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Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries/January

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Selected anniversaries in January

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Anniversaries can be found here from the Army news website or here at the AWM or here at the Australian History unit, or in books, journals or other sources related to Australian military history.

January 1

  • 1901 – Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • 1901 – Second Boer War: The Queensland Mounted Infantry Regiment suffers the first casualties of any Australian colony.
  • 1975 – Office of Australian War Graves is established.

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  • 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces begin attack on Sanananda during the Battle of Buna–Gona.
  • 1988 – Captain PJ McCarthy was killed whilst on duty the UNTSO Observer Group in Lebanon becoming the first Australian Serviceman to die whilst serving with the United Nations.

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