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After the outbreak of the First World War, Punch enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Goulburn on 31 December 1915. Unlike many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who enlisted, Punch openly declared his identity as 'Aboriginal'. [9] After training locally, he joined the 17th reinforcements to the 1st Battalion.
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.
William Edward Harney (18 April 1895 – 31 December 1962), best known as Bill Harney, was an Australian writer.Most of his early life was an itinerant one of poverty and hardship, punctuated by tragedy, spent mainly in the outback.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). [ 6 ] There was a flourishing of Aboriginal literature from the 1970s through to the 1990s, coinciding with a period of political advocacy and focus on Indigenous Australian ...
Kirli Saunders – author and poet; Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator; Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations; David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author; James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher; Ellen van Neerven ...
Ashley Bryan, Operation Overlord, Omaha Beach (Artist and Author, Wrote Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace about his experiences ) Isaac Asimov, Philadelphia Navy Yard Naval Air Experimentation Station, United States Army ; J. G. Ballard, interned as a boy in Shanghai (Empire of the Sun)
Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier who served in World War II. Rona Glynn (1936 - 1965) was the first Indigenous Australian school teacher and nurse in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Jimmy Governor (c. 1875 - 1901) a famous outlaw with his brother Joe Governor
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.