Long Tan Day ceremony moved to Wauchope RSL Club on Friday August 18.

It will be held on Friday August 18 at the memorial wall.  

It is the symbolic remembrance day in Australia for the Vietnam War and of particular significance for the battle at Long Tan.

Members of the public are asked to gather at the wall at 10.45am for the ceremony which will start at 11am.

RSL Sub-branch members and partners are then invited to attend a luncheon at the RSL after the service.

The battle of Long Tan, on August 18, 1966, was fought in a rubber plantation between the Australian and Viet Cong forces.

It lasted five hours and is arguably the most famous battle fought by the Australian Army during the Vietnam War.

Despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered, more than 100 members of Delta Company, 6th Battalion (6RAR), won the battle against a vastly superior North Vietnamese force, estimated between 1,500 and 2,500.

After the battle, the bodies of 245 enemy soldiers were found.

Australian casualties included the loss of 18 lives with 24 soldiers wounded.

It was one of the heaviest conflicts of the Vietnam War, as well as one of the few battles in the recorded history of the world to be won against such odds.

The battle lasted just one afternoon, but it came to symbolise Australia’s 10-year involvement in the Vietnam War which ended in 1975.

Vietnam Veterans' Day, celebrated in Australia on 18 August each year, commemorates the Battle of Long Tan and those Australians who served during the Vietnam War and is an opportunity to remember those who did not come home.

The Vietnam War was the longest war Australia was ever involved in.

It was also the first war witnessed ‘live’ on television.

Australian involvement in the Vietnam War was marked by controversy and significant levels of public opposition to conscription and concern about casualties.