Thread: Lest we forget Remembering the Indigenous soldiers at Beersheba and all the heros

Very very very great AUSSIES.
Thank You, Pickles.

The AWM"S official magazine, " WARTIME ", has an article on Beersheba. Very interesting, it's titled Beersheba and its myths. In Newsagents now, worth a read.

The amount of Aboriginals that fought for this country is overwhelming and to think, they returned home to be shunned by the country they helped fight for...

I have read many stories over the years, about Aboriginal servicemen...

One come to mind, A guy from Onslow, served in France and the Middle East with Distinction, but could not buy a beer when he returned home... Bloody discusting how this country treats the ones that do things for it and yet helps the ones that do nothing but whinge...

The Great Barrier is a reef.

What is laid in remembrance is a wreath.

Like I hate it when the Yanks spell honour without 'u'.

Regards

Mike

Matthias Ulungura was a member of the Tiwi people, who in 1942 was living on Melville Island. On 19 February, a damaged Japanese fighter returning from an attack on an aerodrome on nearby Bathurst Island crashed near Snake Bay on Melville Island. The Japanese pilot, Hajime Toyoshima, survived the crash, but Ulungura crept up behind him, surprising him with a tomahawk, and took him prisoner.In Ulungura's words:

	I walked after him and grabbed his wrist near gun. He got proper big fright. I take revolver from his right side near his knee. Then I walk backwards pointing gun, I say "Stick 'em up, two hands, no more holding hands on head."	”
— Matthias Ulungura

[QUOTE=Wraithe;2736150]The amount of Aboriginals that fought for this country is overwhelming and to think, they returned home to be shunned by the country they helped fight for...


The Vietnam vets went through that also, the way the Aboriginal and the Vietnam vets were treat is a smear on this country. I remember the "rent-a-crowd" mob calling the Vietnam vets "baby killers" and other such garbage.........bloody disgraceful and no I'm not a Vietnam vet.

The horses. Never forget the horses. Only one came home, and it was a Generals horse.

world's last great Cavalry charge made by Australian Light Horse at Beersheba WWI - YouTube

Don't forget the New Zealanders either, remember it was an ANZAC force, if not for the KIWIs the charge would most likely have failed.