Issue Details:First known date:2015...2015'The Families Were ...Too Poor to Send Them Parcels' : The Provision of Comforts to Aboriginal Soldiers in the AIF in the Second World War
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'In mid-1941, Private Clarrie Combo from New South Wales sent a letter from Syria, where he was stationed, to Mrs Brown of Loxton in South Australia...'
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'Volume 39 of Aboriginal History is timely for the centenary of Gallipoli this year. The 56 Indigenous men who fought in this disastrous battle are duly noted in its special section on Aboriginal war service, edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman. As Riseman points out in his preface, Aboriginal History can be credited as playing a leading role in the inception of growing interest in Indigenous combatants by devoting an earlier special issue to them in 1992, still nascent days for the field. ' (Preface introduction)
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pg.223-243Section: Special Section: Aboriginal War Service – Edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman
223-243Special Section: Aboriginal War Service – Edited by Allison Cadzow, Kristyn Harman and Noah Riseman'The Families Were ...Too Poor to Send Them Parcels' : The Provision of Comforts to Aboriginal Soldiers in the AIF in the Second World WarAboriginal History