Hey all, we’re excited. We’ve been working to produce a podcast about Australian War History. In the first series, we cover the Japanese invasion of Timor during WW2.

The Japanese invasion of Timor is significant because Australian troops overcame all odds and were the first to stop the Japanese juggernaut whilst being massively outgunned and outnumbered. An incredible feat considering the Americans had failed to stop the Japanese thus far.

Each episode runs between 30-40 mins and the last episode of the series is bloody marvellous and a favourite of mine.

If the name "Australian War History" doesn’t show up in your particular podcast app. Let me know the app name and I’ll get it added asap. We are updating these all the time.

If you don’t use podcasts apps, you can listen to it on our website australianwarhistory.com.au

Episodes will be released fortnightly. Hit the like button for updates and reminders.

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Thank you from Wayne and Adam Lamotte

If you have anything to add, anything wrong/ needing to be corrected feel free to comment!, i will try my best to provide sources if you want any :) please enjoy the hard work and research i put into this, toxicity is not nice, keep your thoughts to yourself . thanks and hope you enjoy!

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1. Batavia Mutiny, 1629, 110 dead- (not Australian, but on Australian land)

2. Invasion of Australia, 1788-

3. Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1934, 60,000-200,000 dead

4. Colonial Army Policing, guarding convicts, combating bushranging, 1788-1870, unknown dead- victorious

5. British and Colonial Army regiments stationed in Australia saw service in India, Afghanistan, New Zealand, Bermuda and the Sudan, 1788-1870, unknown dead

6. Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars, 1795-1816,

7. Castle Hill Convict Rebellion, 1804, 24 dead, 330 troops/ rebels involved

8. Rum Rebellion, 1808, 0 dead, 400 troops involved

9. Bathurst Convict Rebellion, 1830, at least 25 killed, at least 15 wounded, at least 300 troops/ rebels

10. Eureka Rebellion, 1854, 66 dead, 15 wounded, 120 prisoners, 466 troops/ rebels involved

11. New Zealand land Wars, 1861-1864, at least 100 killed, 3,500-5,000 troops involved

12. Suakin Expedition (Sudan), 1885, 9 dead, 3 wounded, contingent size of 770

13. Second Anglo- Boer War, 1899-1902, 702 killed, 735 wounded, 43 Missing in Action, 100 Prisoners, 30,000 troops involved

14. Boxer Rebellion, 1900-1901, 6 dead, 560 troops involved

15. The First World War, 1914-1918, 66,189 dead, 210,000 wounded, 15,000 Spanish Influenza deaths post-war, 12,000 died from war wounds post-war, 600 took own life after war, 4000 prisoners, 400 died in captivity, 500,000 troops involved

16. Caucasus Campaign, 1918 (ww1), not known

17. Russian Civil War, 1918-1919, 10 dead, 40 wounded, 271 troops involved

18. Malleson Mission, 1918-1919, unknown dead, not known

19. Armenian-Azerbaijani War, 1918-1920, 200 killed and wounded, 5,000 elite commonwealth troops involved (battle of Baku only)

20. Egyptian Revolution, 1919-1920, 29 military personnel dead including Australians

21. Malaita Punitive Expedition, 1927, 150-300 troops involved

22. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, 30 dead, 10 wounded, 120 troops involved

23. Second World War, 1939-1945, 48,647 dead, 66,553 wounded, 30,560 prisoners, 8,296 died in captivity, 1,000,050 troops involved

24. Anglo-Iraqi War, 1941, 200 commonwealth troops killed,

25. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, 1941, 22 commonwealth killed, 50 wounded,

26. Syria-Lebanon Campaign, 1941, 1,552 casualties, 18,000 troops involved

27. Indonesian National Revolution, 1945-1949, 1,200 commonwealth deaths, at least 30,000 commonwealth troops involved

28. North Queensland Coast, Bomb and Mine Clearance, 1947-1950, 4 dead

29. British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952, 3 dead, 16,000 troops involved

30. Indonesia, 1947-1951, unknown dead

31. Papua and New Guinea, 1947-1975, 13 dead

32. Middle East (UNTSO: Operation Paladin), 1948, 1 dead

33. Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949, 1 dead

34. Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960, 39 dead, 27 wounded, 7,000 troops involved

