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1900
Battle of Karee Siding, South Africa. Troops from NSW Mounted Rifles, NSW Lancers, and 1st Australian Horse were part of an Allied force of 9000 men which engaged 3500 Boers. The battle was won by the Allies but at a cost of 189 casualties compared with Boer losses of only 34.
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1941
Battle of Matapan, Greece. HMA Ships Perth, Stuart and Vendetta participated in the battle off Crete destroying Italian naval supremacy in the Mediterranean.
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1970
No 35 Squadron, RAAF, lost its only Caribou aircraft to enemy action during the Vietnam War.