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Where Australians have fought, and when (NZ at base of page)

1809 to 1902

  • 1809/15. Napoleonic Wars
  • 1814/15. Anglo American War
  • 1863/64. NZ Land Wars (Maori Wars)
  • 1885. The Soudan (Sudan)
  • 1886. Burma
  • 1895. North West Frontier
  • 1899/02. 2nd Anglo Boer War (Boer War)
  • 1900/1. 3rd China War (Boxer Rebellion)

1914-1919

  • 1914. New Guinea: Indian Ocean: 
  • 1915. Gallipoli: Mesopotamia: East Africa: Libyan Desert: North Sea
  • 1916. Sinai: Palestine: Macedonia: France: Belgium
  • 1917. Indian Ocean: The Adriatic
  • 1918/19. Persia: Armenia: Russia

 1940-2003

  • 1940/45 North Africa, Crete, Greece, Italy, Timor, Papua New Guinea, Malaya, Borneo, Burma, Europe, Atlantic convoys, convoys to Russia (WW2)
  • 1946...Japan (Occupation of Japan)
  • 1950...Malaya (Malayan Emergency)
  • 1950...Korean (Korean War)
  • 1956...Borneo (Confrontation with Indonesia)
  • 1962/72...South Vietnam (Vietnam War)
  • 1991...Kuwait, Iraq (1st Gulf War)
  • 1992...Somalia
  • 1999...East Timor
  • 2000...Afghanistan
  • 2003...Iraq

Major Theatres of War for New Zealand

  • New Zealand 1872 (Land Wars)
  • South Africa 1899-1902 (Boer War)
  • Gallipoli 1915 (WW1)
  • Sinai & Palestine 1915-18
  • France & Belgium 1916-18
  • North Africa 1940-43 (WW2)
  • Greece & Crete 1941
  • Italy 1943-45
  • Korea 1950-53 (Korean War)
  • Malaya 1960 (Malayan Emergency)
  • Borneo 1964-66 (Konfrontasi)
  • Vietnam 1972 (Vietnam War)
 

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