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Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 The Embarrassing Australian : The Story of an Aboriginal Warrior
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'Biography of Reginald Walter Saunders, Captain in the A.I.F., reared at Lake Condah Mission. Reg Saunders served in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, New Guinea and Korea. Harry Gordon, the author, was a war correspondent in Korea with Saunders. He writes of Saunders’ war experiences and civilian life back home.' (Source: AIATSIS website)

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  • Dedication: A tribute to Lieut. Reginald Saunders an Australian Aboriginal who served in the 1939-1945 War and Korean War, 1950-1953. (Source: TROVE)

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Indigenous Diggers and the New Age of Anzackery Paul Daley , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 74 no. 1 2015; (p. 1-16) In 1967 the historian Geoffrey Searl conjured a superb description of the overblown nationalistic hyperbole that had attached, limpet-like, to Anzac during his postwar youth: Anzackery. What a word for the bombastic myth making that has culturally amplified and enshrined Australia's part in the botched invasion and attempted occupation of a small finger of the Ottoman Empire on 25 April 1915. (Author's introduction)
Indigenous Diggers and the New Age of Anzackery Paul Daley , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 74 no. 1 2015; (p. 1-16) In 1967 the historian Geoffrey Searl conjured a superb description of the overblown nationalistic hyperbole that had attached, limpet-like, to Anzac during his postwar youth: Anzackery. What a word for the bombastic myth making that has culturally amplified and enshrined Australia's part in the botched invasion and attempted occupation of a small finger of the Ottoman Empire on 25 April 1915. (Author's introduction)
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  • Lake Condah Mission Station (1867 - 1919), Heywood, Portland area, Western District, Victoria,
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