Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries/August

Selected anniversaries in August

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Anniversaries can be found here from the Army news website or here at the AWM or here at the Australian History unit, or in books, journals or other sources related to Australian military history.

August 1

August 2

  • 1948 – The Army Apprentices School was formed.
  • 1950 – The Australian Government publicly announced that only volunteers would be sent to the Korean War.

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