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1945
The ‘Kapooka Tragedy’ occurs when 26 soldiers are killed by the premature detonation of explosives they were handling in a bunker. It remains the deadliest training accident in Australian military history.
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1993
The 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, aboard HMAS Tobruk and HMAS Jervis Bay, depart Mogadishu at the end of Australia’s contribution to United Nations Peacekeeping in Somalia known as Operation SOLACE.
