Australians at War - Timeline

Australian History Timeline

This is a listing of all military history pages  in chronological order.

200AD - Origin of the name Australia, Matthew Flinders, Latin, australis, terra australis incognita, unknown southern land
1600 - British Empire, English Colonialism, The Americas, "informal empire", Asia, Pax Britannica, New Imperialism, white - settler colonies
1770 - Captain James Cook, English explorer, Mapped the east coast of Australia.
1688 - Dampier, British navigator, Naturalist, visited Western Australia.
1787 - The First Fleet, Transportation, Penal Colony, Governor Phillip, Botany Bay, Convicts, Rebellion.
1788 - First British Settlement established in New South Wales.
1788 - Phillip, Arthur, Updated, The first Governor of NSW.
1877 - Bare Island Fort - Sydney - Sydney - New South Wales - La Perouse - Colonial Architect Mr James Barnet
1788 - Henry Waterhouse, First Fleet, officer, Sirius, Norfolk Island, Port Jackson, Supply, John Hunter, Reliance
1788 - John Munday, private marine, 18th (Plymouth) Company, New South Wales, First Fleet, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Norfolk Island
1788 - Richard Williams Borrowdale, 2nd mate, First Fleet, aborigines
1788 - Thomas Lucas, First Fleet, Marine, Lady Juliana, Ann Howard, New South Wales corps, Daedalus, Norfolk Island, Governor Hunter
1788 - Peter Hibbs, Able Seaman, HMS Sirius, 25 March 1787 - Cascade Stream, Phillipsburg, Norfolk Island, Point Hibbs, HMS Porpoise
1788 - Watkin Tench, Royal Marine Corps, American War of Independence, First Fleet, captain - lieutenant, lieutenant - general
1788 - William Broughton, Charlotte, servant to Surgeon John White, storekeeper Parramatta, Norfolk Island acting deputy commissary
1788 - William Nash, Royal Marine, 58th (Plymouth) Company, 1st Fleeter, Prince of Wales, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Maria Haynes
1788 - Scott, James, Sergeant of Marines, First Fleet, Prince of Wales, Dixon Library, Sydney, .
1788 - Exploration of the Sydney Region, Arthur Phillip, Watkin Tench, John Wilson, John Shortland, George Caley
1789 - The NSW Corps, Rum Corps, Botany Bay Rangers, Castle Hill Uprising, Rum Rebellion
1789 - Tent Hospital Parramatta NSW
1789 - Parramatta Hospital - Picture Study
1790 - Wreck of the Sirius, Ralph Clark, Hunter, Governor King, William Bradley
1795 - John Hunter, Second governor New South Wales
1976 - Dr George Bass, English Naval Surgeon and Explorer
1796 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia
1800 - Philip Gidley King, Third Governor of New South Wales
1802 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia
1802 - John Oxley, Surveyor - General of New South Wales, Naval Officer, Explorer
1804 - Hobart Town is established
1804 - Castle Hill Uprising, Birth of Australian Republicanism
1805 - William Bligh, 4th Governor of New South Wales deposed by the Rum Rebellion
1808 - Lachlan Macquarie, 6th Governor of New South Wales
1808 - Rum Rebellion, William Bligh, Rum Corps, John Macarthur, mutiny
1818 - Colonial Hospital Parramatta, Governor Macquarie, Parramatta, John Watts,
1819 - Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney,Male convict Barracks, Female infirm, destitute asylum, Courts and Government Offices, Museum,
1824 - Hume and Hovell Expedition - New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, Royal Navy Captain William Hovell, Mystery of  Western Rivers.
1824 - Richmond Gaol, Tasmania, Convicts, Penal Colony Institution, military barracks
1824 - Richmond Gaol, the Guided Tour, Tasmania, Room by room
1824 - Moreton Bay penal colony established in Queensland
1825 - Brisbane is established
1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L, Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers
1829 - James Stirling, Western Australia, first Governor, British marine officer, Scotland, West Indies, Surrey, Mediterranean,
1833 - Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.
