |
1989:
50 soldiers from 2 Cav Regt sent to Nurrungar to assist the SA & Federal Police in the protection of the Joint Defence Space Communications Centre located there... dig |
| Victoria
Cross - 1
September 1900 TPR J H Bisbee (Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen) near Warm Bad, Transvaal |
| Victoria
Cross - 1
September 1900 LT G G E Wylly (Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen) near Warm Bad, Transvaal |
| Victoria
Cross - 1
September 1918 SGT A D Lowerson (21 BN AIF) Mont St Quentin, north of Peronne, France |
| Victoria
Cross - 1
September 1918 (posthumous award) PTE R Mactier (23 BN AIF) Mont St Quentin, north of Peronne, France |
| Victoria
Cross - 4
September 1942 (posthumous award) CPL J A French (2/9 BN AIF) Milne Bay, New Guinea |
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Victoria
Cross - 18
September 1918 SGT G Sexton (true name M V Buckley) (13 BN AIF) near Le Verguier, North-West of St Quentin, France |
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Victoria
Cross - 18
September 1918 PTE J P Woods (48 BN AIF) near Le Verguier, North-West of St Quentin, France |
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Victoria
Cross - 20
September 1917 (posthumous award) 2LT F Birks (6 BN AIF) Glencorse Wood, East of Ypres, Belgium |
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Victoria
Cross - 26
September 1917 (posthumous award) PTE P J Bugden (31 BN AIF) Polygon Wood, near Ypres, Belgium |