| ISBN |
9780645409307 paperback |
| Corporate Name |
Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs issuing body. |
| Title |
Stories of indigenous service / Department of Veterans’ Affairs. |
| Published |
Canberra, ACT : Department of Veterans' affairs, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
37 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 30 cm |
| Notes |
Title from cover. |
| Text and colour illustrations on end papers. |
| Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34) and index. |
| Contents |
Corporal Harry Thorpe MM -- Corporal Gordon Charles Naley -- Trooper Willie Allen -- Sister Marion Leane Smith -- Private Roland Winzel Carter -- Driver Charles 'Charlie' Burns -- Private Maitland Madge MM -- Have you heard of these service men and women? -- Private William Reginald Rawlings MM -- Driver Walter Christopher George Saunders -- Eliza Saunders -- Captain Reginald Saunders MBE -- Private Henry (Harry) Saunders -- Dave Arden. |
| Summary |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have served Australia in war and peacekeeping from the Boer War to the present. This book acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Indigenous men and women. It provides social and political context of their service in the light of past racial discrimination. |
| Target audience note |
Upper primary and lower secondary school students. |
| Subjects |
Australia -- Armed Forces -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia. -- Australian Army -- Aboriginal troops -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia. -- Australian Army -- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature |
| Indigenous peoples -- Australia -- History -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Torres Strait Islander |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Aboriginal Australian |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Torres Strait Islander |
| Australia -- Armed Forces -- History -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- Armed Forces -- Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature |
| Australia -- Armed Forces -- Torres Strait Islanders -- Juvenile literature |
| Genre |
Biographies |
| First Nations |
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