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Aboriginal people attack squatters sleeping near Lake Hope, 1866. South Australia was settled in 1836 with no convicts and a unique plan for settlers to purchase land in advance of their arrival, which was intended to ensure a balance of landowners and farm workers in the colony.
Timothy Hughes MBE MM (28 April 1919 – 1 April 1976) was a decorated Australian Aboriginal soldier who served with the 2/10th Battalion during World War II, a successful soldier-settler, and later served as the inaugural chair of the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust from 1966 to 1973.
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
Saunders was born near Purnim on the Aboriginal Reserve at Framlingham in western Victoria on 7 August 1920. [1] He was a member of the Gunditjmara people. [2] His father, Chris, was a veteran of the First World War, having served as a machine gunner in the Australian Imperial Force.
Once more, the presence of the soldiers alone kept the peace and this time further troubles were avoided. [36] The 18th Regiment of Foot and the Royal Artillery were the final regiments of the British Army to be stationed in Australia. The last of these soldiers departed Circular Quay aboard the Silver Eagle on 28 August 1870. There was a ...
In September 1843, a large group of squatters organised a "cavalcade" [1] consisting of 18 armed men and three drays pulled by about 50 bullocks. [4] At a location known as One Tree Hill, (now known as Tabletop Mountain, Queensland), near Toowoomba, the group was ambushed by Multuggerah and about 100 men, having been forced to stop at barricades previously erected by the attackers.
Maitland Madge, MM (March 1894 – 7 June 1944) is believed to be the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded the Military Medal in the First World War. Madge also served as a soldier during the Second World War. In 1941 he was captured by Japanese forces in Singapore. Madge was held as a prisoner of war at Changi Prison until his death in ...
The military history of Australia spans the nation's 230-year modern history, from the early Australian frontier wars between Aboriginal people and Europeans to the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 21st century.