10 August
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1914 — Australia formally offered troops to the Great War.
1916 — The Battle of Romani began in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
1945 — The Potsdam Conference ended.
1990 — Iraq invaded Kuwait, beginning the Gulf War.
1871 — The New South Wales Permanent Military Forces were established.
1900 — The Battle of Grootvallier was fought in South Africa.