Portal:Military history of Australia/Selected anniversaries/November
Selected anniversaries in November
January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December
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.
- 1911 – Compulsory military training introduced
- 1914 – First Australian Imperial Force sails for Egypt
- 1989 – National Army Memorial dedicated in Canberra
- 1942 – World War II: Kokoda airstrip re-occupied by Australian troops
- 1918 – World War I: Armistice with Austria-Hungary signed
- 1942 – World War II: the final battle of the Kokoda Track campaign commences around Oivi–Gorari
- 1944 – World War II: Troops of the 6th Brigade land at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain.
- 1950 – Korean War: 3RAR successfully assault and hold crucial hill during the Battle of Pakchon
- 1971 – The last Australian Army units to leave South Vietnam are embarked on HMAS Sydney at Vung Tau.
- 1916 – World War I: The Third Battle of Gaza ends with an allied victory
- 1940 – Mines off Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, sink a British freighter.
- 1944 – World War II: G for George arrives at RAAF Base Amberley after completing 90 combat missions over occupied Europe
- 1914 – World War I: HMAS Sydney sinks the German cruiser SMS Emden, off the Cocos Islands
- 1948 – Royal Australian Army Medical Corps granted Royal Warrant
- 1964 – Australian Government introduces selective conscription of 20 year old males by ballot under the National Service Act
- 1918 – World War I: Allies sign armistice with Germany. Now commemorated as Remembrance Day
- 1941 – Opening of the Australian War Memorial
- 1943 – World War II: Last Japanese air raid on Darwin
- 1940 – World War II: HMAS Sydney in action at Strait of Otranto
- 1942 – World War II: Australian troops capture Wairopi, New Guinea, from Japanese during the Kokoda Track campaign
- 1965 – Vietnam War: Kevin Arthur Wheatley awarded VC at Tra Bong, Vietnam
- 1917 – World War I: the Anzac Mounted Division pursues Ottoman forces towards Jaffa, Israel
- 1974 – The naval base, HMAS Tarangau in Papua New Guinea is officially transferred to the Papua New Guinea Self Defence Force
- 1943 – World War II: Last major air battle over Papua New Guinea
- 1944 – World War II: the Australian government approves the deployment of Australian Women's Army Service members overseas
- 1917 – World War I: Allies capture Jaffa, Israel
- 1943 – World War II: Admiral Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia
- 1943 – World War II: The 9th Division begins its attack on Sattelberg
- 1916 – World War I: Battle of the Somme ends; Australia suffered 23,000 casualties
- 1942 – World War II: the 16th Brigade captures Popondetta, New Guinea
- 1914 – World War I: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupies Admiralty and Western Islands
- 1915 – World War I: Lieutenant General William Birdwood takes command of the Dardanelles Army
- 1941 – World War II: HMAS Sydney disappears off the Western Australian coast, all 645 men are lost
- 1942 – World War II: Australian troops forced to retire after capturing Gona, New Guinea
- 1970 – the 2nd Cavalry Regiment is established
- 1943 – World War II: Japanese launch a counter-attack against elements of the 9th Division during the Huon Peninsula campaign
- 1916 – World War I: the 3rd Division arrives in France
- 1944 – World War II: Australia assumes responsibility for Bougainville, New Guinea, from US forces
- 1901 – Second Boer War: Leslie Cecil Maygar is awarded the VC at Geelhoutboom, Natal
- 1944 – World War II: Australian troops relieve US forces at Cape Torokina, Bougainville
- 1948 – The Australian Regiment, now known as the Royal Australian Regiment, is formed
- 1943 – World War II: Thomas Currie Derrick is awarded the VC for his actions at Sattelberg, New Guinea
- 1965 – Vietnam War: 1RAR captures Duc Hanh village, Vietnam
- 1899 – Second Boer War: New South Wales Lancers in Battle of Graspan, South Africa
- 1951 – Korean War: 3RAR is involved in the Battle of Sunchon, Korea.
- 1942 – World War II: HMAS Adelaide sinks German blockade runner Ramus in the Indian Ocean.
- 1943 – World War II: the 2/43rd Battalion repulses strong Japanese attacks on Pabu Hill, New Guinea.
- 1939 – World War II: Inauguration of the Empire Air Training Scheme
- 1941 – World War II: HMAS Parramatta was sunk by German submarine U-559 near Tobruk.
- 1942 – World War II: Ron Middleton is awarded the VC after a raid on Turin, Italy
- 1950 – Korean War: The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, secures the Taedong River ferry crossing, Korea.
- 1943 – World War II: during the Battle of Wareo, Australian forces concentrate around Horace's Ears before commencing the next stage of their advance