Reserve Forces Day Parade

On this day

25 April

— 1901

Sailors from NSW, Victoria, and South Australia returned to Australia after service in China during the BOXER REBELLION

— 1915

LANDINGS at GALLIPOLI. Australian, New Zealand, British, and French troops were involved in a series of co-ordinated landings

— 1915

HMA Submarine AE2 penetrated the Dardanelles and sank a Turkish warship

— 1918

Victory in the Battle of VILLERS-BRETONNEUX. Final clearance of the town was undertaken with extreme ferocity. Few prisoners were taken

— 1975

An RAAF C-130 evacuated the Australian Embassy before the fall of Saigon