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Welcome to the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. ScopeThe scope of this task force is to oversee the development and expansion of articles related to the military affairs of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, including those islands that fall outside the scope of the Southeast Asian military history task force. Military activities in and by Papua New Guinea fall under this task force. While titled "military history", the task force encompasses present-day military topics for all areas within its scope. The task force's area of interest overlaps with a number of other Wikiprojects, and as such issues, conflicts, requests for assistance, or announcements related to:
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Participants
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- Abraham, B.S. (talk · contribs) (Mainly work on biographies, also have a deep interest in decorations and their recipients)
- Aeonx (talk · contribs) (Particularly WWI / WWII Biographies, various articles)
- Deathlibrarian (talk · contribs) (Victorian Colonial navy, WW1 Aussie battles, and currently concentrating on WW2 PNG, Shaggy ridge and the Huon Peninsula )
- Dfadden (talk · contribs) - (WW2 Airfields)
- Gnangarra (talk · contribs) (Photographs, also fluent in searching service records in National Archives)
- Grant65 (talk · contribs) (Interested in all periods.)
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) (WW1 & WW2)
- Hugo999 (talk · contribs) (New Zealand Wars, VCs, Boer War)
- Ian Rose (talk · contribs) (Primarily RAAF history, happy to review/copyedit most things)
- Kralizec! (talk · contribs) (various RAN topics, with a focus on WWI – Cold War ships and ship classes)
- Newm30 (talk · contribs)
- Nford24 (talk · contribs) (Australian Navy Cadet, interested in All areas of the Australian Defence Force Cadets and ADF) -->
- Stanley Bannerman (talk · contribs) (Mostly New Zealand stuff)
- Someone0317 (talk · contribs) (Units, BCOF, New Guniea)
- Zawed (talk · contribs) (NZ in World Wars I and II, the Korean War)
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Article statistics
Open tasks
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (2,681) • ...to coverage and accuracy (2,391) • ...to structure (573) • ...to grammar (57) • ...to supporting materials (464)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- 2nd Division (New Zealand) • Court martial of Breaker Morant • History of the Royal Australian Navy • Military history of New Zealand • Military history of New Zealand in World War I • Military history of New Zealand during World War II • New Zealand Army • New Zealand in the Vietnam War • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • Slouch hat • Uniforms of the New Zealand Army
- Requested articles
- Auckland Regiment • Canterbury Regiment (currently a redirect) • 7th Brigade (New Zealand) • 11th Brigade (New Zealand) • 12th Brigade (New Zealand) • South Australian Imperial Bushmen • Tasmanian Citizen Bushmen • Tasmanian Mounted Infantry • Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen (currently redirect) • 1st Military Police Battalion (Australia) • Victorian Citizen Bushmen • Victorian Imperial Bushmen • Western Australian Mounted Infantry (currently redirect) • Western Australian Citizen Bushmen • 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • 3rd/6th Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • No. 83 (Army Cooperation) Wing • No. 52 Squadron RNZAF • No. 51 Squadron RNZAF • No. 43 Squadron RNZAF • No. 12 Squadron RNZAF • No. 11 Squadron RNZAF • No. 10 Squadron RNZAF • CAC/North American Avon Sabre in Australian service • GAF/Dassault Mirage III in Australian service • Harry Charles Bundock • Grant Cavenagh • Frederick Hay Christison • John August Clareborough • Jack Kerr Coffey • John Craven • Ralph Daly • Charles Stewart Davies • Harold Charles de Low • William Huggett Douglas • Herbert Frederick Henry Durant • Leslie Glanville Howard Dyke • Henry Herrick Edwards • Cyril Maurice Lloyd Elliott • Frederick Percy Herbert Fewtrell • Alexander Moore Forbes • Stephen Gilbert Friend • Vivian Harrold Gatliff • Arthur Harry Langman Godfrey • Leonard George Goss • Peter Haddad • William Allan Hailes • Neville Gordon Hatton • Health Services Wing RAAF • William Alexander Henderson • John Hill • Frederick Brock Hinton • Oswald Vick Hoad • Austin Claude Selwyn Holland • Maurice Barber Bevan Keating • Douglas Oswald Luke Kitto • Errol Knox • Ian Lillie • Thomas Steane Louch • John Walter Main • Gordon Edward Manchester • James Eric Gifford Martin • Athelsan Markham Martyn • John Maxwell • Patrick Sanfield McGrath • Eric George Henderson McKenzie • Kenneth Alan McKenzie • Douglas Murray McWhae • Arthur James Mills • Raymond Frederic Monaghan • Gerald Vincent Moriarty • New Zealand Infantry Brigade (currently a redirect) • Edward Michael Neylan • Francis Roger North • Harry Scott Nurse • David O'Brien • Douglas Paine • William Edward Hill Pascoe • Michael Phelps • Claude Esdaile Prior • Ralph Carlyle Geoffrey Prisk • Beauchamp Worters Pulver • John Herbert Rasmussen • John David Rogers • Henry Gordon Rourke • Harry Blamyre Sewell • Colin McOlvin Sharp • Edward Lonergan Sheehan • James Thomas Simpson • Fritz Peter Max Solling • William Howard St. Clair • Robert Mackay Stodart • Roy Buchanan Sutherland • Harold Bourue Taylor • Percy Chamberlin Thompson • Roy Meldrum Thompson • Walter James Urquhart • Donald Norwood Veron • Roy William Whiston Walsh • Augustine William Wardell • Thomas Edgar Weavers • David Welch • Frank Elwyn Wells • Allan Respen Wendt • Ernst Morgan Williams • Kenneth Williams • Kenneth Agnew Wills • Roy Gordon • New Zealand Rarotongan Company • Joint Task Force 633
- Expansion needed
- 2nd Infantry Brigade (New Zealand) • Australian Mounted Division • Australian Army Veterinary Corps • Australian and New Zealand Army Corps • Military history of Australia during the Malayan Emergency • 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers • 1st Aviation Regiment (Australia) • 1st Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia) • II Anzac Corps • Australian military involvement in peacekeeping • Emile Dechaineux • Harold Farncomb • History of the Australian Army • History of the Royal Australian Air Force • John Baker • John Royston • John Ryan (Australian soldier) • Lark Force • New Guinea campaign • Robert William Rankin • Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers • HMNZS Resolution (A-14) • Military history of New Zealand in Malaysia • New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade • New Zealand Rifle Brigade • Survey Motor Boat • List of Australian generals and brigadiers • Air Lift Group • Surveillance and Response Group • Combat Support Group RAAF • Aerospace Operational Support Group RAAF • 41 Wing • No. 26 Squadron RAAF • No. 29 Squadron RAAF • Air Movements Training and Development Unit RAAF• Surveillance and Control Training Unit RAAF • No. 386 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF • No. 322 Combat Support Squadron RAAF • No. 323 Combat Support Squadron RAAF • No. 324 Combat Support Squadron RAAF• No. 1 Combat Logistics Squadron RAAF • No. 1 Air Terminal Squadron RAAF • No. 3 Airfield Defence Squadron RAAF • New South Wales Mounted Rifles • Combat Reserve Wing RAAF • New Zealand Women's Land Army • 6th Light Anti-aircraft Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery • 12th Heavy Anti-aircraft Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery • more...
