Sources for Humanitites by Sam McCombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2019-05-06 03:46:29 UTC 2025-11-25 23:11:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Quote from Reg's brother smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357039633 http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/04/18/3739709.htm
"Aboriginal people have always been the traditional owners of our land, so it was very much automatic for our people to be soldiers,
 
 The Aboriginal people have always had a responsibility to their homelands, and it can never change."
   - Keith Saunders (Gunditjmara Elder)]]> 2019-05-06 03:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357039633 Official Portrait smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357040126 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P05034.001/]]> 2019-05-06 03:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357040126 Death Notice in 'The Age' Friday 8th of August 1941 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357045591 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-article205176640.3.html?followup=9eca72bd5e10a61994c6227ec9fabf9c]]> 2019-05-06 04:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357045591 Captain Reginald Walter Saunders (Photograph Taken September 1941) (https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C25893) smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357046606 Official Description: SOMEWHERE AT SEA. SERGEANT REG SAUNDERS - THE ABORIGINAL SOLDIER IS HELD IN EXCELLENT REGARD BY BOTH OFFICERS AND MEN, AND IS ONE OF THE SMARTEST MEN IN THE COMPANY]]> 2019-05-06 04:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357046606 Glenda Humes (Reginald's Daughter on his enlistment) in an ABC Radio Interview "The battle of 42nd Street, Crete, and Captain Reg Saunders" (28th of May 2011) smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357046973 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/the-battle-of-42nd-street-crete-and-captain-reg/2954664

Geraldine Doogue: Why did he enlist in World War II in the first place, your father?

Glenda Humes: Oh I think there was two parts to that. One was everyone in the district who was young and playing football with Dad, enlisted; and the second was certainly because of the fact that he was Aboriginal. And that they were warriors, the Gunditjmara people from the Western Districts of Victoria, and they'd had lots of battles. And his father was also a First World War soldier.

Geraldine Doogue: Did he ever talk to you about his time in the army, and what it was like to have been selected as the first Aboriginal commissioned officer?

Glenda Humes: On numerous occasions. He would talk about what a great honour that was, an unexpected one as well, because Dad had – I think even though he had the qualities of leadership and courage, he was also a person who always stood up for his life, and certainly in the army, he got name-called and had been demoted from sergeant back to corporal because he'd had a fight with some bloke calling him 'Black so-and-so'.

]]> 2019-05-06 04:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357046973 Reginald's Father Chris smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357047662 234rd Private-Walter Christopher Saunders 

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1068764]]> 2019-05-06 04:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357047662 'Proud Mother of Air Ace Son'- News SA 14/4/1942 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357048203 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128552368?searchTerm=keith%20bluey%20truscott%20enlists&searchLimits=#)]]> 2019-05-06 04:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357048203 Proud Mother of Keith Bluey Truscott (continued) smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357048348 2019-05-06 04:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357048348 Inspiration of Keith 'Bluey Truscott' for Keith Miller's Enlistment- 'Weekly Times' 6/12/1941 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357049239 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224829283?searchTerm=keith%20bluey%20truscott%20enlists&searchLimits=#]]> 2019-05-06 05:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357049239 Squadron Leader Keith 'Bluey' Truscott smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357049689 Taken 12/10/1942
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C32571]]> 2019-05-06 05:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357049689 'From a Warrior Family'- The Age (6th June 1947) smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357492268
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206029337?searchTerm=from%20a%20warrior%20family&searchLimits=]]> 2019-05-07 06:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357492268 'Whitest Man in the AIF' Women's Weekly 6th of June 1945 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357493763 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47117667?searchTerm=whitest%20man%20in%20the%20aif&searchLimits=l-format=Article]]> 2019-05-07 07:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357493763 'Memories of Dad Still Vivid' 23/4/16 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357494195 2019-05-07 07:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357494195 'Tribute to Comrade'- Weekly Times 23/8/1941 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357495915 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224828406?searchTerm=tribute%20to%20comrade%20ron%20barassi&searchLimits=]]> 2019-05-07 07:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357495915 'Leader's Tribute to Bluey Truscott'- Canberra Times 31/3/1943 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357497379 2019-05-07 07:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357497379 Quote on Intention to Serve (https://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/jeffrey.pdf) smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357498882 "In 1939, she graduated with her General Nursing Certificate and in 1940, while at the Royal Women’s Hospital, she received her midwifery certificate. That same year, at the age of 32, Jeffrey volunteered for the AANS, excited by the opportunity to travel, aid the war effort, and represent her country.”

]]> 2019-05-07 07:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357498882 'Famous Pilot Missing'- Sydney Morning Herald 30/3/1943 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357563008 2019-05-07 11:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357563008 Footage of Keith Bluey Truscott smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357566455 2019-05-07 11:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357566455 http://muntokpeacemuseum.org/?page_id=987: smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357567388 “BETTY JEFFREY was the principal chronicler of the gallant band of British, Dutch and Australian women who for four years faced every known deprivation and humiliation as prisoners in Japanese camps in Sumatra. The British women – 15 of them – were evacuees from Malaya, China and Singapore, and were teachers, missionaries and nurses…. Many women testify for Jeffrey’s efforts to raise morale and her indomitable courage.”]]> 2019-05-07 11:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357567388 Enlistment Form for Betty Jeffrey smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357568134 2019-05-07 11:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357568134 Portrait of Betty Jeffrey smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357568757 https://www.ausmed.com/cpd/articles/the-girls-on-the-beach]]> 2019-05-07 11:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357568757 Conditions when captured by the Japanese smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357569299 http://www.anzaccentenary.gov.au/news/honouring-our-heroes-lieutenant-betty-jeffrey-and-captain-vivian-bullwinkel:

When captured by Japanese → “The captured women hoped their job as nurses, symbolised by their now tattered uniforms, would protect them. It did not. For the next three and a half years, they were kept as prisoners under appalling conditions. Friends and family back home in Australia had no idea of their whereabouts.”]]> 2019-05-07 12:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357569299 The power of the uniform Excerpt from Betty Jeffrey's piece in 'The Mail' (1/5/1954)- 'White Coolies' smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357573394 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57954443?searchTerm=betty%20jeffrey%20world%20war%202&searchLimits=l-format=Article#]]> 2019-05-07 12:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357573394 ABC video on Reg Saunders smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357574718 Watch first 3 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vznpyvOXvXA&t=103s]]> 2019-05-07 12:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357574718 'Bluey Truscott Entertained'-The Northern Miner 9/5/1942 smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357860401 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81308399?searchTerm=keith%20bluey%20truscott&searchLimits=l-format=Article#]]> 2019-05-08 00:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357860401 Watch 10:00-13:00 of the following video on Ron Barassi Senior's fellow soliders commenting on his outlook smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357862430 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x55io6f]]> 2019-05-08 00:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357862430 Ron Barassi Senior in action smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357863823 https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/378791]]> 2019-05-08 00:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357863823 Betty Jeffrey in uniform smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357877864 https://www.ausmed.com/cpd/articles/the-girls-on-the-beach]]> 2019-05-08 01:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357877864 In hospital smccombe https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357878085 http://www.anzaccentenary.gov.au/news/honouring-our-heroes-lieutenant-betty-jeffrey-and-captain-vivian-bullwinkel]]> 2019-05-08 01:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/smccombe/o1vn9veelnzr/wish/357878085