Australian Soldier Dies In Training
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7 reporters
- Burney WongDaily Mail
- Daniel Lo SurdoSydney Morning Herald
- Holly TregenzaABC News (AU)
- Josh ButlerThe Guardian
- Lana LamBBC
- Alisha Rahaman SarkarThe Independent
- Ashley NickelDaily Mail
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Australian Soldier Dies In Training. (2026, October 13). The Aporia. https://the-aporia.com/event/58703
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“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family who are obviously devastated by this loss and of course the support of our entire community is there for all of our service personnel who will be feeling this loss immensely.”
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An Australian Army soldier has died during a training exercise at the Mount Bundey Training Arena.
Lachlan Muddle, an experienced paratrooper, died in March after a mid-air collision with another trooper during training above a Jervis Bay airfield.
An inquest in 2019 heard that Challis was shot while standing behind a plywood wall during an exercise in a setting meant to resemble a village.
Jack Fitzgibbon, the son of the former Labor defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon, died in 2024 during a parachute incident during a routine training activity in Sydney.
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- 5 Oct
An Australian Army soldier has died during a training exercise at the Mount Bundey Training Arena.
- 6 Oct
The department on Tuesday morning released a statement confirming the incident, which occurred at the Mount Bundey training area, around 100km south-east of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
- 7 Oct
“Our thoughts are very much also with those soldiers who are recovering.”
Coverage 9 articles
7 Oct ADF pauses use of Supacat following fatal rollover in NT
ABC News (AU)
6 Oct Aussie father-of-two who served tours in Afghanistan and trained Ukrainian troops is identified as corporal killed during army training exercise
Daily Mail6 Oct Australian soldier dies during training exercise
Sydney Morning Herald6 Oct Australian soldier killed and five injured during training exercise in Northern Territory
The Independent
6 Oct Australian soldier dies and five injured in training exercise
BBC
6 Oct Australian soldier killed and five others injured in training exercise in the Northern Territory
The Guardian5 Oct Breaking: Australian Army soldier dies in training exercise
ABC News (AU)5 Oct Australian soldier killed in NT military exercise
Sydney Morning Herald- 5 Oct Aussie soldier dies during training exercise as five others are injured
Daily Mail
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