Sunday 7 March to Saturday 13 March 2010

Sunday 7 March to Saturday 13 March 2010

7 March 1902
Death of Tpr William Thomas Berriman, Ardglen, 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

7 March 1942
Japanese occupation of Java complete.
The former Dutch colony fell to the Japanese 16th Army on 12 March.

7 March 1945
Death of Flight Sgt William Alan Rowe, The Junction, 20 Squadron

7 March 1965
3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, deploys to Borneo.

8 March 1942
Japanese land at Lae and Salamua to provide defensive depth for their important air and sea base at Rabaul.

9 March 1917
Death of Sgt Gregory Valentine Page, Dungog, 34th Inf Bn
Pte Albert Harold Perram, Apple Tree Flat, 53rd Inf Bn

9 March 1942
7th Division AIF arrives in Adelaide from the Middle East. Elements of the Division had been sent to Java where they soon became prisoners of the Japanese.

9 March 1943
Death of Stoker Norman Frederick Fry, Hamilton, HMAS Napier

9 March 1945
Death of Lieut Frederick William Morris, Denman, 2/6 Infantry Battalion

9 March 1951
Death of Cpl John McKenzie Tannock, Tighes Hill, 3rd Battalion RAR, South Korea

9 March 1969
Death by accident of Cpl George Geoffrey Gilbert, Newcastle, 5 RAR, Vietnam.

10 March 1918
Death of L/Cpl Herbert Leslie Elvin, Cessnock, 3rd Inf Bn

10 March 1942
Japanese land at Finschhafen.

11 March 1845
First Maori War in New Zealand.

11 March 1902
Death of Tpr Sydney Selwyn Mayo, Raymond Terrace, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

11 March 1917
Baghdad occupied.
Members of the 1st ANZAC Wireless Signal Squadron attached to Lieutenant General Stanley Maude's force of two British Army Corps and one Indian Cavalry Division occupy Baghdad.
Death of Pte Adrian Croese, Mayfield, 35th Inf Bn
Cpl Alexander Reginald Sattler, Singleton, 53rd Inf Bn

11 March 1945
Death of Pte Cecil William Newman, Scone, 88 Light Aid Detachment

11 March 1951
Death of Pte Roland Fisher, Dungog, 3rd Battalion RAR, South Korea.

12 March 1900
New South Wales Mounted Rifles arrive at Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State in South Africa during the South African Boer War 1899-1902.

12 March 1917
Death of Pte Samuel John Fuller, Maitland, 33rd Inf Bn

12 March 1942
Death of Tpr Amos Andrew Mitchell, Mayfield, 16 Australian Motor Regiment
L/Sgt Allen Jessop Woolmer, Maitland, 2 Battalion

12 March 1943
Death of Pte Henry Sanderson, Wallsend, 20 Garrison Battalion

12 March 1945
Death of Pilot Officer George Leonard Burgess, Singleton, 460 Squadron

13 March 1943
Japanese reconnaissance flight over Darwin.

13 March 1945
Death of Pte Ronald Clyde Gordon, Mayfield, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion
Cpl Frederick Robert May, Newcastle, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion
Pte Arthur Allan Taylor, Wickham, 2/19 Infantry Battalion

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