-
Recent Posts
- ABORIGINAL SERVICE IN WW1: 151 NAMES ADDED TO THE GROWING LIST OF AIF VOLUNTEERS
- ALFRED ‘TINY’ RYAN : THE BOXING SOLDIER
- DON ELPHICK: HIS CONTRIBUTION TO ABORIGINAL HISTORY
- POW, SECOND ANZAC FORCE VETERAN AND DARUG DESCENDANT: WALTER HENRY STEILBERG
- THE ABORIGINAL FIRTHS: AN UNUSUAL ANZAC CONNECTION
Archives
- June 2017
- April 2017
- January 2017
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- April 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
Categories
Twitter Updates
- RT @IndigenousANZAC: Do you know this man? It is a 💯 yr old German painting of a #IndigenousX #ANZAC Prisoner of War. Learn more -> https:/… 2 months ago
- Here are the names of 151 additions to Indigenous Histories’ list of Aboriginal WW1 soldiers indigenoushistories.com/2017/06/15/abo… 3 months ago
- Alfred ‘Tiny’ Ryan wounded Gallipoli died Belgium 1917 indigenoushistories.com/2017/04/25/alf… 4 months ago
- Dr Jim Smith’s long awaited book on the Aboriginal people of the Burragorang Valley launches 23 November https://t.co/FVkwEn1sm9 10 months ago
- RT @AWMemorial: Aboriginal soldiers 'braver than the cowardice of racism' @billshortenmp at @AWMemorial for launch of For Country, For Nati… 11 months ago
Category Archives: WW1
ABORIGINAL SERVICE IN WW1: 151 NAMES ADDED TO THE GROWING LIST OF AIF VOLUNTEERS
During the past two years we have been concentrating our efforts on expanding the number of known men of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage who volunteered to serve in the First World War. Below are the names of 151 … Continue reading
Posted in WW1
3 Comments
ALFRED ‘TINY’ RYAN : THE BOXING SOLDIER
Bogan River Tribe 1898 from the family album of Charles Jepson Morris, courtesy of grandson Bert Morris. Collection of the Local History Room, Narromine Library. Alfred Ryan is the small boy seated on a log. Sometime after 1917 the remains … Continue reading
Posted in Aborigines sport, WW1
Leave a comment
UNDERSTANDING THE NUMBERS: THE REVEILLE LISTS AND ABORIGINAL MEN IN THE FIRST AIF
In 1931 and 1932, Reveille the journal of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, (the predecessor of the Returned and Services League and referred to as the RSL) published lists of Aboriginal men who served in the … Continue reading
Posted in WW1
4 Comments
IDENTIFIED! SOLDIER WHO LOST BOTH LEGS 1917
In June 2013 I posted a photograph of a member of the AIF in a group of patients from the Horton War Hospital, Epsom, City of London. The photograph was dated 4 April 1917. Close examination of this image shows that the … Continue reading
Posted in Other non white Australians and the AIF, WW1, WW2
6 Comments
ABORIGINAL OFFICERS IN THE FIRST AIF ?
In 2012 Andrea Gerrard of the University of Tasmania identified an officer of Aboriginal heritage in the first AIF. This serviceman was Alfred John Hearps who volunteered on 20 August 1914 and served with the 12th Battalion at Gallipoli and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, WW1
1 Comment
CHARLIE ALLEY LIGHT HORSEMAN: THE SERVICE TRADITION OF THE ALLEY FAMILY
Charlie Alley was born in Charters Towers, Queensland in 1901. His father also Charles came from the Malay Straits and his mother Fanny Palmer was born under a tree at Canobie station near Blackjack. During the World War One Charlie’s … Continue reading
Posted in WW1, WW2
15 Comments
FOUND: PHOTOGRAPH OF FREDERICK PRENTICE 1915
More research and a confluence of information has made it possible to identify a photograph of an Aboriginal World War One soldier in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. This until recently was captioned ‘unknown’ but is now … Continue reading
Posted in Aborigines sport, WW1
1 Comment