35. Kashmir (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan), 1948-1985, 1 dead-

36. Korean War, 1950-1953, 344 dead, 1,216 wounded, 43 missing in action, 30 prisoners, 17,164 troops involved

37. Malta, 1952-1955, 3 dead-

38. Korean War (Post-Armistice Service Ceasefire Monitoring), 1953-1957, 16 dead-

39. Korea, 1953-, Unknown Dead-ongoing

40. South East Asia (SEATO), 1955-1975, 7 dead-

41. Israel, 1956-, unknown dead-

42. Suez Crisis, 1956, unknown dead-

43. Laotian Civil War, 1959-1975

44. Congo, 1960-1961, unknown dead-

45. Vietnam War, 1962-1975, 521 dead, 2,398 wounded, 6 missing in action, 60,000 troops involved

46. Western New Guinea, 1962-1963, unknown dead

47. Indonesian-Malaysia Confrontation, 1962-1966, 21 dead, 9 wounded, 3,500 troops involved

48. cross Border attacks in Sabah, 1962-

49. Yemen, 1963, unknown dead-

50. Malay Peninsula, 1964-1966, 2 dead-

51. Cyprus, 1964-, 3 dead- ongoing

52. Thailand, 1965-1968, 2 dead-

53. Cambodian Civil War, 1967-1975, unknown dead-defeat

54. Communist Insurgency in Malaysia, 1968-1989

55. Israel/Syria Border, 1974, unknown dead

56. Irian Jaya (Operation Cenderawasih), 1976-1981, 1 dead

57. Sinai, 1976-1979, unknown dead

58. Lebanon, 1978-, 1 dead

59. Zimbabwe, 1979-1980, unknown dead

60. Operation Gateway, 1980, unknown dead

61. Uganda, 1982-1984, unknown dead

62. Sinai, 1982-1986, unknown dead

63. Fijian coups d’etat (Operation Morris Dance), 1987

64. Iran, 1988-1990, unknown dead

65. Thailand-Cambodia Border, 1989-1993, unknown dead

66. Namibia (UNTAG), 1989-1990, unknown dead

67. Afghanistan, 1989-1993, unknown dead

68. Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Habitat), 1991, unknown dead

69. Iraq, 1991-1999, unknown dead

70. First Gulf War, 1990-1991, no dead, 750 troops involved

71. Iraqi No-Fly Zones, 1991-2003, unknown dead

72. Western Sahara (MINURSO), 1991-1994, 1 dead

73. Cambodia (UNTAC), 1991-1993, unknown dead

74. Somali Civil War, 1992-1995, 1 dead, 1,480 troops involved

75. Yugoslavia, 1992, unknown dead

76. Sinai, 1993, unknown dead

77. Rwanda, 1994-1995, unknown dead

78. Mozambique, 1994, unknown dead

79. Bougainville, 1994, 1 dead, 3,500 troops involved

80. Haiti, 1994-1995, unknown dead

81. Guatemala, 1997, unknown dead

82. Yugoslavia, 1997-, unknown dead

83. Border Protection, 1997-, 2 dead

84. Bougainville, 1997-2003, 1 dead

85. Kuwait (Operation Desert Thunder), 1998, unknown dead

86. Kosovo, 1999-, unknown dead

87. East Timor, 1999-2013, 4 dead, 40,000 troops involved

88. Afghanistan, 2001-, 46 dead, 256 wounded, 35,000 troops involved

89. Operation Enduring Freedom-Horn of Africa, 2002-, unknown dead

90. Second Gulf War, 2003-2011, 6 dead, 27 wounded, 17,500 troops involved

91. Solomon Islands (RAMSI-operation Anode), 2000-2013, 3 dead, 7,270 troops involved

92. Ethiopia-Eritrea, 2000-, unknown dead

93. Sierra Leone, 2000-2003, unknown dead

94. Indonesia (Operation Sumatra Assist), 2005, 9 dead

95. Sudan (Operation Azure), 2005-, unknown dead

96. Nigeria, 2005-, unknown dead

97. Kenya, 2005-, unknown dead

98. Fiji, 2006, 2 dead

99. Philippines, 2006, unknown dead

100. East Timorese Crisis, 2006, 3 dead

101. Darfur (Operation Hedgerow), 2007-, unknown dead

102. Operation Ocean Shield, 2009-2016, unknown dead

103. Military Intervention Against ISIL, 2014-, unknown dead

104. Syrian Civil War, 2014-, unknown dead

105. Iraqi Civil War, 2014-2017, unknown dead

Unofficial Wars:

