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Welcome to the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. ScopeThe scope of this task force is to oversee the development and expansion of articles related to the military affairs of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, including those islands that fall outside the scope of the Southeast Asian military history task force. Military activities in and by Papua New Guinea fall under this task force. While titled "military history", the task force encompasses present-day military topics for all areas within its scope. The task force's area of interest overlaps with a number of other Wikiprojects, and as such issues, conflicts, requests for assistance, or announcements related to:
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Participants
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- Abraham, B.S. (talk · contribs) (Mainly work on biographies, also have a deep interest in decorations and their recipients)
- Adamdaley (talk · contribs) (Will help with anything relating to the military of various countries or Divisions, Battalions, or Units etc. I am interested in World War 2).
- Aeonx (talk · contribs) (Particularly WWI / WWII Biographies, various articles)
- Ando the Commando (talk · contribs) (Army History - both general and corps-specific)
- Anotherclown (talk · contribs) (Most topics associated with Australian military history)
- AusTerrapin (talk · contribs) (Historical campaigns, contemporary Army and Joint capabilities, ADF Cadets – particularly AAFC and AAC, Orders, Decorations and Medals)
- AustralianRupert (talk · contribs) (Australian Army units and battles)
- Deathlibrarian (talk · contribs) (Victorian Colonial navy, WW1 Aussie battles, and currently concentrating on WW2 PNG, Shaggy ridge and the Huon Peninsula )
- Dfadden (talk · contribs) - (WW2 Airfields)
- Gnangarra (talk · contribs) (Photographs, also fluent in searching service records in National Archives)
- Grant65 (talk · contribs) (Interested in all periods.)
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) (WW1 & WW2)
- Hugo999 (talk · contribs) (New Zealand Wars, VCs, Boer War)
- Ian Rose (talk · contribs) (Primarily RAAF history, happy to review/copyedit most things)
- Kralizec! (talk · contribs) (various RAN topics, with a focus on WWI – Cold War ships and ship classes)
- Minorhistorian (talk · contribs) (Primarily RNZAF WWII, LRDG – the latter article needs help BTW, I'm struggling for time)
- Newm30 (talk · contribs)
- Nford24 (talk · contribs) (Australian Navy Cadet, interested in All areas of the Australian Defence Force Cadets and ADF)
- NZDF1985 (talk · contribs) (RNZAF,RNZN,NZA, New Zealand Defence Force Leadership, WWII and How it affected New Zealand)
- Oliver Nouther (talk · contribs) (RAAF Bios etc.)
- Sinai and Palestine Campaign
- Saberwyn (talk · contribs) (Ships of the RAN)
- Stanley Bannerman (talk · contribs) (Mostly New Zealand stuff)
- Sticks66 (talk · contribs) (Lives of inspirational servicemen and rugby footballers who saw active service)
- xfyre99 (talk · contribs) (Specifically Australian Army and PNG)
- Zawed (talk · contribs) (NZ in World Wars I and II, the Korean War)
- Kapitan1999 (talk) 03:36, 2 November 2020 (UTC) (F1 Hand Grenade)
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Open tasks
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (2,874) • ...to coverage and accuracy (2,529) • ...to structure (604) • ...to grammar (57) • ...to supporting materials (497)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Military history of New Zealand in World War I • Military history of New Zealand during World War II • New Zealand Army • New Zealand in the Vietnam War • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • Slouch hat • Uniforms of the New Zealand Army
- Requested articles
- New Zealand Infantry Brigade (currently a redirect) • Edward Michael Neylan • Reginald Havill Norman • Francis Roger North • Harry Scott Nurse • David O'Brien • Douglas Paine • William Edward Hill Pascoe • Michael Phelps • Claude Esdaile Prior • Ralph Carlyle Geoffrey Prisk • Beauchamp Worters Pulver • John Herbert Rasmussen • John David Rogers • Henry Gordon Rourke • Harry Blamyre Sewell • Colin McOlvin Sharp • Edward Lonergan Sheehan • James Thomas Simpson • Fritz Peter Max Solling • William Howard St. Clair • Robert Mackay Stodart • Roy Buchanan Sutherland • Harold Bourue Taylor • Percy Chamberlin Thompson • Roy Meldrum Thompson • Walter James Urquhart • Donald Norwood Veron • Roy William Whiston Walsh • Augustine William Wardell • Thomas Edgar Weavers • David Welch • Frank Elwyn Wells • Allan Respen Wendt • Ernst Morgan Williams • Kenneth Williams • Kenneth Agnew Wills • Roy Gordon • New Zealand Rarotongan Company • Joint Task Force 633
- Expansion needed
- 12th Heavy Anti-aircraft Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery • more...
