Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/August/August 8

"Amiens, the key to the west" by Arthur Streeton, 1918.

• 1895 – The steamship SS Catterthun strikes Seal Rocks, New South Wales, and founders, killing 55 persons.
• 1914 – Enlistment for World War I begins.
• 1918 – Australian forces contribute to one of the greatest advances in World War I at the Battle of Amiens.
• 1973 – Landscape designer Edna Walling died.