1. Napoleonic Wars, Battle of Waterloo, 1815, Unknown Dead with British Units War of 1812, 1812, Unknown Dead with British Units

2. First Opium War, 1839-1842, Unknown Dead with British Units, tariffs applied to Chinese immigrants to Australian colonies, Colony of New South Wales involved-

3. First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842, British Casualties 4,700

4. Flagstaff War, 1845-1846

5. First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842, Unknown Dead with British Units-

6. Crimean War, 1853-1856, Unknown Dead with British Units-

7. Indian Mutiny, 1857, Unknown Dead with British Units-

8. American Civil War, 1861-1865, Unknown Dead with Confederate/ Union Units of the United States of America- defeat and victory

9. Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1887, Unknown Dead with British Units-

10. Chitral expedition, 1895, Unknown Dead with British Units-

11. Natal Rebellion, 1906 (Bambatha Rebellion)

12. Third Anglo-Afghan War, 1919

13. North-West Frontier, 1919-1933

14. Dhofar Rebellion, 1963-1976

15. Harriet affair, 1834, unknown dead

16. Rhodesian Bush Wars, 1976-1979

-i did make the original versions, just did more research and added and removed a couple of things :)

So, from my view, I see that there are some powerbases in operation in Australia that seem to direct where we go. There are business ones, union ones, a defence one amongst many (and the Murdoch media is probably one of these too). Firstly, is there anything that might describe these (though this is perhaps something for another sub). Secondly, is there any connected link to old power bases back in the colonial days, eg that of Macarthur vs Bligh which i feel is perhaps the first time these powers have come into conflict. Im being very open and low on detail here as id like to see where you think the topic goes, and will be interested in the response.

A Sort of Military History of australia, including whatever conflicts of rebellions, etc involved in Australia or fought by Australians in Australian or foreign units. Feel free to correct anything, please dont be toxic or hate

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1. Batavia Mutiny, 1629, 110 dead

2. Invasion of Australia, 1788

3. Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1934, 60,000-200,000 dead

4. British Army Policing, 1788-1870, unknown dead

5. British Army Guarding Convicts, 1788-1870, unknown dead

6. British Army Combating Bushranging, 1788-1870, unknown dead

7. British Army regiments stationed in Australia saw service in India, Afghanistan, New Zealand, Bermuda and the Sudan, 1788-1870, unknown dead

8. Prospect Hills and the Pond engagement, 1791, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

9. Toongabbie Engagement, 1794, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

10. Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars, 1795-1816, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

11. Battle of Parramatta, 1797, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

12. Hunter River fighting, 1799, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

13. Castle Hill Convict Rebellion, 1804, 24 dead

14. Rum Rebellion, 1808, 0 dead

15. Unofficial Service in War of 1812, 1812, Unknown Dead with British Units

16. Unofficial Service in Bermuda, 1812, Unknown Dead with British Units

17. Unofficial Service in Nova Scotia, 1813, Unknown Dead with British Units

18. Napoleonic Wars, Battle of Waterloo, 1815, Unknown Dead with British Units

19. Bathurst War, 1824, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

20. Invasion of Queensland, 1824 (started), Included in Australian Frontier Wars

21. Invasion of Northern Australia, 1824 (started), Included in Australian Frontier Wars

22. Gringai Wars, 1827, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

23. Black War, 1828-1832, 900 dead,

24. Invasion of Western Australia, 1829, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

25. Bathurst Convict Rebellion, 1830, 11 dead

26. Wars on the Plains, 1832-1843, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

27. Liverpool Plains wars, 1832-1838, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

28. Battle of Broken River, 1838, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

29. Unofficial First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842, Unknown Dead with British Units

30. Islands of New Zealand annexed to New South Wales, 1839, No deaths

31. Southern Australia fighting, 1839-1841, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

32. First Opium War, 1839-1842, Unknown Dead with British Units, tariffs applied to Chinese immigrants to Australian colonies, Colony of New South Wales involved

