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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire, by a Serb separatist at Sarajevo.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">28 July - Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Serbia</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st July - Australian Government pledges support for Britain "to our last man and our last shilling"</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1 August - Germany declares war on Russia</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd August - German troops move into Luxembourg</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd August - Germany declares war on France</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd August - Australia offers expeditionary force of 20,000 troops</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">4th August - Germany invades Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5 August - Australia declares war on German. Artillery at Fort Nepeanfire at ship Pfalz to stop her leaving Port Phillip Bay - the first Allied shot fired in the war.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th August - Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Russia</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th August - British Expeditionary Force lands in France</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">10 August - Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F) launch recruitment drive</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">12 August - Britain and France declare war on Austro-Hugarian Empire</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">13 August  - Austro-Hungarian Empire forces invade Serbia. Establishment of the Australian Red Cross to raise funds to purchase comfort supplies for Australian service personnel overseas</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th August - Australian Naval and Military  Expeditionary Force departs for Palm Island training camp on route to New Britain. Australia Red Cross founded</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20th August  - German Army attacks Brussels</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">23rd August - Japan declares war on Germany</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th August - New Zealand Expeditionary Forces invade German-held Samoa</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">August/September - Formation of variously named "patriotic funds" in all States to raise money to send extra food and clothing to service personnel overseas</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th September - Battle of the Marne starts</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">11th September - Australian Expeditionary Force captures German wireless station at New Britain with loss of six lives - first Australian casualties of the war.. Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force lands at Blanche Bay, adjacent to Rabual, in German held New Guinea.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">12th September - Australians capture Rabaul</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="90846520.jpg" border=0 width="70" height="82" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">October - C.E.W Bean appointed as Australia's official war correspondent <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/aboutus/bean.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/aboutus/bean.htm"><U>Click Here for more about Bean</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">14th October - Australia loses it's first naval vessel, submarine AEI off coast of New Britain</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th October - Battles of Ypres begins</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st October - Turkey declares war on Britain and her allies</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st November - The initial Australian and New Zealand convey sets out for Britain</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd November - Russia declares war on Turkey</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5th November - Britain and France declare war on Turkey. Australia is automatically at war with Turkey.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th November - Australian forces occupy Nauru</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th November - Australia's HMAS Sydney destroys German raider Emden of Cocos Islands and takes crew prisoner</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd December - Initial convoy of Australian and New Zealand Forces disembark at Alexandria in Egypt. Troops set up camp at Mena Australian and New Zealand forces combine as Australian New Zealand Army Corps - (ANZAC)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st December - Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood arrives in Egypt to take command of ANZAC's.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <B>1915</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1919 WIDTH="587"><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st January - Battle of Broken Hill in which two Turks shoot and kill six passengers on a holiday train near Broken Hill</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st February - Second Australian convoy arrives in Egypt</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd February - Turks occupy Sinai, 18 German Navy begins blockading Britain.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th February - British and French fleets begin trying to open Dardenalles sea route for Allied shipping.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">18th March - Dardenalles naval campaign abandoned</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20th April - </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">First Australian Flying Corps leaves Mesopotamia</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">22nd April - Second battles of Ypres begins. Germans employ poison gas.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ANZAC's land on Gallipoli Peninsula in face of heavy Turkish fire.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th  April - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in the sea of Marmara and crew is captured</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd May - ANZAC's attack Baby 700 and Gaba Tepe</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th May - German U20 submarine sinks Cunard passenger liner  Lusitania off Ireland</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="9096c810.jpg" border=0 width="108" height="129" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th May - Death on Gallipoli of Major General W.T.Bridges, Commander of the First Division, AIF. Bridges body was returned to Australia, and buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th May  - ANZAC's prevent Turkish attack from wiping out their positions near ANZAC Cove killing 3000 Turks. John Simpson 'Kirkpatrick - The man with the donkey - killed. Truce arranged to bury dead. Lance Corporal Albert Jacka wins first Australia Victoria Cross of the war at Gallipoli.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">24th May -Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19th May attacks were buried</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31 May - German zeppelin bombs London</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th June - ANZAC's repulse an attack by the Turks at the nek</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th August - ANZAC's attack Lone Pine in major offensive. Battle of Sari Blair begins. British troops mount offensive ay Cape Helles.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hundreds die as Australian Light Horse (unmounted) charges Turkish machine guns at the Nek.