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Defence News
- 1CSSB Cycles for cancer
- 1CSSB helps their territory
- A work of art for squadron break room
- ADF assists Trevor evacuees
- ADF backs up first responders
- ADF poised to increase support
- ADF supports Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreak
- ADF supports Vietnam in UN mission
- Age is no barrier
- Air Force capability flying high
- Air Force Centenary
- Air Force strengthens ties
- Air Force veteran a WAG
- Allied forces hit top end
- ANZAC: Middle East
- ANZUS Treaty marks 70 years
- Arnhem Thunder takes off
- Artillery round a hit
- Aussie companies win grants for F-35 fleet
- Aussie RADM to UNHQ Korea
- Australia achieving its mission in Afghanistan
- Australian Artillery celebrates 150 years
- Australian Navy dives in
- Boxers in the ring
- Brigadier makes history
- Building a future
- Chinese vessels target RAN pilots
- Citation for Viet Nam units
- Citations for Viet Nam vets
- Crew meets mayor of ship’s namesake
- Cricket and cam cream
- CSM for support of electronic warfare capability
- Defence & COVID-19 Update
- Defence buzz at drone races
- Defence looks to future
- Diamond in the Rough
- Didgeridoo to feature
- Diggers share Canberra’s decks
- Evac training to save lives
- EX Balikatan 19 underway
- EX strengthens ties with Singapore
- EX Talisman Sabre ends
- Extra ADF support to help with COVID-19
- First family visit since 1915
- Floating new ideas
- Forces combine for live-fire mission
- G-G farewells Pearce
- Gap year leads to towering achievements
- Growler capable
- Growlers put Ballarat in a jam
- Helos check decks
- HMAS ANZAC Home
- HMAS Parramatta switches sides
- HMAS Toowoomba heads home
- Hupfeld to be next CAF
- Indigenous artwork for Defence HQ
- Indo-Pacific Endeavour departs
- Innovative space unveiled
- Inspiration through adversity
- IPE19 returns to Australia
- Just turn up and shoot
- Keeping the units connected
- Keeping watch in the Torres Strait
- Korean Medal Approved for Wear
- Maryborough heroics revisited
- Memorial service held for lost soldier
- Navy’s floating hospital
- Navy’s Hobart Class ready
- Navy’s Indigenous advisers drive change
- New Dassault Falcons arrive
- New Deputy CA appointed
- New Minister for Defence
- New-age tech self-heals
- Newcastle navigates world’s busiest waters
- Next-gen vehicles show their firepower
- Padres head up support
- Parramatta joins French task group
- Patrol boats test warfighting skills
- Piper plays tribute
- RAAF doctor rises to the challenge
- RAAF Provides Urgent Fuel
- RAAF Wagga’s 80 years of service
- RAAF’s 100 SQN reborn
- Recognition for initiative and dedication
- Recon mission update
- Remembering the fallen
- Role of nurses in Air Force honoured
- Sailor sees Success
- Seizing the opportunity for simulated success
- Sharing skills and knowledge
- Skilled at arms
- Sniffing out threats
- Solemn promise at Gallipoli
- Sports diplomacy in Fiji
- Sri Lankan Defence engaged
- Success and Parramatta in Chennai
- Surf training could save lives
- Sydney fires up to pass test
- Tactical capability focus of EX Southern Jackaroo
- Take a long ride
- Teddy Sheean Statement
- The road to leadership
- Three decades on: Home
- Top End maritime war games a first
- Trading uniforms for deployment
- Training with Brunei Navy a success
- Vet passes on valuable lessons
- Vision of the future
- Warfighting in the Top End
- Warm welcome for major navex
- Why 18 August?
Gongs SITREP
- All deliveries now ‘Contactless’
- ANZAC Day Events
- Battle School Credo is Back
- Beware The Amateur
- Card Problem? Sorted.
- China Enters Korean War
- Christmas is Coming!
