Portal:Military of Australia/Selected anniversaries/January
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Anniversaries can be found at either Here from the Army news website or here AWM
- 1901 - Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia
- 1901 - The Queensland Mounted Infantry Regiment Suffers the first casualties of any Australian colony in the Boer War
- 1975 - Office of Australian War Graves is established
- 1943 - Buna Government Station is captured from Japanese forces
- 1941 - 6th Division in action at Bardia, Libya beginning Australia's first major ground campaign of the Second World War
- 1942 - Japanese air attacks begin against Rabaul, New Britain
- 1941 - The 6th Division captures the city of Bardia and 40,000 Italian prisoners, including four generals, at a cost of 130 killed and 326 wounded
- 1945 - HMAS Australia was damaged by Kamikaze aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Philippines killing 25
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- 1952 - HMAS Tobruk bombards Chomi Do, Korea
- 1952 - RAAF launch first Gloster Meteor rocket attack against ground forces
- 1958 - Last Australian servicemen returns from Korea
- 1917 - The 1st and 3rd Light Horse Brigades take part in the Battle of Rafa, capturing the town
- 1940 - Australian Comforts Fund re-established for World War II
- 1966 - 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment brgins operations during Operation Crimp
- 1940 - Second Australian Imperial Force sails for the Middle East
- 1942 - Japanese forces captured Tarakan Island, Borneo
- 1973 - Official cessation of hostilities in Vietnam by Australian forces
- 1943 - Australian and American forces begin attack on Sanananda during the Battle of Buna-Gona
- 1900 - Troops from New South Wales are attacked at Prieska by Boers.
- 1942 - 8th Division causes heavy casualties on Japanese in an ambush at Gemas in the first Australian contact with Japanese troops of the World War II
- 1944 - Australian 9th Division capture the town of Sio destroying the Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula Campaign
- 1952 - HMAS Sydney begins its seventh patrol and final tour in Korean waters
- 1962 - Frank Hurley the first official AIF photographer dies
- 1917 - Squadron, Australian Flying Corps sail for France
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- 1942 - North Borneo surrendered to Japanese forces
- 1951 - Mustangs of No. 77 Squadron RAAF attacked a suspected Chinese headquarters in Pyongyang
- 1942 - Charles Groves Wright Anderson wins a VC at Muar River, Malaya
- 1942 - Wirraways of No. 24 Squadron RAAF engage Japanese fighters and bombers over Rabaul, 8 were shot down
- 1941 - Australian 6th Division begins its attack on Tobruk, Libya
- 1941 - Tobruk surrenders to Australian 6th Division
- 1943 - HMAS Patricia Cam was sunk by Japanese aircraft near the Wessel Islands
- 1942 - Japanese forces capture Rabaul, New Guinea
- 1944 - Australian 7th Division defeat Japanese at Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea
- 1967 - Members of 1st Australian Task Force make contact with the enemy for the first time in the area of the Bien Hoa
- 1942 - Japanese forces land at Lae
- 1942 - Full mobilisation ordered in Australia in responce to threat of Japan
- 1952 - Last day of service for HMAS Sydney in the Korean war
- 1945 - Beginning of Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo only 6 of the 6000 marchers survived
- 1941 - Australian 6th Division engages the enemy at Derna, Libya
- 1991 - RAN Clearance Diving Team departs Perth for Kuwait during the First Gulf War
- 1941 - Italians evacuate Derna, Libya after been defeated by units of the 6th Division
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- 1942 - Allied forces withdraw to Singapore after being driven from the Malay Peninsula
