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Douglas Grant (1885 – 4 December 1951) was an Aboriginal Australian soldier, draughtsman, public servant, journalist, public speaker, and factory worker. [1] During World War I, he was captured by the German army and held as a prisoner of war at Wittenberg, and later at Wünsdorf, Zossen, near Berlin.
Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two bars (/ ˌ p ɛ ɡ ə ˈ m æ ɡ ə b oʊ / peg-ə-MAG-ə-boh; March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952) was an Ojibwe soldier, politician and activist in Canada. He was the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War.
Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott (19 June 1878 – 23 March 1931) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War.After the war he served as a Senator for Victoria in the Australian parliament.
Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples make up a big part of the U.S. population. Today, there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes, plus an estimated 400 more that are ...
Archie Albert Barwick (7 March 1890 – 28 January 1966) was an Australian farmer and soldier known for his diaries of World War I.His set of diaries are recognised as one of the most extensive and well written first hand accounts of military service in World War I. [3] [4] [according to whom?
Maitland Madge was born in March 1894 in Cooktown, on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, to Ella, an Indigenous woman, and Richard Madge, an immigrant from Devon, England. [ 1 ] In 1905, possibly to prevent his son from being taken away to a government mission, Richard Madge applied for Maitland to be exempted from the Aboriginals ...
Joe Flick (c.1865 - 1889) Indigenous Australian outlaw who shot dead a Native Police officer; Gnunga Gnunga Murremurgan (c.1773 - 1809) Eora man who was the first Indigenous Australian to travel across the Pacific Ocean; Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) a Torres Strait Islander man who worked as a pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier
Reading and sharing inspirational Veterans Day quotes from important figures throughout history is one way to commemorate the day. Whether you have family members, friends, or neighbors who served ...