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Our Mob Served

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Address: NCIS, College of Law, ANU 0200 Canberra, ACT, Australia

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23.01.2022 'Facing Two Fronts: the fight for respect' and 'Indigenous Australians at War from the Boer War to the Present'. Two new exhibitions are opening at the National Archives of Australia this week, read all about them on our website @ http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au/news-events/all-stories And while you are there, explore our growing collection of 'Serving Our Country' participant profiles and video interviews @ http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au/yarn-ups/yarn-participants

23.01.2022 http://www.abc.net.au//battle-of-beersheba-indigen/9098636

22.01.2022 Dr Noah Riseman's new book 'In Defence of Country' has just been published by ANU Press, which can be downloaded for FREE here: http://press.anu.edu.au//aboriginal/in-defence-of-country/ The book presents a selection of life stories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-service men and women who served in the Australian forces.

21.01.2022 The #AustralianArmy helped lay to rest one of its own from World War One to his traditional homeland. Private Miller Mack was one of the nation’s aboriginal sol...diers who fought in the 50th Battalion, made up of men predominantly from South Australia. He fought during the campaigns of 1917 at Messines where the huge mines under Hill 60 were detonated and led to the victories of the Anzacs and British troops there. (So large were the mines that the explosions were heard in Britain). PTE Mack contracted pneumonia late in 1917 and was evacuated back to Australia. He never fully recovered and succumbed to his illness in 1919 and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide. When the military section of the cemetery was created, he was not included in it and so this injustice was rectified almost a century later. A full military funeral saw PTE Mack laid to rest at the Raukkan cemetery near Victor Harbour near his homeland with members of Adelaide-based 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment providing the funeral cortege and honour guard.

20.01.2022 Over 145 participant profiles and interviews are now accessible on the Serving Our Country website @ http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au/yarn-ups/yarn-participants and there will be more posted over the coming months. Community Yarn Ups held around the country were a vital part of the Serving Our Country Project and these oral history recording sessions were structured to allow individuals to tell their story, their way, and many of these recorded histories are now easily accessible through our website and they help present a richer, deeper history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders military service in Australia from the Boer War to the present day.

16.01.2022 http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au//vietnam-veteran-and-austra

13.01.2022 Upcoming seminar at ANU on Monday 9 October at 6pm, click on the link below for all the details and to register.

13.01.2022 WWII RAAF veteran Len Waters included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Leonard Victor Waters (Len) (19241993), shearer and airman, was born at Euraba Aboriginal Mission near Boomi, New South Wales Len enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1942 and trained as an aircraft mechanic Concerned that his limited education would frustrate his ambition to fly, Waters studied hard to compensate. He applied for a transfer to aircrew in June 1943 On 14 Nov...ember 1944 Waters joined No. 78 Squadron on the island of Noemfoor, Netherlands New Guinea (Indonesia). The next month the squadron relocated to Morotai, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), where he was allocated a Kittyhawk that the previous pilot had named ‘Black Magic.’ He found the coincidence amusing and retained the name. In January 1945 he was promoted to flight sergeant, his commanding officer reporting that he had adapted quickly to operational flying and was a ‘good solid type, popular with his fellow pilots’ During nine months active service Waters flew a total of ninety-five sorties, mostly ground attacks. On one mission over Celebes (Sulawesi), his plane was struck by a shell that did not detonate but embedded behind the cockpit near a fuel tank. When returning to base he alerted ground staff to the danger, later recalling that it was ‘the smoothest landing I’ve ever made’ Read more on our website: http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au//wwii-raaf-veteran-len-wate See more

08.01.2022 One of the major outcomes of the 'Serving our Country' research project is a book, Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship, which has just been published by NewSouth Publishing. Edited by Joan Beaumont and Allison Cadzow, the book provides a definitive and comprehensive account of Indigenous military service, including all major conflicts of the 20th century, the Protection Acts, the home fronts in the two world wars, women in military service, the ADF today, Indigenous activism after military service, and commemoration. The authors would like to thank all those who made this book possible by sharing their memories of war and military service with us. For further details see https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/serving-our-country/

06.01.2022 The book Serving our Country was launched at Gleebooks, Sydney on 19 July. Karen Mundine of Reconciliation Australia convened a conversation about the book with co-editor Joan Beaumont and Community Consultation Coordinator of the project, Craig Greene. Good audience and great discussion and Q&A.

02.01.2022 Aboriginal WWI digger to be brought home Australian Associated Press reports today that an Aboriginal WWI soldier whose remains have lain in an unmarked grave in Adelaide for nearly a century will be reburied near his home with full military honours. Twenty-five-year-old digger Miller Mack died in 1919 from an illness contracted during service and was buried in an unmarked grave at the West Terrace Cemetery.... Read the full story on our website:

02.01.2022 The lost souls of Condah who joined the Anzacs - Tony Wright for Fairfax Press. A bad season was coming when the boys from Condah began trooping off to the recruiting office Lake Condah shrank to a puddle. Eel and fish traps, some of them constructed by Indigenous residents on the lakeshore 1000 years before the first of the pyramids were built, were left high and dry. It would be remembered as the great drought of 1914-15. It would be remembered for something worse. The ...start of the Great War the war would leave lasting scars upon Condah, just as it did on every other district, town and city in Australia. Condah, however, was not quite the same as every other Australian district. Of the 42 men who marched away from little Condah, 14 of them a third of the total were known in the vernacular of the time as blackfellas. Read more on our website: http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au//lost-souls-condah-who-join