1843 - Fort Scratchley - Newcastle - New South Wales - Lieutenant John Shortland - Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Scratchley - Japanese submarine I-21
1859 - Queensland separates from New South Wales
1860 - Fort Queenscliff - Victoria - Shortland's Bluff - Port Phillip Bay - Melbourne - German freighter Pfalz - disappearing gun 
1860 - Peter Scratchley - Special Commissioner for  New Guinea - Lieutenant Colonel - Major General Sir William Jervois - fort on Bare Island - Fort Scratchley - Fort Lytton - Fort Glanville - Fort Queenscliff
1862 - Qld. western boundary changed from Longitude 141 deg. east to 138 deg. east
1863 - First Chief Justice appointed in Queensland (Sir James Cockle).
1860 - 2008 - Iraq diggers remember Sunnyside - 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War, General Harry Chauvel, Beersheba
1863 - Maori Wars, 1860s, British settlers, Treaty of Waitangi, Maoris - full scale Maori revolt, Waikato Militia, scouting , protecting settlers
1867 - Queensland Constitution consolidated from existing legislation.
1868 - The last convicts are Transported to Australia.
1873 - Ayers Rock is first sighted by Europeans.
1877 - The Australian cricket team is established.
1877 - Australia and England play the first cricket Test match in Melbourne. England defeated.
1877 - Port Arthur Gaol closed, Tasmania, Port Arthur penal station, 1830 - For the term of his natural life, Marcus Clarke
1880 - Fort Lytton - Brisbane - Brisbane River - Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Scratchley
1880 - 2002 - The Solomons Operation Anode, Australian Defence Force, Solomons, 1880, HMS Emerald Florida Island, 1920, HMAS Adelaide
1885 - Sudan Expedition, North Africa, Muslim rebellion, Sudan, British General Gordon, Egyptian troops massacred, Khartoum, 1885 - Suakin.
1889 - Tenterfield Address Federal council, Sir Henry Parkes, Major General Sir Bevan Edwards, British Army
1890 - Second Eureka Rebellion - Barcaldine, Queensland, Eureka Flag, Eureka Oath, Seaman's Strike, Wharfies Strike, coalminers Strike, Maritime Dispute, Shearer's strike, Sir Henry Parkes, Machine - gun Macmillan
1890 - Australian Light Horse - Australian Army - mounted infantry - Boer War - Gallipoli - Beersheba - Israel - Palestine
1890 - J. A. Andrews (1865 - 1903) - Anarchist, Melbourne, Australian Socialist League, Maritime Strike, Schellenberg farm, Sydney, Tocsin
1890 - 94 - The Verge of Revolution - J. A. Andrews, Maritime Strike, Henry Parkes, Machine Gun Macmillan, George Black, Larry Petrie
1890 - Wharfies Strike - Sydney, Shearers, Non - Union Labour, Circular Quay, mounted police, Riot Act, Machine - gun Macmillan
1893 - Wollongong Fortifications, Picture study.
1898 - BoerWar, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Peter Handcock, Southern Africa, Henry Lawson, the Bulletin, A B 'Banjo' Patterson
1899 - World's first Labor Party Government (Premier Anderson Dawson lasted one week)
1899 - Jessie toshack, Boer War Nurse.
1900 - The Boxer Rebellion, Considerably updated, Commander Francis Hixson, Gunboat HMCS Protector, Woosung, Taku, Tientsin
1901 - Commonwealth Proclaimed - Advance Australia Fair is sung at the inauguration ceremony.
1901 - Federation day, Commonwealth of Australia, Federal Constitution, Sydney, Centennial Park, Governor - General Lord Hopetoun
1901 - How old is the Australian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, 1 March 1901 - 10 July 1911
1902 - 31 May - Boer War ends.
