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war dead in 76 war cemeteries and plots and in numerous civil cemeteries, as well as Memorials to the Missing listing over 3,000 names?
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contained a French cavalry regiment, a New Zealand machine gun squadron and a British artillery battery?
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was sunk by a Japanese aircraft on 22 January 1943 off the north coast of the Northern Territory?
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was the first ship to be built entirely from Australian materials to an Australian design?
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suffered the highest rate of casualties for a non-combatant unit in Australian history?
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Australian troops disembarking from American Landing Ships, Tank (LST), including
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squadron to ever be simultaneously equipped with rotary and fixed wing aircraft?
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in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the
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is believed to have been the youngest Australian soldier to serve during the
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operated over 600 powered and 700 unpowered craft, including several
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was "Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War"?
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is also responsible for the maintenance of some 20,000 graves of
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and was one of the last Australian soldiers to leave the beach?
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AV2767 Crusader in 1945
AV2767 Crusader
commissioned
Australian Army
World War II
HMAS Wyatt Earp
Antarctica
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Alick Bryant
First World War
Article XV squadrons
World War II
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John Paton
evacuation
Anzac Cove
World War I
HMAS Biloela
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No. 461 Squadron
U-boats

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