- Christmas Support for Troops
- Covid-19 Status update
- COVID-19 Update
- Dambusters With a Twist
- Doubled-up and Framed
- End of An Era
- Fund-raising Badges
- Gongs and Cartoons
- Internet Outage: New Site
- Kapyong Day: 24 April
- Kapyong/Anzac Day Orders Closed
- Korean Medal Approved for Wear
- Latest challenge coins
- Movement at the station
- Online shopping only now
- Police Remembrance Day
- Police Remembrance Day 29 SEP
- The Last Post On Guitar
- VALE: 2784385 2LT Timothy Andrew FISCHER
- Watch This Top TV Spot
- We’ve Been Outed!
- You Have Employees?
- Your favourite charity?
- Zip. You can own it now, pay later
Honours and Awards
Military History
- “G for George” Arrives
- 1RAR to Korea
- 2/6th Independent Coy captures Kaiapit
- 25BN Takes Pearl Ridge
- 2LT Frederick Birks, VC, MM
- 2RAR Arrives in Malaya
- 3RAR & Maryang-San, Korea
- 3RAR Arrives In Country
- 3RAR Arrives in RVN
- 3RAR Heads Home
- 3RAR Secures Crossing
- 5th Div to The Somme
- 5th Division in France
- 5th Light Horse Battle of Nablus
- 75th Anniversary, D Day looms
- 77SQN Awarded Citation
- 77SQN Supports 3RAR
- 9 DIV Captures Finschhafen
- A Declaration of War
- AIF Sails for Egypt
- Alby Lowerson, VC
- Alexander Buckley, VC
- ALH at Umm el Rakam
- ALH Takes Damascus
- Allied Advance into North Korea
- ANMEF Lands In PNG
- ANZAC Day Events
- ANZAC Mounted Division Captures Amman
- ANZACS Withdraw from Gallipoli
- Army Memorial Dedicated
- Army Memorial Open
- Arthur Hall, VC
- Arty Hill Captured
- Assault on Bardia
- Aussies Land at Jacquinot Bay
- Australia Attacked
- Australia Commits to GWOT
- Australia Declares War
- Australia Raises 2nd AIF
- Australia Ratifies UN
- Australian service on D-Day
- Australian Ships Enter Tokyo Bay
- Australians at Gona
- Australians Attack Hindenburg Line
- Australians in NZ Action
- Australians Relieve Marines
- AWAS to Deploy
- Battle for Milne Bay
- Battle of Chongju
- Battle of Cocos
- Battle of Graspan
- Battle of Magdhaba
- Battle of Maryang-San
- Battle of Mont St Quentin
- Battle of Nui Le, RVN
- Battle of Pakchon
- Battle of Poelcappelle Today
- Battle of Sariwon, Korea
- Battle of Sattelberg
- Battle of St Quentin
- Battle of Templeton’s Crossing
- Battle of the Apple Orchard
- Battle of the Strait of Otranto
- Battle of Ypres Ends
- Battle Over Sunchon
- Benghazi Recaptured
- Bernard Gordon, VC
- Bob Mactier, VC
- Bruce Kingsbury, VC
- Bruce Kingsbury, VC
- CAPT Clarence Jeffries, VC
- CAPT George Wilkins, VC
- Central Flying School Gets Nod
- Charge at Beersheba
- Charles Bean Dies
- Conscription Defeated, Again
- Conscription in World War I
- CPL Ernest Corey, MM
- CPL James Ronald Sewell, GM
- CPL Reginald Inwood, VC
- Damien Parer Killed
- Deakin Opens Cairo Centre
- DMC Occupies Jerusalem
- Edgar Towner, VC
- El Arish Captured
- Empire Air Training Scheme
- Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED
- First Aircraft Deployed
- First G-G Arrives
- First Submarine Lost
- For the fallen
- George Cartwright, VC
- German New Guinea Surrenders
- Germany Invades Poland
- Gongs and Cartoons