1901 - Naval Operations other than war, HMAS Encounter, Medical Relief Force, Fiji,
1920 - The battle - cruiser HMAS Australia played a leading part in naval activities associated with of the Prince of Wales’.
1919 -1938 - RAN ships visited the New Guinea mandate, the Portuguese and Dutch territories, and islands of the South Pacific to maintain order.
1909 - Royal Australian Navy, HMA Ships Yarra and Parramatta, Warrego, Australia, Berrima, AE2 - Scrap Iron Flotilla
1910 - HMAS Yarra 1 - River Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Kabakaul, German New Guinea, Rabaul, Malta, Adriatic operations
1910 - HMAS Parramatta (I) - River Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer,  VADM Sir George E. Patey, RAN,  Adriatic operations
1911 - The Reverend John Flynn, Presbyterian minister, Australian Inland Mission, Clifford Peel, Royal Flying Doctor Service
1911 - Canberra founded and designated as the capital.
1912 - Australian Coat of Arms,
1914 - World War 1 - Britain declares war after Germany invades neutral Belgium. World War One begins. - Australian troops fight in World War 1.
2008 - 1914 - The war to start all wars - Australian newspaper article
1914 - Sydney/Emden, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Encounter, Pioneer, Parramatta, Yarra, Warrego, AE1 - AE2
1914 - Before Gallipoli, British Empire, war, Imperial Germany, Austro - Hungary, Australia, Nauru, Caroline Islands, New Guinea, Samoa, Egypt
1914 - Beginnings of Australia's Anzac Heritage The evolution of the Digger, The Australian personality applied to the business of war.
1914-HMAS AE2 - Royal Australian Navy - E-class submarine - Commander Henry H.G.D. Stoker, RN. - Dardanelles Campaign - Search and discovery
1914 - HMAS AE2 - Lost hero of Gallipoli
1914 - 2002 - Nation to farewell last Gallipoli veteran, Australia, Gallipoli veteran, Alec Campbell, state funeral, Hobart, Queen's tribute
1914 - 2002 - WWI veteran passes away, Australia, World War I, Raymond Durston,, Melbourne, 11th General Service Reinforcements -
          2008-1918 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
1914 - 2002 - State funeral for last Light-horsemen, Light - horsemen, Albert Whitmore, Australian Imperial Forces, 9th Australian Light Horse, Middle East
2008 - 1915 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
1915 - Political role of women in WW1 - World War 1 - Women's Peace Army, 1916 - Conscription Referendum, Billy Hughes, Daniel Mannix, Vida Goldstein
1915 - William Morris Hughes, Labor Party, 7th Prime Minister, World War 1 - Conscription crisis, the little digger, Preferential Voting,
1915 - 25 April - The term 'ANZAC' is born as Australian and NZ, troops join British and French troops on the peninsula of Gallipoli.
1915 - Anzac Day Ceremony, Dawn Service, Laying, wreaths, poppies, Last Post, Period of Silence, Rouse and Reveille, The Ode
1915 - Anzac Heroes - John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Albert Jacka, Leonard Keysor, William Symonds, John Hamilton, Albert Shout, Frederick Tub, Alexander Burton, William Dunstan, Hugo Throssell,
1915 - Nursing World War 1 - Hospital Ship Cicilia, Gallipoli Campaign, World War 1 - Sister Lydia Kate King, Lemnos Harbour, Rabbit Island
1915 - Youngest Anzac  First World War, James Martin, Gallipoli, aged 14 years 9 months, Alick James Bryant, 13 years 11 months old
1915 - ANZAC Pictures
1915 - 2008 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
1916 - Battle at Villers-Bretonneux - Western Front - Belgium - the Somme - Gallipoli - Fromelles, - Pozières - ANZAC Day
1916 - The Battle at Fromelles - Western Front - Germany - 5th Division AIF - Sugar Loaf - 15th Brigade
1916 - Dr. Daniel Mannix, Irish born Australian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne, anti - conscription campaigns, working class
1916 - 2008 - Sacrifice at the Western Front - Australian troops, Battle of the Somme, Pozieres, phosgene gas, artillery battle, Mouquet Farm, Moo-Cow Farm,
    1916 - 2008 - Index - Archaeological dig at Fromelles
    1916 - -2008 - DNA extraction from the remains of First World War soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood - Fromelles
    1916 - 2008 - Govt to test Fromelles mass grave remains - DNA test, World War I soldiers, mass graves, Fromelles, northern France, World War I
1917 - Battle of Passchendaele - World War I, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, Germany, France, Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, General Erich Ludendorff , Messines Ridge,
1917 -  Battle of Beersheba - Sinai Palestine campaign - World War I - 4th Light Horse Brigade - Brigadier William Grant - Turkey -
    1917 - 2008 - WWI digger identified with new DNA techniques - Private George Storey,  Passchendaele campaign,  Zonnebeke, Belgium,
    1917 - 2008 - Private George Richard Storey grave rededicated after the Battle of Polygon Wood - Australian Army, Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium.