- Images needed
- 1st Division (New Zealand) • 4th Division (New Zealand) • 5th Division (New Zealand) • 7th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery • 27th Machine Gun Battalion (New Zealand) • 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers • New Zealand Women's Land Army • Military history of Australia during the Malayan Emergency • Harold Pope (soldier)
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- List of Australian Army artillery units in World War I • Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit • Australian occupation of German New Guinea • Bombing of Rabaul (November 1943) • FCU UNTAC • Geoffrey Fisken • Henry Arthur Goddard • Military history of Oceania • New Zealand Army • Imperial Service Club
- Translation needed
- Add an article here!
Article alerts
Today's featured article requests
- 15 May 2026 – Operation Brevity (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Harizotoh9 (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 08 Mar 2026 – Third Persian Gulf War (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Mar 2026 – Gulf war II (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – Gulf War II (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – Gulf War Two (talk · edit · hist) →2003 invasion of Iraq was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – The gulf war 2 (talk · edit · hist) →2003 invasion of Iraq was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – Gulf war 2 (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – Gulf War 2 (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Mar 2026 – 2nd Persian Gulf War (talk · edit · hist) →2003 invasion of Iraq was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Mar 2026 – 2nd Gulf War (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Mar 2026 – Second Gulf War (talk · edit · hist) →Iraq War was RfDed by Thryduulf (t · c); see discussion
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A-Class review
- undated – Battle of 42nd Street (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
- undated – Landing at Scarlet Beach (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 04 Mar 2026 – Malcolm Calder (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zawed (t · c); start discussion
- 28 Jan 2026 – Andrew Hastie (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
Featured article reviews
- 10 Jan 2026 – Douglas MacArthur (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 11 Mar 2026 – Air Combat Group RAAF (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 06 Mar 2026 – Australian Intelligence Community (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Australian intelligence community by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 09 Mar 2026 – Mutiny on the Bounty (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to HMS Bounty by ~2026-11642-35 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 23 Dec 2023 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion
Resources
Templates
- {{ADF Leadership}} – Senior positions in ADF
- {{Anzac}} – Anzac series
- {{Australian Army}} – Army
- {{Australian Defence Force}} – ADF footer
- {{Australian WW2 Divs}} – Army Divisions of World War II
- {{List of Australian Flying Corps Squadrons}}
- {{List of RAAF Squadrons}}
- {{Military history of New Zealand}}
- {{New Zealand Great War Mounted Regiments}}
- {{RAAF}} – RAAF
- {{Royal Australian Navy}} – RAN
- {{RAR}} – Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment
- {{ADF List}} – ADF lists
- {{Australia-mil-stub}} – for Military of Australia articles that need work
Categories
Websites
Australian government websites
- Australian War Memorial
- Australian Department of Defence
- Australian Army
- Army History Unit
- Land Warfare Studies Centre
- Aide Memoire (details the Army's tasks, capability, structure and training systems)
- Royal Australian Navy
- Seapower Centre – Australia
- Honours awarded to ships (direct link here)
- Royal Australian Air Force
- Australian Defence College
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
- National Archives of Australia
- State LIbrary of Victoria
Australian academic and think-tank websites
Australian museums
Australian private websites
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Online – Biographies of notable Australians, including military personnel
- Australian Light Horse Studies Centre – Historical information on the Australian Light Horse from 1899–1920 including the Militia, Boer War and Great War.
- ANZAC Steel – Information on Australian and New Zealand armoured vehicles and units
- Australian-Armour
- Digger History
- General Officers of the First Australian Imperial Force
- Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa by P.L. Murray (1911) – electronic copy
New Zealand government websites
New Zealand non-government websites
- Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand
- New Zealand in the First World War 1914–1918 (Official histories from Etext)
- The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War (full text of the most comprehensive history of NZ in WW2 on Etext)
- New Zealand Wars history (histories from Etext)
- Three texts on WW1
- Twenty texts on New Zealand Wars
- Armoury – Auckland War Memorial Museum
- e-book New Zealand at the Front (1917) in Digger History [dead link]
- e-book Featherston Camp (WWI) in Digger History [dead link]
- The New Zealand Army by Maj G J Clayton in Digger History (A Short History 1840–1990, with additional material)