- Guy Wylly, VC
- HMAS Adelaide Arrives
- HMAS ANZAC Korea
- HMAS Armidale Sunk
- HMAS Australia Damaged
- HMAS Australia In Action
- HMAS Australia Kamikaze Attack
- HMAS Brisbane Returns
- HMAS Geelong Sunk
- HMAS Parramatta Sunk
- HMAS Perth Attacked
- HMAS Perth Under Fire
- HMAS Sydney in Korea
- HMAS Sydney in Korea
- HMAS Sydney in Korea
- HMAS Sydney Sunk
- Hong Kong Falls
- Hugo Throssell, VC
- Isurava Memorial
- Italy announces Surrender
- Italy Declares War
- James Woods, VC
- Japan Invades Malaya
- Japan Invades Malaya, Thailand
- Japanese Abandon Lae
- Japanese forced from Oivi
- Japanese Run at Eora
- Japanese Stopped at Ioribaiwa
- John Bisdee, VC
- John French, VC
- Judy and LAC Frank Williams
- Kapyong Day: 24 April
- Kapyong: A commemoration
- Kokoda Airstrip Recaptured
- Korean Bomb Threat
- Landing on New Britain
- Last Raid on Darwin
- Last Troops Leave Gallipoli
- Lawrence Weathers, VC
- Leslie Cecil Maygar, VC, DSO, VD
- Liberator crash kills 59
- Long Tan Cross dedicated
- Loss of HMAS Voyager
- LT George Ingram, VC, MM
- LT John James Dwyer, VC
- LT Joseph Maxwell, VC, MC, DCM
- LTCOL Blair Wark, VC
- Maurice Buckley, DCM, VC
- Moudros Agreement Signed
- Mouquet Farm Attack
- Nashos for the Confrontation
- NSW Contingent to China War
- OP Fauna, Korea
- OP Jaywick
- OP Jaywick Update
- Pabu Hill Ends
- Pearl Harbour Attacked
- Popondetta Captured
- PTE Edward Ryan, VC
- PTE Patrick Joseph Bugden, VC
- PTE Percy Gratwick, VC
- RAAF Enters WWII
- RAN at Chinnampo
- RAN Gulf Action Approved
- RANHFV EMUs Deploy
- Rawdon Hume Middleton, VC
- Repulse and Prince of Wales Sunk
- Richard Kelliher, VC
- Samuel Pearse, VC, MM
- Scarlet Beach Raid
- Second Convoy Leaves for WWI
- SGT Lewis McGee, VC
- SGT William Kibby, VC
- Somme Campaign Ends
- Special Operations in Australia
- Sydney at Vung Tau
- Teddy Sheean Statement
- Tempelton’s Crossing Contact
- The Armistice of Compiègne
- The Australian Regiment Formed
- The Battle of El Alamein Begins
- The Battle of The Bulge
- The First ANZUS Meeting
- The Pimple Captured
- The Siege of Kut
- Third Battle of Gaza
- Thomas Currie Derrick, VC, DCM
- Treaty signed with Japan
- US Troops Arrive
- VALE: 2784385 2LT Timothy Andrew FISCHER
- Vendetta Decommissioned
- Vera Deakin and Red Cross
- Viet Nam Memorial Opened
- Viet Nam Veterans Day
- Villa Gusti Pact Signed
- War Widow’s Guild Founded
- WGCDR Louis Spence KIA
- Why 18 August?
- Wiliam Currey, VC
- William Dartnell, VC
- WO2 Kevin ‘Dasher’ Wheatley, VC
- WO2 Walter Peeler, VC
Miscellaneous
Uncategorised
- Boardings At Sea Succeed
- CA visits GMEO, Africa
- Defence marks International Womens’ Day
- EX Boss Lift Soon
- EX Red Flag To Test RAAF
- HMAS Ballarat Hauls Hashish
- HMAS Choules in Honiara
- Japanese Attack Ambon
- Joint Statement on Pacific
- Kicking goals
- Melbourne nurse’s contribution
- Navy to issue Commendation
- OP Coburg During TET
- Paint Perfection’s Reward
- Protecting the force
- Radji Beach Massacre
- Search for lost WWII destroyer
- Tet Offensive Kicks Off In RVN
- The Fall of Singapore
- Villa Gusti Pact Signed