ANZAC Day Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commemoration ceremony : Tuesday 25 April 2017 6.30 am

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Label

ANZAC Day Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commemoration ceremony : Tuesday 25 April 2017 6.30 am

Title remainder

Tuesday 25 April 2017 6.30 am

Contributor

• Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Veterans & Services Association

Subject

• Aboriginal Australians -- Wars | Veterans
• Anzac Day
• Defence
• Defence - Armed forces - Veterans
• Literature and stories - Poetry
• Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Anzac Day
• Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Memorials and commemorations
• Torres Strait Islanders -- Wars | Veterans

Language

eng

Summary

Order of service for ANZAC Day Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commemoration ceremony for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who served in the Australian defence forces held Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Tuesday 25 April 2017 6.30 am; text of poem "The coloured digger" written by Sapper Bert Beros about Private Harold West of the 2/1st Battalion AIF, an Aboriginal soldier whom he met in New Guinea in 1942; Photographs : Private George Leonard and Private Harold West of the 2/1st Battalion AIF; Group portrait of Aboriginal women and girls at Cumeroogunga Government Mission knitting socks, jumpers and balaclavas for the war effort; Wedding party at double wedding of two members of the 11th Light Horse Regiment , James Lingwoodock from Gin Gin Qld, son of Kanaka Jim Tabby and John Geary from Bundaberg, Qld; parade of C Company Torres Strait Islander Light Infantry Battalion, Thursday Island 29 October 1945; Studio portrait of Australian Women's Army Service Corporal Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) taken in Queensland during 1943; Maori soldier Colonel Glenn King; New Zealand Maori troops arriving in Alexandria after evacuation following the Crete campaign in June 1941; Islander Jim Tabby who was captured by "Blackbirders: to work on Queensland cane farms as slaves; Members of Papuan Infantry Battalion patrol in camp in forward position; Painting "Americans and Aborigines" by Australian official war artist Roy Hodgkinson 1942; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of the Indigenous pre-recruitment course (IPRC); First known Aboriginal fighter pilot Leornard Victor Waters; One of the first documented Aboriginal servicemen, Thomas Bungaleen, a crewman on board the Victorian Colonial Navy ship "Victoria"; Australian soldiers of Aboriginal and Pacific islander heritage, Private Andrew Roberts (descendent of Kamilaroi warrior Gambu Ganuuuru; Sgt William Rodd (Papuan) and Private Logan Kake (Maori) at Tarin Kowt base in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan 2013; Lieutenant Tom "Driver" Derrick shaking hands with Lt Reg Saunders following successful graduation from the Officer's Cadet Training Unit at Seymour, Victoria on 25 November 1944

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AIAS

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction