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10 August

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1914 — Voluntary recruitment began for overseas service in the Great War. 

1918 — The Battle of Etinehem began in France. 

1918 — The Battle of Proyart began in France. 

1942 — The Second Battle of Kokoda ended in Papua New Guinea. 

9 August

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1915 — A heavy Ottoman counterattack fell against Lone Pine on Gallipoli. 

1918 — The Battle of Lihons began in France. 

1942 — HMAS Canberra was sunk off Savo in the Solomon Islands. 

1945 — An atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 

1994 — Australian troops began mine clearance operations in Mozambique under Operation CORACLE. 

8 August

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1900 — The New South Wales Contingent sailed for the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1916 — The Battle of Mouquet Farm began in France. 

1918 — The Battle of Amiens was fought in France. 

1940 — HMAS Hobart began transporting troops to British Somaliland. 

7 August

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1915 — Heavy Turkish counterattacks began at Lone Pine on Gallipoli.

1915 — The Battle of Chunuk Bair began on Gallipoli.

1915 — The Battle of the Nek was fought on Gallipoli. 

1942 — HMAS Australia, Canberra, and Hobart supported US landings on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

6 August

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1915 — The Battle of Lone Pine began. 

1943 — An Australian coastwatcher rescued a shipwrecked Lieutenant John F. Kennedy and his crew. 

1945 — The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. 

1967 — The Battle of Suoi Chau Pha was fought in South Vietnam.

5 August

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1914 — A gun at Fort Nepean fired warning shots at SS Pfalz; they were the ‘first Australian shots’ of the Great War.

1916 — The Battle of Pozieres ended. 

1943 — 378 Japanese prisoners broke out of Cowra Prisoner of War Camp. 

1953 — Australians captured in the Korean War were released. 

4 August

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1900 — The Battle of Elands River began in South Africa. 

1914 — Great Britain declared war on Germany, bringing Australia into the Great War. 

1916 — Australian troops conducted their final attack at Pozieres in France. 

3 August

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1914 — Australia formally offered troops to the Great War.

1916 — The Battle of Romani began in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.

2 August

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1945 — The Potsdam Conference ended. 

1990 — Iraq invaded Kuwait, beginning the Gulf War. 

1 August

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1871 — The New South Wales Permanent Military Forces were established. 

1900 — The Battle of Grootvallier was fought in South Africa.