Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/April 2018/Articles


 * Avenue Range Station massacre : This article on an incident in the Australian frontier wars covers the killing of nine Aboriginal Australians on a farm in the colony of South Australia. While the farmer was arrested, the perpetrators escaped conviction when their trial was abandoned. One of the major complications involved in the case was that there were significant restrictions on the use of evidence given by Aboriginal witnesses, especially when a verdict could involve capital punishment. The article passed GAN and ACR prior to gaining FA status.


 * Battle of Warsaw (1705) : This article is about a battle that pitted Swedish forces against a Saxon and Polish-Lithuanian army during the struggle between Augustus II the Strong and Stanisław Leszczyński for the throne of Poland. The victory of the outnumbered Swedish army near Warsaw secured Leszczyński's coronation as Stanislaw I. According to nominator Imonoz, this would be the first battle article on the Great Northern War to achieve featured status.


 * 15th Tank Corps : This article covers a Soviet tank corps that had two incarnations. Formed in 1938, it fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland and was disbanded shortly afterwards. It was re-formed in 1942 and fought on the Eastern Front for more than a year before becoming the elite 7th Guards Tank Corps. Kges took the article through GAN and ACR before FAC.

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 * Cyril Bassett (Zawed) : Cyril Bassett was the first and only New Zealander to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. He served on the Western Front from 1916 until the end of the war. He rejoined the military during World War II, and held important positions as a signals officer in New Zealand. He rarely spoke about his military achievements, and his daughter only learned of them at school.


 * Jørgen Jensen (soldier) (Peacemaker67) : Jørgen Jensen was also a Victoria Cross recipient of World War I. He was born in Denmark and migrated to Australia. Jensen was awarded the medal for capturing more than 50 German soldiers on the Western Front during April 1917. He also received several disciplinary infringements during the war, and on one occasion was jailed for going absent without leave. He died in 1922 of war-related injuries.


 * Army of Sambre and Meuse (auntieruth55) : The latest in auntieruth's huge series on the French Revolutionary War is also the second of a pair of articles on two principal French armies which participated in the Rhine Campaign of 1796 she's brought to A class. The Army of Sambre and Meuse was formed in June 1794 and disbanded in September 1797. For most of the period it was active it operated successfully in modern Germany. However, it was eventually pushed back across the Rhine into France.


 * Phillip Davey (Peacemaker67) : The third article on a Victoria Cross recipient of World War I for the month covers an Australian who received the medal for killing the entire crew of a German machine gun and then turning the weapon on other Germans during June 1918. Like both Bassett and Jensen, Davey had first seen combat at Gallipoli and survived the war.


 * 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (Kges1901) : The 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment was a unit of the Soviet Air Defense Forces that saw service in World War II and the Korean War over its 68-year career. It was formed in 1941 and conducted over 4,700 missions during World War II. The regiment operated from airfields in China against United Nations forces during the Korean War. It was active for the remainder of the Cold War, but was disbanded in 2009 as part of a reorganisation of the Russian Air Force.


 * Tetricus I (Iazyges) : This article covers the last Emperor of the short-lived Gallic Empire, which broke away from the Roman Empire between 260 and 274. Tetricus I became emperor in 271 and spent much of his reign attempting to fight off Germanic raiders. In 274 Tetricus I surrendered to the invading Roman emperor, possibly after losing a battle. After being paraded through Rome he received a pardon, and was made a senator and the governor of a minor province.


 * Edward the Elder (Dudley Miles) : Edward the Elder was the son and successor of Alfred the Great. He built on his father's achievements to defeat the Vikings in southern England, and united Mercia and East Anglia with Wessex into one southern kingdom. He has been described as perhaps the most neglected of English kings.


 * Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō (Sturmvogel 66) : Hiyō was one of two Japanese aircraft carriers which were converted from ocean liners. She entered service in mid-1942 and saw combat in the Guadalcanal Campaign. The ship had a peculiar history as she rarely conducted operations with her aircraft aboard as the Imperial Japanese Navy adopted a policy of flying carrier air groups from land-bases to minimise the risk to its carriers in 1943–44. She was sunk after being torpedoed by an American submarine during the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 20 June 1944.


 * HMS Erin (Sturmvogel 66) : HMS Erin was one of the two battleships being built for the Ottomans when World War I began and was seized by the British, which probably contributed to the Turkish decision to enter the war. Like almost all of the British dreadnoughts she had an uneventful war; even more so than the others as she was the only British dreadnought not to fire her main armament during the 1916 Battle of Jutland. After the war Erin became a training ship before being sold for scrap in 1922.


 * Australian Air Corps (Ian Rose) : Ian's latest A-class article on an Australian military aviation topic covers the interim force established between the disbandment of the World War I-era Australian Flying Corps and the establishment of the Royal Australian Air Force. The Australian Air Corps was raised in 1920 with the role of maintaining the AFC's assets. Its personnel also undertook several pioneering flights. It was disbanded on 30 March 1921 and the RAAF was raised the next day.