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overload telegraph links to south australia with darwin in north -
australia became a nation -
sydney gets electric street lighting -
Australian forces capture Turkish positions at Lone Pine. Ferocity of the fighting leads to seven Australians being awarded the Victoria Cross.anzacs suffered 2300 casualties and the turks suffered 6000 -
Four Australians are killed in what is now the northern part of PNG, the nation’s first casualties of the war. -
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rommels afrika corps laid seige tobruk.the 9th AIF divison and part of the 7th were sent to help defend tobruk for aleast 8 months -
between 19th february 1942 and 12th of november 1943 japanese attacked darwin 64 times -
japan began its compain to invade south east asia with the bombing of pearl harbour in hawaii