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Veteran Stories

Proud to Serve; Able Seaman William Morgan RAN and HMAS Arunta during the Pacific War

Australia and Lemnos in the Great War

Artillery in Colonial New South Wales

Inaugural Veteran Artist in Residence Cory Rinaldi

War in the Pacific, 1942

Australians and the battles of El Alamein, 1942

7 June 1917; The Battle of Messines

Japanese submarines in Sydney Harbour

To End a War; the Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902

Mercury on Crete, May 1941

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On this day

27 November

— 1939

The Empire Air Training Scheme is inaugurated. Over 37,000 Australian airmen trained under the scheme.

— 1941

HMAS Parramatta is torpedoed and sunk near Tobruk by a German submarine while ferrying supplies to the besieged port.

— 2003

HMAS Kanimbla, HMAS Anzac, Navy Clearance Diving Team 3, and No 75 Squadron RAAF were awarded the Meritorious Unit Citations for service in the Iraq War.

— 2007

The Australian Army’s 5th Aviation Regiment is awarded the Meritorious Unit Citations for service for warlike and peace missions in support of Operations WARDEN, TANAGER and SLIPPER.