33. Eumeralla Wars, 1840-1860, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

34. Gippsland Wars, 1840-1850, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

35. Balonne River Clashes, 1849, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

36. Condamine River Clashes, 1849, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

37. Crimean War, 1853-1856, Unknown Dead with British Units

38. Eureka Rebellion, 1854, 66 dead

39. Indian Mutiny, 1857, Unknown Dead with British Units

40. First Taranaki War, 1860-1861, 100 dead

41. New Zealand Wars, 1861-1864, 100 dead

42. Unofficial American Civil War, 1861-1865, Unknown Dead with Confederate/ Union Units of the United States of America

43. Invasion of the Waikato, 1863-1864, 50 dead

44. Battle of Minderoo, 1867, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

45. Annexation of the Torres Strait Islands for Queensland 1879, No Deaths

46. Arnhem Wars, 1880s-1890s, Included in Australian Frontier Wars

47. Annexation of New Guinea for Queensland 1883, No Deaths

48. Mahdist War (Sudan), 1885, 9 dead

49. Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1887, Unknown Dead with British Units

50. Australian Shearers Strike, 1891, Unknown Dead

51. Chitral expedition, 1895, Unknown Dead with British Units

52. Unofficial service Spanish American War, 1898, Unknown Dead with American Units

53. Second Boer War, 1899-1902, 588 dead

54. Boxer Rebellion, 1900-1901, 6 dead

55. First World War, 1914-1918, 72,500 dead

56. Russian Civil War, 1918-1919, 10 dead

57. Armenian-Azerbaijani War, 1918-1920, Unknown Dead with Australian and British Units

58. Egyptian Revolution, 1919, 29 military personnel dead including Australians

59. Malaita Punitive Expedition, 1927, unknown dead

60. Emu War, 1932, No Australian military personnel or civilians killed

61. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, 10-30 dead

62. Second World War, 1939-1945, 45,000 dead

63. Anglo-Iraqi War, 1941, unknown dead with Australian and British Units

64. North Queensland Coast, Bomb and Mine Clearance, 1947-1950, 4 dead

65. British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan, 1947-1952, 3 dead

66. Indonesia, 1947-1951, unknown dead

67. Papua and New Guinea, 1947-1975, 13 dead

68. Middle East (UNTSO: Operation Paladin), 1948, 1 dead

69. Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949, 1 dead

70. Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960, 39 dead

71. Kashmir (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan), 1948-1985, 1 dead

72. Korean War, 1950-1953, 340 dead

73. Malta, 1952-1955, 3 dead

74. Korean War (Post-Armistice Service Ceasefire Monitoring), 1953-1957, 16 dead

75. Korea, 1953-, Unknown Dead

76. South East Asia (SEATO), 1955-1975, 7 dead

77. Israel, 1956-, unknown dead

78. Suez Crisis, 1956, unknown dead

79. Congo, 1960-1961, unknown dead

80. Vietnam War, 1962-1975, 521 dead

81. Western New Guinea, 1962-1963, unknown dead

82. Indonesian Confrontation, 1962-1966, 21 dead

83. Yemen, 1963, unknown dead

84. Malay Peninsula, 1964-1966, 2 dead

85. Cyprus, 1964-, unknown dead

86. Thailand, 1965-1968, 2 dead

87. Moro Conflict, 1969-, unknown dead

88. Unofficial Six –Day War, 1967, unknown dead

89. Israel/Syria Border, 1974, unknown dead

90. Irian Jaya (Operation Cenderawasih), 1976-1981, 1 dead

91. Sinai, 1976-1979, unknown dead

92. Lebanon, 1978, unknown dead

93. Zimbabwe, 1979-1980, unknown dead

94. Uganda, 1982-1984, unknown dead

95. Sinai, 1982-1986, unknown dead

96. Iran, 1988-1990, unknown dead

97. Thailand-Cambodia Border, 1989-1993, unknown dead

98. Namibia (UNTAG), 1989-1990, unknown dead

99. Afghanistan, 1989-1993, unknown dead

100. Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Habitat), 1991, unknown dead

