Service with the Australian Defence Force

Where must Australians have served

• A Veteran of the Australian Defence Force must have served in one of the following conflicts or operational areas (specified in Schedule 2 of the VEA).

Operational service for SP and DCP purposes:

• World War1
• World War 2
• Korea 
• Malaya 
• Federation of Malaya & Singapore
• Malay/Thai Border
• Borneo 
• Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
• Vietnam 
• Namibia 
• the Gulf
• Cambodia 
• Somalia 
• the former Yugoslavia    
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• Afghanistan 
• East Timor 
• Rwanda 
• Sierra Leone

Non-operational service for DCP purposes only:

• service with a designated peacekeeping force
• appropriate defence force service
• non-operational service during WW1 and WW2