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th August - ANZAC's capture Lone Pine losing 2000 men , but killing 5000 Turks. Australians won 7 Victoria Crosses</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">10th August - ANZAC's abandon campaign to capture Hill 971 and Chanuk Bair</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st August - ANZAC's attack Hill 60</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">29th August - ANZAC's abandon furthur offensives at Gallipoli accepting stalemate.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">23rd September - Journalist Keith Murdoch sends letter of complaint from Gallipoli to Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher recommending withdrawal of troops.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th September - Allies attack Artois and Champagne on Western Front</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th September - Australia launches first Australian-made cruiser, HMAS Brisbane.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5th October - Allies land at Salonika</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="90668960.jpg" border=0 width="104" height="150" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st October - </div> <div> Vera Deakin, daughter of ex-Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, established the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt. During the remainder of the war the Bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/index.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/index"><U>Click Here for furthur Information</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">27th October - War enthusiast William (Billy) Hughes becomes Prime Minister and begins boosting war effort.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th December - British decide to evacuate Gallipoli, Suvla Bay and Cape Helles. Attack on Kut-al-Amara in Mesopotamia begins.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">18th December - Evacuation of ANZAC's begins from Gallipoli, leaving 8709 dead behind. 20, 000 Allied troops evacuated.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20th December- All ANZAC troops now off ANZAC Cove and Suvla Bay.</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <B>1916</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1297 WIDTH="587"><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th January  - All Allied troops now evacuated from Gallipoli Peninsula ending campaign. Most ANZAC troops are assigned to Western Front.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">16th January - Prime Minister Billy Hughes leaves to inspect European battlefields</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st February - Battle of Verdun begins</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7 th March - ANZAC troops reach Europe</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">24th March - Wartime price controls begin.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th April - Australian soldiers take up positions on the Western Front at Armentieres, France</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th  April - First commemoration of ANZAC Day</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">29th April - Turkish Army captures Kut-al-Amara.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st May - Naval Battle of Jutand begins in which 250 warships are engaged.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5th June - Grand Sherif Hussein of Mecca launches the Arab revolt in which Lawrence of Arabia would play a leading role</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th June - Returned Services League founded - RSSILA - Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia - a forerunner to current RSL - Returned and Services League of Australia.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st July - First Battle of the Somme</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th July - Australians fight in the pointless and bloody Battle of Fromelles</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">23rd July - Australians capture Pozieres winning four Victoria Crosses</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st July - Billly Hughes urges all men to enlist</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">4th August - ANZAC Mounted Division fights in Battle of Romani in Sinai.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">24th August -British War Office cables Australia for more men.Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF). The ACF coordinated the activities of the varios State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comforts parcels to personnel overseas.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th August - Billy Hughes announces conscription referendum.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd September - Australian troops capture Mouquet Farm.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th September - Tanks used for first time in the Somme at Flers-Courcelette.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">28th October -First  Referendum on conscription returns a "No" vote by a narrow margin.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">18 November - Somme campaign ended. Australian troops manned trenches throughout a severe winter on the Western Front.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th November - British Government agrees to buy the entire Australian wool clip for duration of war.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th December - Central Powers capture Bucharest. 21 Australian Light Horsemen capture El Arish in Sinai</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">23rd December - Australian Light Horse capture Magdhaba in Sinai</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <B>1917</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1766 WIDTH="587"><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th January -  ANZAC mounted forces capture Rafa in Palestine</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th February - First soldier settlement legislation introduced</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">24th February - British recapture Kut-al-Amara</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">11th March - British capture Bagdad</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th March - Tsar Nicholas II abdicates</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">17th March - Australian troops capture Bapaume and advance towards Hndenburg Line.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">26th March - First battle of Gazza in Palestine</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th April - United States finally declares war on Germany</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">11th April - First Battle of Bullecourt begins on the Hindenberg Line in which 3000 Australians Die</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">17th April Second Battle of Gaza in Palestine</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Foundation of Imperial War Graves Commission, later Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The purpose of the Commision was to erect and maintain war memorials and cemeteries.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd May - Second Battle of Bullecourt begins. 7000 Australian casualties</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">12th May - Australian and British troops repulse a German counterattack at Bullecourt</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">15th May - Australian and British troops repulse a German counter-attack at Bullecourt</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th June-ANZAC's capture Messines Ridge in Flanders assisted by Australian tunnellers who blew up Hill 60</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th June - First Americans land in France</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">6th July - SS Cumberland sinks after hitting a mine laid by German raider Wolf off Gabo Island</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">22nd July - Four members of the Australian Army Nursing Service  - Sisters Cawwod, Deacon and Ross King and Staff Nurse Derrer - won Military Medals for rescuing patients trapped in a burning Casualty Clearing Station at Trois Arbes, France. These were the first bravery awards won by Australian nurses in action.