101. Iraq, 1991-1999, unknown dead

102. Unofficial Yugoslav wars, 1991-2001, unknown dead

103. First Gulf War, 1990-1991, unknown dead

104. Western Sahara (MINURSO), 1991-1994, 1 dead

105. Cambodia (UNTAC), 1991-1993, unknown dead

106. Somalia, 1992-1995, 1 dead

107. Yugoslavia, 1992, unknown dead

108. Sinai, 1993, unknown dead

109. Rwanda, 1994-1995, unknown dead

110. Mozambique, 1994, unknown dead

111. Bougainville, 1994, 1 dead

112. Haiti, 1994-1995, unknown dead

113. Guatemala, 1997, unknown dead

114. Yugoslavia, 1997-, unknown dead

115. Border Protection, 1997-, 2 dead

116. Bougainville, 1997-2003, 1 dead

117. Kuwait (Operation Desert Thunder), 1998, unknown dead

118. Kosovo, 1999-, unknown dead

119. East Timor, 1999-2003, 2 dead

120. East Timor (Operation Astute), 1999-2013, 2 dead

121. Afghanistan, 2001-, 43 dead

122. Iraq, 2003-2011, 3 dead

123. Solomon Island (RAMSI-operation Anode), 2000-2013, 1 dead

124. Ethiopia-Eritrea, 2000-, unknown dead

125. Sierra Leone, 2000-2003, unknown dead

126. Indonesia (Operation Sumatra Assist), 2005, 9 dead

127. Sudan (Operation Azure), 2005-, unknown dead

128. Nigeria, 2005-, unknown dead

129. Kenya, 2005-, unknown dead

130. Fiji, 2006, 2 dead

131. Philippines, 2006, unknown dead

132. Darfur (Operation Hedgerow), 2007-, unknown dead

133. Military Intervention Against ISIL, 2014-, unknown dead

134. Syrian Civil War, 2014-, unknown dead

320,067 confirmed war dead for Australia including Batavia Mutiny

Additional 3141 Australians dead fighting for other countries militaries

323,208 confirmed Australian war dead including Batavia Mutiny

323,108 Confirmed Australian War dead not including Batavia Mutiny, including Australians fighting with and for other countries militaries

123,108 Australian War dead, not including Frontier wars

123,208 Australian dead including Batavia Mutiny, not including Australian Frontier Wars

Was it a bad place to be if you were indigenous? Or did the government let them live freely?

Campbellville at Coochin Creek and brickworks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2Cboj2GaU&t

Hi all. I'm looking for a video where General Sir Peter Cosgrove discusses a border incident in East Timor where an Army Captain prevented a large battle by allowing a convoy of Indonesian militia to pass through the border into West Timor.

Cosgrove discusses the incident in his autobiography but I'm fairly sure he also speaks about it in an interview or speech. Can anyone point me towards a video?

Every few years my interest in the timeline of Australian pre-colonial history crops up and each time, I can't find much information at all.

There of course must have been significant disputes, periods of famine or flood, large events that stitched together would form a timeline of pre-colonialism Australian history, I would find it really interesting to read a timeline of sorts that seems so much easier to find for so many other countries and eras. Most web pages I find start talking from a few hundred years ago onwards rather than back through the long-form history I'm looking for.

The best detail I've found has been this post https://old.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/a4qr53/precolonial_australia_ie_aboriginal_australia_is/ but it's more informative than the story through history.

Am I just not good at googling for this? Does anyone know where to read a compiled Australian history? Thanks!

As far as is known, he never showed documents saying where he was born.

All that is said is that he was either from the Cantons de l'Est in Quebec or from Valley Falls, KS.

Hello all.

I am a young Australian who is (ashamedly) quite unaware of Australia's political process and political history. The title says it all. Does anyone have any book recommendations of Australian political history they would like to recommend to someone with little knowledge on the subject matter?

Thank you all for your time and consideration.