- Images needed
- 27th Machine Gun Battalion (New Zealand) • 29th Battalion (New Zealand) • 30th Battalion (New Zealand) • 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers • 36th Battalion (New Zealand) • New Zealand Women's Land Army • Military history of Australia during the Malayan Emergency • Harold Pope (soldier)
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- Australian occupation of German New Guinea • Bombing of Rabaul (November 1943) • FCU UNTAC • Geoffrey Fisken • Henry Arthur Goddard • Military history of Oceania • New Zealand Army • Imperial Service Club
- Translation needed
- Add an article here!
Article alerts
Today's featured article requests
- 08 Jun 2024 – Bill Newton (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Did you know
- 27 Feb 2024 – Robin Ordell (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Lettler (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 15 May 2023 – Vietnam War (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hanyangprofessor2 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion
Resources
Templates
- {{ADF Leadership}} – Senior positions in ADF
- {{Anzac}} – Anzac series
- {{Australian Army}} – Army
- {{Australian Defence Force}} – ADF footer
- {{Australian WW2 Divs}} – Army Divisions of World War II
- {{List of Australian Flying Corps Squadrons}}
- {{List of RAAF Squadrons}}
- {{Military history of New Zealand}}
- {{New Zealand Great War Mounted Regiments}}
- {{RAAF}} – RAAF
- {{Royal Australian Navy}} – RAN
- {{RAR}} – Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment
- {{ADF List}} – ADF lists
- {{Australia-mil-stub}} – for Military of Australia articles that need work
Categories
Websites
Australian government websites
- Australian War Memorial
- Australian Department of Defence
- Australian Army
- Army History Unit
- Land Warfare Studies Centre
- Aide Memoire (details the Army's tasks, capability, structure and training systems)
- Royal Australian Navy
- Seapower Centre – Australia
- Honours awarded to ships (direct link here)
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Australian Defence College
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
- National Archives of Australia
- State LIbrary of Victoria
Australian academic and think-tank websites
- Australian Strategic Policy Institute
- Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
- Australia Defence Association
- Air Power Australia
- Kokoda Foundation
- Lowy Institute for International Policy
- Williams Foundation
Australian museums
Australian private websites
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Online – Biographies of notable Australians, including military personnel
- Australian Light Horse Studies Centre – Historical information on the Australian Light Horse from 1899–1920 including the Militia, Boer War and Great War.
- ANZAC Steel – Information on Australian and New Zealand armoured vehicles and units
- Australian-Armour
- Digger History
- General Officers of the First Australian Imperial Force
- Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa by P.L. Murray (1911) – electronic copy
New Zealand government websites
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- New Zealand Army
- New Zealand Defence Force
- New Zealand Ministry of Defence
- Royal New Zealand Navy
- War & Society New Zealand Ministry of Culture & Heritage
New Zealand non-government websites
- Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand
- New Zealand in the First World War 1914–1918 (Official histories from Etext)
- The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War (full text of the most comprehensive history of NZ in WW2 on Etext)
- New Zealand Wars history (histories from Etext)
- Three texts on WW1
- Twenty texts on New Zealand Wars
- Armoury – Auckland War Memorial Museum
- e-book New Zealand at the Front (1917) in Digger History [dead link]
- e-book Featherston Camp (WWI) in Digger History [dead link]
- The New Zealand Army by Maj G J Clayton in Digger History (A Short History 1840–1990, with additional material)