commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Murray Moten

senior officer in the Australian Army during the Second World War, 1899 to 1953

Murray Moten is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas in 1943: 4 battles, all in present-day Papua New Guinea. Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,355 km apart end to end, 452 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (3), South West Pacific theater of World War II (1).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
4 February 1943	Battle of Wau	Wau, Papua New Guinea		Allied victory
22 April 1943	Battle of Mubo	Territory of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea	664 km W	Allied victory
22 April 1943	Battle of Bobdubi	Territory of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea	0 km N	Allied victory
16 July 1943	Battle of Mount Tambu	Territory of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea	692 km E	Allied victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.