    1917 - 2008 - World War I soldier identified as Private George Richard Storey - World War I, Battle of Polygon Wood,  Private John Hunter, Sergeant George Calder
1918 - John Monash - Restoring the spirit of Anzacs - Australian newspaper article
11 November, 1918 - Germany surrenders, end of WWI.
1918 - HMAS Stuart (I) - Scott Class Destroyer - World War II - Battle of Calabria
1918 - Remembrance Day - World War 1 - 11 November 1918 - Western Front - Germany - Australia
1918 - 2003 - Skull returned to Turkey, Skull, Turkish soldier, Gallipoli, World War I
1918 - 2008 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps -1918 - World War I - Anzac Day
1918 - 2008 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
1918 - 2008  - Last WWI VC on display at the Australian War Memorial - World War 1 - France Battle of Montbrehain - Victoria Cross - Lieutenant George Ingram
1918 - 2008 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps,1918, World War I, Anzac Day.
1919-1945 - Australian Fashion - Picture gallery
1919 - 1945 Decline of Naval Deterrence, Royal Australian Navy, 1922 Washington Five Power Naval Treaty, Australian Government
1922 - HMAS Adelaide (I) - Light Cruiser, CAPT J.B. Stevenson RAN, Panama Canal, Solomons, Noumea, blockade runner RAMSES, Fremantle
1924 - HMAS Australia, Washington Five Power Naval Treaty, Britain, America, Japan, Australia, HMAS Australia, Royal Australian Navy, RAN, scuttled, 1924
1933 - HMAS Voyager (I) - V & W Class Destroyer,  Singapore, Malta, Scrap Iron Flotilla, Alexandria, Libya, Betano Bay, Tobruk Ferry,
1933 - HMAS Vampire (I) - V & W Class Destroyer, Mediterranean, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Malaya, Singapore, Sunda Strait, Ceylon,
1933 - HMAS Vendetta (I) - Kattegat, Heligoland Bight Action, White Russian forces, White Russian forces, Bolshevik destroyer Lennuk, Scrap Iron Flotilla, 19th Destroyer Division, Mediterranean Fleet,  Battle of Calabria, Alexandria, Tobruk Ferry Service,
1934 - HMAS Australia, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
1936 - HMAS Yarra (II) - Royal Australian Navy, Grimsby Class Sloop, World War II
1938 - North Fort or North Head Battery - 1938, World War II, 31st May 1942, Sydney Harbour, 3 Japanese midget submarines
1939 - WorldWar 2 bigins.
