1942 — Battle for Buna-Gona, New Guinea, commences, with Australian and American troops attacking Japanese positions in a series of fierce and costly encounters.
1952 — HMAS Anzac comes under fire from North Korean shore batteries at Cho Do during the Korean War.
1914 — HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne proceed to the West Atlantic where they patrolled the West Indies and the east coast of North America for 18 months.
1944 — The Australian Government approved sending Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) members overseas. AWAS members served in forward areas for the first time at Lae, New Guinea.
1917— The conclusion of the Third Battle of Ypres. Australian troops were involved for three and a half months, suffering heavy losses in places such as Menin Road, Polygon Wood, and Passchendaele.
1944— Lieutenant Commander Stanley Darling RANVR was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for the second time in seven days for his actions while in command of anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic Ocean.
1917 — Australian Light Horse troops involved in the Battle of El Mughar, Palestine.
1965 — Warrant Officer Class 2 Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, for his actions during the Vietnam War. This was the first Victoria Cross awarded during the war in Vietnam.
1940 — HMAS Sydney (II) in action against an Italian convoy in the Strait of Otranto between the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas.
1943 — The last of 64 Japanese air raids on Darwin. The first of which had commenced in February 1942.
1951— Planes from HMAS Sydney (lll) flew their 1000th sortie in 19 flying days while in action in Korea.
1918— At 11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent in Europe, marking the end of the Great War. 417,000 Australians volunteered for service during the War. 62,000 were killed, 155,000 wounded and 4044 were taken as Prisoners of War.
1934— Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
1941— The Australian War Memorial, Australia’s national war memorial, is opened in Canberra.
1964 — The Australian Government introduced selective conscription of 20-year-old males under the National Service Act. More than 63,000 men were conscripted into the Australian Army and 15,300 served in Vietnam
1914 — The first sea battle for the new Royal Australian Navy, with HMAS Sydney destroying the German cruiser SMS Emden off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Four of Sydney’s crew were killed and twelve were wounded.
1940 — American freighter MS City of Rayville becomes the first US merchant ship sunk in the Second World War after hitting a mine laid by the German Raider Pinguin, off Cape Otway, Victoria.
1917—Capture of Gaza by British forces which included troops of the Australian Light Horse.
1940—SS Cambridge sinks off Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, after striking a mine laid by the German Raider Pinguin. This was the first wartime loss off the Australian coast during the Second World War.