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January<\/strong>
\n9 January 1917 Light Horse captures Rafa.
\n17 January 1917 No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps sail for France
\n18 January 1919 Versailles Peace Conference opens<\/p>\n

February
\n<\/strong>3 February 1915 Turkish forces attack the Suez Canal
\n5 February 1917 Captain H.W. Murray wins Victoria Cross in France
\n19 February 1915 Allied warships shell Dardanelles<\/p>\n

March
\n<\/strong>17 March 1917 Australians occupy Bapaume, Western Front
\n18 March 1915 Allied fleet second attempts to breach Turkish defences of Dardanelles
\n20 March 1916 Anzac Corps land in France
\n21 March 1918 Final German offensive begins
\n26 March 1917 Captain Cherry, 26th Battalion wins VC at Lagnicourt
\n28 March 1918 Sergeant McDougall, 47th Battalion wins VC at Dernancourt
\n31 March 1921 Formation of the Australian Air Force<\/p>\n

April
\n<\/strong>4 April 1918 First Action at Villers-Bretonneux
\n7 April 1916 Australians reach the Western Front at the \u2018nursery sector\u2019
\n8 April 1918 Repatriation Department established
\n11 April 1917 First battle of Bullecourt
\n12 April 1918 Battle of Hazebrouck
\n13 April 1916 Jifjafa, Sinai captured by The Australian Light Horse
\n17 April 1917 Second Battle of Gaza
\n21 April 1917 Foundation of the Imperial War Graves Commission
\n24 April 1918 Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux
\n25 April 1915 Landing at Gallipoli.
\n25 April 1916 First ANZAC DAY commemorations.
\n25 April 1918 Fighting around Villers-Bretonneux. Allied troops re-capture the town
\n29 April 1915 Submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Mamara<\/p>\n

May
\n<\/strong>3 May 1917 Second attack on Bullecourt
\n4 May 1915 Australian attack on Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli
\n5 May 1915 Australian and New Zealand troops on Cape Helles, Gallipoli
\n8 May 1915 Battle of Krithia
\n15 May 1915 Major General W.T. Bridges, commander of 1st Div AIF wounded at Gallipoli
\n17 May 1917 Bullecourt captured
\n19 May 1915 Turkish counter attack on Gallipoli
\n24 May 1915 Formal truce on Gallipoli
\n29 May 1915 Turkish attack on Quinn\u2019s Post, Gallipoli
\n31 May 1918 General Monash takes command of the Australian Corps<\/p>\n

June
\n<\/strong>1 June 1918 RAN aircraft first used in combat
\n7 June 1917 Captain R.C. Grieve, 37th Battalion, wins the Victoria Cross at Messines
\n25 June 1917 United States troops begin to arrive in France
\n25-26 June 1916 Private J.W.A. Jackson, 17th Battalion, wins the Victoria Cross south-west of Bois Grenier, near Armentieres, France
\n27 June 1911 Royal Military College Duntroon opens.
\n28 June 1918 Corporal P. Davey, 10th Battalion wins the Victoria Cross at Merris, France
\n28 June 1919 Treaty of Versailles signed<\/p>\n

July
\n<\/strong>1 July 1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme
\n7 July 1918 Battle of Hamel, France
\n10 July 1911 Formation of Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
\n14 July 1918 Fighting at Abu Tellul, Palestine by Australian Light Horse against German Asia Corps
\n19 July 1916 Battle of Fromelles
\n23 July 1916 Battle of Pozieres begins
\n31 July 1914 Labor leader Andrew Fisher declares Australians will defend Britain \u2018to our last man and our last shilling\u2019.<\/p>\n

August
\n<\/strong>1 August 1917 Third Battle of Ypres begins.
\n3 August 1914 Australia offers assistance to Great Britain in the event of War.
\n3 August 1916 Australian Light Horse in Battle of Romani, Egypt .
\n4 August 1914 Great Britain Declares War on Germany.
\n6 August 1915 Battle for Lone Pine, Gallipoli.
\n7 August 1915 Australians charge at the Nek, Gallipoli.
\n8 August 1916 Battle for Moquet Farm.
\n8 August 1918 Battle for Amiens begins.
\n10 August 1914 Voluntary recruitment for the 1st AIF begins.
\n13 August 1914 Establishment of the Australian Red Cross.
\n19 August 1914 Expeditionary force sails from Australia to capture German possessions in the Pacific.
\n21 August 1915 Last major fighting on Gallipoli takes place at Hill 60.
\n24 August 1916 Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF).
\n26 August 1916 6th Australian Brigade attacks Moquet Farm on the Somme.
\n31 August 1918 Battle of Mont St. Quentin begins.<\/p>\n

September
\n<\/strong>1 September 1918 Battle of Mont St. Quentin continues
\n11 September 1914 Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force lands at Rabaul.
\n14 September 1914 HMA Submarine AE1 lost off New Guinea
\n17 September 1918 Australian attack on Hindenburg Line in the Picardy region of France.
\n19 September 1918 5th Light Horse brigade capture Nablus.
\n20 September 1912 Official formation of the Australian Flying Corps.
\n21 September 1914 German New Guinea surrenders.
\n25 September 1918 Anzac Mounted Division capture Amman.<\/p>\n

October
\n<\/strong>1 October 1918 Australian Light Horse take Damascus.
\n5 October 1918 Capture of Montbrehain, France by AIF.
\n10 October 1917 Battle of Poelcappelle, Western Front. (Third Battle Ypres).
\n21 October 1915 Australian Red Cross Missing & Wounded Bureau established.
\n21 October 1916 5th Australian Division enter the front line near Flers, Somme.
\n28 October 1916 First conscription referendum.
\n30 October 1918 Armistice with Turkey.
\n31 October 1917 4th Light Horse charge at Beersheba, Palestine.<\/p>\n

November
\n<\/strong>1 November 1914 1st AIF Convoy sails from Albany, Western Australia.
\n7 November 1916 Third Battle of Gaza.
\n9 November 1914 HMAS Sydney sinks the Emden.
\n11 November 1918 Germany signs the Armistice. REMEMBRANCE DAY.
\n11 November 1941 Opening of the Australian War Memorial
\n14 November 1917 End of Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.<\/p>\n

December
\n<\/strong>2 December 1914 First Australian military aircraft despatched to war.
\n3 December 1914 First AIF disembarked in Egypt
\n3 December 1915 Siege of Kut begins in Mesopotamia.
\n7 December 1915 Evacuation of ANZAC troops from Gallipoli begins.
\n9 December 1917 Jerusalem occupied by the Desert Mounted Corps.
\n12 December 1917 HMAS Australia damaged in a collision with HMS Repulse.
\n13 December 1915 Australian Light Horse fight at Um Rakham.
\n20 December 1915 Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
\n20 December 1917 Second conscription referendum held in Australia.
\n21 December 1916 Australian Light Horse capture El Arish
\n23 December 1916 Battle of Magdhaba, northern Sinai
\n31 December 1914 The second convoy of the First AIF departed Albany Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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