Australians at War 1901-2000
1919–1938
28 June 1919
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- Front cover, Repatriation, bulletin of the Department of Repatriation, 25 April 1919.
Representatives of Allied powers and Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, at Versailles, France, officially ending World War I. Prime Minister William Morris Hughes represented Australia.
31 March 1921
Formation of Australian Air Force, which became the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on 31 August 1921.
25 April 1923
The first Anzac Day Dawn Service was held on Mt Clarence, overlooking King Georges Sound, Albany, Western Australia.
1925–1934
Major State war memorials were dedicated in Sydney (1934), Melbourne (1934), Adelaide (1931), Brisbane (1930), Perth (1929) and Hobart (1925).
1926
Legacy Clubs adopted the care of deceased ex-servicemen's dependents as their main function.
24 July 1927
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium was opened. The Gate records the names of more than 56,000 Allied soldiers, among them 6,176 Australian soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), missing in the battles around Ypres during the First World War.