1939 - RAN in 2nd World War, Second World War, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Canberra, HMAS Hobart, HMAS Sydney, HMAS Voyager, HMAS Swan, HMAS Yarra, HMAS Perth
1939 - Nursing During WWII, Ethel (Stalky) Stalker (now Lane), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 1937 - field hospitals, Dubbo - Tamworth, Morotai
1940 - Invasion of Sicily, 1940 - 1941 - RAN, Mediterranean, Royal Navy, supporting Army operations, successes HMAS Sydney Crete, loss of HMAS Waterhen, besieged garrison Tobruk, 1943 - Afrika Corps defeated, liberation of Sicily, amphibious invasion, Operation HUSKY, 3 - 000 ship invasion force, HMA Ships Gawler, Lismore, Maryborough, Ipswich, Cessnock, Geraldton, Caines and Wollongong - .
1940 - HMAS Katoomba (I) - Royal Australian Navy, Minesweeper, Corvette, World War II 
1940 - HMAS Parramatta (II) - Royal Australian Navy, Sloop, Tobruk, Suez Canal, Alexandria, 
1941 - Sir Roden Cutler VC, Victoria Cross, gallantry in the face of the enemy, military service, Australian diplomat, Governor of New South Wales
1941 - RAN in the Pacific War, Royal Australian Navy , HMA Ships Hobart, Vampire, Yarra, Quickmatch , Quiberon, Napier, Norman, Nizam, Nepal
1941 - HMAS Bendigo (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Philippines, Sunda Straits, Singapore, Java, Moratai, Sumatra, China, New Guinea, Okinawa
1941 - HMAS Broome (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class),  Philippines, New Guinea, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, 
1941 - HMAS Burnie (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), 20th Minesweeping Flotilla, Cape Otway,  Singapore, Netherlands East Indies, Hong Kong, Ceylon
1941 - HMAS Maryborough (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Corvette, Malayan-Java-Sumatran operations, Hong Kong
1941 - HMAS Toowoomba (I) - Australian Minesweeper, Corvette, World War II, Batavia, Malaya / Java campaign, Netherlands East Indies, Hong Kong, Ceylon
1941 - HMAS Ballarat (I) - Royal Australian Navy - Minesweeper - Corvette - World War II -
1941 - HMAS Wollongong (I) -Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Singapore, Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Batavia, Diego Garcia, Sicily,  Atlantic,  Mediterranean, Alexandria,
1941 - Nursing WW2 Myra McLaren, Myra McLaren, Australian nurses, Second World War, Palestine,1941, field hospitals, Athens, Gaza, 2/6th AGH
1942 - 2008 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
1942 - HMAS Warramunga (I) - Improved Tribal Class Destroyer, merchant ship STAR KING, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Gasmata, New Britain, Marubian, Task Force 74, Humboldt Bay, Japanese 'Kamikaze' (suicide) air attacks,  Philippines, Cebu City, Tarakan, Wewak, Subic Bay, Manila, Tokyo Bay, Korean theatre, Kunsan area, Chinnampo, Chongjin, Far East Strategic Reserve, SEATO exercise Ocean Link,
1942 - HMAS Ipswich (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Mediterranean, Syracuse, Atlantic, Alexandria, Port Said, Indian Ocean, 22nd Minesweeping Flotilla, New Guinea
1942 - HMAS Colac - Australian Minesweeper, Corvette, anti-submarine patrol,  Townsville, New Guinea, Halmahera Group, Bougainville, Solomon Islands,
1942 - Rats of Tobruk recognised, Rats of Tobruk, north Africa, official tribute, Federal Trade Minister Mark Vaile,
1942 - Battle of Savo Island, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Canberra, naval battle  Savo Island, Solomons, American invasion force, Guadalcanal
1942 - Kakoda Track, Second World War, Australia, Japan, 2/14th Australian Infantry Association, Papua New Guinea, Port Morseby
1942 - Battle of the Coral Sea, Britain, America, Japan, Port Moresby, Japanese defensive perimeter, Port Moresby, Operation MO, Darwin,
1942 - Papua New Guinea, fuzzy-wuzzy angels, Kokoda Track, Milne Bay, Rabaul, Lae, Salamaua, Port Moresby, Japan, Battle of Java Sea, Battle of the Sunda Strait, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, RAAF
1942 - 2008 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
1942 - 2008 - Australia and PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact - Australia PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact, Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
1942 - 2008 - Distorting the truth of Kokoda - Anzac Day  - Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
+1945 - 8 May - Britain and the Allies celebrate Victory in Europe (VE - day), a day after Germany surrenders.
