February 1
1943 — Last Australian forces sail for home from the Middle East.
1964 — #4RAR, re-established in 1995.
1966 — #14 Psych Unit.
1976 — #4FER. 1981 — #1 Cdo Regt.
1988 — #9 Bde. February 2
1942 — First air attack on Port Moresby, Papua.
1968 — 3RAR recaptures Baria, Vietnam.

February 3
1941 — Two 6 Div brigades encircle and capture Derna, Libya.
1942 — First Japanese bombing of Port Moresby, Papua.
1943 — Australians counterattack at Wau.
1967 — #7 Sig Regt (EW).

February 4
1942 — Axis forces recapture Derna, Japanese demands for the surrender of Singapore rejected.
1943 — Japanese fall back to Wau.

February 5
1917 — Capt Henry Murray, 13 Bn, awarded the VC for his actions at Stormy Trench, north east of Gueudecourt, France.
1941 — 6 Div captures Barce, Libya.

February 6
1941 — 6 Div enters Benghazi.

February 7
1941 — Two 6 Div brigades capture Benghazi, Libya, from Italians.
1963 — # 19 CE Works

February 8
1942 — Japanese invade Singapore and begin to cross the Straits of Johore clashing with 22 and 27 Bdes.

February 9
1900 — Australians in action at Jasfontein.
1943 — Japanese suffer defeat at Guadalcanal.

February 11
1864 — Capt Charles Heaphy, Auckland City Volunteers, receives first colonial VC for his actions during the Maori Wars.

February 12
1900 — Victorians engage Boers at Pink Hill, Cape Colony.
1942 — 64 nurses escape during the fall of Singapore on board SS Vyner Brooke.
1951 — WRAAC formed

February 13
1946 — 34 Bde sails from Morotai for Japan.
1965 — 1SAS Sqn advance party departs Perth for Borneo.

February 14
1942 — Vyner Brooke sunk off the Banka Island, 62 nurses survive only to be shot by Japanese. Sr Vivian Bullwinkel (Statham) fakes death to survive.

February 15
1942 — Singapore surrenders to Japanese. Maj-Gen Gordon Bennett hands over command of 8 Div and escapes Singapore by sampan.

February 16
1951 — Australians and Chinese battle for Hill 327 in Korea.

February 17
1900 — NSW troops in action at Paardeburg, Orange Free State.

February 18
1941 — Australians arrive in Singapore.
1943 — 9 Div returns to Australia.
1944 — Allied destroyers shell Rabaul and Kavieng, New Guinea.

February 19
1942 — Darwin bombed by Japanese from 9.58am to 11.55am.

February 20
1942 — Japanese land on Portuguese Timor.

February 21
1918 — 3LHR captures Jericho.

February 22
1944 — Papuans pursue Japanese towards Madang.

February 23
1942 — Main Australian Task Force on Timor surrenders to Japanese.
1956 — RAAF No.1 Sqn bombs communist terrorist camps near Kuala Lumpur.
1970 — #Mon UR.

February 24
1902 — Boer commandos attack New Zealand soldiers at Verde, South Africa.
1941 — #School of Armour.
1951 — 3RAR captures Hill 614, Korea.
1955 — #2 Cdo Coy. February 25 1951 — Australians capture Hill 614 in Korea.

February 26
1943 — Battle for Wau, New Guinea, ends.

February 27
1860 — #2/14LHR (QMI).
1942 — Air attacks by Japanese aircraft damage HMAS Hobart in West Java Sea.

February 28
1970 — Long Hai Day.
1994 — #Darwin Log Bn.
1942 — Japanese landing on Java met by Brig Arthur Blackburn’s Blackforce. Dutch forces on the island surrender, followed by Australians four days later.

February 29
1944 — Australian and New Guinea Administration Unit and Royal Papuan Constabulary land with US forces on Los Negros.