The Royal Military College of Australia opens

The Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon was opened on 27 June 1911 near the newly formed Australian capital of Canberra.

Field Marshall Lord Kitchener of England, invited by the Australian government to advise of defense requirements, recommended that a College be established for the training of officers for a permanent military force
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The first commandant of the College was Sir William Throsby Bridges. He toured several Military Academies in which to model the new academy,

Bridges modeled Duntroon on the US Military Academy at West Point, based on the recommendations of Lord Kitchener. The first class of 41 cadets, 31 from Australia and 10 from New Zealand, moved in and the college was officially opened on 27 June 1911.

At the start of the First World War, Major-General Bridges was given command of the 1st AIF Division. He died at Gallipoli and his body was returned to Australia and buried on the slopes of Mount Pleasant, overlooking the college. In total, forty of the 117 Australian graduates died in the First World War.