Key Dates in Australia's Military History: 1961–1964
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Members of RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam march along the tarmac at Tan Son Nhut airfield, Saigon, August 1964.
(AWM P01947.001)
16 January 1962
Death of JF Hurley, first official AIF photographer, appointed during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. The photographs taken by Hurley and his colleague, GH Wilkins, of this battle have become synonymous with the appalling conditions faced by Australian soldiers on the Western Front during World War I.
August 1962
A group of 30 advisers of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) is deployed to South Vietnam.
An Australian soldier, a 'tunnel rat', emerges from a search of a Viet Cong tunnel in Vietnam.
(AWM CUN/66/522/VN)
1963–66
Australian Military units in Borneo help defend the borders of Malaysia against incursions from Indonesia during the Confrontation conflict.
August 1964
RAAF Caribou flight established at Vung Tau, Vietnam.
November 1964
Introduction of selective conscription by ballot for military service
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