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1916
Troopships carrying the 1st and 2nd Australian Divisions arrived in Marseilles, France. The troops were then moved by train to the battlefields in the north
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1941
Battle of GIARABUB, an Italian outpost in Libya, begins. After a siege lasting 3 months, elements of the 18th Brigade attacked and captured the oasis. The campaigh cost 17 Australian lives and 77 were wounded. The Italian garrison of approximately 2000 men were either killed or captured