Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries/November
Selected anniversaries in November
January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December
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.
- 1911 – Compulsory military training introduced
- 1914 – First Australian Imperial Force sails for Egypt
- 1989 – National Army Memorial dedicated in Canberra
- 1942 – World War II: Kokoda airstrip re-occupied by Australian troops
- 1918 – World War I: Armistice with Austria-Hungary signed
- 1942 – World War II: the final battle of the Kokoda Track campaign commences around Oivi–Gorari
- 1944 – World War II: Troops of the 6th Brigade land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain.
- 1950 – Korean War: 3RAR successfully assault and hold crucial hill during the Battle of Pakchon
- 1971 – The last Vung Tau.
- 1916 – World War I: The Third Battle of Gaza ends with an allied victory
- 1940 – Victoria, sink a Britishfreighter.
- 1944 – World War II: G for George arrives at RAAF Base Amberley after completing 90 combat missions over occupied Europe
- 1914 – Cocos Islands
- 1948 – Royal Australian Army Medical Corps granted Royal Warrant
- 1964 – Australian Government introduces selective conscription of 20 year old males by ballot under the National Service Act
- 1918 – armistice with Germany. Now commemorated as Remembrance Day
- 1941 – Opening of the Australian War Memorial
- 1943 – air raid on Darwin
- 1940 – HMAS Sydney in action at Strait of Otranto
- 1942 – World War II: Australian troops capture Wairopi, New Guinea, from Japanese during the Kokoda Track campaign
- 1965 – Tra Bong, Vietnam
- 1917 –
- 1974 – The naval base, Papua New Guinea Self Defence Force
- 1943 – World War II: Last major air battle over Papua New Guinea
- 1944 – World War II: the Australian government approves the deployment of Australian Women's Army Servicemembers overseas
- 1917 – World War I: Allies capture Jaffa, Israel
- 1943 – Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia
- 1943 – 9th Division begins its attack on Sattelberg
- 1916 – Battle of the Sommeends; Australia suffered 23,000 casualties
- 1942 – 16th Brigade captures Popondetta, New Guinea
- 1914 – World War I: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupies Admiralty and Western Islands
- 1915 – World War I: Lieutenant General Dardanelles Army
- 1941 – HMAS Sydney disappears off the Western Australiancoast, all 645 men are lost
- 1942 – World War II: Australian troops forced to retire after capturing Gona, New Guinea
- 1970 – the 2nd Cavalry Regiment is established
- 1943 – 9th Division during the Huon Peninsula campaign
- 1916 – 3rd Division arrives in France
- 1944 – World War II: Australia assumes responsibility for Bougainville, New Guinea, from US forces
- 1901 –
- 1944 – World War II: Australian troops relieve US forces at Cape Torokina, Bougainville
- 1948 – The Australian Regiment, now known as the Royal Australian Regiment, is formed
- 1943 –
- 1965 – Vietnam War: 1RAR captures Duc Hanh village, Vietnam
- 1899 – Second Boer War: New South Wales Lancers in Battle of Graspan, South Africa
- 1951 – Korean War: 3RAR is involved in the Battle of Sunchon, Korea.
- 1942 – HMAS Adelaide sinks German blockade runner Ramus in the Indian Ocean.
- 1943 – World War II: the 2/43rd Battalion repulses strong Japanese attacks on Pabu Hill, New Guinea.
- 1939 – World War II: Inauguration of the Empire Air Training Scheme
- 1941 – World War II: HMAS Parramatta was sunk by German submarine U-559 near Tobruk.
- 1942 – World War II: Ron Middleton is awarded the VC after a raid on Turin, Italy
- 1950 – Korean War: The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, secures the Taedong River ferry crossing, Korea.
- 1943 – World War II: during the Battle of Wareo, Australian forces concentrate around Horace's Ears before commencing the next stage of their advance