Michael Burden's Posts - The Lost Diggers of Fromelles2024-03-29T14:27:00ZMichael Burdenhttp://smcchistory.ning.com/profile/MichaelBurdenhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2210217856?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://smcchistory.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=327tfb6wwvekj&xn_auth=noLetters from Indigenous soldiers in WW1tag:smcchistory.ning.com,2017-04-25:5505878:BlogPost:227142017-04-25T06:00:00.000ZMichael Burdenhttp://smcchistory.ning.com/profile/MichaelBurden
<p class="first">Letters from Aboriginal men who served Australia during the First World War are extremely rare.</p>
<p>But as the history of Aboriginal military service during the Great War is given greater attention, their firsthand accounts illustrate better than anything the sacrifice and the emotional cost of war.</p>
<p>The letters and postcards, some held privately, tell a moving, if laconic, story tinged with longing, gallows humour, bravado and sadness.…</p>
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<p class="first">Letters from Aboriginal men who served Australia during the First World War are extremely rare.</p>
<p>But as the history of Aboriginal military service during the Great War is given greater attention, their firsthand accounts illustrate better than anything the sacrifice and the emotional cost of war.</p>
<p>The letters and postcards, some held privately, tell a moving, if laconic, story tinged with longing, gallows humour, bravado and sadness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-24/revealing-letters-home-from-aboriginal-diggers-sent-during-wwi/8466938?utm_content=buffer24233&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">ABC</a></p>What do You Know About the Diggers of Fromelles?tag:smcchistory.ning.com,2010-06-09:5505878:BlogPost:4222010-06-09T10:30:55.000ZMichael Burdenhttp://smcchistory.ning.com/profile/MichaelBurden
As a form of pre-test I want you to list everything you know about the diggers who fought at Fromelles and came to be buried in the mass grave at Pheasant Wood.
As a form of pre-test I want you to list everything you know about the diggers who fought at Fromelles and came to be buried in the mass grave at Pheasant Wood.