12 March 1938
30 September 1938
15 March 1939
23 August 1939
1 September 1939
3 September 1939
Germany annexes Austria
England and Germany sign Treaty of Munich
Germany invades Czechoslovakia
Germany and Russia sign Non-aggresion pact
Germany invades Poland
England declares war on Germany. Australia follows.
Chamberlain meets Hitler (Cr: NY Times)
9 April 1940
9 April 1940
7 September 1940
30 November 1940
3 January 1941
21 February 1941
6 March 1941
15 March 1941
5 April 1941
18 April 1941
2 May 1941
15 August 1941
12 October 1941
7 December 1941
8 December 1941
18 January 1942
21 January 1942
19 February 1942
4-8 May 1942
1 July 1942
1 July 1942
21 July 1942
4 November 1942
19 December 1942
14 May 1943
14 May 1943
31 July 1943
22 September 1943
11 January 1944
21 May 1944
6 June 1944
6 June 1944
26 June 1944
26 June 1944
12 September 1944
12 September 1944
14 September 1944
19 November 1944
1 March 1945
30 April 1945
7 May 1945
21 May 1945
31 May 1945
2 June 1945
13 June 1945
3 July 1945
14 August 1945
15 August 1945
13 November 1945
Germany invades Denmark
Italy enters war
North African campaign begins
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force recruitment begins
Women's Royal Australian Naval Service begins
Australian Women's Army Service begins
Japan bombs Pearl Harbour. War in the Pacific begins
Australia declares war on Japan
First bombing of Darwin by Japan
Battle of the Coral Sea
El Alamein begins
Battle at Kokoda begins
AHS Centaur sunk in the Coral Sea
D-Day - Allied invasion of Europe
Harugiko Maru sunk. Many POWs drowned.
Rakuyo Maru sunk. 1,159 POWs drowned.
Hitler commits suicide
German Forces surrender
Japan surrenders
Victory in the Pacific declared
Green background - no known grave
Orange border indicates POW at time of death
Battle of Britain (Cr: Australian War Memorial)
Recruitment Posters
Note:
Prime Minister John Curtin (Cr: YouTube)
Bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942
Kokoda
AHS Centaur
Finschhafen New Guinea No 4 Squadron
113th General Hospital Concord (Cr: SLHD)
Rakuyo Maru survivors rescued
Sandakan POW Camp Borneo
Cr: Australian War Memorial
Ambon Island
Aitape Papua New Guinea
Sources
Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com.au/
Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/
Australian War Memorial (Glossary) https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/glossary
Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/
National Archives Australia https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/defence-and-war-service-records
Department Veteran Affairs (Nominal Rolls) https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/ww2
Prisoner of War Memorial Ballarat https://www.powmemorialballarat.com.au/
Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Virtual War Memorial https://vwma.org.au/
St David’s Haberfield 150 Years (Vincent Crow © 2020)
Tours of Haberfield Past and Present Part One (Vincent Crow © 2002)
Tours of Haberfield Past and Present Part Two (Vincent Crow © 2007)
Tours of Haberfield Past and Present Part Three (Vincent Crow © 2010)
Preserving Their Names 1914-18 - Ashfield History No 22 (Ashfield & District Historical Society / Ann O’Connell © 2020)