Portal:Military of Australia/Selected anniversaries/November
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- 1911 - Compulsory military training introcuced
- 1914 - First Australian Imperial Force sails for Egypt
- 1989 - National Army Memorial dedicated in Canberra
- 1942 - World War II: Kokoda airstrip re-occupied by Australian troops
- 1918 - World War I: Armistice with Austria-Hungary signed
- 1944 - World War II: Troops of the 6th Brigade land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain.
- 1950 - Korean War: 3RAR successfully assault and hold crucial hill during the Battle of Pakchon
- 1971 - The last Australian Army units to leave South Vietnam are embarked on HMAS Sydney at Vung Tau.
- 1916 - World War I: The Third Battle of Gaza ends with an allied victory
- 1940 - Mines off Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, sink a British freighter.
- 1944 - World War II: G for George arrives at RAAF Base Amberley after completing 90 combat missions over occupied Europe
- 1914 - World War I: HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser Emden, off the Cocos Islands
- 1948 - Royal Australian Army Medical Corps granted Royal Warrant
- 1964 - Australian Government introduces selective conscription of 20 year old males by ballot under the National Service Act
- 1918 - Allies sign armistice with Germany. Remembrance Day
- 1941 - Opening of the Australian War Memorial
- 1943 - Last Japanese air raid on Darwin
- 1940 - HMAS Sydney in action at Strait of Otranto
- 1942 - Australian troops capture Wairopi, New Guinea, from Japanese
- 1965 - Kevin Arthur Wheatley awarded VC at Tra Bong, Vietnam
- 1917 - Anzac Mounted Division pursues Turks towards Jaffa, Israel
- 1974 - HMAS Tarangau in Papua New Guinea is officially transferred to the Papua New Guinea Self Defence Force
- 1943 - World War II: Last major air battle over Papua New Guinea
- 1944 - World War II: Australian government approves sending of Australian Women's Army Service members overseas
- 1917 - World War I: Allies capture Jaffa, Israel
- 1943 - World War II: Admiral Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia
- 1943 - World War II: The 9th Division begins its attack on Sattelberg
- 1916 - World War I: Battle of the Somme ends, Australia suffered 23,000 casualties
- 1942 - World War II: 16 Brigade captures Popondetta, New Guinea
- 1914 - World War I: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupies Admiralty and Western Islands
- 1915 - Lieutenant General William Birdwood takes command of the Dardanelles Army
- 1941 - World War II: HMAS Sydney disappears off the Western Australian coast, all 645 men are lost
- 1942 - World War II: Australian troops forced to retire after capturing Gona, New Guinea
- 1970 - 2nd Cavalry Regiment is established
- 1943 - World War II: Japanese attack 9 Division defence at Scarlet Beach, New Guinea.
- 1916 - World War I: 3 Division arrives in France
- 1944 - World War II: Australia assumes responsibility for Bougainville, New Guinea
- 1901 - Second Boer War: Leslie Cecil Maygar is awarded the VC at Geelhoutboom, Natal
- 1944 - World War II: Australian troops relieve Americans at Cape Torokina, Bougainville
- 1948 - The Australian Regiment now known as the Royal Australian Regiment is formed
- 1943 - World War II: Thomas Currie Derrick is awarded the VC for his actions at Sattelberg, New Guinea
- 1965 - Vietnam War: 1RAR captures Duc Hanh village, Vietnam
- 1899 - Second Boer War: New South Wales Lancers in Battle of Graspan, South Africa
- 1951 - Korean War: 3RAR in Battle of Sunchon, Korea.
- 1942 - World War II: HMAS Adelaide sinks German blockade runner Ramus in the Indian Ocean.
- 1943 - World War II: 2/43rd Battalion repulses strong Japanese attacks on Pabu Hill, New Guinea.
- 1939 - World War II: Inauguration of the Empire Air Training Scheme
- 1941 - World War II: HMAS Parramatta was sunk by a German submarine U-559 in the Mediterranean Sea near Tobruk.
- 1942 - World War II: Ron Middleton is awarded the VC after a raid on Turin, Italy
- 1950 - Korean War: The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, secures the Teadong River ferry crossing, Korea.
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