Army History Unit - On This Day - August

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AUGUST

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1950: Korea 1950-53 1 Aug 50-26 Jul 53. Campaign honour awarded to RAR ... dig	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 ... dig	1914: British Gov declared war on Germany - Australia thereby at war also ... dig

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1848: The first tenants marched into Victoria Barracks, Sydney ... dig		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 ... dig	1915: Bristol Boxkite CFS8 flight tested ... first Aust built military aircraft ... dig	1902: 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen arrived in Australia from South Africa ... dig

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1918: Monash knighted in the field by King George V ... dig	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 ... dig

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1945: Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day - all hostile action against the Japanese ceased ... dig	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 ... dig	1988: The first Vietnam Veterans Day ... dig

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1943: Japanese abandoned positions on Mt Tambu to 17 Bde ... dig	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... dig	1950: Recruitment for "K Force" began, for service in Korea ... dig	1969: RAA Provost School raised at Ingleburn ... dig

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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 ... dig	1960: Engineer & Railway Staff Corps disbanded ... dig

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1942: Milne Bay (26/7 - 7/942) ... dig	1945: PW on Hainan Island liberated by US forces ... dig	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 ... dig

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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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