WW1

By Keeldogz

  • Australia enters the Great War

    • Prime minister declares Australia will enter the Great War alongside the British Empire. 'to the last man and the last shilling'.
    • Australia provides a force of 20,000 men to fight for Britain in the war.
    • Great Britain declares war on Germany.

  • Australia declare war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire

    Britain and France declare war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  • The Australian Red Cross is established

    The Australian Red Cross is established to raise funds to purchase supplies for Australian service personnel overseas

  • New official war correspondent for Australia is appointed

    Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean is appointed Australia's official war correspondent by the Australian Journalists' Association

  • Australia Sends Force to Capture German Colonies

    • Australia sends small expeditionary force to capture the German colonies in the southwest pacific and neutralize German naval wireless communications.

  • Australia Captures German Colonies

    Australia takes possession of German New Guinea at Toma

  • Australia Takes Possession Again

    Australia takes possession of German New Guinea's neighboring islands.

  • Great Britain declares war again

    Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

  • Royal Australian Navy destroys Germans ship

    • HMAS Sydney destroyed the German raider SMS Emden.