1916 — Sergeant Henry Robinson, Bombardier William Klintworth, and Gunner Edward Morgan, of the 55th Siege Battery, Australian Garrison Artillery, were killed at Mont St Eloy, France. They became the first Australians to die from direct enemy action on the Western Front in the Great War.

1917 — German troops along the central portion of the Western Front began a strategic withdrawal to the new Hindenburg Line, shortening the line by 25Km.

1942 — Horn Island, an important tactical base for Allied air operations in the Torres Strait, was bombed in the first of eight raids carried out by Japanese aircraft.

1951 — United Nations forces occupied Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.

1900 — Bloemfontein, South Africa, was captured by troops including the NSW Mounted Rifles during the Boer War.

1901 — General Order 10 was issued, notifying the disbandment of the various Colonial Forces that made up the newly formed Australian Army.

1900 — Troops of the NSW Mounted Rifles reached Bloemfontein, South Africa, during the Boer War.

1942 — No 460 Squadron RAAF launched its first raid against the German city of Emden.

1951 — Soldiers of 3RAR capture Hill 703 during the Korean War.

1845 — British troops based in NSW were sent to New Zealand to suppress an uprising by Māori’s, unhappy about the expanding European settlement on the North Island.

1917 — Australian and New Zealand troops of the 1st (ANZAC) Wireless Signal Squadron, attached to Lieutenant General Stanley Maude’s force in Mesopotamia, provide communications through mobile transmitting stations and capture the city of Baghdad.

1989— The first contingent of Australian Army soldiers arrives in Namibia as part of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group, or UNTAG.

1900 — NSW Mounted Rifles, NSW Lancers, and the 1st Australian Horse were involved in the Battle of Driefontein during the Boer War in South Africa.

1942 — Japanese forces landed a Finschhaven, New Guinea. The Japanese needed to capture towns such as this to protect their forward base at Lae.

1942 — Allied forces on Java surrendered to the Japanese Army.

1942 — Lae and Salamaua were occupied by the Japanese, providing defensive depth for their important air and sea bases at Rabaul.

1900 — Troops from the NSW Mounted Rifles and Queensland Mounted Infantry fought in the Battle of Poplar Grove during the Boer War. Dispirited by earlier defeats, many Boers panicked and abandoned their positions. This collapse of Boer resistance later allowed the capture of Bloemfontein on 13 March 1900.

1951 — Battle of Maehwe-San, Korea, began. The battle ultimately cost the lives of twelve Australians from 3RAR.

1943 — In North Africa, Rommel’s counterattack against Montgomery’s 8th Army at The Battle of Medenine in Tunisia, fails.