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st July - Third Battle of Ypres begins (Passchendaele)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20th September - Australian troops gain upper hand in Battle of Menin Road during third Battle of Ypres</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">26th September - Australian troops capture Polygon Wood near Ypres</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">4th October - ANZAC forces fight in the bloody assault on Broodseinde Ridge</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">12th October - ANZAC forces fight in bloody battle of Passchendaele</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="90c40b40.jpg" border=0 width="64" height="180" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st October - Third Battle of Gaza. Australian Light Horse capture Beersheba under the legendary Australian General Harry Chauvel.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th November - Billy Hughes announces another referendum on conscription</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th November - South Australian Parliament legislates to change German place names</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th November - Queensland Premier T.J. Ryan attacks Prime Minister Hughes for trying to force through conscription.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20th November - Battle of Cambrai</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">29th November - Protester hits P.M. Hughes with an egg during an anti-conscription rally.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd December - New Bolshevik-led Russia abandons war against Germany.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th December - Allies capture Jerusalem</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> December - Australians vote against conscription for a second time. Billy Hughes abandons campaign.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <B>1918</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1900 WIDTH="587"><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st January - Australian Army Corps formed for first time from all five fighting divisions</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th January - Billy Hughes resigns after failing to introduce conscription but is reappointed. 21 ANZAC Mounted Division captures Jericho.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th February - Britain rations food</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">18th March - Allies halt German Army on Western Front</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">28th March - Australian Forces stop German advance at Dernancourt</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">7th April - British Government imposes meat rationing throughout Britain.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th April - Establishment of the Repatriation Department</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="90ab2660.gif" border=0 width="178" height="102" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st April - Allies shoot down and kill Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)the top scoring German air ace.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.anzacs.net/who-killed-the-Red-Baron.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.anzacs.net/who-killed-the-Red"><U>Click Here for More Information about Red Baron</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">24th April - Hughes leaves Australia to attend Imperial War Conference</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th April - ANZAC's capture German-held Villers - Bretonneux in the Somme, commemorating the theirs anniversary of Gallipoli landing</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">31st May - General John Monash takes command of Australia Corps in France with Brigadier - General T.A.Blamey as Chief of Staff</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st June - Appointment of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash to command the Anzac Corps in France. The Corps brought all five Divisions to the First AIF under an Australian Commander</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd July - Prime Minister William Morris Hughes the "Little Digger", addresses Australian Troops  on the Western Front before the Battle of Hamel, France.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">4th July - Australians, under Monash capture Le Hamel in the Somme</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">26th July - Major "Mick" Mannock, top scoring British air ace, shot down and killed.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">8th August - Australian troops play leading role in Allied offensive at successful Battle of Amiens. German Army Commander Ludendorff describes it as the "blackest day in history of German Army"</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">21st August - Allies push Germans back in second Battle of the Somme</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">28th August - Allies begin advance on Flanders</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st September  - Australian and Allied troops capture Mont St Quentin</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2nd September - Australian and Allied troops capture Perone</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">18th September - Australian troops spearhead attack on the Hindenberg Line</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">19th September - Allies win offensive in Palestine at Battle of Megiddo. Australian Harry Chauvel and his Light Horse begin great conquering ride around the rear of the enemy at Nablus in Palestine.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">22nd September - First direct wireless message from Britain to Australia ushers in faster wartime communications</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">25th September - ANZAC Mounted Division captures Amman</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">29th September - Australian and Allied troops begin main advance on Hindenberg Line.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th September - Allies capture Macedonia on Salonika Front. Bulgaria sues for peace.Lance Corporal E.A.Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a thirs bar to his Military Medal. The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian or any other Commonwealth Army.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">September - "Anzac leave" to Australia allowed for AIF veterans of Gallipoli</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1st October - Lawrence of Arabia, and Australian Light Horse with Allied forces, capture Damascus having cut off the enemy's retreat and taken 4000 prisoners.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">5th October - Australians capture Montbrenhain in their last fight on the Western Front.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">30th October - Turkey surrenders</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">3rd November - Austro-Hungaria surrenders</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">9th November - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0f0fbff00.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">11th November - Germany signs armistice with Allies ending the war on the Western Front.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>  <style>  </style>  </div> <div>   <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/frames.js"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.statcounter.com" target="_top"><img src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter.php?usr=anzacs&java=0" alt="StatCounter - Free Web Tracker and Counter" border="0"/></a> </noscript>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>