9th Australian Division
Division · Australia · April 10, 1941 – October 25, 1941 · c. 16,000–18,000 strong
Australian division under Leslie Morshead that held Tobruk through the 1941 siege as the core of its garrison, the 'Rats of Tobruk'.
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Strength and losses
- Nominal Strength: c. 16,000–18,000
Movements
- February 6 – May 25, 1941 Operation Sonnenblume
- April 10, 1941 Siege of Tobruk Holds the Tobruk perimeter Map
- October 25, 1941 Relieved by sea Map
- April 22 – September 16, 1943 Salamaua–Lae campaign
- September 22 – October 24, 1943 Battle of Finschhafen
- September 22, 1943 – March 1, 1944 Huon Peninsula campaign
- June 10 – August 15, 1945 Battle of North Borneo