Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander participation in WW1 by Mr Harrap

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Harry Thorpe was a Brabuwooloong man from near Lakes Entrance in Victoria

Enrolment

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In February of 1916, Harry Thorpe enrolled in the AIF and traveled to France with the 7th Battalion.

The front lines

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Harry participated in the battle at Pozières where he was seriously wounded. He was also wounded at the Hindenberg Line a few months later.

Promotion

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Harry was promoted to Lance Corporal

Role

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Harry was tasked with clearing out enemy dugouts and pillboxes where he showed bravery.

Military Medal

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Harry was given a Military Medal for his service of clearing enemy dugouts and promoted to Corporal.

Death

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Harry died near the Somme on the 9th August 1918

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Larrakia man, Willie Allen was born in Darwin in early 1884. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Willie was working as a labourer.

Enlistment

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In December 1917 Willie was able to enlist in the AIF and join the 11th Light Horse Regiment. In June 1918 Willie and his regiment departed Sydney for the training camp at Moascar, Egypt.

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Birth: 1896, remote cattle station near Wyndham in the Kimberly region of WA.

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birth : 1895

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Front lines

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Willie and the regiment were involved in actions against German and Turkish troops at Semakh in Palestine.

Rank

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Trooper Allen was the allotted to the 11th Light Horse Regiment and along with 40 others joined the regiment in the field at Ludd in early september.

He held ranks Private and Trooper.

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Birth

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born at the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve near Purnim in Western Victoria. His birthdate is unknown but his service records indicate that he was born either at the end of 1890 or early 1891.

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Experience:

His bravery and athleticism was put to the test in September 1917 while he was serving in Palestine. In a dangerous area of the coast of New Zealand soldier, Trooper George Moffat, was being dragged out to sea by a rip. Hearing the cries for help, Charlie who was a strong swimmer, set out to take a lifeline to Georgie. Charlie managed to save George even after the lifeline broke.

sergeant

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The Front Lines 2

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before Willies Regiment was called back to Australia they were sent to Egypt to control an uprising started in March 1919. After that was resolved in late July, the Regiment went back home to Australia

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Charlie enlisted shortly after is 19th birthday in late 1915 and was on his way to Egypt with the 10th Light Horse Regiment.

Enlistment

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William enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in March 1916.

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Role: In the Australian Army Service Corps as a driver.

Death

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04 March 1959

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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Death: 1990, age of 94

about

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Roland Carter was a proud Ngarrindjeri man born in 1892 at Goolwa, South Australia. Growing up on the Point McLeay Mission, Roland was educated at the local school until the age of 14, when he began work as a labourer. In 1915, at the age of 22, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. Before Roland departed he was presented with a silver mounted razor strop and razor, a fountain pen from the football club and a bible. Roland was the first Ngarrindjeri man to enlist and by the end of the war, sixteen Aboriginal men from the Point McLeay Mission had served overseas. Four never returned.

58th Australian Infantry Battalion

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Military Awards

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Following his discharge from the AIF, Willie was awarded with three important medals, the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1914/15 Star for his service.

Introduction

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Service number: 1310

Rank held:Corporal private

Birth: 1884 in remote western Australian station.

Death: 1928-08-28 South Australia Adelaide

Also known as: Charles Gordon Naley

Back story

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Gordon’s mother, whose name is not known, was

an Aboriginal woman and his father was William McGill, a Scotsman who established the station

with William and Thomas Kennedy. Gordon was raised by his Aboriginal family before Ellen,

William’s second wife, became his unofficial adoptive mother. By his early twenties Gordon had

moved to South Australia, where he worked as a drover, shearer and farm labourer.

Death Date and Reasoning

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hit by a shell and was killed immdiately

date:1918-08-09

Front Lines

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William arrived in France and experienced difficult challenges during trench warfare.

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WW2

Charlie was working as a slaughterman in Pemberton when he enlisted for the second AIF, he was 45 and considered 'old'. He went through physical tests before joining the 3d railway Construction Company.

He returned in 1943 February to Australia where he served in Western Australia and Victoria until his discharge in Jan 1945.

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rank

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Maitland Madge was born on 17 March 1895. His mother, Ella, was an Aboriginal woman, and his father, Richard, was an immigrant from Devon, England, who was in control of Breeza Plains Station in outback Queensland. To avoid Maitland being removed from his mother, Richard Madge applied for and was granted Maitland’s exemption from the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897. He enrolled his son at Kelvin Grove Boys School, Queensland.

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Role

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William was tasked with attacking a communication trench by using grenades.

Military Medal

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He was awarded the Military Medal for his leadership and courage.

Military Medal

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He received the the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal 1914-20 and the Victory Medal for his service.

Time line

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1.born in 1884 on a remote Western Australian station

2.September 1914, 27-year-old Gordon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.

3.After he joined the 16th Battalion and headed for Egypt just before Christmas On 25th April 1915.

4.By July 1916, Gordon had recover enough to rejoin his battalion on the Western Front in France.

5.The 16th Battalion took part in the first attack on the Hindenburg Line near the village of Bullecourt on 11 April 1917.

6.Two weeks later he married Cecilia

Karsh, whom he had met while recovering in England.

The couple travelled back to Australia on SS Bremen, arriving in Adelaide in late July 1919.

7.Gordon was discharged from the AIF four days

later.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, at 83 Beals Street, to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a businessman and politician, and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald), a philanthropist and socialite. His paternal grandfather, P. J. Kennedy, served as a Massachusetts state legislator.

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