1945 - 15 August - The Allies celebrate victory over Japan.
1945 - 2 September - Japanese administration under General Koiso officially surrenders with a signed document.
1945 - 2009- Ted Kenna - Tribute to Victoria Cross winner- 1945 - Victoria Cross - World War II - Wewak - New Guinea
1946 - 31 January - Australia announces participation in the allied British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. The force is dismantled 1951.
1949 - HMAS Sydney Royal Navy as HMS Terrible, Majestic class light aircraft carrier, commissioned at Devonport, England, on 16 December 1948 Captain Roy R. Dowling DSO RAN, 805 Squadron Hawker Sea Furies, 816 Squadron Fairey Fireflies, Korean War, England via Suez Coronation Contingent, remained in commission until 1958 after steaming 315 - 958 miles since commissioning., recommissioned as a Fast Troop Transport on 1963., Australian Training Squadron in September 1964 - Vung Tau Ferry - South Vietnam
1949 - The acceptance by Britain, and the other Dominions, of India's adoption of republican status is now taken as the start of the modern Commonwealth.
1949 - RAN Badge Design and History, official badge, Royal Australian Navy, 1949 - Building Surveyor, Hobart, Tasmania, naval symbol, Hobart Cenotaph, booklet Advice to Personnel, left handed rope surround knotted, stockless chain cabled anchor, four dots which Royal Australian Navy, Tudor Kings Crown, 1949 badge St Edwards Queens Crown, right hand roping, 1968 badge, eliminating knotted rope and the four dots, Federation Star, 2002 badge, spacing of words Royal Australian Navy
1950 - Australia becomes involved in the Malayan Emergency. Australian forces are involved in action against anti - government forces.
1950-53 - Korean War - Australian troops, Korean War, United Nations Forces, Korea, Royal Australian Navy, R.A.A.F, South Korea, 1950 - Australian battalion for Korea. - British Commonwealth Brigade, American Eighth Army, North Korea, Chinese 'human wave' attacks, reinforcements, Chinese offensive on the Kapyong River in April 1951 - patrols, raids, ambushes, bombardments - Over 1 - 200 Australians were wounded in the Korean War and 339 were killed.
1950 - RAN in the Korean War, HMA Sydney, Anzac, Bataan, Tobrok, Warramunga, Culgoa, Condamine, Murchison, Shoalhaven
1951 - HMAS Bataan, Nationalist Chinese, blockade, China,
1951 - HMAS Anzac II, a ship's history, Williamstown Naval Dockyard, Com. John Plunkett - Cole RAN, Royal Australian Navy, 22 March 1951 - Korea, area headquarters Communist forces, Hong Kong, Lieutenant Commander W.O.C. Roberts RAN, Singapore, Malayan Emergency (1948 - 60), Fleet Training Ship
1953 - 27 July - The UN and North Korea sign an agreement to end fighting in the war. The conflict remains unresolved to this day.
