1940 - HMA Ships Stuart and Waterhen were on screen at the bombardment of Bardia.

1940 — The Volunteer Defence Force, composed mainly of First World War veterans, was formed for home defence by the Returned and Services League (RSL)

1918 – The Battle of Abu Tellul was fought during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, on the west bank of the Jordan River. The Australian Light Horse unit defending the heights at Mussallabeh was attacked by a German and Ottoman force.

1943 — HMAS AUSTRALIA was the only Australian ship engaged in the second battle of KOLOMBANGARA, Solomon Islands

1943 — HMA Ships GERALDTON, CAIRNS, CESSNOCK and WOLLONGONG, patrolled off the beaches of SICILY as the invasion force fought its way ashore during Operation Husky

1943 — HMAS NIZAM picked up a lifeboat containing 13 survivors from an American ship which had been torpedoed nearly 500 km away

1953 — HMAS TOBRUK began a two-week patrol on the north-east coast of KOREA. It was her last patrol before the cease-fire came into effect

1918 — German warship KONIGSBERG was destroyed in the RUFIGI River, East Africa. HMAS PIONEER participated in the action

1945 — HMAS DIAMANTINA reported finding a small roll of paper in the stomach of a shark caught off New Guinea. The paper was identified as a carrier pigeon message and when translated was found to be an appeal for assistance from a Japanese unit, dated 7 July

1950 — United States Eighth Army took control of ground operations in KOREA

1941 — Vichy French forces in Syria, surrendered. The five-week long campaign was the first action of the 7th Australian Division. It was thought that the Vichy French would offer only token resistance, but 3,900 of the 34,000 Australian, British, Indian, and Free French troops involved in the campaign became casualties.

1941 — HMAS VENDETTA sank HMS DEFENDER after the British ship was severely damaged in German air attacks off SIDI BARRANI, Egypt, while engaged in evacuating troops

1911 — The Royal Australian Navy was formed

1940 — The Battle of BRITAIN began. This aerial battle for control of the skies above Britain was to be the prelude to a planned German invasion of Britain

1941 — PTE J.H. GORDON won a Victoria Cross for his actions in fighting the Vichy French near JEZZINE, Lebanon

1951 — Negotiations between the United Nations Command and the Communists began at KAESONG, Korea. The negotiations were to last two years before an armistice was finally declared

1940 — HMA Ships SYDNEY, STUART, VOYAGER, and VAMPIRE, together with ships of the Royal Navy, engaged the Italian Navy in the Battle of CALABRIA

1942 — 2/24th Battalion captured a German radio interception and intelligence unit, effectively blinding Rommel in North Africa

1943 — 3 and 450 Squadron, RAAF, and eight Australian warships, were part of a force of some 180,000 troops and 2,590 ships involved in the invasion of SICILY

1941 — Troops of 17 Brigade continued fighting against Vichy French troops in Syria, leading to the capture of Beirut

1942 — 13 Wellington bombers of 460 Squadron, RAAF, took part in a night-time bombing raid on the major German port of Wilhelmshaven, severely damaging the ship-building yards

1942 — The 9th Australian Division was in action at EL ALAMEIN, Egypt, as the Allies attempted to push the German and Italian troops back

1942 — HORN ISLAND in Torres Strait, was bombed for the fifth time. Horn Island was the closest Allied base to Japanese forces at that time and housed many RAAF squadrons and thousands of men

1956 — The last RAAF transport planes returned from service in KOREA