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.

1941 — The advance party of the 6th Australian Division arrived in Greece.

1945 — Australian troops captured Saposa in the Solomon Islands from the Japanese invasion force.

1945 — Battle of Waitavolo, New Britain, begins. With the capture of Waitavolo, fighting against the Japanese ceased and further Australian action was largely limited to patrolling across the Gazelle Peninsula.

1942 — A convoy of three ships, escorted by HMAS Yarra, was attacked by three Japanese cruisers and two destroyers, south of Java. All four ships were sunk and only thirteen of Yarra’s crew of 151 survived.

1982 — HMAS Tobruk transported ten helicopters to the Middle East as part of a multinational force enforcing the cease-fire between Egypt and Israel.  The RAN flew and maintained the aircraft from their base at El Gorah, North Sinai.

1885 — The New South Wales Contingent, comprising an infantry battalion of 522 men and 24 officers and an artillery battery of 212 men, sailed from Sydney for service in the war in the Sudan. 

1942 — Broome and Wyndham in Western Australia were bombed by the Japanese.  Broome was crowded with refugees fleeing the Japanese invasion of the Netherlands East Indies and about 86 were killed in the brief but intense attack.