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  • 111Attacks on Australia during World War II — Due to Australia s geographic position there were relatively few attacks on Australia during World War II. Axis surface raiders and submarines periodically attacked shipping in Australian waters from 1940 to early 1945 and Japanese aircraft… …

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  • 112Edward Matthews (Australian Soldier) — Albert Edward Ted Matthews was born on 11 November 1896 in Leichhardt, an inner city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was only 17 years of age when he enlisted to serve as an infantryman in the First World War. He became a signals …

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  • 113Shell Green Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery — Infobox Military Cemetery name= Shell Green body= Commonwealth War Graves Commission use dates= May 1915 December 1916 and 1922 1923 established=1915 designer= coordinates= nearest town=Gallipoli, Turkey total= 429 unknowns=11 by country=Allied… …

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  • 114Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory — Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb name = Ainslie state = ACT city = Canberra caption = lga = North Canberra postcode = 2602 est = 1928 propval = $460,000 pop = 4,500 (2001 census) ACTgov = Molonglo fedgov = Fraser near nw = Dickson near n …

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  • 115Western Front (World War I) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Western Front partof=World War I caption=For most of World War I, Allied and German Forces were stalled in trench warfare along the Western Front. place=Belgium and northeastern France date=1914 ndash; 1918… …

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  • 116Invasion and occupation of the Andaman Islands during World War II — The Andaman and Nicobar Islands (8,293 km² on 139 islands), are a group of islands situated in the Bay of Bengal at about 780 miles from Kolkata, 740 miles from Chennai and 120 miles from Cape Nargis in Burma. Until 1938 the British government… …

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  • 1172/1st Australian Infantry Battalion — Infobox Military Unit unit name= 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion caption= dates=October 1939 December 1945 country=Australia allegiance= branch=Army type=Infantry role= size= command structure= Australian 16th Brigade current commander=… …

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  • 118Mahdist War — Depiction of the Battle of Omdurman (1898). Date 1881–1899 …

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  • 1192/10th Australian Infantry Battalion — The 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion ( The Adelaide Rifles ) was a battalion of the Australian Army was raised at Wayville Showgrounds, Adelaide, on 13 October 1939, as part of the 18th Brigade of the 6th Australian Division for World War II …

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  • 120South-East Asian theatre of World War II — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=South East Asian Theatre partof=World War II and Pacific War place=British India, Thailand, French Indochina, British Malaya, SingaporeThe South East Asian Theatre of World War II was the name given to the… …

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