1955 - Malayan Insurgency - World War II, Australian troops, Malaya, British, Japanese defeat in 1945 - self government - . Malayan Communists, Federation of Malaya, 1948 - armed communist revolt, Australia, spread of communism in Asia, offered troops, British forces, R.A.A.F, 1950 - ground troops, 1955 to 1962
1961 - 1962 RAN ships, Saigon
1962 - Australia's Vietnam War - Overview and timeline
1963 - Indonesian Confrontation, 1963 - Indonesia, confrontation policy, Malaysia, Indonesian guerrilla forces, Borneo, Australian troops, P.M. Menzies, South East Asia, Sukarno overthrown in 1967
1965 - Vietnam War,  global perspective
1965 - Vietnam War, USA, Vietnam conflict, 1962 - 1972 - South Vietnam, North Vietnam, communist forces, South Vietnamese communist guerrilla troops
1965 - RAN in the Vietnam War, Royal Australian Navy, Vietnam War, Australian destroyers, HMAS Sydney, `Vung Tau Ferry', Australian Clearance Divers
1964 - Jan Bell, Vietnam War Nurse, Vietnam, Saigon, Concord Hospital, civil surgical team, Vietnam, 100 civilian nurses, Vung Tau, "the Riviera of South - East Asia", Saigon
1965 - Nursing in Vietnam, Sister Arm Hall,, Brisbane's Mater Hospital, 1960s., First Australian Field Hospital, Vung Tau, Vietnam war
1966-2008 - Vietnam vets stand tall on day marked for them
1967 - Australian White Ensign - Australian National Line, cargo ship Boonaroo, 1909 Imperial Conference, 1965 - Member for Batman, Mr SJ Benson MP -
1974 - Operation Navy Help Darwin, Darwin, Cyclone Tracy
1990 - Gulf War 1 - Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Kuwait, August 1990, oilfields, United Nations, missile attacks on Israel 1991, USA, Middle East, coalition of Arab and Western States, United Nations control, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, two ships, Royal Australian Navy, Persian Gulf, 1996.
1990 - Helen Joyce, Gulf War Nurse, Army, nursing, Mater in Newcastle, Australia, 1980 - military, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, lieutenant, Auburn Hospital, Concord, amphibious landing, Kuwait, oil fields,
1992 - The Citizenship Act is amended to remove swearing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. 1993 - Keating wins elections.
1992 - The Native Title Act establishes a process for the granting of Aboriginal land rights.
1995 - Jodie Routley, Army, 1987 - EN's training, pathology technician, RN's degree, 1993 to 1995 Lieutenant, Bougainville, peacekeeping mission, New Guinea, tidal wave
1998 - HMAS Arunta - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy Alice Springs, Perth Zoo, Western Australia
2000 - New stamps a special tribute to Victoria Cross heroes - Victoria Cross - Sir Roden Cutler - Keith Payne - Captain Neville Howse
2001 - HMAS Warramunga 11 - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy, boarder protection operations, Arabian Gulf, International Coalition against Terrorism
2002 - HMAS Stuart 2 - ANZAC class frigate - Royal Australian Navy - boarder protection operations - North Korean flag bulk carrier Pong Su -   Arabian Gulf - International Coalition against Terrorism -
2003 - Anzac Day security boosted - Anzac Day parades - Queensland RSL president John Burgess - Royal Australian Air Force
2003 - Defence Delivers Record Number of Medals, Australian Defence Force, 102 - 000 medals, Defence Directorate of Honours and Awards
2003 - ANZAC Day Speech by the Minister for Defence, - Dawn Service on HMAS Kanimbla in the Persian Gulf.
2003 - Iraq - Welcome Home Ceremonies
2003-6 - Aussie Uniforms Asian Faces 2003 - 6 - Defence picture gallery.
2005 - HMAS Toowoomba (11) - - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy, boarder protection operations, Arabian Gulf, International Coalition against Terrorism
2005 - Pictorial essay of Australian troops in Southern Iraq - Defence Photo Gallery
2005 - 2008 - Digger's Iraq uniform goes on display at the Australian War Memorial  - Private Christopher Donovan, combat uniform, Australian soldier, Iraq
2006 - Anzac Day Commemorations 2006 - Defence picture gallery.
