Lest we forget…

100 years ago –  on this day and for the next seven days (until 17 September 1914) the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Forces (AN&MEF) troops skirmished with Melanesian and German troops at Bitapaka in the German colony of New Guinea while attempting to capture a nearby radio outpost.  The four Australians killed in the action were the first of the 60,000 Australian troops to fall in WW1.