AUSTRALIA ENTRY INTO WAR

Question 1

When and who announced Australia’s entry

Answer 1

Sep 1939 prime minister Menzies announced on the radio that Britain (mother country) had declared war and thus it was his melancholy duty to inform australia that we to are at war

Question 2

What was Australia’s role in European and African theatres of war ?

Answer 2

• first sent to fight in Middle East to protect GB resources.
• Australians part of Dunkirk and siege of Tobruk

Question 3

List major areas of Australian involvement

Answer 3

Tobruk, Dunkirk, France, Crete, Mediterranean. Britain