2007 - Afghanistan - Trent Ollis - Digger showed bravery under fire
2008 - G-G opens Beersheba Light Horse memorial - Governor-General - Major General Michael Jeffery, Israel, Australian Light Horsemen, Turks, World War I
2008 - Dawn of new era for Anzac legend -  Plumed slouch hat - Australian Light Horseman - battlefields of France - Anzac Day celebrations
2008 - Dawn Service, Gallipoli 2008 - MIN80425/08,  Friday, 25 April 2008
2008 - Anzac Day Speech - Anzacs represent the best of us: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
2008 - Confessions from the front - Gallipoli - Norman Jones - World War I - transport ship - S.S. Indian
2008 - A special day of Anzac memories - 93rd Anzac Day - World War I - HMAS Sydney - Villers-Bretonneux - Gallipoli - Turkey - Anzac legend
2008 - Catalina flying boat mystery solved in Darwin - World war 2 news item.
2008 - Digger's Iraq uniform goes on display at the Australian War Memorial  - Private Christopher Donovan, combat uniform, Australian soldier, Iraq, Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australian War Memorial in Canberra
2008 - The return to Villers-Bretonneux  -  News Report - Australian
2008 - Diggers mark last Anzac Day in Iraq - Australian troops in southern Iraq - dawn service - Light Horse regiment - Talil Airbase
2008 - Plans for annual Villers-Bretonneux Anzac Day service - News Report - Australian
2008 - 1860 - Iraq diggers remember Sunnyside - 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War, General Harry Chauvel, Beersheba
2008 - 1914 - The war to start all wars - Australian newspaper article
2008 - 1915-gallipoli diary sells for 24k - ABC News Online article
2008 - 1915 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
2008 - 1916 - Sacrifice at the Western Front - Australian troops, Battle of the Somme, Pozieres, phosgene gas, artillery battle, Mouquet Farm, Moo-Cow Farm,
2008 - 1916 - Index - Archaeological dig at Fromelles
2008 - 1916 - DNA extraction from the remains of First World War soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood - Fromelles
2008 - 1916 - Govt to test Fromelles mass grave remains - DNA test, World War I soldiers, mass graves, Fromelles, northern France, World War I
2008 - 1917 - WWI digger identified with new DNA techniques - Private George Storey,  Passchendaele campaign,  Zonnebeke, Belgium,
2008 - 1917 - Private George Richard Storey grave rededicated after the Battle of Polygon Wood - Australian Army, Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium.
2008 - 1917 - World War I soldier identified as Private George Richard Storey - World War I, Battle of Polygon Wood,  Private John Hunter, Sergeant George Calder
2008 - 1917 - Beersheba War Memorial photograph 'not of Light Horse charge' - Saturday - 1 November 2008 - Australian
2008 - 1918 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps -1918 - World War I - Anzac Day
2008 - 1918 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
2008 - 1918 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps,1918, World War I, Anzac Day.
Hunt for HMAS Sydney II -search, discovery and the Royal Commission that followed, Ministerial interview included
2008 - 1918  - Last WWI VC on display at the Australian War Memorial - World War 1 - France Battle of Montbrehain - Victoria Cross - Lieutenant George
2008 - 1942 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
2008 - 1942 - Australia and PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact - Australia PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact, Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
2008 - 1942 - Distorting the truth of Kokoda - Anzac Day  - Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
2008 - 1966 - Long Tan - Awards win for Long Tan heroes
2008 - 1966 - Vietnam vets stand tall on day marked for them
2008 - 1966 - Major Peter Badcoe VC -Vietnam, Daughter remembers VC hero Badcoe
2008 - 1968 - 102 Coral Battery - Vietnam, Courage under fire in Battle of Coral
2008 - 1969 - 2nd D&E Platoon - Vietnam, combat history
2008 - 1969 - 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon - Vietnam, 'Ghost platoon' laid to rest
2008 - Vietnam vet to bring last missing digger home - Vietnam conflict, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, communist forces, South Vietnamese communist guerrilla troops
2008 - 1981 - Forgotten Digger's name etched on memorial at long last - The Australian , 11 November 2008
2009 - War Memorials big things on show - Australian War Memorial - German V2 rocket