What to do?

Research the
events marked
with letters.
Boer War
a) Eland's River
b) Breaker Morant

When and where

did the event
occur?

a) The Battle of Elands

River took place between
the 4th and 16th of August
1900 in western
Transvaal, South Africa

Why/How was Australia Significance

involved?
to Australia.

a) Australia had soldiers that

a) -around 16,000
went into battle to fight againt
Australians volunteered to
the south Africans and they
support the United
were with Canada and U.K.
Kingdom.
b) Morant was an average
-The war was an opportunity
Aussie, and like most
to show Australias
Australian Gallipoli fighters, we commitment to Brittan and
b) Morant took part in
went in looking for an
to define its identity
adventure.
- A total of 606 Australians
the second boer war from
died over the course of 2
October 11, 1899 May
and a half years
31, 1902
- it helped shapes Aus
reputation.
b) the execution of
Breaker unsettled Australia
- him and a couple others
were the only ones
executed so it was unfair.
- he set an example
- he left a repuatation
He was the first person from
Aus to be involved in
something like that.

World War 1
a) Gallipoli
Landing/Evacuation
b) Lone Pine

a) 25th of April 1915, the

ANZACS landed on
Gallipoli shores, ANZAC
cove.
b) 6-10th of August 1915
Gallipoli ( Turkish Trace)

c) The Nek
d) Fromelles
c) 7 august 1915,
e) Battle of Messines Gallipoli The Nek Ridge
f) Battle of
Beersheba

d) July 19th- July 20th

1916. The western front
e) 7th of June 1917 31st of
October 1917.
f) In a town called
Beersheba 30 miles away
from Jerusalem

Gallipoli was and still is until

this day one of the most
important landing dates in
ANZAC history. Australian and
new Zealand sent young
soldiers to fight in Gallipoli,
unfortunately they were sent
the wrong coordinates and
landed in the wrong spot and
walked right into the line of
fire, whereas the coordinates
they were supposed to be
given were further along the
beach. If they were to land
there would have been a lot
less fatalities.

a) The amount of casualties

that occurred from the
Gallipoli battle is sure to be
reason as to why it is so
significant to Australia with
8500 fatalities.
-It was the first time that
other countries started to
see Australia as its own
country and nation and not
just a part of England.
- It was important because
all of the soldiers who we
lost in Anzac cove were not
proper soldiers and they
were all just training in
Egypt beforehand so the
sheer bravery of all the
soldiers is significant to
Australia

b) -It was important

because there ended up
being 4 days of hand on
hand fighting in tough
B) Australia was involved in the
conditions
lone pine battle, the battle was
originally a divergent for The
- 2000 deaths, which is a lot
Anzacs who were forcing to
of young Australians and
make a breakout against the
New Zealands lives lost in

Turkish defenders, and the

attack lasted 4 days. The
attack forced Australians into
Turkish areas, a lot of the
trenches were covered by pine
branches, meaning that the
Australians sometimes had to
break in from the top of these
branches to confront the
defenders.

only 4 days alone.

-910 Australians were killed
- The main Turkish trench
was taken up within 20
minutes of the attack
-The lone Pine battle was a
success, which is great
because the Anzacs had a
lot more unsuccessful
battles then they did
successful.

c) along with many other

battles the Australians
c) Australia was involved in the fought this battle was seen
Nek battle, which was along a
as a failure in the Anzacs
narrow ridge in the ANZAC
eyes.
battle field. We lost 40% of the
- 234 people died from the
soldiers who fought in the
battle
battle. We subsequently lost
the battle and made no ground -372 casualties from the
or change.
attacks
d) Over 7000 people were
killed
d) Fromelles was the first major - The attack was not
planned well and occurred
battle that Australia was
involved in against the German when the Germans had an

troops along the western front.

advantage over the Anzacs

- 400 people were taking
capture within the first 24
hours of the battle.

e) The battle was supposed to

be a way for the Germans to
withdraw from the battlefront
against the Australian side. The
Australians were very well
prepared and came ready to
fight with a lot of good high
quality weapons.

-The battle was an attempt

to try and keep the German
troops from moving away

e) 2 Australians were
awarded the Victoria cross
- 7000 German prisoners
were captured in this battle
- there were over 2000 guns
involved in the attack
against the
- over 10,000 Germans were
killed

f)
f) Australia was involved by
- Total of 67 Australians
fighting against the Germans,
were killed or injured in the
and Hungarians. The Australian battle.
light horse were engaged in

this battle and it was

- it was a stepping point for
supposedly one of the greatest Australia.
charges the Australians fought.

World War 2
a) 10th of April 1941- 27th
a) Tobruk
of November 1941
b) Kokoda
(Tobruk)
c) Bombing of Darwin

b)Kokoda was 21 July

1941- Kokoda trail, Papa
New Guinea

A) This was one of many

battles that the
Australians took place in
in World War 2. The
battles were fought in
harsh fry conditions in
the Middle East. The
Australians troops had to
deal with not only harsh
conditions but also daily
bombings from the
oppositions.

C) February 19th 1942,

Darwin Northern Territory b) Australians were fighting in
AUS
Kokoda, Papa New Guinea
against Japanese forces in
dense thick and extreme
terrain. This battle was so
important because if the
Japanese had made it to Port
Moresby (Where Australia
needs to avoid them from
getting), the Japanese were
planning on bombing north
Queensland, Thankfully the

a) The Australian
soldiers who fought in
Tobruk were given the
name The Rats of
Tobruk, this was an
insult calling the men
rats because they
were not going to be
able to escape, yet it
is no longer an insult
and more of an
honoured group of
men.
- Over 3800 casualties
throughout the course
of the months that
they fought in Tobruk.
b) Over 600 Australians
were killed in the
Kokoda battle
- Both sides of the
battle fought in
serious rainforest,
steep terrain that
spreads over 96km,
where they fought is
now known as the
Kokoda trail.
- All of the soldiers had
to be extremely fit

Australians defended it well

and the attacks never
happened on Australia due to
the soldiers perseverance and
bravery

C) This battle and bombing of

Darwin was very important to
Australia because it was the
first time that somewhere in
Australia had been majorly
bombed from a different
country.

because it was a trail

they all had to carry
extremely heavy
weapons and tools,
utilities due to the
dense rainforest no
being able to use a lot
of machinery.
Over 1000 wounded

c) 94 air raids occurred

in Darwin and the
Northern Territory
- 252 civilians and army
personnel were killed
in the attacks in
Darwin
- Most of the attacks
and raids occurred at
night which was
absolutely terrifying
for everybody who
was asleep
- The attacks interfered
with Darwins port
facilities which caused
trouble for the entire
state because they
could not get a lot of

supplies in to the
state.
260 Japanese aircrafts
were used in the first
and original air raid on
Darwin.