Courage Endurance Mateship Sacrifice

10 Important Australian Battles:

a) Gallipoli 1915-1916 a difinitive moment in Australian history

b) Battle of Fromelles 1916  "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history."

c) Pozières 1916 Pozières ridge is "more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth" - Charles Bean, Australian official historian

d) Bullecourt 1917 a.k.a. "Blood Tub" 1917 also saw Diggers fight at Passchendaele 

e) Amiens 1918 "the black day of the German Army"according to Ludendorff . John Monash emerges as one of the finest commanders of the Great War

f) Tobruk 1941 famous siege of WWII Australians called Rats of Tobruk

g) Kokoda Track 1942 Australia saved from possible Japanese invasion 

h) Balikpapan 1945 Monash is the most famous Australian General but Leslie Morshead was perhaps the best fighting general . Morshead ( Gallipoli , Passchendaele, Tobruk) might have commanded Commonwealth Forces in the invasion of Japan had it happened. 

i)   Battle of Kapyong 1951 Commonwealth forces (including  the Australian 3 RAR) stop Chinese human wave attacks

j) Battle of Long Tần best known Australian action in the Viet Nam war